OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16506, 5 October 1915, Page 10

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

A High School girls' hostel has been erected at Gisborno at a cost of about £3500. Durirnr September there were three bankruptcies recorded in Nsnier as compared with one for the corresponding period of last year. An examination for the grant of elementary kmdeigarten certificates for teachers will be held at the four centres during November, December, and January. ; .- . If your children sutfer from thread worm* get Martin's famous syrup, rapidly curative. ■. Is, Marshall's Pharmacy... ../..•; : ; Six Wellington applicants for entrance to - the Royal Australian Military College, Dun- . troon, proceeded to District Headquarters, Palmerston North, on Saturday to undergo /./'. Rain is very badly needed in the .Flaxbourne district (says a correspondent of the Christchurch; Press), arid the outlook 1 for stock and crops is gloomy .unless there is a good downpour soon. Lambing percentages to the present are below tho average of other seasons. Mr Gillingham informs the Tiinarn Herald that there were four good showers of rain t at _ Fairlie during September, tptalling -J, .56 ■■/ points. These showers, aided by dews, have kept the grass going'.slowly, and the young crops are noi, suffering>! so far. '. v '■'.■■; : -J'j '■.-.: If you wish to purchase a headstone,'

Thomson and Co., Moray place (opp; JFira Church) have the,best selection, and pricei to isuit a 11.... " According to the annual report of th< Wellington tramways manager (Mr. W. H Morton) only one tramway accident during the year terminated fatally. In that case the coroner gavo & verdict of ''accidental death." Mr J. Leckie . states that- the mouth of the Opihi was opened on Thursday. On the water in. the river being released a large number of trout, some-weighing*up to LOlb; and a very larg6 jiumber of herrmgs were seen going towards theocean. ■';'■'.'■■"-;' A little goes a long Way, but you' can take it often provided best. Try Wm. Grosean's Waterloo Hotel,' Caversham.... ■ ,'.:' . ■■:■' '.■-.''s\.'

A young man named Edward Gorman, a clerk residing at Belfast;. was' motor- ' cycling along the Ricoarton road on Friday night (says the- Christchurch; Press),- when he collided with a train at the V;railway crossing. He .was 6onsiderably, knocked about and bruised.: and wa& taken to the hospital for treatment The most conspicuous [visitor <at the' Native Land Court at Waitara was a Maori lady whose weight is lcnbwn'/to; be 30 stone. _ Her dress of blight heliotrope made the vision more startling in her promenades through the streets. ;.-.'- Framt H Blakeley, surgeon dentist, 17V Princes street South (over Kilroy and Sutherland's! Telephone .1483... •',,•"• ~ Mr Guy Clements, of Glover -Farm, Kimberley (Canterbury)* hail 'a narrow escape from a: serious accident, on Thursday.-'-: One of his horses kicked out, strSdrig. nim oil the , forehead. /■ He received :■■& • .nasty.;, cut across the temble. and was unconscious for . some time.'"- •.' : '•■'\ ■'.■v" : y.vC\ •'*' '■■■■'■/::'■■'', One of the many instances, gelf-«icri-fi6e for ; King and (Jountry which, have been made since the war started is supplied in theconduct of an Ashburton rrian who is selh'ng up , r£s . business as a plumber Jinct engineer to give his services, inllth© Tunnelling Corps, for which a, large of men are, now required. :.:.V ;'.:;..'• Linoleums have jumped-in price;'remark-, ably of late. A. F. Cheyne and Co., MosgieL have just received a big shipment of floor coverings in splendid designs. These were secured before the advance, and;'/wiU;.be ; sold at old prices. This is a great chance v , for the thrifty..;. ' > '*o.:'y y : r '■'■«■.■■ "'V '?.;.'''-;:"•:• An excellentinducement forthe New Zealand-horn to become membersi of" the New Zealand Natives' Aasobiotion;. exists in the> arrangements the committee hais made (says tho Dominion), entitling mem-, bers to receive extra discounts/'off ; . th'eir trading accounts, and tha ; . aissociation hai issued to each member Ji neat-litUe; card' containing the names of the firms which have made such \ concessions; embodied in which 'is a certificate of membership.' ■ !' iThe warm weather experienced in the Arrow district during the pa«i,Week ,hasjhad a marked effect on pasture and (autumn? sown crops.: The grass; v is- cbmmg away 1 splendidly (says the and there is every mdioation that farmers; • will have fin abundance ,gf. spring feed; On Mr Reid's property, near the Mifly'a ''drop of--rye was about six inches: in : prior,; to sheep being tarried; on,'while/^at.■ Lake/ . Hayes the' first '.crop; of lucerne'.'wisi '-rer', cently cutfrom 'a'''sma'Uvare£''^^ : ;v> : : , ;"::i;^ ; ' .'.'■ New stylish, sports,coats, /with;-belt, apd,; military; collar, in bright reds,' saxe purples, and khaki browns. Smart; and quite, the latest London vogue. .Price only 2Ss!;--T. Ross. 130f Princes - ; Many curious' thing may' be'eflecitbd,.by J Act of but xfor';''; uhcbhteibus" humour the Gazette which transforms. a Native to. a: Faitopeah- by /a. scrape i:6f i. ; the pen is "difficult to e&ual. Last Gazette publishes a nptice to the effect that the- Governor^by 'an 'Order-m-Couhoil, ."■ has declared a Native (Henry. ; tPoJaha Asher, of Tauranga) to be a European.:■/■>Whilst returning /oh Thursday;night from Kurow a motbrV cycle (with side-chair) Mr, Grant, '• stock - agent; for, Guinness'Vandv-' LeCren at Geraldine, collided. with!'.:'ai motor ' car driven by Mr Walkeri:proprietor of, • the Redclrffi Hotel. The. cyclist;suffered in-, juries to his hand and !face; imd -was • at- - tended by Dr Borrie. '.'':';:;;■■ ..;•:;/ ! From Waihi to OrepuM coffee-lovers" send : for their faVourjte- "Bourbon'/ Manufactured by A.' Durie and Co., coffee: specialists. Ootagbn,' Dune&jn...;./ ; '■' '■>'}'■: •-.-. With the A exception of a .brief shower / of rain on Wednesday, dry weatherihasV been uninterrupted throughout' the month, • and the prospects for: the coming fcocksioot crop are very UMatis^facstory: (says 'l&e;Akaroa correspondent .of , tne /,QhrisJ!cliurch Press). The area, under crop.will be even ", smaller than last season, as many/dairy farmers will be unable to shut upViheir paddocks on account of shortage of'pasture for their herds. '-'■'. .'. -"v ~; / ; : ;

