OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16590, 13 January 1916, Page 10

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Whilst trawling near the Kidnappers the trawler Beatrice carght a shark measuring 10ft 3in. . ■ A Hastings fruit-grower this season picked and sold v lß,ooolb of raspberries. The cifop was an unusually large one. ■ The cereal crops in the Otanomomo district promise to yield exceedingly well (says the Clutha Loader). Turnip crops are also coming away well in the Balclutha district. New Year supplies of wines, spirits, ales ;nr cash; orders by wire illegal.—Crossan, Waterloo Hotel. Cavereham.... Women are now being employed in the Napier Post Office (says the Hawke's Bay Herald) in the place of tvvo men who have been transferred elsewhere. A boy named Brown, a son of Mr A. J. Brown, of Leeston, met with a severe injury to his head on Saturday _ through falling from a tree while bird-nesting (says the Lyttelton,Times). He was unconscious when picked up. The Clydevale correspondent of the Clutha Leader says that shearing operation? are being seriously delayed there by the rough spell of weather since New Year. The wise housekeeper who puts quality first in her buying always insists on having "Bourbon Coffee." Experience has proved "Bourbon" easily the beet..... A Masterton native, in conversation with an Age representative, stated that the natives have" : n their possession the secret for the manufacture of a valuable dye. It is supposed to be produced from the bark of a tree, It is understood that many of the harvesters this year are asking for a stipulated wage of Is 6d an hour before they aocopt engagement (says the Ashburton Guardian). The average wage is expected to be Is 4d an hour, as against- Is an hour iq other years. South Canterbury farmers are apparently despairing of ever seeing a good rain again (says the Timaru Herald). At the meeting of the Mackenzie County Council on Monday a remark was made about "the next old man flood." " Oh, we will never get another old man flood," was the reply. Waters' Obap Lotion is unequalled for Roush Hard? Is.—Waters' Bhnrmncv. "I am working 16. hours a day already," protested a farmer at a meeting in Wairnato on Saturday (says the Advertiser). The point was that ho did not think that the State should put any more burdens upon the poor oockaboo —such as the provision of returns of 'income!_ There was an excitine incident at Kaiteritcri beach at high title on Friday (says the Nelson Colonist). » A large number of 'people were camping rhere, and four little children were playing in a boat close to the shore. A sudden gust of wind drove the boat away from the beach, arid it was taken farther oui by a current. The children, who had no oars with them, screamed for help. Two men scoured another boat and went to the rescue. They came up with the drifting boat about half a mile out. and brought the young folk safely to land again. Whilst working on board the collier Ngatoro at Lyttelton on Monday night, a waterside worker ramed James Wilson slipped cn a steam pine, and fell heavily on the deck, in.juri.ig his bnolr. Ho was removed to the Casualty Ward. Prices at .T Waters, chemist, are always lowest.: fish or Cyed't. .. A well-known Hawke's Bay sheep-farmer informed a Tribune reporter that, the sheep-, carrying capacity of the land in the North Island was fully half a-million short of the standard. Of course, this was due in a large measrjro to the severe drought of last season. Tn ninny districts in the Wairarapa and Taranaki at the present time feed was going to waste for the- want of stock. While carrying a ling of fish about all day becomes a burden the experience of a Matauro. fisherman on the Mimihau on Saturday fullv demonstrates that it. is folly to "plant" fish on the riverbank (says the TCns'en). The fncrlcr en-ught 11 trout earlv in the day which he h ; d, intending to pick them up on his return. When he cot back to the cpot, a weasel bolted for h : s life, and the fisherman found that his trout had been demolished. Saturday half-bel May now beintr observed bv us instead of Thursday. Our customers will now have the advantage of shopping on Th'ii-srTav afternoons and on Friday evenings until 9 p.m.—A. F. Chevne and Co., drapers and furnishers, Mosgiel....

A certain shopkeeper not orer 100 miles from the Owaka Post Office (says the correspondent of the Clutba Leader) placed a notice on his shop door on a recent Wednesday afternoon as follows: —" Half-day holiday; will be back at 7 p.m." Somo kind person finished the notice by adding tho words, " Love stricken." It causea a considerable amount of amusemeitt in the locality. A horse attached to a gig collided with a motor car on Beach road, Asbburtcm, late 011 Friday night. The horse, which was a valuable one, had a kjj broken and had to bo destroyed. Both vehicles were badly damaged. All the occupants were thrown out, but none were seriously injured. Frank H. Blakeley, surgeon dentist, 174 Princes street South (over Kilroy and Sutherland's). Tolephono 1483. In February, 1914, nearly two yeatß ago, a 24ft yacht belonging to Mr W. Croll, was stolen from her moorings off Devonport. She was afterwards identified at Coromandel, but her owner failed to recover her. Suspicion fell on a Maori named Henry TerawbiH, alias Henry Davis, and a warrant for his arrest was itsued. Nothing further was heard of the matter till Saturday morning (says the Auckland Star), when Terawhiti, who had come in from the country for the holidays, was identified in a billiard saloon by Constable Gonrley, of the waterfront polioe, and arrested on. the charge referred to. The plans and specifications for the proposed additions to the Auckland Hospital and the Costley Home are now being prepared by the architect to the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, Mr G. W. Allsop (says the Herald). As soon as they are completed and approved, tenders for the works will be invited. The building scheme provides for the erection of a three-storev block on the boundary of the Domain, facing the Children's Recreation Grounds. It will contain a children's ward, pathological department, and laundry, the structure being estimated to cost £16,600. There will also be an addition of a storey to the infirmary ward of the Costley Home, at an estimated cost of £6000. Don't think of a operation for piles until you've tried