OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16433, 12 July 1915, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

There axe 119 inmates in Lorno Farm Home, 71 being children—a record for the institution (says the Southland Newe). There has been another rise in the price of butter in Masterton, and it is now Is 9d per lb.

The ratepayers of the Raetihi Town District have just carried a £50,000 loan poll for the purpose- of a water, drainage, and lighting installation. Fran* H. Blakeley, surgeon dentist, 174 Princes street South (over Kilroy and Sutherland's). Telephone 1483.... Fully one-third of the pupils of Lumsden School being absent on account of measles, the committee of the school has closed it for a fortnight (says the Southland Times). Tho record price of £100 per ton was received by the Opouriao Dairy Company for its last shipment of eheeso to London (says tho Bay of Plenty Times). Numerous sales of land are reported to have taken place in the Ashburton County lately. Several farms have changed hands, and generally good prices have been realised Most delicious ciffee; London gave us nothing to equal it."—A ieading Dunedin medical man on pure coffee obtained trom A. Dune and Co., Octagon, Dunedin The Christchurch office of the Labour Department sent 20 men to Chatto Creek, Central Otago, on Friday morning to irrigation works under the control of tho Public Works Department (says the Lvttelton Times). A further batch of 10 "men will be sent early this week. It is stated that 300 men are working on the Tauranga end of the East Coast Main Trunk line (says the Bay of Plenty Times). Construction work is proceeding apace, and the leading gangs of workmen are nearing Matata. . Wnj. Crossan, Waterloo Hotel, Caversham, is still receiving' orders in sfeictly legal form from town and country.... Included in the cargo taiken for London by the Paparoa on Tuesday (says the Wellington Post) were 8178 crates of cheese, valued at approximately £47,000. The cheese wae exported from the following ports:—Wellington (1816 crates), Patea (2690 crates), New Plymouth (1500 crates), and Bluff (2172 crates). "I've forgotten what- you call them— the mdia-rubbe? wheels that go round motor cars."—Mr A H. Hindmarsh in the House on Tuesday night. Amidst the laughter it aroused (says, the Dominion) somebody helped him with the missing "word "tyres."

Best Hot Water Bags at lowest prices at Water's Pharmacy.... The difficulty of procuring machinery from Englam] at the present time was made apparent at the meeting of the Hutt- River Board on Tuesday night 'says the New Zealand Times), when a communication was received stating that it was impossible to make quotations stating when delivery could be guaranteed. Mr T. Morton, a Palmerston North resident, who was missing from'his home, was found subsequently in the Taonui swamp, near Lorigburn, six miles away. The old man had wandered one mile and a-half into the swamp, where he was discovered in an exhausted condition.

Here is a money-saving opportunity for you. Cheyne and Co.. Mosgiel, have started a record-breaking sale, with astonishing bargains in all departments. If you can't call, write. Cash mail orders receive special consideration and attention....

Farmers in the Wairarapa are putting the plough in deeply this seaeon. They are somewhat in a quandary, however, as they have no definite information as to whether the country's needs would be best served by the sowing of wheat, oats, or turnips. A lead from the Agricultural Department in this matter would be welcomed (says the Dominion). Before Mr S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., at tho Napier Court on Tuesday morning, Hugh Dick Cameron was remanded to appear at Invercargill on a charge of forging and uttering a cheque for £12 lis, in the name of E. H. Whitmore.

Sale still continues. Corsets from Is, overalls Is 9d, real seal plush buff and stole 10s 6d tho set, umbrellas from 3s lid, wool gloves from lid, seamless cashmere stockings from ll^d. —At T. Ross's bargain sale... Hubert Blakeway. a farmer, residing at Upper Riocarton, was thrown from a young horse on Tuesday night, and suffered concussion of tho brain (says the Press). He lay where he was thrown all night, and it was not till lato on Wednesday that he was found and brought in to •the hospital. His condition shows signs of improvement. Tho formation of rifle clubs in farming districts throughout the province is proceeding apace under the direction of Farm era' Union branches (says the Auckland Star). There is, however, a difficulty in the matter of weapons. The Government appears to be unable to supply requirements, as they would have done in times of peace, and so the operations of the clubs are restricted to tactical manoeuvres.

When you have cores try Kura Klava (Marshall's), one of the best corn remedies on the market. Is per bottle, Marshall's PharmacyThere appears to bo ample evidence forthcoming that the system of collecting the agricultural statistics by means of return forms issued to farmers through the post was far from satisfactory (states the .Lyttelton Times). In the Ohoka district, for instance, three or four farmers were overlooked, one having 20 acres •of potatoes, which yielded at least 100 tons, and others fair areas of cereal crops. Farmers are managing fairly well, feeding the sheep in the day time on the turnips, End in paddocks at night with chaff and molasses (v.'rites the Cricklewood correspondent of tho Timaru Herald). The paddocks retain a green appearance, and if tho weather is favourable there will be an early spring, but plenty of rain will bo needed for some time during the season or there will not be very' good returns, as tho ground is still very dry umjjer tho surface. A great d«al of straw chaff has been cut and sent away from the district. Kor Influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. Is 6d. 2s 6d...\ Mrs Anno Potter, who died inPalmerston North on Saturday, aged 97 years, lauded in Wellington in 1849. She had five daughters ajid two sons. From these are descended 53 grandchildren, 122 greatgrandchildren, and 25 great-great-grand-children, making a total of 207. Potash, an ingredient that is largely used in the manufacture of certain classes of goods in New Zealand, has advanced in price by leaps and bounds since the commencement of tho war. As an instance of this advance, a Wellington merchant mentioned to a Times representative on Wednesday that one class of potash that was formerly landed in the dominion at £40 per ton is now quoted at £180 per ton, f.0.b., Liverpool. Smokers enthusiastically praise Fluenzol as a cure for smokers' throat and as a perfect gargle and mouth-wash.... That the world is very small, and time brings many changes, was strikingly shown at Maiton on Wednesday in connection with the ploughing match (says the Wangauui Chronicle) About tho year 1860, when Mr J. S Crabbe, of Hawera, was a boy, he remembered seeing Mr Beverley win the chan:pion belt for ploughing in Scotland. On Wednesday, after so many years, Mr Crabbe was one of three judges who awarded the championship for ploughing to Mr Beverley's son. A fall over a rock 40ft high is not an every-day occurrence, but Mr Patrick Lynch can lay claim to the experience. He was shooting towards dusk on Monday (says tho Skippers correspondent of the Lake Wakar tipu Mail), and knocked over a rabbit which, however, had sufficient energy to roll and scramblo down the sloping mountain side. To make sure of it, Mr Lynch hurried forward, and did not notice till too late that he was on the brink of a cliff of, approximately, 40ft. He wa6 fortunate enough to grasp a shrub, which somewhat retarded the force of his fall, but he was sadly shaken .md bruised. No bones are broken, but Mr Lynch will be confined to the house for a while, one foot being extremely painful. Water's Chap-Lotion is guaranteed to euro Rough Hands; Is.—Water's Pharmacy.... In conversation with a Timaru Herald reporter three farm labourers complained of having had to leave their employment on a South Canterbury farm because of unpleasantness caused by a naturalised German who was employed on the same farm. One of the men said that the German was about 65 years of age. He made himself very disagreeable, and because of his age they did not care to enter into any violent quarrels with him. So disagreeable had the conditions become that the men left the place. They approached their employer, who did not seem to wish to improve matters, and as there was no sign of the German being removed, they took tho only course onen to them.