OMNIUM GATHERUM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14279, 30 July 1908, Page 12

OMNIUM GATHERUM

A man named Walts diod in Australia recently from eucalyptus poisoning. Ho put a bottlo to his mouth, his cough boing troublesome, and look a drink of die oil. Canadian Cough Cure quickly euros Colds. Is 6d and 2s 6d at J. Waters, chemist... In© Admiralty lias decided to build a factory on the Clyde, near Loch Long, for the construction of torpedoes. The scheme will involve an expenditure of £30,000. Stocktaking 6alc high-ciaes jewellery, etc., at Leonard L. Lilbume's, tho up-to-date jeweller, 30 Princes street. You take no risk at this (sale, as all goods aro now... limbing has already started in some parts of the Mastodon district If lambing becomo general so early (says an exchange) the mortality may be heavy among those in unsheltered properties. For bronchial coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s 6d." Mr A. 80-Kou, juggler, claims to have •invented a system of playing roulette at Monte Carlo by which a sum of £\ per day can bo made with a capital of £200. _ The- powerful flamo aro lamps under Mollifons' verandah woro erected by the National Electrical and Engineering Company (Limited).... A large party of Maori sanitary inspectors visited the Wellington destructor the other day, in charge of tho Native Health Office (Dr Buok), and were given practical instruction in drain-laying and the treatment and disposal af garbage