I ~ Mr F. H. Waters, of- and ; ' Survey Department, left Oamaru for Kurbw.; j on- Friday, en roii\e for Benmore; where ;he , will continue surveying ioperations on', the j Benmore estate. His parties ,will make four '■"'■ . surveying" parties on the, estate, arid' the work will be pushed.on with a. view to hold-. l ing: the subdivision in ample time; before . the season commences, probably;; about..:■ ; March of next year. The work (says jthe [ Mail) is already about half complete, i' b Water-glass for egg preserving; large tins9d.—Waters' Pharmacy, 5 Princes street.;... i■' i As showing thp. extreme difficulties ;inet '. : - ■• with in keeping the~rolls,of ratepayers iipr •■ ; to-date, it is interesting to note, the:follow- ' ing facts as noted by the Hawke's l Bay V County Council officials:—During the ; two / months that the county roU'has;been -rinder I preparation 325 alterations. have. beeri : , i effected, and in one particular case a 'pro- ',' perty' changed hands no less than four times, , as fax as the Valuer-general's advice 'was:'".' ■concerned.. '■''>. .v-'". ". V--'-v'r.-.;. ;.> ; v

Mr Allan Little,, of Sentry,,- Hill; .and', an old boy of the New "High ~ School, who recently metv with a serious accident'resulting in one of his.legs being badly fractured, while waiting in- the hospital -for,his Wto set made '■:& V- very plucky . offer on behalf of a fellow Ijufferer. A boy . had been so badly burned; that it was; necessary to obteih.eome.sldn from another > to cover his wounds, and Mr Little bad some taken off while under chloroform": for the operation to his leg. : ; •:""," The Grey River Hospital was suddenly plunged into darkness about 41 o'clock; the, otber^, night (says the 'Star). '.' Ah examination by the engineer next day indicated that the plant .had : wilfully interfered with. A piece of copper; wife was put across the fuses, arid an attempt made to damage the-plant.: It » pr'er sinned that the guilty person had a Key to.' the electrical plant house and visited the premises in the absence of the :• tion's engineer. The matter hasbeen placed ; m tho hands of the police. '. The lambing season has heen good in the> Auckland Province this year,' the good feed ~ and warm weather' having contributed ■': largely to this state of things: In tMe Opotiki district, on an, area comprising one- ■• half bush and one-half cleared land, 1480 owes produced 1350 lambs, and in the all- ' grass areas tho percentage in many '. in-' • stances exceeded 100 per cent. 'Mr, : A Schmidt, secretary of the Auckland bntodi' of the New Zealand Farmers' Union; who returned from a visit to the Waikatb Te Aroha, and Matamata districts .on Saturday, told a New Zealand Herald reporter that the percentage of lambs was slightly lower in those districts than it had been inprevious, years. The good season, however, was having ite effect, and both sheep and lajnbe were 1 looking: well. ' ■'.'■■