OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16243, 28 November 1914, Page 14

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

The gold sold in Southland during the month of October was 15270z. Tho Ash burton Salvation Army selfdenial returns, when completed, will this year total £400, an increase of £133 on last year's figures. The offioial canteen list specifies only " Fluenzol " as a troopship necessity.... An appeal for further funds for relieving the sufferers by the White Island disaster has been mado by the Mayor of Auckland. The amount raised by the Gore corps of tho Salvation Army for the Self-denial Fund was £172. The total for Southland is £1203. Visitors to the show should not fall to visit W. Crosean'6 Waterloo Hotel, Ca,v©rsham The services of tho Manawatu - Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Palmerston North, have been accepted by the Defence Department. The amount of money raised in the Taranaki district in connection with the Salvation Army self-denial appeal was £282. Scott's Catarrh Curo gives immediate relief. Price 2s 6d, posted 3s. —Scott's Pharmacy, Princes street. Dunedin... A regimental tour for fonr senior officers of the Territorial Force will bo held at New Year (says the North Otago Times) between Oamaru and Palmerston. Tho Government is refunding the Taranaki County Council duty paid on the steam roller imported by the county, amounting to £114 Bs. Waters' Pharmacy, opposite Hallensteins' sole Dunedin |agent for Nyal's remedies.... The fowl thief is again commencing operations in Nelson (says tho Colonist!, and several residents have had their premises visited and their runs depleted. "He had a family of 12 boys; he was a good settler in that way," was Mr Hindmareh's description of a certain farmer in speaking at Brooklyn on Tuesday night. If you wish to purchase a headstone, Thomson and Co.. Moray place (opp. First Church) have the best selection, and prices to suit a 11.... Patea has gone in for municipal pictures, and tho first screening took place on Saturday. The council has embarked upon the picture business in order to find somo of the money for the payment of interest m the Town Hall. Early on Sunday morning the co-opera-tive store at Sefton (says the Lyttelton Times) was burglariously entered and £1 3s Id was stolen from tho till. Tho thief effected an entrance by cutting a hole in tho front door with a brace and bit. A good deal of credit must be given to tho Natives in New Zealand. Last year a sum of £34,280 143 2d was recovered in tho magistrate's courts of the dominion from aboriginal debtors. As a brain stimulant and nerve builder, Marshall's Fospherine is unparalleled. It makes you we'll and keeps you we 11.... In anticipation of a boom in the Australasian frozen meat trade through Bristol the Docks Committee will apply to the council for powers to borrow a further £100,000 for the construction of new warehouses and cold storage depots. Tho Superintendent of the State Advances Department, in reply to the Southland County Council (says the News) has informed that- body that the board is not in a position to make any promise with regard to the future in the matter of taking over loans temporarily raised by the eouncil. Waters' Vi-Oatta Cream is invaluable to surf bathers; le 6d. —At Waters' Pharmacy. Whilst it is complained that there i p a largo number of me.n out of work in Christ - ohurch, reports from some countrv districts indicate (says the Press) that there is a shortage of labour. Must-erers are said to be moet difficult to get. especially in the Kaikoura and Marlborough districts. According to the inspectors' report presented to tho Wellington Education Board at its monthly meeting on Tuesday (says the Times), the pchool at Pongaron was built, in 1897. It is stated to he deficient in ventilation and quite unfit for infant, clauses, and it was decided to apply to the department. for a grant for a new school building. Belgium is famous, and always will be. One of her principal outputs in tho past has been lace and fancv neckwear. We have a beautiful rari',-e of their h- nd-mad<» lace collars and handkerchiefs, 2s ild to 10s 6d. See thom. —A. F. Cheyne and Co., Mosgiel...

