OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12741, 14 August 1903, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

The benefit concert tendered to Mr W. George at South Dunedin realised close oa £60. Mr BringuM, bandmaster at' Alexandra, was presented by Hhe residents of the town with a handsome gold albert and appendages.

Mr J [eel;, Government auditor, was. elected out of 57 applicants for the position of town, clerk of Hawera.

City Boot Palace midwinter sale now proceeding. Genuine bargains for all. See price list page 7 this issue.... Some days ago Mrs Rysland, a Sydney visitor, disappeared from Jimee (New South Wales). The country was searched, with the result that the other morning her body was found in a dam ill about 4ft of water.

A number of Swiss milkers in the Hawera, district are giving much satisfaction to owners of cows by their steady work and kindly methods. They state that many of their countrymen will follow. The daisy cart offered by Morrow, Bassett, and Co. is the lightest running, easiest riding, and smartest turn-out on the markot. Price, £11 105.... 1 The body of a man named Spiller,

employed as a Customs boatman at Lytton (Queensland), was found recently hanging by a Tope in the boatshed at Lytton. No cause is knoivn for the apparent suicide. A frostfish was caught by Messrs C. John-

ston and J. Smyth on Wednesday morning;

between Hampden and Moeraki, which measured sft llijm hi length and weighed

Farmers and others requiring a skylight that is guaranteed not' to leak, try " Wade's.'.'- Sole makers, A. and T. Burt (Limited), who stock rams and pumps of all sorts, iron pipe and hose. j/iiecs ou application, and inspection invited. ... At Oamaru, on Wednesday, Frederick

Courtney was charged at the Police Court with using indecent language during tha

progress of a football match on tho 6th inst,

Defendant, whilo playing ill the match, used tho lauguage complained of, and when rt monstrated with by a constable repeated tin foul language, stating that he did not care, as it was the end of tho season. Hp iv-a? sentenced to a month's imprisonment vin Dunedin Gaol. Wiremu Pirihonga, better known as Wiremu to Parihi, died at Oromahoe,' Auckland, a few days ago, at the age of 90 years. He was the last of Hone Hoke's old warriors,-

and fought against the British iu several battles. He was at Ohaewai when the

asiault ordered by Colonel Despard resulted so disastrously, the British losing 100 imen in a few minutes. Wiremu led the war. dance before the Governor at Waitangi four years ago. He was greatly respected by both Maoris and Europeans. >

The Excelsior ploughs have already made a good name for themselves in various parta of Now Zealand, and we can confidently recommend tho latest pattern as superior to anything of the kind on the market. Price, double-furrow, £11 10s; three-furrow, £16 10s. Morrow, Bassett, and Co., sole agents in New Zealand. Seud for descriptive catalogue of the Excelsior farm implements. It

will pay you.

At the conclusion of a football match between Footscray and Richmond (Victoria) on a recent Saturday, the captain of the

latter (Alexander Edwards) and a member of the team, named M'Nair, were both struck while leaving the ground and Ten-, dered unconscious. Police Court proceedings 'followed, and one of tho Footscray team (William Harris) was fined £5, or ono month's imprisonment, for assaulting M'Xair, while one of the spectators was similarly fined for attacking Edwards. AwoMf the Maori specimens added to tha collc-ction in the Canterbury Museum (says the Lyttelton Times) there is a net, with a rake attached, used for collecting fresh-water mussols. The articlo was obtained from, Lako Rotorua. Tho rake is carvcd, and is very old. Tho apparatus has, of course, gone quite, out of uso, and the specimen in tho Museum is valuable, as no more can be obtained from tho Rotorua district. The net has been mado for the purpose, the one originally attached to the rake having decayed. -,

Now that tho season is in full swing it is desirablo for the comfort of riders that their

machines should be in good order. Ths Speedwell Cyclo Works have tlio largest and best-equipped factory in the colony ; and are in a position to put any cycle'm good order at a very short period. All work guaranteed. ...

A. rather novel point was Taised at tha Hawke's Bay Laud 1 Board meeting by an application from the wife of a man who ha? been an inmate of a. lunatic' asylum foi several years to have the scction she and her family are at present residing on trans {erred from the husband to herself, as in the event -of his decease the lease, she thought, would lapse, and they would be homeless. The, Commissioner pointed out the difficulty of getting i'lie requisite signature to the document of transfer in such a case. The section, ho thought, in the event of the husband's death would pass into the hands of the Public Trustee for administration on behalf of the family. It was decided to ascertain what could be done in the matter.

That the market is crowded with inferior tools of the samo style as the Excelsioi Horse Hoe and Cultivator makes it necessary for us to draw attention to the fact that the Excelsior is made from first-class, . high-grade'material only. Prico, with hilling attachment complete, £3 10s. Every farmer shoul4 be provided with this implement,— Morrow, Bassett, and Co., agents. ... A man named 'Michael O'Sullivan was committed for trial at Brisbano a few day? ago on a, charge of shooting at ConstabU Hayes, near Toowoomba. The cvidenci showed that Hayes met O'Sullivan and another man. He accosted the men and went up to O'Sullivan, who said, "Keep back, ,or it will be worse for you." The constable went towards, him, and said, "I am Constable Hayes, and I want to know who you are." O'Sullivan then presented a revolver and fired. The constable closed with and arrested him. Tho accused' said, " You have me now, and can hang me if you like." The revolver contained three full cartridges and two empty shells, and on tho man was a packet of cartridges. Gas is the great therapoutio agent in connection with the Kamo thermal springs, corresponding to the hot sulphur waters °of Rotorua. Tha "champagne" bath at Kamo Dr Wohlmann, Government - balnealogist, considers a most valuable spring, and (according to the Wliangarci correspondent Auckland Star) he has expressed the opinion that in regard to tho largo swimming baths .tho gas escaping from, tho springs should be caught in gasometers and reoharged into the waters, so that the water when 'being bathed' in should' be ' fully saturated with gas, and the bather should enjoy his "soda-water" bath at full strength. By conserving the gas in suitable holders all sorts of baths' could be supplied, from an ordinary dry gas bath to tho needle bath charged with gas, which would exceed in

its invigorating effects an electric brush passing over one's body. There is no glove at the prico to equal our new dome fastener brown kid glove "Alexandra." It wfil wear well, fit well, and look well; price only 2s 6d pair. Also ladies' lovely black sequin collars, 4£ indies deep, lljd; 54 inches, Is 3d; 6 inches, la 9d; 8 inches, 2s lid, aud up to 9s 6d for large, rich, handsome goods. Sent by post on receipt of postal note to T. Ross, direct importer, 130 Princes street, Dunedin.... The first contact of Australian visitors with the City of Dunedin on'landing from one of the steamers is not calculated to convey a favourable impression, for before the dirty sidewalk can be reached from the wharf pedestrians liavo to navigate a sea of liquid mud ankle-deep. For our credit's sake the City Ealhers might strain a point and put a load of metal on' the crossing to the wharf from the Sailors' Rest. It has been suggested by a correspondent that the ferntree corduroy by means of whioh the bogholes in Princes street were crossed in comfort 50 years ago would be a vas( improvement on the present slate of things.