OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15057, 2 February 1911, Page 12

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Gisborne is evidently progressing. During the past year permits were issued for works totalling £80,000. Genuine Marmola Cure for Stoutness obtainable Scott's Pharmacy, 17 Prinoe6 5t.... In picked, herds of Danish cows, handled under the perfect system of the country, the- average of butter is 3301b'per cow per annum. The National Electrical and Engineering Co.'s temporary offices are in Rattray street, opposite Harbour Board office Telephone 2108.... \ • A case against a bookmaker of betting ' witii an inlant at tho recont Clutha races ' is to come on for hearing in the Balelutha Police Court. Neil's Worm and Tonio Syrup for children safe and effectual; Is bottle... ' Thore are estimated to bo 38,000,000 rats in England, and Wales, costing at loast 7s fxl a year each to keep—or a total of £14,250,000. Thomson and Co., Moray place (opposite First Church), have on hajid a large selection of headstones and monuments at prices to suit a 11.... Iceland has only one policeman, and his beat is in the capital, Reykjavik. The residents are so orderly that lie has little to do. Neil's Sarsapurilhv for impurities of skin and blood purely horbal; 2s 6d.—74 Georgo i street.... _ \ The water-races in tho Ashburton district ! are said to have improvod the value ni land '. by at least £5 per aero. And yet many [ farmers opposed, the necessary rate. Scott's Catarrh Cure, never-failing remedy for catarrh and hay fever; price, 2s 6d bottle; posted, 3s.—Scott's Phawnacy.... A maii who left his hod m a Mastorton boarding-house on a recent night and went . out clad in "evening dress" to look for ; something found a policeman. | Surf-bathing.—Ladies should see bathing ■ caps at Waters' Pharmacy, from 15.... Man used the horso as an artiolc of food - only for an enormous period of time—perhaps 100,000 years—before ho discovered - that the animal was far more serviceable I as a means of transport. j Investigate our new system. It gives you what you are justly entitled to—a discount '. on ovary penny you spend with us. Call u or write for oircular to Ohristio and Co., [Vha Store of Economy Mosciel....

j '' J. Greaves, surgeon oentist (late witih S. S. Myers), Collins street, Waikouaih.... Mr William Gunn, proprietor ■of the Tiniaru theatre, intends to spend between £5000 and £4000 on remodelling and bringing the theatre up to modem requirements. Marshall's famous Fospherino mokes weak, nervous women or men strong and vigorous, helps digestion, and cures promptly; Is, ohemists and stores. An innovation at the Mastertpn A. and P. Association's show on the new grounds , at Solway next month will be a pigeonflying competition in connection, with the local Homing Pigeon Crub. Summer drinks.—Pure fruit extracts; all flavours; Is.—Neil's Dispensary, George, street.... ■, ' ' Twelve exhibitors of pigeons from Ohristchurch have written to the South Canterbury Poultry Society stating that they will not again exhibit at the Timam show if certain gentlemen, are selected 39 judges. The National Electrical and Engineering Co. have leased the second floor in Johu Chambers's buildings, Stuart, street, and will take possession early in January.... The Palmcrston North Borough Council lias a flock of about 40 breeding ewes which it utilises for /keeping down the grass oa the reserves on the esplanade. Last yeae it made a profit of £43 out of the ewes from the sale of Jambs and wool. Surf-bathers use Kaloderma Jelly (grease less) for sunburn; Is.—At Waters', chemist, 20 Princes street.... A new danco has been invented in San Francisco called the " Turkey Trot." The dance imitates the strutting, the proud bearing, and the courting of the turkey. A contemporary says it is immensely popular . in San Francisco. [ Frank H. Blakeley, surgeon dentist, 174 I Princes street South (over Kilroy and Sutherland's). Telephone 1483 Up to date, Mir Potter, oounty clerk, has 1 purchased, on behalf of the Bruce County 1 Council, 1052 1 dozen—i.e., 12,624—birds' eggs • and heads, and paid away £8 15s 8d to the ananjp boys' and girls who have beea oa the warpath. Job purchases are very much in evidence at. A. F. Cheyne and Co., Mosgiel, New Year. Buyers can make big savings ■ in all departments. Lovely trimmed and untriramed hats at Is lid and 2s lid. Worth' 6s 6d and 8s 6d. Write for one to-day. All colours... The Wairarapa Agte reports that a Masiterton settler stales that a short, sharp rain, like that -experienced one day