OMNIUM GATHERUM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14244, 19 June 1908, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM

All magazines on British battleships ar« being fitted with refrigerating machinery to lessen the risk of spontaneous combustion, Living Whist and Kirmess. Box plan at Dresden today.... Sonic naval exports sa • that destroyer! will bo the warships of tho next century, and thoy will be ablo to travel at a mile a minute. The National Electrical and Engineering Co. (Ltd.), 47 Crawford street, carry full stocks of motors, lamps, wires, cables, and all electrical supplies. Telephone 2108... About £68 per ton will bo tho overage cost of the new St. Vincent type of battleship, whioh is an improvement on tho Dreadnought. J. Waters, chemist, has an absolute cure for Chapped and Rough hands; Is bottle.... Tliis cold weather makes Hands routch; our Chap Lotion makes rough hands smooth—Waters's Pharmacy..,. Numerous experiments to determine the best fire-resisting materials' for the construction of doors have proved that wood covered with tin resists fire better than an iron door. If half dead with cold and no appetite , that delicious excellent food Wilson's Malt Extract will give strength and appetite right away. See Sproscn's, Octagon..., The chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board Conference at Wellington, stated that provision had been mado for the attendance of a policeman on delirium tremens patients sent to hospitals., exponses in. 6uch cases to be borne by the Government. For electric lighting shops, showrooms, offices, private residences, consult A. and T. Burt's electrical engineer. Expert advice and estimates given free. Phono 1257, 1258, and 523... In Spain it costs £20,000,000 to maintain the army, and only £300,000 to educate the children. It is the exception to find a Spanish farmer who is ablo to read or write. ' Style and fashion, newest textures, and perfect workmanship aro yours byplaoing jour suit order with our cutter.—Herbert, Haynes, and Co. (Ltd.), leaders of fashion, , Dunedin..., The London Daily -Chroniclo informs its readers that in New Zealand many of the bowling greons are on corporation land; that, in fact, the pastime there has become a recognised featuro in municipal life; ' while the Minister for Lands displays' an official interest in the game: For bronchial coughs take Woods' Great . Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s 6d. The Hawke's Bay Horald states that a violin in the possession of a local Government official, which was believed to be a genuine Maggini, has bean pronounced by an expert to be "a cheap German imitation." The watch to buy is tho one guaranteed by the praotical watchmaker. Leonard L. Lilburne, the up-to-dato jeweller, 30 Princes street, Dunedin, undertakes to eeU one that will give satisfaction.;. An ingenious Marion shopkeeper states that when ho finds that his customers are ! dilatory in paying their bills ho encloses with the' next account a picture post-card of the Courthouse. . No oomment, is ; made, but even the dullest 6ecm able to 6eo the hint, and in consequonee forward the amount owing. . ■ . , For brain weariness, mental exhausion, take a short course of Marshall's Tosphorine —a poworful nerve tonic, la at Marshall's \ Pharmacy.... ' For the use of American tourist passengers between Liverpool and London the London and North-Western Company has constructed a train which has cost £20,000. Frank H. Blakeley. jurgeon dentist, .174 Princes street South (over Kilroj and Sutherland's). Telenhone 1483.,,. 1 At the last census in 1905 there were 124,592 marriageable. bachelors, and 114,959 spinsters in the Dominion. Tho excess of bacholors is 963?, or 108 single young men for every 100 single girls. The figures have , changed considerably since the census was taken in 1901, when there were not enough young men to go round, the proiWrtion. ' being 97 to every 100 girls of marriageable age.. Burns Hall is entirely lighted with gem lamps. The National Electrical ,and Engineering Co., 47 Crawford street, were contractors for the installation... The disastrous effect of drought in Australia may be judged from the fact that 120,000 sheep wero once sold at Albury, Now South Wales, at Gd to Is per head. Men's working shirts, strong and sturdy, mado with'an eyo to stand strenuous work-a-day wear, ehirts that men will appreciate . meet, the bodies being cut full, and allowing for plenty of action.