American Pfle Cure? Complete course for one month costs but ss. Marshall's Pharmacy, Princes street, are sole New Zealand agents.... The man with the motor ear is no longer to have a monopoly of taxation, for the Gisborne Borough Council has _ decided, to put a small democratic tax on bicycles (says the Times). Notice is given by uie oonnoil that " every person riding a bicycle within tho Borough of Gisborne shall cause the same to be registered, and obtain a number for same, which number shall be painted in a conspicuous place upon such bicycle, in figures of at least half an inch in length and one-eighth of an inch in breadth." - The registration fee is 2s 6d for adults and Is for children under the age of 12 years, , and anyone usin» an unregistered bicycle • after January will be liaUe to be prosecuted." The projected amalgamation of the dairy companies of the Auckland province is not likely to be realised (says the Pukekobe correspondent of the Auckland Star). The Te Aroha Company and the Thames Valley Company are likely to co-operate, and thia consequently renders complete amalgamation impossible. The Waikato Cooperative Cheese Company's Aka AJca cheese_ factory is now co-operating, its output being one ton daily. This is the third cheese factory opened this season, East Tamaki and Hairini being ths others. The harvest prospects in Scwth Canterbury have been improved considerably by frequent showers during the past few days (says a correspondent of the Ohristchurch Press), and in the districts between the Raugitata and Opihi Rivers there are many •good and heavy crops of wheat, _ particularly near Orari, Ger&ldine, Orari Bridge, Woodbury, and the Four Peaks Settlements. Generally speaking, oats are not satisfactory, and cases of failure, due to the spring drgught, are fax too numerous., In the course of a journey from Arundel pastßan\gitata, Orton, and Clandeboyo bridge, /to Orari, it was not unusual to see sheep tamed into a growing crop or a field of oats which had been cut for hay. Notable exceptions to the rule -were some excellent crops near Clandeboye apd on the Trevenna, Estate. Splendid crops of wheat were passed near "The Stumps" road, and on land below °The collection of relics of the early days of the Auckland province, which is being assembled in the Old Colonists Museum, contains many objects of considerable mtcrest (says the Herald). Included in the collection is a numiber of photographs of early Auckland, and of many of the early- • colonists. Many interesting items have been contributed from Sir George Greysjcollation, including a phonogram, the first talking machine introduced to New Zealand. Relics of the Maori "ware are contained m the exhibition of flags used by the Maoris. Special interest attaches to a picting the death of Yon Tempky. Numerous curios, militarv decorations, samples, and shells .make up tho The work of arranging the exhibitsia being carried out, and it is expected that tho , museum will be opened ai an early ckit& A somewhat ludicrous chapter at academta. occurred in Cashel stoet. the other day (says the Nero). A how toing- a governess cart, driven by im elderly lady, suddenly took fright and ■young man, evidently of the staff that heroes y at any rate made of, st)rank from the footpath, and with a welltimed bound landed in the tha lady's lap. Assuring her that all vraa safe he grabbed the rains and succeeded by a mighty effort in bringing fee nmavray to i standstill when the ill-mannered beasa showed its spite by kicking out of the oart. A small knot-of people had fathered on the corner to watch die proceedings, amongst them a » an^ box of gooseberries which he had deposited on tho footpath. A young towards him with her head turnedl the other way, also intent on the runaway, wlbdwl somewhat forcibly mth thebox, both herself and tho gooseberries over quite a considerable area. A sensational accidentoccnmxl mGlenbervio terrace, off Tinakon road, shorUy after 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, when a runaway motor lorrv crashed into a hotae and caused serious damage thereto (says toe Dominion). As the loiry. preceded up thei rise, the wheels were blocked from behind in case of accident, but the lorry, it is stated, suddenly commenced to go backwards, overran the blocks, and, gathering considerable pace, crashed into a house at the foot of the street The back of tho lorry struck the window of a bedroom, smashing the glass to atoms, and knocking the waU itself completely into the room. The bedstead next to the wall was buckled out . of shape, and had anyone been on or near the bod as the time .the result of the crash might easfly have been a fatality. Mis Shepherd, the occupier, was watching the lorry proceed up the hill from the room whero the smash occurred, but was able to ran to^ the front of the house when the motor went wrong. / . Beyond receiving a severe shock sue waa n °lf™r U lyhig at Manutuke for a little' over three weeks, the remains of the late Wi Pcrc were laid to rest at the Maori cemetery at W aercnga-ahika on Monday of last week (says the Povertv Bav Herald). The body which was embalmed, had been lying in an English oak coffin, and was in a perfect state of preservation. During the preceding three weeks Natives from ail parts of the country and representatives of the various tribes in tho dominion had gathered at Manutuke to pay their last "*pccts to the departed chieftain m the rea Maori fashion. When the funeral took place the Natives woro joined by a large number or their nakeha friends. The coffin, which was lead lined, and had a nieco of glass inserted in the lid. was placed in a concrete vault 10ft bv 12ft. constructed close to the road almost opposite the Waerengar*-hika College The vault has a reinforced roof provided with two removable slabs to permit of other burials taking place there, the vault having accommodation for 10 or I*s coffins. It is stated that the body will be in . a state of preservation 100 years hence. "The finest value in river scenery in the world!" That's how a tourist summed up tho famous Wanganui River trip. Every turn, every curve, unfolds a new scene of beauty and enchantment—every mile is a mile of magic. And the whole trip' costs pounds less than one would expect to pay.— Write A. Ha trick and Co. (Ltd.), Cooks, and Government Tourist Bureaux.—Advt. 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