OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12604, 6 March 1903, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

A dairy-farmer at Rongotea, cleared for one month's milk from 21 cows a cheque for £35. Sixteen Southdown ewes offered at Addington on Wednesday fetched lli guineas under the hammer. Tho art union recently held by tho Garrison Band at Wanganui shows a profit of £2'6 —an unqualified success. Included in a large stock of cycle accessories at the Speedwell Cycle Works is a large variety of saddles at very reasonable prices, together with a large stock of duplicate springs Tuesday's frost in tho neighbourhood of Cliristchurch has resulted in turning the potatoes, especially the later ones, black. The Levels County Council has suspended all contract* work for one month to enable men to be available for farmers who are harvesting. It's no joke to buy boots that look well and find they don't wear. The City Boot Palace offers you the best value money can buy. Good wear, with neat appearance, at a moderate price is the story in a nutshell, Think it over.... A boy, answering the question, " Say what you know of the Sublime Porte " in a recent genoral knowledge examination paper, wrote, • "The Sublime Porte is a very fine old wine." It is reported that there is no reason why the Midland railway should not be open for traffic to Staircase Gully within tho next six months. Mr J. A. Hanan, M.H.R., inspired by the example of the largo towns of New Zealand, broached the subject of a Greater Invercargill at a social at Clifton last Saturday. At a picnic 011 Wednesday at Kaianoi a waiter had his face cut by the brokon glass of a lemonade bottle' which burst as he opened it. UO2 give them a trial. What? The New Century Soft Rubber Hair Curlers. They aro now in very general use, and the unanimous verdict on them is that they are perfect. ... A movement is on for.-; 111 Cliristchurch to erect a memorial to tho late Hon. W. Rolleston, and a meeting of citizcns has been convened to considor the question. The five candidates being put up by the Waimato Temperance Reform Union for the licensing bench are Messrs John Campbell, George Dash, H. R. Gillingham, Thomas Brown, and H. Dohrmann. Try Cafe Cecil. Five-course luncheon, Is, F. Crawford, of Wellington, chef.... A shed adjacent to a flaxmill at One Trco Point, in Southland, containing 16 bales of fibre and 18 bales of tow. valued at £90, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. The Pacific Cable Board adviso: "The Postmaster-general's Department . notifies that Berno advises that tho Japanese office announces that, according to advice from the Corean Administration, tho rate for. telegrams to Corea, Seoul Chemulpo, and Fusan has been raised since Ist March to 57i centimes per word beyond Seoul." Messrs Morrow, Bassett, and Co. have just landed ox Kinclune another shipment of tho famous Daisy Carts. _ Intending purchasers should send in their orders at once to avoid disappointment. Price, £11 10s. Tremendous potato crops have been obtained in the Poverty Bay district this year. One settler has realised £63 an aero for "tubers," and neighbours of his have been clearing £45 an acre. Owing to tho very erratic weather, harvesting is not yet in full swing in South Canterbury. Some big crops are, however, being obtained. A paddock of Dun oats has threshed an average of 97 bushels. A correspondent of the Egmonfc Post, writing to that paper from South Africa, says that country is in a bad state at present, and 110 advises people who think of going there to wait for two years before doing so. A member of Parliament for Christchurch City received notices to attend eight meetings'tho other day. Ho said that as it was impossible for him to cut himself up into pieces he could not be present at all the meetings, but he managed to attend four of them. That the market is crowdod with inferior tools of the same style as the Excelsior Horse Hoc and Cultivator makes it iiccessary for us to draw attention to tho fact that the Excelsior is made from first-class, high-grade material only. Price, with hilling attachment complote, £3 10s. Every farmer should be provided with this imploment.