OMNIUM. GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16541, 15 November 1915, Page 8

OMNIUM. GATHERUM.

Wednesday (says the Auckland Star) is the forty-seventh anniversary of the Te Kooti massacre in Poverty Bay. It is officially stated (says the. Napier Telegraph) that tiic Paid Paki freezing works will start operations on Tuesday. At Taumarunui on Wednesday, John C. Carmichael and Joseph Robertson were each fined £50 for keeping liquor for sale. .Frank H. Blakeley, surgeon dentist, 174 Princes street South (over Kilroy and Sutherland's). Telephone 1483. Mrs D. Simpson, of Otiake, has received word that she was awarded a bronze medal for barley at the Panama Exhibition. This shows (says the correspondent of the North Otago limes) what the district can do, given a suitable year. The late Mr Waata Wircmu Hipango, of Putiki, was the last survivor of a company of Maori students who were specially selected in the sixties by Sir George Grey to receive European education at Wellington.

Rain coats, just opened, belted effects, in pretty neutral shades of rainproof cravenetto. An absolute necessity for early summer dusts and rains. _ All sizes—l7s 6d, 22s 6d, 295.— T. Ross, direct importer, Dunedin....

Tlio inroads of the sea are again causing anxiety to property owners in North ltevell street, flokitika (says the West Coast Times). At a late hour on Monday night the waves were breaking over the banks, and washing through residences in the north part of tho town.

The rebuilding of the New Zealand Portland Cement Company's works at Limestone Island, which were destroyed by .fire in January, is nearing completion (says the New Zealand Herald). Cement is again being manufactured, and the works will be in full swing in a few weeks. Tho difficulty with regard to manning the stokehold of the steamer Maori has been overcome for tho present, and on the run from Wellington to Lyttclton on Wednesday night (says the Lyttelton Times) the vessel was able to maintain her usual head of steam, with the result that she reached Lyttelton at 6.35 a.m. on Thursda3'. "Prices at J Waters, chemist, are aiways lowest; Cash or Credit.... Mr G. W. Marshall, chairman of tho Farmers' Union, Marton, writes to tho Rangitikci Advocate as follows:—"Several boys from tho Wanganui Collegiate School have volunteered to give up their holidays this year and helo to save the harvest, if farmers require their help."

As Mr Joseph Bell, of Hungamingn, was riding to his home on Friday week in the evening he was thrown from his horse and sustained injuries to his spinp. He was removed to the Glencairn Hospital, To Aroha, where he died at an early hour the following Sunday morning. An unfortunate accident occurred at Ryal Bush last week, and, though serious, might easily have been worse (says the correspondent of the Otautau Farmer). The victim was Miss Maud Blak'e, the daughter of tho well-known farmer, Mr Walter Blakie. It appears that she was driving a milk cart to the factory, and struck the horse w!th the whip, causing him to iump forwrd surldenlv. and to break both shafts. The voung lady was thrown on tho roadway, and it is thought that a milk can must have fallen on her. as 6he sustained a deep cut on tho forehead, which required several stitches, and a fractured jawbone. She is now progressing favourably.