_ Members of the Farmers' Union Executive in Christchurch on Wednesday for the monthly meeting, stated (says the Press) that the rain had done a vast amount of . good. It appears to have been very general ' throughout Canterbury. On the south line and up towards the ranges the fall has been much heavier than in and about the city. The articles to the theft of which the lad Morgan pleaded guilty at Oamaru on Wednesday were given away by him wholesale (says tho Mail), some finding their way to Gore, others to Hampden, some to Christohurch, and to other places. Tho gifts varied from a pair of trousera to a greenstone brooch, including a silver pencil case and a pair of military hair brushes. There was no evidence of anything been sold by Morgan. After a fat'gumg day you want a good wholesome .beverage as a piok-me-up M'Gavin's New Brow is the right prescription ... Notwithstanding the serjous drought which prevails, tho New Zealand Dairy Association, on tho 21st in«t., distributed amongst its suppliers (says the Auckland Star) the sum of £68,705 10s 6d. This covered 1,406.8691b of butter-fat supplied during the month of October. The amount distributed for the corresponding month last year was £64,462 7s 6d. thus tho increase for the month was £4243 3s. Reccntlv the Ancient Order of Foresters in Now Zealand set up «n Advisory Board (consisting of Messrs Shaldrick, of Auckland, Allen, of Nelson, and Redsliaw, of Napier) to consider the establishment of a Subsidiary High Court. A conference (saya the Auckland Star) has now been called to take place at Christchurch, at which the constitution and machinery of tho court will bo decided, so that -when dispensation arrives from the Old Country, the court may at once proceed with its business. Frank H. BlakeJey, surgeon dentist, 174 Princes street 3outh (over Kilroy and Sutherland's) Telephone 1483.... Sunday flight's uncanny experience at Trinity Church, Napier (says tho Telegraph), when the choir sang through the earthquake. marked another interesting happening in tho history of the singers in that congregation. A couple of weeks previously the lighting failed completely, but still the choir Bang on, and the week before that again the organ failed to respond, but the members of the choir failed not, and the anthem was concluded. So used to such disturbances has the choir become that it now fears nothing. It is stated that so far 50 sections have been dealt with under the Government's scheme for opening up gum lands in North Auckland (says the Star) in areas of 25 acres, by letting them for development into fruit farms. Tenants are allowed to occupy the sections rent free for five years, at the expiry of which _ term they will have the option of acquiring the freehold on easy terms. Another block of 35 sections is said to bo ready, and 20,000 acres will be ready for settlement- by March. Mr Ross bought 100 dozen plain cashmere stockings, all wool, seamless feet; Is 3d— worth Is lid. Also 75 dozen, with rich embroidered ankles or fronts; Is 6d—worth 2s 6d —T. Ross, 130 Princes street.... The offer of the boys taking the rural course at the Wanganui Technical College to help farmers whose sons had gone to the war with their farm work during the midsummer holiday* was much appreciated by the executive of the Taranaki Farmcre' Union, and at its last meeting instructions were given (says the Herald) to send a letter of thanks to tho Education Board. It was also decided to advise the various branches of the union to take separate action in accepting the offer, and to advise the Education Board where the services of the boys were required. A series of burglaries on a small scale has been carried out of late in Timaru by~ a number of juveniles, who have acquired quite a habit of entering the premises of a well-known firm of grocers after the employees have left for the night (says the Herald). The selection of the contents ot the " swag" is generally a judicious one, comprising money, tobacco, and lollies, which were distributed among the boys in the fairest manner. Tho arm of the law, however, has at last put a stop to these pranks, and lads to the number of about seven, will find themselves before the court on Saturday. " Your coffee, curry, peppers, and spices are far superior to any we ever yet used." A tribute from one of our biggest runholders to A. Durie and 00., Dunedin.... Satisfactory prices were realised by the first shipment of the new season's butter, which was delivered to the London market bj tho Remuera. The steamer arrived on November 6, and advice has now been received that her cargo, which included 5081 boxes from Auckland (says the Herald), has been sold at the following prices:—Salted, 127s to 128s per cwt; unsalted, 129s to ioOs per cwt. Last year the first shipment of new season's butter arrived in London on November 18, and realised from 124s to 126s per cwt. Three weeks later values rose to 128s to 130s per cwt. Hire motor cars from Wimpenny Bros* Premier Garage. Telephone 1246.... The Timaru labour _ market has almoal reached normal conditions again (says the Post). Last month there were 120 men on the books of the Timaru agent of the Labour Department, and this month there arc only 82, while in the cases of over 40 persons who were applying for work two months ago nothing has been heard from .them since, and it has been assumed that they have found work. Mr Jackson has authority to send away another 18 married men, or men who have relatives dependent on them, to the North Island. By the end of the month it is probable that normal conditions will prevail. Beauty Competition.—Another pretty child competition has started. Two prizes; Ist class, £5 ss; 2nd class, £3 3s. Full pvticulars obtainable at studio of Guy, photo, cciner of Princes street and Moray Vaca. The best work. See showcases.... The Arbitration Court has made an interpretation in the Christchurch furniture trades award (say 3 the News). The question the court had to decide was: Does the preparation and dressing of wood used in the construction of frames for -wire mattreasea come within the definition _ of "cabinetmakers' work," or the varnishing of such woodwork within the definition of " polishing " ? Should such work be paid for at award rates, as per clause 2 (a,) (journeymen) or clause 5 (a) (apprentices)? The court's answer is as follows" According to the strict technical interpretation of the award, tho preparation and dressing of the wood mentioned in the question submitted is cabinet-mdkers' work, and the varnishing mentioned is polishers' work, and it is permissible that the work should be done either by journeymen or by apprentices. The work in question requires little or no skill, and in the opinion of the court a reasonable discretion should be used in such cases, and a rigid application of the award should not be made unless some substantial principle is involved." — Flight-lieutenant Collet, tho hero of the raid upon tho Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf, is one of the beet of the naval airmen, though he took to flying only about a year ago. He has performed some remarkable feats upon a heavy D. F. W. biplane, which tiie Admiralty bought from tho Deutsche Flugzeng Werke, of Leipzig. When the German pilot flew In this machine at Brooklands it looked an awkward, lumbering affair, but Lieutenant Collet handled it in a truly wonderful way. Lieutenant Collet was in the Royal Marine Artillery. He joined the Air Service, but had resigned his commission in order to take up a business appointment. When war broke out ho rejoined. He is 25 yeare of age. The axiom that a stitch in time saves nine applies not only to the upkeep of wearing apparel, but hae a universal application. For instance, it is reported by quite a number of applicants for enrolment for the great war that, they were turned down by the doctors for rupture, and that declarations by these most anxious recruits that they had" never suffered in any way, and had not the slightest idea that anything was wrong with them, were unavailing—the doctors sternly rejecting them as " unfit." Whilst on this subject it is well to point out that at 6iieh an early stage rupture can be not only prevented from developing till it becomes an agonising malady, but can be permanently ol ,red if tho proper treatment is submitted to. Mr A. W. Martin, the rupture specialist, who has just returned from his annual tour through Australia, claims—and justly—that he has had more experience in tho treatment of rupture than anyone else south of tho line, and it is fortunate that his present visit will enablo tho young men who have just beoome aware of their weakness to obtain scientific and skilled treatment. A patient in Queensland was accepted after treatment by Mr Martin, according to tho J. A. Sherman method of curing rupture. Tho doctor on examining this would-be recruit discovered evidences of former ruptures (on both sides), but on testing him fully passed him as thoroughly cured. Mr Martin may bo consulted free of charge at 'nis rooms, Samson's Buildings, Dowling street, Dunedin, daily from 10 a.m. to 12, and 2 p.m. till 5; Saturdays 10 to 12 noon. A booklet on rupture and its treatment posted free to sufferers.—24/11/14.