OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15708, 10 March 1913, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

The subscriptions to tho General Booth Memorial Training College, to be erected in Wellington, reached the sum of £8151 on March 1. Thirteen Finns arrived from Europe by" the Mooraki on Wednesday. Tho party comprised seven men, a woman, and five' children. Marshall's Nursery Lotion promptly cleans children's heads from parasites; Is,— Marshall's Pharmacy.... Tho Gisborne Times states that areas of land on the line of the new railway near Matawai recently changed hands al £12 per acre. Ten years ago the same land was purchased at 7s 6d per acre. A case of a woman who has been in and out of tho workhouse 400 times is mentioned in a report of the City of London Guardians. She and her children have cost tho ratepayers £1394. Waters' Chap-Lotion is «n absolute euro for rough hands, Is.—-Waters' Pharmacy.... There are on view in Hunterville Express office two enormous ■ stalks of maize, the taller measuring Oft 4in in length. They wero grown by Mr W. J. Eames, at Livingstone, and were-taken from a small field of a particularly heavy crop. It .will interest ladies to know that we have on view in our showroom now season's millinery, and have to open during the week 26 oases new season's goods.—Christie and Co., Tho Store of Economy.... As showing the fertility of the recently reclaimed land on the Hauraki Plains, Messi's Smith, of Pipiroa, have this season dug parsnips over 2ft long, and carrots of equal proportions, grown on newly-cultivated ground without the assistance of manure. The tender of Kirkpatrick and Co. has been accepted by tho Defcnco Department for the supply to the Territorial camps of jam and coffee.. Sixty thousand tins of jam and two and n-half tons of coffee will bo required: Waters' Vi-Oatta Cream (greaseless) makes the skin like velvet.—Waters' Pharmacy...,

Tho Hawera Acclimatisation Sooiety has decided to purchase another 50 brace of pheasants, Thtiso that were obtained somo t>ime ago aro reported to be thriving well. "They were a good investment," said a prominent officer 'of the society. "When dealing with horses there is no such thing as honesty, asserted Mr Donnelly at the Christchureh Magistrates Court in a case in which damages were claimed in respect of tho sale of a horse 'which afterwards turned out to bo broken-winded. Ready-to-wear hats, in felt, fur, or tweed, will be much in demand this season for ladies and 'maids. Wo have a splendid assortment at moderate prices; all the most popular shapes. A call will be esteemed a favour—A. F. Oheyno and C0.,,M05gie1.... Lieutenants R. C. Garcia and A. D. Boyle, Midshipmen 0. ,J. Symons, P. B. V. Heard, and H. B. Anderson, who aro among tho officers commissioned with tho New Zealand, are all New Zealanders. The Australian Federal elections aro to take place on May 31. Tho restriction of £250 in the expenses of Senate candidates and £100 in the case of candidates of tho House of Representatives takes place from the end ot" February. The law makes it imperative that no electoral expenses outside Bpeoifio matters shall be incurred within three months of the election day by tho person who is offering himself as a candidate. The medical men of Dunedin aro unanimous in drinking coffee at least once a day. Bourbon Coffeo is easily thß best obtainable. Have you tried it?... A veterinary surgeon in Sydney (Mr Furness) recently oxtracted a tooth from tho butt of a horse s ear. Tho horse belonged to Mr Cox, a Gloucester farmer, who took the animal to Mr Furness to ihava the lump removed, and was rather sceptical.when told it was a tooth. Mr Furness states that this is the second timo he has seen a tooth taken from behind a horse's ear. He forwarded the tooth to Professor Douglas Stewart, of Sydney University. Mr John Forrester, Crown Lands Banger, Ashbuiton, has received notice of his retirement on superannuation as from February 28, after three months' leave of absence. His services in connection with She State began at the timo of the purchase of the Pomahaka Estate, in Otago, when the late Sir John M'Kenzie asked him to report on the quality and possibilities of the land.

