OMNIUM GATHERUM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14087, 16 December 1907, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM

The Westport Coa! Company's output last week was 10,909 tons' 4cwt.

If you want to feel strong and vigorous, fit for anything, just go to your grocer or chcmist, and ask for a bottle of Wilson's Malt Extract....

Mr S. Hnlbert, of the Raleigh Cycling Club, has succeeded in riding a tricycle urtpaccd for 100 miles in 6h 15rnin 57sec.

Xmas Piet:ente; —Perfumery, sprays, smelling bottles, etc., variety.—VVaters's Pharmacy....

An estate of 12,000 acres, known as Inverliver, in Argyllshire, has been purchased by the Government for the purpose of converting it into a Stale forest station. Electric flatirons are clean, efficient, and cheap. The National Electrical and Engineering Company (Ltd.), M Crawford street. Telephone 253....

Over five million herrings recently were sold a.t auction at Grimabv. No fewer than 180 vessels raced one another for positions at the quay, amid cheers from large crowds. For artificial teeth and palate uso our specially imported toothbrush, Is 6d. Antiseptic tcotbwash for artificial teeth, 2s.— Sproson, chemist, Octagon, Dunedin. Criminal proceedings hare been instituted at St. Petersburg against Maxim Gorki, in respect to hiG novel "Mother," now appearing in a magazine, which lias been cQßfiecatoL

A wonderful tonio for muscular weakliess is MareliaJl's Fosphcrir.e. For brain fag, neuralgia, lassitude, and insomnia it has no equal. Is it Marshall's Pharmacy.... It has been decided to nlacc a tablet to Iho memory of tho late Sir Benjamin Baker, the famous engineer, in tho church at Pangboume, where his country residence was situated.

Christinas will soon Lo here, and mothers will find The Mutual Stores havo anticipated every child's need in clothing. T'will be worth your whilo inspecting lif on shopping bent....

A new eporfc lias been introduced in France—that of racing with tamo seagulls. These birds are found to bo more intelligent than pigeons, and better able to brave rough weather.

Taieri buyers are reminded that wo aro giving Is 6(1 cash discount in tho £1 from now on till Xmas. Sonic nico goods showing for holiday wear.-D. Christie and C 0.... In Franco there are 6,000.000 smokers (says the Tobacco Weekly Journal). Of every 15 thcro aro eight who smoke a pipe, five who smoke cigars, and only two who are cigarette smokore.

Porcelain enamelled baths and lavatory baams of best manufacture. Sanitary engineore and plumbers, all classes work done.—A. and T. Burt (Ltd.), Dunodin.... In nearly all the districts of London the price of bread has boon raisod a. halfpenny per quartern loaf, and should the cost of flour still continuo to advance, a further increase is probable. Frank H. Blakeley. durgcou dentist, 174 Princes street South (over Kilroy and buthorUnd'i!. Tolenbono 1483.... A thOU6M<I pounds of puncotton, sold to the BluQ Harbour Board by the Government, went south by tho training ship Amokura last week. Ifc is to bo uded for blowing up rocks in pursuance of a har-bour-deepening scheme now in progress. Tho stylish suitings, excellent cut, beautilul finish, and low priccs of our made-to-measure suits attract all classes of mon.— Herbert, Haynea, and Co. (Ltd.), Dunedin... Ono of the most durable woods i 6 sycamore. A 6tatuo made from it, now in the museum of Gizch, at Cairo, is known to be nearly 6000 years old. Notwithstanding this great age, it is asserted that the wood itself is entirely sound and -natural in appearance.

Brown, Ewing's "Airlito" black felt hat '1? , nM no equal in tho Dominion. INew shapes just in.... A German statistician assert that every y ear . filling teeth an<l other works dentists use about 800 kilogrammes of gold the value of which ia £100,000, and that at this rate the graveyards of the. various countries will contain in 300 years from now £30,000,000 worth of gold. "Gem" electric lighie eit the current bills in two. Solo agonts: National Electrical and Engineering Company (Ltd.), 47 Crawford atroot. Telephone 253.... The members of the choir of St. Saviour's Unuch, Saltley, Birmingham, have gone on ! strike becauso they resent certain changes which tie vicar, Father Adderley, son of tho late Lord Norton, fought to introduce Tho choir of St. John's Uiurch, Wingatos, Lancashire, is also on 6trikc.

