OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13079, 15 September 1904, Page 12

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

The committee of the Ashburlon School Ins decided to accept the Offer of a

physical culture enthusiast who offered to pay the salary of an instructor. Mails which loft Melbourne, via Brindisi, o:t August 10 arrived in London on tlio , lltli inst. TJic municipal band project in Timaru lias fallen through owing to i,he refusal of tlio Borough Council to contribute £ICO per annum for three years and, £5 a year afterwards.

Numerous well-known citizens testify tliat Loasby's Gum lienthol really is tho phenomenal cough cure'... Tho Taylor-Carrington Company were unable to givo performances at Roxburgh on Friday and Saturday owing to tho stato of tho roads preventing the coach from arriving with scenery and members of tho company. Gum lienthol (Loasby's) loosens phlegm, stops irritating cough, soothes throat; suits all ages....

In order to raiso funds for tho erection of a grand stand, th&. South Canterbury Caledonian Society is isniing £5 debentures, of which most of tho directors have taken up a portion: New worsted suitings; ono suit only of a pattern; just opened.—Brown, Ewing, and C 0....

Tho collections at the openingof the new ' Chalmers Church (Timaru) on Sunday last totalled £200. The Rev. Dr Nisbot, of Duncdin, preached to large congregations morning and evening. Tho r.cv; church, which is a handsome structure, cost, including furnishings, £7000. When coughing, remember that you can't cough when taking Loasby's Gum lienthol; Is' fid everywhere.... The Excbapge Hall at Wellington, ono of tire early places of amusement in that city, is being converted into a restaurant. A parcel of 1000 sacks of pearl mid Tuscan wheat changed hands at ChrjstchuTch on Tuesday at a price equal to 3s 7d f.0.b., sacks extra. Ladies' voile skirts, newest creations; prices from 35s. — Brown. Ewing, and C 0....

'l'ho new bank premises that liavo just been completed in Invercargiill are for tho Bank of Now South Wales, not tho Bank of Xew Zealand, as inadvertently stated in yesterday's issue. Tho grocers of Timaru have refused to quote special terms for tho Civil Servants' Cash Purchase Association. For children's hacking cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure; Is 6d....

An employee at a BaiiMvirke sawmill recently got his car jambcr between two log; which he was movjng, and tho car was almost torn off. Sergeant Mackenzie, who has been in charge of tho Gore police district for tha past 16 months (being previously stationed at Qucenstown and Lumsden), is to bo

transferred !o Auckland, and leaves for his new quarto within the next (fortnight.— Alataura, Ensign. Pumps, hydraulic rams, hose, and all classes of pipes and fittings procurablo from A. and T. Burt (Ltd.), engineers ami plumbers. Competent men sent to any part of the country, charges being most reasonable. Draining carried out to drainage bylaws by certificated men.... A locomotive engine-driver named Gilbert

Brown had bis right le? broken in two places on Monday last at Ashor's Siding. Ho was assisting some men with a newlyfallen tree when lie was struck on the leg, and as a result of his injuries he had to be conveyed to Invercargill for medical- treatment. Gum lientliol (Loasby's) cures coughs and colds quickly. Testimonials from wellknown citizens.... Thirty-one applications were received by the South Canterbury Board of Education on Tuesday for the post of first assistant , at the Tiinaru Alain School, tho salary being £235. The board decided to confine tbo

selection to seven applicants already in tho board's employment, and finally two of these were selected for recommendation to the. committee.

Something of advantage to the purchasing public will bo seen this week at Messrs A. F. Cheyne and Co.'s, Mosgiel. The Millinery and Dress Goods showing by them are a revelation of art. flaked Voiles, 2? 3d a yard, and the prettiest Blouse Muslins

ever seen.... A buggy accident occurred at Tapanui on Monday morning, as a" result of which Mrs Revie, of Orookston, sustained dislocation of tho shoulder and fracture, and her son escaped with a sprained ankle. When nearing the town boundary in a buggy on tho journey from Crookston tho J'.orse phied at

a block of wood on tlio roadside, and over-' turned tho buggy, which was badly smsshcc) up, and the occupants (Mrs Revie and her son) were thrown heavily to the ground. In addition to tlio injuries to lmr shoulder, Mrs Rovio received a severe shaking. The I'elorus Guardian suggests that, as tho similarity of tho (ins containing kerosene and those eonaining benzine is likaljr