In February 100,000 bushelfl of wheat wer« obtained from New South Wales on loan, on the condition that that quantity would be returned when required (save tho Wellington Post). So far the New Zealand Government has delivered 50,000 bushels, and the remaining 50,000 bushels are now on th« way to Sydney. The holidays are nearly here, and dressmakers are very busy. Whether it is a costume or a frock you want, bo wise and order now. Patterns forwarded on application, with quotation for finished article.— A. F. Cheyno and Co., Mosgiel.... A resident of Petone will bo procoeded against by the Petone Borough Council at the next sitting of the local S.M. Court for alleged fraudulent use of gas from tho municipal works. He is to bo charged with a breach of the by-law which forbids the using of ga6 which has not been passed through a meter. A number of early crops of potatoes in the Grey district has already begun to show signs of blight (says the Star). The long epoll of wet and cold weather has given local gardens a severe set-back. .Some Jkitchen gardeners, more energetic than others, so far have managed to ward off the ravages of blight by dusting the haulms with burnt lime. "We have never known things to be so slack before," said a representative of the Napier office of the Labour Department to a Hawko's Bay Herald reporter on Wednesday. "We have not received a single application for employment for weeks, and it is customary at this time of the year to receive at least a few applications weekly." Ex Rimutaka and Arawa, have been landed some of the new season's coffees that make and keep " Bourbon " brand the" best breakfast beverage in the dominion.... The wet weather brought the shearing . class at Waimate to an abrupt and early close, the sheep being so wet that the men were unable to go on with their shearing (says the Timaru Herald). The pupils have done excellent work and in the few days they worked they put through 1600 sheep and many owners said better work could not have been done by the older shearers. A motor accident occurred at Tokomaru Bay recently, when a car driven by Mr J. Forbes, the Gisborne manager of the Bank of New Zealand, fell over a bank off the road near the Te Puke (says the Poverty Bay Herald). The droff was not a very big one, but the occupants sprang from the car as it fell. Mr Forbes escaped in- • jun but Mr Gillivray, manager of Mangatarata station, sustained an injured shoulder, necessitating his removal to the hospital at Te Puia. A recent case of house-breaking at Newton was traced by Detective De Norville to two lads of the ages of 12 years and 10 years, one being a member of a family thathad grown so numerous as to be beyond the full control of its progenitors, and the other a motherless youngster who was left largely to his own devices while his father was away at work. Waters' Chap Lotion is unequalled for Bough Hands, Is. —Waters' Pharmacy.... A Drummond farmer informed a Winton Record reporter that he is strongly opposed to the construction of the Wright's Bush railway. He consi-' r3 that the WintoriHeddon Bush railway is the line that would serve Southland best, and every effort should be made to have this important work put in hand. A woman was arrested, at Christcrrarch on Thursday (says the Press) by Detective Ward on two charges—one of having, on Tuesday, stolen a gold and greenstone bracelet from Edith Grant, Spreydon, valued at £3 10s; and "the other of having, on Wednesday, broken into and entered the dwelling of Mrs Vivian Grant, and with having stolen therefrom a gold wristlet ' watch bangle, valued at £6, and a bottle of whisky, valued at 7s 6d. An official report and balance sheet of ' the D.H. and P.G. Company shows (says the New Zealand Herald):, that the great German trading company made in 1912 profits amounting to £70',C'06, including £2798 carried forward from 1911, and declared a dividend of 12 per cent, on a capital of £137,500. The report stated that the German Government had guaranteed l a subsidy "for the carriage of mails" by a steamer then building for the Island trade. . A legal order for wines, etc., must be by letter, giving name address, occupation.— Crossan, Waterloo Hotel, Caversham.... Something approaching a triple record for a sale "of dairy cows in Southland—and ' probably for tile dominion—was established at a clearing sale held by Messrs Hunter Bros, and Rice on Tuesday (says the Wyndham Herald), when (1) on account of Mr W. H. Johnstone, South Wyndham, a' herd of 24 cows v/as sold head by head in the space of 30 minutes; (2) one cow realised the exceptionally high price of £20, and 10 others changed hands at from £17 5s to £13 15s ;\ and (3) the whole two dozen averaged the splendid figure of £12 17s 6d. The question as to when a man is really drunk was cleared up by a railway guard in his evidence at the Master ton Police Court the other day. Two men were charged with having been drunk .on a train coming from Woodville, and to show how drunk they were the guard stated that when the men were crossing from one carriage to another they had two beer bottles in their possession, one full and the other empty. He said that they were so drunk that the men by mistake threw away the full bottle and retained the dead marine. The men were convicted. The public takes little time to realise what a bargain is. Here's one: Peroxide Disappearing Skin Cream, ordinarily retailed at is bd, is oeing sold at Marshall's Pharmacy at Is a jar. Postage 3d extra.... An accident happened on the Kaitaratahi Hill on Tuesday morning (says the Poverty Bay Herald). A horse attached to a grocer's cart holttd on feeling the weight of the , cart when descending the hill. One man jumped out_; a wheel went over him, and he was bruised and badly shaken. The driver held on to the reins, and checked . the horse by guiding it against the bank.' The impact caused the cart to capsize, and the driver was thrown out, having his knee painfully grazed. The contents of tho _ vehicle were scattered about the road, but '•he horse was uninjured and no damage was done to tho cart.

Turakina ValJey was the scene of a rather sensational incident early on Tuesday evening, when one of the settlers there and his family got the shock of their lives (says the Wanganui Chronicle). Shortly alter 7 p.m. a heavy thunderstorm swept up the valley, accompanied by vivid lightning. The inmates of the house were startled by a heavy explosion, and immediately the back portion of the dwelling was discovered to bo in flames. When the blaze w*B suppressed it was ascertained that lightning had struck the telephone-wire, and had fired the benzine in the lighting plant attached 'to the house.

At present at the Milton Government Poultry Farm there is being carried out in an unobtrusive way an official laying test of four pens of Leghorns, two brown and two white. Since May pens of six whiteand six brown Leghorn hens, the chief item_ of whose feed has been wheat in Che evening, with a mash in the" morning, have been responsible for: White's 845, and brown's 677 eggs. The other two pens, fed on oats and a mixture of chopped lucerne in their mash, laid: White's 809, brown 662. These figures (it is und'erstood by the Bruoe Herald) eclipse the records of the tests being carried out in Christchurch at tho present time. Several soldiers who were coming to Masterton from Tauherenikau in a motor car met with an accident on the Masterton side of tho Waingawa River through the tyro of the motor blowing out (says the Wairarapa Times). The car was overturned, and three of the occupants more or less injured. Brough, the driver, had a collarbone broken. Private W. Langley was badly cut about the head and face, and Private J. M'Leur had one or two ribs broken. Trooper J. Miller was pinned under the oar, and was out about the face and body. Two other soldiers in the car escaped with a severe shaking and minor bruises. The Waihi correspondent of tho Taranala Herald writes that Taranaki, with its rainfall and climate, with the North Otago soil, would be about perfection. North Otago, with half the Taranaki rainfall and even with its own climate (excepting winter rains) would soon become a land of wool kings and millionaires. North Taranaki district, he says, is looking just about its best at present—plenty of feed and contentedlooking cattle everywhere. There is a lot of cultivation going on for autumn feed, and already a fairly large area has been sown in wheat and oats. It may bo necessary, with tho shortage of labour, to take advantage of the town people's proposal of assistance during harvest operations. Acting on the request of the Government, many who_ never dreamt of cropping before have put in their few acres to help wipe out the deficiency. Several crops are already showing signs of being fairly heavy, and those later sown are looking healthy. From a gram-producing standpoint, given a good season for harvesting, Waihi, for its size, will do its share in contributing to tho food supply of the country.