OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13656, 27 July 1906, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

A branch of the Amalgamated Society oS Railway Servants has been formed at Woodville.

The Premier rays that Cliristehureh is to have, a Maternity Home on tho same lines as those of Duncdin, Wellington, and Auckland.

Feeding bottles, complete with anti-oolia teat, 6d each; hot water bottles (best English rubber), 5s 6d, 7s 6d, 9s 6d, and 10s 6d each.—H. L. Sprosen, chemist, Octagon, Duncdin....

Harvest was finished in the Milton district only last, week, when the last of a, crop near Clarksvillo was sccitred.-Bruco Herald.

. The Patea Press states that a represent*. !"•« of.a ««alt.liy Australian syndicate was, m 1 atoa last week making inquiries regarding the iron sand industry. , If you think that your little tin of blacking gees empty too quick," get the rvocord, which is guaranteed the most economical that money can buy.... The men laid up in consequence of the coal mine disaster at Alexandra recently liavo now (says the Herald) practically recovered, and somo have again resumed work.

In Anglesey there arc 38 parishes, together containing a population of 10 000 people, which parishes have not it single public-house m them. This is considered to be a record.

over yet! Our great end-of-seasou sale will bo continued for one week longer, iurthcr reductions in all denartments.-D Ohnstio and Co., Mosgiel....' Mr Wesley Spragg has entered into au agreement with the directors of the Now Zealand Dairy Association to manage tho business of the company for another seven years.

The Bruco Herald states that on Saturday last, whvm soiflo straw, which had boon blown off tho top of a stack by the gale on tho sth inst., was being carted away a. sheep which bad been buried under the straw was released. The sheep immediately got up and ran away, apparently none tho worec, although it had" been under the straw for 17 days.

The Mutual Stores great end-of-winter pale is now into its stride, and tho purchasers are numbered by tho hundred each day. Evidently the .Mutual people are determined to outdo everything before seen in bargain-giving. Added to this thev are now giving away to buyers large and'handsomo photographs of New Zealand scenery and other choice and useful presents, according to the amount expended.... The human hair forms a profitable crop. Fivo tons are annually imported-by tho merchants of London. The Parisian bar. vest is upward of 200,000 pounds, equal in. value to £80,000 a year.' In Lapland, when the door of a. warm, room is opened during the winter, it is immediately followed by a miniature snow, storm in. the room, the condensed moistnro falling in flakes. Frank' H. Blakeley, surgeon dentist, 174Prinocs street South (over Kilroy and Sutherland's). Telephone 1483....

The authorities of St. Andrew's Church, Auckland,- Jiave decided to get their new organ built in N'ew Zealand, as they havesatisfied themselves that they can obtain a first-class instrument mado in the colony as cheaply as they can import one. During the lato dairying: season the Eltham Co-operative Dairv Company mado 715 tons of butter, as against 633 tons last year. During the same period £59,499 5s 3d was paid to suppliers for milk.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d per bottle....

Apropos of the reception given to the Hon. W. Hall-Jones as Premier on Saturday, the fact may bn noted (says tho Timaru Herald) that Mr Hall-Jones is the second member for Timaru to becomo Premier of tho colony. Sir Edward Stafford occupied that position while representing this constituency over 30 years ago.

Another of the older generation of Maoris has passed awav in the person of Nuku Takeroi, who died at. Putiki last week; aged 80 years. Ho is said {o have been ono of tho band who fought undoi- Tc Eauparaha. During the Maori war he fought with the friendly Natives.

Great hill-climhers are Yauxhall and Leader motor ears; all British made.— Stuart White, 98 Princes street, agent, Also, Decauville (French) and Mercedes.... At a meeting of the Taranaki Rugby Union last week four players who had been reported by referees for, rough play were suspended for again failing to defend their cases, and till such time as they send in a satisfactory defence.

Dr-G. Travis, of Llandudno, who is medical officer of the Corinthic on her present trip, on a recent, visit to tho Government Tourist Office, gave expression' to his enthusiasm with Auckland and its climate. Dr Travis is so charmed with our. beautiful country that he has decided to return vith his wife and family to settle here.