—A. F. Cheyne & Co. can guarantee perfect satisfaction.... . Thomas Holder, of Green Cove, Westland, who was thrown over a 40ft embankment by a fractious horse, owes the savingof his life to a feather pillow, which ho was' taking home to his wife., Holder's, horse shied at an object on the road, throwing him headlong to a rocky ravine, but ho failed to loosen his hold on the pillow, which fortunately struck the ground ahead of hirn. . •.. ' . . . Now that the rainy season has fairly set ■ in you should call at once and secure one of our new umbrellas, imported direct from the factory and mado with oxtra strong feather-weight steel frames, new glossy silk and Llama cloth, and artistao handles. Two thousand to select from at 2s od up to 555. We can honestly recommend .some special values'at 5s od, 7s. od, and 10s od. At T. Boss's, direct importer, 130 .Princes! Last summer a lady at Clactoh (England) purchased an old and dilapidated, piauo. Failing to get any music out of, it, her son-in-law pulled it' to pieces, and found hidden among the wires bank notes of the value of £1000. . ~ i \void paving for main street expenses a 'gentle walk to Lochhead's (Ld.), corner .Hope and.Walker streets.: The;. innumerable household necessaries are worth seeing.?.. The mound bird, found in Australia, builds the biggest nest in the world. It ■ makes mounds sometimes as much as .loUlt in ciroumferenco, in which it buries its > eggs sft deep. ' <~ - . Going out of business entails selling stocjc * at loss of usual profit. .All in business can ■ vouch for this, and for the fact that Messrs ' Kogen and Clarkson are parting with ' their monuments and headstones at landed ■ cost. Such being,-the case, those intending I to .erect tombstones, ornamental railings, » etc. should inspect our stock (unequaUcdin the\Dominion) at once.-Rogen and ClarksonAlate Munro and Son); Moray place.... At the seventieth anniversary of tow sccration of St. George's on Sunday/. June 7, the rector of tho parish . the Rev. A. Brain, made, reference to the > fact that at the consecration of the church on May 29, 1838, Mr Charles Butler,ws nresent, and had been an attendant at the j S'since then, owupying theis*me pew . all that time. Mr Butler will be 88 next ; m ° n |ee P smiling!" '/ •B* »■*»* . «.<*» semi-humorous, semi-pmlosophical sayings with which the Yankee seeks to s mulate . optimism and pkosw>toe» m daily Me. And i' S good, too! There's plenty of room for •railing! especially if you buy your footw™araHhe City Boot Pakoe. Who could " help tho smile of satisfaction at being able , to secure such grand values in mens boot, as the following j-The' Premier , a solid ohrome Balmoral, leatber-lmed, half- - goloshed, and fair-stitched welts; a fine, , easy-fitting boot, with the new shape toes, and for 14s 6dl Plenty to smile about! > And another in box calf, leather-lined, whole goloshed, with back straps; a grand make of Balmoral for lfeW! That's the kind of thing worth talking about, heo them, at the City Boot Palace, George • street.-Jas. M'Kay, proprietor.. It was stated recently in the House of t Commons that the annual cost of a first- > class British battleship in full commission >\ was £231,500. A torpedo-boat ■ destroyer cost £17,500, and a first-class torpedo-boat t £6000. ' , a » A German tourist at Qucenstown. ex- ". pressed himself freely to a Goto resident t regarding the Dominion's , labour JawsDiscussing the hard-wd-tat lines laid down _ by the various Acta,, the visitor said: f "Why if a hostile fleet appeared off Weir lington, on the day set apart as a half- ! holiday, to bombard the city, the Hon. 3 Mr Millar would.be sent out to read the t act and tell them it was outrageous to woik . our meat leap year clearing sale. Upen s 10s and ss, every week. , Christie and Co., in Mospel Town, \ Are far-famed drapers of great renown. The price's right j When cash' is tight 1 Send us the most appropriate lme to com-plcte.-D. Christie and Co., Mosgiel and i London.... _________ ; A.romatio SCHNAPfo.