An extensive deposit of whetstone is reported to have been discovered on Crown w•? liear deep-water harbour in tho Uaikato, while magnetic iron ore, eaid to bo somewhat similar to Ijje ore from which the Swedish aron and sicel is ma<lo, is reported to have been found on Crown land* m tho South Island.

Bathing caps for the seaside from 1b 6d. See window, Watcre's Pharmacy.... . Shearing is ovideiitly a very remunerative occupation while it lasts. One man who has boon engaged at the work since October 23 last, told'a Wairarapa. Ago re*' porter tlwt his earnings during that timo «moujitod to £60. In three weeks a.t ono shed he drow over £33, aid for about four days at anothor lie received over £6. As showing to what an extent dairying is carried on, it is interesting to learn that no less a sum than £688,485 has been paid out to farmers for milk up to the present timo by the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union. This sum is for mill; alone, besides which £75",887 has been paid out for wages, firewood, and carting. Hundreds of ladies turn to fanny gooda lor the inexpensive remembrances which aro included on every Christmas list. In our present assortment thoy will find a wide variety of new ideas in the daintiest of Christmas novclties.-A. F. Cheyne and Lo., Mosgiel.... An Eketahuna farmer has just installed a milking' maohine, and he reports that three hands the other morning completed the milking of 60 cows in 00 minutes. Ho considers that after three milkings the cows will give more milk with the machine than bv hand.

Inspector Hill, of Napier, says there aro artesian wells on the Heretaunga. J lams, and he thinks it desirabla to prevent people using unlimited quantities of water. A number of towns in Hawke's Bay, including Napier, depend upon this soureo for their water supply. l'or useful and acceptable Christmas presents at a reasonable price our variety is at the present juncture unsurpassed: — Lovely kid gloves (white, black, and every colour), at 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3s 6d up; long suedo Lisle gloves, from Is 9d; rich silk motor scarves, extra long and wide, Is lid, 2s 6d, 2s lid; new umbrellas, with rich silver mounts, 5a 6d,6s 6d, 7s 6d, up to 355; pretty sunshades, from Is lid; real Maltese lace ties, from 7s 6d; and everything suitable for wife, mother, sweetheart, or friend at T. Ross's, direct importer.... At the recent Auckland show a Lincoln ram, o Wne d by Mr J. R. M'Elwain, of Waiuku, took first prize in class 172, which was for rams in the wool, to he shorn before the judge. Mr M'Elwain'e sheep, which is under 18 montlis old, established a record, shearing 33Jlb of wool. I" pne part of Poverty Bay distriot the Maori eheepfarmers have a telephone systom of their own, which they have erected throughout the district. It consists of ill miles of telephone wire. They have erected it cheaply, at about £11 per mile, i'ho.v have a central exchange, and pay and employ two or three telephone assistants to carry on their work.

There is nothing like a holiday at the seaside for building up and strengthening the constitutions of women* and children, fho pleasure of a walk or romp on the beach is much enhanced by comfortable foot-wear. Sand shoes for women in black, also tan canvas, with leather facing, wo are selling at 3s 6d, 3s lid, and 4s 6d. Children's white canvas beach fehoes, either strap or lacing, at 2s Hd, 3s 6cl, and 3s lid. We have iiiso an immense variety of ran da Is ami fhoettc6. Toadies are invited to inspect tome splendid models of walking shore, very strong yet quite light, smart, and stylish-looking; the prices are low. Afternoon drefs shoe.?—a vorv choice selection of fashionable makes.—City Boot Palace, George street; Jos. M'Kay, proprietor....

" AYanganui lias now five members of Parliament," said a member of the Chamber of Commerce to a Wanganui Herald reporter, alluding to the fact that, under the new altera! iton of electoral boundaries, the five electorates of Wanganui, I&injpJikei, Pater. Stratford, and Tatimaranui include districts abuttiny on the Wanganui River.

In midsummer a strange _ sight may be seen in Central America—viz., the migration of butterflies across the Isthmus of Panama. About the end of .Tune a few of the insects beijiii to go out to se.-i, but their numbers increase daily until, about a fortnight or so later, they form a cloud dense enough almost to obscure the sky.