——1 . . : 1 imt Thomson and &».. Moray place opposiU ■ First Church, have the largest and cheapest stock or headstones, otc, in Duncdin Ur •elect from. Telephone 2296.... ' Admiral P. S. Vandor Menlen presented to the town of Bishop's Stortford soma time ago a block of 14- King's cottages, to be let to tho desorving poor at 6d a, week. Frank 11. Blakelej, surgeon dentist, 17* Princes street South (over Kilroy and fautherland's). TeleDhone 1483.... Many curious instances of old lawc may still bo found in England. In Chester tho man who fails to raiso his hat when a funeral is passing becomes liable, under an old Jan-, to be taken before a magistrate and imprisoned. Electric radiators aro superior in everyway to gas. Descriptive pamphlet obtain, able from the National Electrical and Englnoormg Company (Limited), 47 Crawford street.. , y]H °t R n Guih ™> "10 Opposition candidate for Oroua, is 111 e somewhat embarrassing position as a n elector. One-half of his farm is in tho Rangitikoi electorate, and tho other half, with his residence is within tho Oroua boundary. ' This is the season to erect monuments . Messrs Rogen and Clarhon still have about 1 300 headstones, monuments, and railings to sell at landed cost to mako room for machinery now being erected. A great opportunity to save 25 per cent, in prices at which other firms can supply. Call and inspect, at Rogen and Clarkson's (lato G. Mum-o and Son), Moray place, Duncdin... Tlie aveiago duration of life is, in Nor. way 50 years, Britain 45, Belgium 44, Switzerland 44, France 43, Austria 39, Italy 39, Bavaria 36, and Spain 32. Pram quilts, rugs, inverted gas fittings, copper boilers, etc., wonderfully cheap and excellent quality at Lochhead's (Ltd.), corner Hope and Walker sts. See for yourselves. The news has just been proclaimed (says a writer in the Manchester Chronicle) that there is in stock enough of whisky to last tho world for five years even if no more were distilled in the meantime. See tho winter display of Wilson's Malt Extract in Sprosen's window, Octagon. This is the greatest strengthening food for colds, weakness, and debility.. It is alleged that there is t combination ov ring in Melbourne among representatives of manufacturers of explosives which is actively engaged in controlling prices and restricting supplies. The Minister for Mines is having the matter inquired into. J. Waters, Chemist, has best mediumsize Hot Water Bags from 65... Everybody is nowadays a borrowerGovernments, municipalities, railways, are all borrowing money in London, and the competition forces them to give very .favourable terms in the shapo of discounts and high interest to the lenders. A new loan appears every other day, some successful, some failures, and spmo nartially successful— Saturday Review' ; Every passible need in tho floor-cover-ing.lino can be met at A. F. Cheyne and Co.'s, Mosgiel. Our stock of fine carpets, rugs, and linoleums is simply inexhaustible. Bring your floor-covering wants.here. We will mako the price right.... Shortly before lioon on July 15 a mfrago was observed to the souui of Baivhdalc, Victoria. It reflected for a length of several miles an image of the coast line and a largo expense of tho Southern Ocean. The phenomenon lasted about an hour, and gradually disappeared. We are determined to clear out all remnants and odd stock lines before we take down stock at the end of July. For all such lines no reasonable cash offer will bo declined.—D. Christie and Co., Mosgiel and London.... In addition to, tho punishment awarded him by the law of Old Bailey,' London, for attempting to murder his'wife, Wil-' liam Allan, an engine-driver, will also be dumb for lifo through his own-rash act. He cut his wife's throat and also his own; the wife recovered, but. tho self-inflicted wound in the throat has destroyed the larynx, and Allan will remain dumb for 1 rest of his life. Ho was sentenced to tienal servitude for three'years 1 Tho most notable show-yard records Df succes-s ever achieved by .an individual 6heep-brceder in the world's history of th# pastoral industry fell to tho ,'ot of Mt Jolin S. Horsfall, of Widgiewa, at th» great Sydney sheep shows of .1905, 1905, and 1907. All the Widgiewa winners were dipped in Quibcll'a.... The Maronite (Catholic) Patriarch of Jerusalem has issued notification warning Catholics in New Zealand against certain itinerant Orientals professing to be Catholic priests, who have come out to this country to solicit subscriptions for Catholic missionary or cliaritablo purposes. To keen school children's heads absolutely dean, vise Marshall's Nursery Hair Lotion. A suro eradicator. 6d and Is at Marshall's Pharmacy.... Of the various publio departments which have to uso the railway service,-and pay for it, the Post and Telegraph Department is easily the best oustomer, its total contribution last year having been £52,237 The Publio Works Department paid £3b.i •■ to the railway, account and.the Mines Department (mainly for freight oh ; State coal), added £29,851. The value of the concession of free travelling for school [children can bo gauged from the fact that £14,881 was paid to the Railway; Department by tho Education Department for passenger fares. Hydraulic rams and pumps, water pipes and hose, stocked in all sizes; full particulars on application; send for our special pump circular.—A. and T, Burt (Limited)..:. The most curious railway in the world is built on ice. It is laid between Cronstadt and Oranienbatim, and is in uso onduring the winter, 'Its success has suggested the construction of a similar winter railway between tho two important' commercial centres. Krementchug andEkaterinoslav, which are united in summer by the steamboat Iraflic along tho Dnieper River. This means of communication is closed in winter by the ice. To ensure perfection in .fit, style, and choice British or colonial tweeds you must place your suit order with the Dunedin tailors -Herbert, Haynes, and Co. (Limited).... Of the people to whom old-ago pensions were granted in Now Zealand last year 790 were English, 364 Irish, 325 Scotch, 23 New Zealand born, 13 Welsh, and 80 Maori. Of tho total number of male pensioners now on the roll there are 3353 .labourers, 1071 miners, 463 farmers. 284 gardeners, 276 carpenters. 240 gum-diggers, and 107 bootmakers. Tho females include 5151 whose occupation is termed domestic duties, whilst there aro 158 nurses, 58 laundresses, 41 charwomen, 35 needlewomen, 28 dressmakers, 17 cooks, and 13 washerwomen. • At T. Ross's winter sale you can got ladies' warm winter gloves from 9d pair; children's ditto from two pairs for 6d; children's cashmere stockings from 6d pair; ladies' plain or ribbed ditto from lOjd; umbrellas from Is Udj ladies' warm'tweed coats at tho ridiculous price of 2s lid and 3s lid; fine hemstitched handkerchiefs from lid tho half-dozen, and everything else in the way of corsets, furs, singlets, bloomers, doyleys, laces, etc., etc., at the same astonishing prices at T. Ross's, ,130 Princes street.... — The unusual spectacle has been witnessed at Nottingham of a woman being buried with military honours. Mrs Ann Milne, whose husband was a sergeant-major in the Eighth Hussars, was the last survivor of Nottingham women who went with' their husbands to the Crimea. Her body was carried to the grave by non-commis-sioned officers of tho Robin Hood Rifles, the coffin being covered with the Union Jack. Nearly 70 Crimean and Indian Mutiny veterans attended the funeral. Hero is a real gem in ladies' shoes. Just a smart?very smart indeed—well-cut walking shoo, made of nice, soft box calf. Oxford shape, with toecaps and Cuban heels. Daintily leather lined. Port eyelets and the broad silk shoe-ties. These shoes are really worthy of your inspection, tho prico is only 146 6d a pair, and they are 6imply "ideal" for winter wear. When you aro in the shop. You will ba interested to seo tho beautiful new styles in wide, washionablo shoe-ties for ladies.' Everything up-to-date at Cookham House, the depot for highgrade footwear, Princes street.