— Morrow, Bassett, and Co., agent l -. ... The summer fruit in the Hawkesbury district, New South Wales, has nearly all been marketed. The prices obtained, especially in Sydney, have on the whole , been satisfactory to the growers, who have received substantial cheques from their agents. Correspondents of tho Timara Post aro complaining yof the worthlessness of the Timaru valuation roll, which is said to bo the worst ever laid on the council table. Thus, to quote only tw'q instances, some offices let at £150 per annum aro put down at £55, and three shops put down at £22 10a aro fetching £3 per week. An impudent theft of money is reported by the Cromwell Argus. A woman entered a shop and asked the boy where his master was. The boy replied that he did not know. "Well." said the woman, "lam his wife. Tell him I have taken some money from the till, will you?" This she did, and then disappeared. The master does not happen to be married, Another shipment of novelties for ladies'wear just opened, comprising cold and silver tinsel belts, ll£d, Is 6d, Is lid, and 2s 6d; pretty pearl necklaces, lid, Is 3d. is 9tl, Is lid, and 2s lid; new gitipurfe and Roman lace collars, sailor or fichus shape, at Is lid, 2s 6d. and 2s lid: rich real lace collars, from 3s lid upwards; also a choice range of beautiful siJk blouses with pretty lace insertion fronts, from 8s lid, at T. Ross's, direct imnorter, 130 Princes street , To judge from the columns of the Cromwell Argus, it would appear that, encouraged by the crusade against Sunday excursions on Lake Wakatipu, which has resulted so successfully for those who objected to them, residents in Cromwell are raising protests at similar excursions on Lake Wanaka. With reference to the proposed new town hall for Invercargill, the Southland Daily News understands that overtures have been made to the Invercargill Borough Conncil for a lease of tho building, if erected, at a rental sufficient to cover the annual cost of it to the borough. / Farmers were un to Wednesday morning busy all over the Waitaki district harvesting (lie crops, which have, from a backward state, suddenly come on with a rush. On Wednesday afternoon a steady downpour of rain set in, which has delayed onerations. The tenders, six in number, for the erection of a Presbyterian church in Timaru vary • between £3934- and £««. As the congregation were not prepared to spend more than £3000 the matter has been referred by tho deacons' court to thom to ascertain whether they will sanction the larger expenditure, or whether a less pretentious edifice must suffice. To-day one million five hundred thousand M'Cormick reaping and harvesting machines are in use in all parts of the world. They harvest grain on tho steppes of Asia, on the pampas of South America, the tablelands of South Africa, the plains of Europe, and the prairies of North America. From Majiitobo to Argentina; in New Zealand. Australia, and South Africa one man seated at ease does the work of 20 toilers. The M'Cormick harvests over one-third the grain and grass of the world. You can buy a M'Cormick Harvester for £35. Morrow, Bassett, and Co., sole agents.... More powerful engines are evidently required to successfully cope with tho heavy express traffic between Dunedin and Christcluirch. Owing to the gradient between Oamaru and Dunedin tho express on Wednesday had to be divided twice to allow the engine to draw it up. with the result- that it reached Timaru over an hour late. Precisely the same thing occurred la=t Friday. Some interesting experiments with Angora goats and a cross between that species'and the ordinary goat are being carried on at the State farm at Lcrin. It is stated that a, good deal of rough country unfit for sheep might be profitably occupied by theso animals. Some samples of hair from tho crossbreds have fetched 3s nor lb in the London market?. Rigid enforcement of the Noxious Weeds Act is causing thp settlers of the Ekefnhuna, district to _ bestir themselves, and tho Farmers' Union is continually discussing the best means of preventing the dissemination of such weeds, which is nut down to the retailing of impure seeds. The Hot Lakes Chronicle, stales that a gentleman while fishing at tho Uhihina recently had a curious oxnorionce, and one which was disastrous to his rod and tackle. When throwing his minnow into a deep pool a shag in full flight suddenly came round a bend of the river and was caught in mid-nir hv the hooks attached to the minnow. The bird was going at such a speed that the rod was dragged from the angler's hands, and the shag got away with the minnow and ?0 yards of tho line, leaving the rod in soma of the adjacent bushes. Redciiffe Crown Brand GaivanijjQ Cvrngated Iron; cheapest- and host.—Hocg and Co f-iimitrd). agents. Lower Rnttvav street.