OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13586, 7 May 1906, Page 12

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

A writ has bscn issuwl, on behalf of W« ' P. Crick, against tho Sydney Bulletin, claim-' ing £5000 damages for alleged libel. The leading lady of a Chicago company, while playing 1 at Linton, Indiana, spoke slightingly of the town, \iheroupon one of I lie audience drew a revolver and shot her in the log. i Real Harris tweeds just, arrived; ono suit each pattern.—Anscll and Co., Octagon.... Three hundred bushels of wheat from 40 acres is not eight bushels to the acre, yet > i this ss what a South Canterbury farmer threshed from a paddock last week.—Timaru Pott. , A few days yet remain until the closing I up of that wonderful boot salo at tho City Boot Palace. Tho volume of business transacted has been enormous, and though prices havo been so much cut into, yet the immense turnover has more than 'recouped the exceptional concessions made to tho public.... A golf club is being formed at Hokitika, r, and links will probably be formed on tho T south spit. Groymouth lias a well-cstab-u lished club. I. In proportion to its size, Switzerland has more inns than any other country in tho world. Tho entertainment of tourists hns becomo ono of the chief industries of the land. For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 8 2s 6d per bottle.... Native birds, such as the fantail, tomtit, > and grey warbler, appear'to be in greater numbers in South "Canterbury than they II been for many years. ' There arc now six (laxmills within a mile ? of the Tokomaru station, and those employ J from 250 to 300 hands, with a wages' list— ,' monthly—of from £2000 to £2500, and the j owners of areas will havo flax enough for two or three more mills. j Frank H. Blakeley, surgeon dentist, 174 Princes street South (over Kilrey and Sutherland's). Telephone H83.... There is in the American Museum of Natural History a butterfly which cost ita owner between £1500 and £2000. This rare insect exists only in Sierra. Leone, and r an expedition had to bo fitted out and mainr tained for two years before it was captured. Dr Sheldon's tablets have just arrived; price, 2s 6d. Dr Sheldon's linimont, Is 6d; new discovery cough syrup, Is 6d; postaga 3d extra.—H. L. Sprosen, chemist. Octagon, r Dunedin..,, h A turkey up Gisborno way cost £7 12s I tho other day. Two youths stole it, and • this was tho amount of lino and costs tho magistrato imposed. Tho market value of tho bird was only ss. Henry Goaphcr, a, well-known residont of Slaugham, Sussex, who committed suicido, was said to havo worried because ho found that he could not repay the kindness shown him by friends in a recent series of mis. fortunes. Competition is said to be tho lifo of trade; but tho suits we make for 50s, 59s 6d, and 65s defy all competition. Call early and leave your' measure. Endless variety of patterns, and satisfaction guaranteed,—Cheyne and Co., Mosgiel and Lawrence.... Tho Lake County Press received word last week that the snow oh tho ranges was very deep and at Walter Peak and Mount Nicholas station some 17,000 sheen wcro er snow-bound. A considerable number of 11. men were engaged on the stations named snow-raking. The Brazilian Government is considering plan by which it will create a State monoI. poly in coffee, the staple product, of the ile idea is for the Government to buy up the crop and retain it in stock n. until prices have attained an artificial level. Moro than throe-fourths of all' the coffee grown comes from Brazil. If this should meet tho eye of ladies desirous of improving their personal attrac--0() tion it will certainly be to their advantage to secure a new Jacket at D. Christie and Co.'s, Busy Drapers. Mosgiel.... . A visitor from Vancouver, Mr F. J. S Proctor, suggests a scheme of reciprocity jjj between New Zealand and British Columbia in tho matter of the tourist business. Ha anticipates that lie will get the Vancouver Tourist Association to extol tho attractions I- of Now Zealand, and hopes that the outho- , rities hero will not forget tho merits of British Columbia. Saturday first, tho 12th inst., is tho day fixed for the close. Immediately therern after the City Boot Palace will commence the opening-out and display of 6 choice e " stock of high-olass boots aad shoes for tho winter season, including luxurious-lined slippers intended for wearing theso colc? nights. Meanwhile, please remember thai Saturday is tho last, day of the sale ol Miss Morrison's stock.... At Melbourne on April 19 Mrs' Charlotte Elizabeth Mouio, wife of n. poor bootmaker , at Devonport, near Plymouth, England, was admitted hy Mr Justice Cussen to ba ontitled to a share in the estate of W. H. S. Osmond, grazier, of Stawell, valued at from £80,000 to £100,000. She claimed to bo the jiieee of the testator on her father's side. Other claimants disputed Mrs _ Moule's Aim on the ground that Sirs ~ Moule's father was not a legitimate con of the testator's father. For some time past there lias been quite E a piague of rats in somo parts of tho settlement (writes the Pirongin correspondent of file New Zealand Herald) and up the I Waipa River, where the rodents are running up the trees eating the apples and building their nests. The old native rat is not extinct, as many have thought, for a couple wcro caught last -week. To ladies who study a nice appearance on the street,_ sco the novel and stylish shapes Si in tweed jackets. Tight fitting, with belt and buckle at waist; full sac shapes, or the New Empire styles, with yokes, pleated back, and band and buckle, in pretty ! tweed pattern, at 10= 6d, 12s 6d, 15s, 17s 6d, 19s 6d, 21s, and upwards. Also, grand lot rich cgracul coats, -sac or Russian , shapes, at 355, 37s 6d, up to 5 guinea?, at T. Ross's, direct importer.... A new era in tho history of education was inaugurated in Tonga on April 5, for . on that day tho European school was for- -- mally opened. The head jnaster, Mr D. H. ; Mackay, formerly of Wnipu, Now Zealand, 1, was introduced to tho scholars by Mr R. L. Skcen, the chairman of tho local school ccmmitiec, and work was at once commenced " in tho Victoria Hall. There are now 25 j children on tho roll, and it is oxpectcd tho number will lie considerably be- . foro long. I- _ As' tending to remove any misapprchen--1 sion that may exist in regard to Ihe Riverfi--3 dalc-Switzers railway, thoso interested will be relieved to learn (says the Mataura Enj sign) that tho cost of relaying tho rails and g making up tho permanent way between j Rivcrsdale and the Mataura. River bridge is borno by tile working railways account, • and does not come out of the £5000 voted' by t Parliament last session. Tho rails on tho - section referred to were laid many years s ago, but were removed by tho department, i which is now replacing them. J Autumn goods to perfection at The Mutual Stares, Limited, and no oni in need ?f a new garment (and who is not?) should ail to see their splendid showing. Qual'ty goods at the lowest prices for cash eums up tho reason why The Mutual Stores aro so rapidly gaining public confidcnco and patronage. Wo give a courteous welconio to a 11.... "I am more than ever convinced," says tho Rev. C. C. Harper. Palmereton North, "that tho ideal scrvicc is that ono in which the congregation, choir, and clergy worship together. When tho people come to church to listen to the ohoir and the minister, tho sorvices aro not likely to Ixs much help to the spiritual lifo of tho worshipper ; but when tho congregation aro there to worship, and show by their hearty responses and singing that that is their intention, and that intention is sympathetically assisted by choir and organist, then the Sunday scrvicc-s become tho inspiration and life of the week-day work, . tho rest and comfort of the weary and sor- , rowful, and tho expression of tho thankfulness of the happy and grateful."