lasij week, will do moro to exterminate, rabbica than hundreds of pounds spent in poisoning. Th»> boles fill with water, and before it has time to soak in the rabbits aas destioyed in their buxiows. If you wero offered goods for half-price you would probably buy; if offered the same goods for nothing you would have no hesitation in accepting. ,Orfe day iq February we aire making a free day.. AD, buyers on that day will have the whole of their purchas-e. money returned io them'by, Christie and Co., TUe Store of Economy, Mosgiel.... Housewives m Invorcargill are (says the Soirffoern Cross) beginjning to complain about tk> (ly miisainee. A writer in a, Tasmamian paper states that formalin" and sugar mixed in a saucer is taken by flies, aad results in deaths by tie hundred. Formalin being a poison, it must bo kept out of the reach of children, and care musb be taken in its use. Messrs Baldwin and. Rayward, Joels' Buildings, - Crawford street, report • that amongst the many applications for patents they have just filed are:—W. Lewie, Sydney, improvements in the warming, drying, or lasting of footwear; Odlin, Johnston, and Glover, Wellington, im-. proved flushing apparatus; A. H. Hansen* Manaia, pasteurisation of liquids; R. Murie, Invercargill, aeronautical machine..It wias ; ait Normanby, near Hawera, whoa Ikcfee Maori couples' were married that tha old custom of using rice as a symbol oj Ikkico and plenty oould cot be followed because on this oeea.si.vi the supply ran auk Native ingenuity, however, was equal t» tho oboasion. A bag of oats was ptieoraed as a substitute, and handfuls of the grain wefla hurled ait the happy couples. T. Ross's summer sale is now in full swing. Great bargains showing in every department. Large size coloured blouses, Is, Is 6d, Is lid, 2s 6d; white muslin embroidered blouses, 2s 6d, 2s Ud, to 12s 6d; every conceivable colour in lislo thread gloves, Ud, Is 3d, Is 6d, Is 9d, la 11<* pair; all-wool hosiery, plain and ribbed, black, from lOgd pair, coloured from Is'3d pair. At the great summer sale, T. Ross'& 130 Princes street, Dunedin.... Questioned by a Timaru Post repxeseatative, the Hna. T. Mackenzie said that there would be no hurry in the demolish" ing of Uio old hermitage at Mouat Ccbk. Portions would bo used, perhaps, for hots, bat tho bulk of it would staard and be put into repair. The new hermHago would be completed as rapidly as possible. During the holidays visitors should not fail to pay a visit to Mr Hcndy's wellappointed hairdressing rooms, whore ovcry branch of hairdrossing and hairwork i{ carried out bv expert artistes The ladies' rooms comprise a suite of seven handsoma rooms for shampooing, face and scalp massage, hair-tinting, etc., while the gentlemen's saloon has six first-class assistants in attendance. Hours, 8 a.m. till 8 p.m.—Address: 104 Princes street (opposite Bank ! of New Zealand).... Some timo ago a paragraph in a Taranaiki paper stated that, at a point on tho coast after every storm' the residents were ablo to supply themselves with plenty of sponges of good commercial quality, that had beea torn from the rocks and wuahed cehm-e. The Chemist and Druggist, in its isiue of December 3, says that samples sent to Burbidgos, and Do. by one of their renrcssntatives have been.' pro-' nouncod of excellent quality. To bo comfortably " booted" is a great thing for tho elderly man. To most men past the prime of life easy fitting boots aro a sine qua non—and they're not always so easy to get. Hero is one, however, of the celebrated "Bective," English make, which just "fills the bili." A glaoe kid Balmoral, with plain front, extra wide model, with broad soles. Full wide round too, welted soles, and whole goloshed; .srico 255. They will give good wear. Walking may bo made still more oasy by having a pair of O'Sulli. van's indiarubber heels fitted on. Thii costs 2s 6d extra, but the addition is we? worth tho money. Wo solicit inspection.Cookham House, Depot' for High Grade Footwear, Princes street.... Some litfe muttonbind chicks, which arvx farm a part of rhte bird exhibits in the Ohaistdmioh Musouin, owe the distinction oMif©rrcd 011 thorn to a rather peculiar accident. A fr&snd of the museum recently dst* along some niuttonbirds' eggs, suggesting that they should be put in. the egg collection. It was found, when erne of the staff tried to blow the eggs, thai they oonljainod fully developed embryo. Tho little ohioks, which were oovored with dark were extruotod from their shMl covered, 9tuffed, and mounted. They ai« the quaintest litle things one could \/Mx io pete.