Marshall's Fospherine, the famous tonie and neuralgia cure; a nerve-atrengthenor; nothing to equal it as a nerve pick-me-up: splendid' for students, business men, and those, whose nerves are out of order. Is, Is 6d. 2s 6d.—Marshall's Pharmacy....

A report presented by tho Crown Lands Ranger at the last meeting of the Nelson Land Board on leases and licenses in the Takaka, Tadmor, Gordon, and Wangancka survey districts, showed that 58 holdings had been inspected, and that improvements to the value of £8486 had been affected where only £3138 were required by the act.

Ansell and Co., Octagon (Fred. Smith, jim., cutler), for high-class tailoring of every description....

At. a meeting of the Loyal Orange Lodgo in Feilding on Wednesday evening it was (says tho Star) unanimously decided to ark tho Hon, W. Hall-Jones to retain tho Premiership of New Zealand, as the lodge considers that under its jurisdiction it would tend to better the government of tho colony. A copy of the resolution is to bo forwarded to the Hon. the Premier.

Furniture and furnishing departments nre to be opened by Messrs A. F. Cheyno and Co., Mosgicl, on the Ist of August in tho brick building recently erected by Mr Harper on Gordon road. A call of inspection is respectfully solicited....

A resident of a northern town recently wrote to the local authority for the replacement of a pair of trousers torn in a barbed wire entanglement, placed near a piiblio foot path. The night was dark, and the footpath partly fenced off with this kind of wire. 'The damaged pants had been shown to ono or two members of tho local body, and the applicant left the question of a new pair to tho fair-mindedness of tho board. That flint-hearted body declined to moot the claim.

T. Ross's genuine sale of winter . goods, now on; everything in the shop reduced, and, specially, you ahould see the ney winter jackets, from 5s lid; children's winter coats, from 4s lid; flannel and flannelette blouses, from Is 6d; rich fur necklets, from 2s fxl, muffs to match, from 5s 6d; children's heavy knitted wool blopmera, Z( 6d. ladies', 3s 9d; and all gloves, stockings, lies, laces, umbrellas, and everything reduced to lowest bargain salo prices at T. Boss's, 130 Princes street....

Farmers in Oamaru on Saturday for the. most part expressed themselves as cmirionlly satisfied with tho prospects of their calling for the ensuing season (says the Mail). There were those who ventilated » desire for a two days' rain to admit of the ploughing of lea land, which is, in the prolonged absence of a shower, hard and tough; hut to the. great, majority a dry spell has proved rather a boon, and ploughing and sowing operations are proceeding vapidly. So mild has tho season been in the greater part of the surrounding district that root crops have never ceased to grow throughout the winter. Our contemporary slates on the best authority that several acres of mangolds, which, but a few months ago, at a time when no more growth was looked for, showed no prospect of maturing, now average 151b to the root. r Jho scarcity of feed promised early in the year to -bo a problem of difficult solution, but so kindly has the season been that stock are in splendid fettle, and there appears every indication of their retaining so desirable a condition. It's a great thing to know just where to get the very stylo of hooKs one wants to buy, and it's a satisfaction to bo sure that in patronising a firm you are getting goods that are really up to the mark. This is the ease when you liny from the City Boot Palace. Just now they are showing some beautiful styles in ladies' and gentlemen's evening shoes. A glace kid lady's shoe, with beaded front, triple bar, at 18s 6d ; a patent leather shoe, single bar, at 12s 9d; and a glace kid. single bar and handsewn, at 5s lid arc all well worth seeing, as is also a very natty "Bostoek" twin-bar rla<-c kid flicc at 12s 6d. The Oitv Boor. 'Palace value in gents' evening shoes i. also splendid, ftkee kid Oxfords (lacing, leather lined, at 10s 6d, and the same styh in patent leather at 8s 6d. These, with n patent leather court-shaped shoe. bow. etc., at 4s 6d are all verv stylish and elcgant.~ City Boot Palace, George street....