OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13983, 16 August 1907, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

A complete sot of British birds' cgga ij worth about £200. Tho Marquis of Bute's mansion near Rothesay cost £2,000,000. Frank H. Blakeiey, surgeon dentist, 171 Princes street South (over, Kalroj and Sutherland's). Telephone 1483.... Within tho past hundred years whalebone has risen in from £30 to £3000 a ton. Fully 75 per ccnt. of tho boots and shoes mado in England ar'o made by tho aid of machinery. Any physician in this city will have a feeling of entire satisfaction if you 6end your prescription work to us.—J. Waters, chemist, 20 Princca street.... 11l France 4,000,000 tons of potatoes are annually used in the manufacture of starch and alcohol. In tho last 10 years 61 clorgvmon havo become paupcre, and 42 havo been admitted into asylums. For brain weariness,. mental exhausion, take a short course of Marshall's Fospherine —a poworful jicrvo tonic. Is at Marshall's Pharmacy.... T'io Department of Agriculture announces that tho potato blight has appeared in some counties in Ireland. The inoomo of moro than half of tho 14,000 incumbents in England and Wales is less than £180 a year. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d &2s 6d. Whitebait were observed in tho Waimakariri River at Kaiapoi on Friday, which, at this period, is one of tho Maori signs betokening an early spring. There's 6tyle and smartness in tho tweed suits from four guineas produced by our cutter; they are the best, value in Dunedin. Herbert, Haynes, and Co. (Limited).... There are 51 fishing boats belonging to (he Bay of Islands, which employ 16i men. Owing to tho' demand for humanised milk, three of tho principal Wellington milk vendors are now selling it thus treated. Aroma, strength, and quality I A tin of King Coffee is full of it. Eighteenpcnce per lb, net weight.... The Wanganui Chronicle states that it is the intention of Mr W. R. Tuck, tho backer of the world's champion 6cullor, to take Webb to England to row for the Sportsman Cup. Book your dates now for Brown-Ewing's "Vacuum Carpet Cleaner." , It makes spring cleaning a pleasure... ' The ceremony of blessing and onening the new church at. Flint's Bush in the Riverton parish will be performed by Bishop Verdon on Sunday. H. L. Sprosen, chemist, Octagon, Dunedin, has been appointed agept for all Miloa preparations. Milos skin food, famous ovemvhere for tho complexion; only 3s 9d a'cot. Once tried, always use'd.^,. Hare 3 are very plentiful in.some parts of Central'Otago. A party of four from Dunedin last week bagged 104 in two days. We are informed on reliable, authority (says the Opotiki Guardian) that about 30 of tho children who wero attendants at tho Waimana. Native School have died at Rua's camp, at Mangapohutu, as a result of tho outbreak of typhoid and measles. Do it to-day. Visit the annual wintev sale and make your money earn more. It's the greatest bargain sale extant. Gome *nd tost it. Write for catalogue.—Tho Mutual Stores, Ltd.. Princes street.... A successful operation performed on Mr Robert Coatcs, of Matokolie, disclosed tho fact that a piece of glass tubing had been left, in one of his lungs when ho was last under tho surgeon' 6 hands. Farm Implements.—P. and D. Duncan's are the host. All latest improvements aro embodied in their manufacture. A. and T. Burt (Ltd.). agents, Dunedin.... _ Lord Swaythiing, save the Jowisli World, is to be the title chosen by Lord Samuel Montagu. Swaythiing is the. name of the village near Southampton whero tho new peer owns a large estate. Before putting yourself to unnecessary inconvenience and bustle in rushing to Dunodin with your monoy try D. Christie nnd Co., Mosgie), who arc offering exceptional value in all departments during August.... ' . . , _ At Fcltliam an old Jady, aged 71, pleaded, in answer to a chargo of drunkenness, that she had been "keeping up" her mother's birthday. Sho explained 1 that her mother had just celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday. ' There is no better, no surer way of cutting down jour household expenses than to'keep right in touch with A. F. Cheyne and Co.'s August bargains, and,to tako advantage of them. Every price reduction is absolutely genuine.... Mr and Mrs Yeates, of Barrow Gurney, Somerset, have received a message of congratulation from the King on''tho completion of the seventieth year of their married life. Mr Yoa-tes is 95 and his wife 93. Ye canna mak a silk purse cot o' a soo's lug, but it is really wonderful what brainy men can do out of unpromising matorials. This is apropos of the alterations now rearing completion at T. Ross's shop in Princes street. All are cordially invited to inspect the alterations, when wc shall show under tho full flood of tho clectrio light a grand lot of blouses, gloves, coats, hosiery, umbrellas, lace and silk goods at spcoial alteration prices.—!'. Ross, direct importer, 130 Princes'street.... Mrs Fred Rose, a farmer's widow. living at Holbeaeh, St. John's, Lincolnshire, has just, roceived her first telegram, at the ago of 95. When but a little girl she went, to work at 3d a day, and recently 6ho has been engaged l tying flowers. Dunedin is not tho only placc that has become ajjgry because the original estimate for its electrical works did not prove to be a true estimate. At Port Elizabeth (Capo Colony) the authorities are lmsy ereoting an electric lighting plant, which was to havo cost not moro than £83,358. The cost up to date has been £110,467, and it is hopefully oxpected that the final cost will not bo higher than £125.000. Remuneration for leading a blind man was a factor in a civil msc heard by Dr M'Arthur, S.M., at Wellington. A youth sued James Pettcngall, an ex-prize fighter, for £2 10s for a balance of wages due. Plaintiff deposed that ho liad been engagod by defendant, at a wage of 10s per week to lead him out whilst ho collected subscriptions, and that the amount in question was still owing to him. His Worship granted a nonsuit. "Now, isn't it. annoying! .I've just got used to these boots, and tlicy'ro really comfortable, and now there's a little hole come in the sole. Isn't it provoking!"—lt is: but no matter how "big" or "littlo" tho holes—if you send them down to the City Boot Palace they will bo put right in a stylo that will delight the most fastidious lady. At the "C. B. P." you can rely on honest work, and skilful withal; honest leather; honest priccs. For boot and shoe repairs send direct to the City Boot Palace, George street, where the great "Flight, of Time" sale is in progress, and whero people are buying boots at priccs that are simply astonishing! Have you been?... Owing to the fact that some prohibited persons in Wootlville arc being supplied with liquor despite the vigilance of the police, tile Woodville Examiner understands that a number of townspeople have formed themselves into a Vigilance Committee with a vioiv to watching those persons who make it a practice to get liquor for prohibited/ persons.