011 occasion to cause serious consequences, tho Customs Department should compel importers of benzino to place upon each ,caso a distinguishing mark dissimilar in every way from the marks on kerosene cases. Now that benzino is so largely used in oil engines, the possibility of a tin being accidentally substituted for keroseno is greatly increased. A complete set of Bluemel's celluloid mudguards will cost you only 7s (id.--At the .Speedwell Cycle Works (\V. A. Scott), 355 George street..,, An ingenious method of raising funds for a cricket ground is said' to havo .been adopted by a cricket club 'in 0110 of- !ho suburbs of Christchurch. No fewer than 35 gentlemen, who are regarded as being financially strong, were elected vice-presidents al the annual meeting of tho club,.the. committee of which is now awaiting tho influx of guineas from the vice-presidents. Mr Paul Fountain, who has studied the house-fly in nearly every part of tho globe, comes to the conclusion that if all the houseHies in tho world could be exterminated tho average of human life would bo nearly doubled. Thev carry infection from tho sick to the healthy in a thousand ways. For tho next 10 days wo shall olfcr the whole of our ladies' lovely new wintor coats at 6s lid and 10s 6d. These arc all this season's goods, tho very latest style?, mado from bos'; grey all-wool mixtures, and were sold during tho season at 15s 6d up to 455, but as wo want the room for our new goods wo must let them go at this groat sacrifice.—T. Ross, direct importer..., Mr George Masse, ih an aVtiolo'on fungi, which appears in Knowledge, observes that before the discovery of lucifcr matches a largo hoof-shaped fungus (Polyporus fomoutarius), growing 011 tho trunks of trees, was used* throughout Northern Europe for making amadou or tinder. Tho thick, brown, woody flesh of the fungus, cut into slices and beaten until it assumes tho appcaranco of felt, is used at the present day in Germany for tho manufacture of chest protectors, caps, purses, bedroom slippers, and various other articles. Customs.—This important branch of the Aew Zealand Express Company's business is under tho supervision of experts, who personally attend to tho clearing of all consignments. Importers will find it to thoir advantage to. place their documents'in our hands, and thus save tlieni the trouble and delay in passing their consignments through tho Customs.... A Chinese laundry in Sydney was recently entered, and a number of shirts and collars were stolen. One of the doors leading'from the kiethen to the shop had reowitly- Jjeen painted, and the man, in, • left the impression of some of (lJßUiJgcr3 on it. These were photograplietWy the police. Subsequently Sergeant. Childs, who is in charge of tho fiinger-print'.department, took tho print of part of ,a mi&'s hand at 1 the Contra! Police Station,' developed these wero found on the door, and at. fho'WariW, of tho case the officer stated that' tl&Wo identical-with the impressions left *11: tho' laundry door, Tho Scranton Schools Teach by Mail— Architecture, advertising, window-dressing, bookkeeping, engineering, electricity, surveying, mining, engine-running, languages, plumbing, drawing, etc., etc. Full particulars from Bray Bro.-., Agricultural Hall, Dunedin.... Mr Holland, the inventor of tho submarine, says that his new flying machine will be in as general uso as bicycles in liva years. It consists of four wings, each 10ft ,£• Two are fixed to tho shoulders and the hips, and they are worked by handlci and pedals. Thc'machino weighs about 20!b. The framo is df aluminium and steel wire?, and the coverings of tho wings will probablj be silk. The start has to bo mado from a slight elevation, and Mr Holland says that violent exercise will only be necessary during a few flaps of the- wings. Then tho wearer will sail along as easily and gracefully as a bird, and may attain a speed of 40 or 50 miles an hour with not njoro effort thai; is necessary to ride a bicycle'. Should the mechanism get doranged during flight, Mr Holland says the machine will come gradually and lightly t<s earth. Forovcr 40 years ho hss been experimenting in aerial flight.