Hire motor oars from Wimpenny Bros.' Premier Garage. Telephone 1246.... ' Up to the present about £50,000 has been spent during the financial year on workers' homes in the dominion. The Prime Minis, ter told a Wellington reporter that in many, places the Government had not been able to do as much in this direction as it would like, owing to the shortage of funds. Applications for homes were coming in freely, and tho department was negotiating for tho purchase of several blocks of land. ' An old lady resident of Devonport, while shopping with her daughter in Auokland lost week, wandered absent-mindedly away. She apparently lost her memory. The police were informed, and the lady's relatives- made anxious inquiry regarding her whereabouts. Anxiety was set at rest when tho old lady was discovered by a constablo at Ponsonby, wandering aimlesslv about and apparently totally oblivious to her surroundings. Her relatives were communicated with and she was taken homo. Frank H. Blakeley, surgeon dentist, 174 Princes street South (over Kilroy and Sutherland's). Telephone 1483.... While Mr J. H. Lockington, of Katikati, was turning a bull out of his stockyard ho had a narrow escape from serious injury recently (telegraphs the Wiiihi w respondent of the Now Zealand Herald). The animal rushed at him, knocked him down, knelt 6n him, and would certainly havo killed him had not his brother-in-law (Mr Stephen Stone) had tho preseiico of mind to thrOw a bucket at the maddened beosfc. thus distracting its attention. Beyond a severe shaking, Mr Locking-ton was r.ono tho worse for his adventure.

In connection with tho recent earthquakes at Westoort, a pioneer collier of Rangitikei, Mr Donald Fraser, states that he has a vivid recollection of the visitation of 1848 in Wellington, whioh so frightoned a number of peoplo that they sacrificed their properties. to get away. Thero was only one vessel in the harbour bound to Sydney, and she was so overcrowded that the authorities had to intervene, and stop any more going on board, On going ou & at the Heads she ran on Barrett's reef. No lives were lost, but all tho passengers returned to Wellington, and stayed there. If I were a Moslem I should say, '" Allah is good." A few weeks ago a flood washed awd-y out umbrellas, Tc-dav we havo opened new umbrellas, and they aro long,in tho handle, at 5s 64 7a 6d. 10a 6d up, Tho only shop in New Zealand with all now longhandle umbrellas is T. Ross's, 130 Princes street... In the course of his address on Wednesday evening at the Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington, on "Slum Life in London," tho Rev. Martin Anstey said he was very much struck on landing in Welling, ton at the difference in demeanour between tho London docker and the Wellington wharf worker. Tho former was ofterc, dressed in ragged clothes, and had a look of sullen disappointment and despair, "But I noticed that tho men working on tho wharf here were respectably dressed, wore a smilo on their faces, and most of them had that manly look of independence which one likes to see in labourers of th's kind." A taxi-oab turned upside down on tho Main North road in Beverley Gully, presented a strange spectaolo to passers-by on Thursday morning (says the Timaru Herald). The vehicle was conveying two ladies and some children to a house at Maori Sill, but, when opposite Mr D. C. TuTnbuH'B house something went wrong with tho steering gear, and tho taxi ran into the railway fenco and capsized. The passengers received a great shock, one of the children being painfully cut about tho head. How more serious injury was escaped is a marvel. Tho taxi was considerably damaged. ■ Mefisra Baldwin and Eayward, Joels' Buildings, Crawford street, Dunedin, report that tho following applications for letters patent of New 1 Zoaland have been filed recently :--G. W. Michio (Mangonui), cow milking instrument j C. Baeyettz (Welling'ton), clothes dryer; F. R. Dennison (Oamaru), 6paro wheel attachment; H. and W. S. Kingsbury (Itakaia), thrashing machine elevator and band cutter; B. E. Mead (Auckland), waste outlet.,.. When a 12ft 6in shark caught in Mauritius was out open a dog, a goat, and a largo collection of bones of animals was found inside. Tho shark was caught with a 2in line from a 20ft open boat, and was hauled to the surfaco after a desperate strugglo, says a writer in the Field. "During tho fight tho eceno had been exciting—the boat rolling, the men pulling and hauling for all they were worth, the shark plunging wildly in all directions, my host shouting advice and encouragement, and I doing my best in all this turmoil to keep cool and shoot straight" Four/bullets were required to kill the shark.