OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16667, 12 April 1916, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

There are 138,776 acres of Crown land being thrown open for selection this month. In addition 11,407 acres are already set aside for disposal in May. A Masterton resident, who has just returned from Manawatu district, states (says the Wairarapa Tiroes) that he waa taken aback by the parched appearance of a great deal of tho ooantry in that district. "It is unfair to ask the Government for money for county roads while this war is on," said Cr D. Hughes at the meeting of Woodvillo County Council tho other day. j'rank H. Blakeley, surgeon dentist, 174 Princes street South (over Kilroy and ■Sutherland's) Telephone 1483 The Pelorus Sounds Farmers' Union has arranged with tho Dairy and Fields Divisions, Department of Agriculture, to send over an officer from eaoh division to address farmers throughout the district on matters connected with tho dairying industry. Amongst the bag secured by a party of Oamaru sportsmen deerstalking in the Pembroke district is said to be a 21 pointer. This (says the North Otago Times) must constitute something in the nature <>f a record. A block oocurred in the Gisborne water supply pipe of business premises in Gladstone road, and on the borough, staff being callc-d in (says the Poverty Bay Herald) tho cause vijas found to be an eel, 14iin in length, in tho pipe. American Pile Cure is not an ointment— it is a course of internal medicines and suppositories sufficient for one month's treatment. Costs 5s only, from Marshall's Pharmacy, 86 Princes street.... Some 86 eases of bananas wore seized by the health inspector at various shops in Nelson on Wednesday, as being unfit for human consumption. The bananas were sprayed with kerosene and burned. Mr W. Dellow, of Westerfield, Las just thrashed eight acres of solid straw Tuscan, which yielded 65 bushels to the aore (says < the Christchurch Press). His main crop of about 60 acres yielded 41 bushels per acre. The amount of timber for export carried over the Ross section of the Westland railways for the year ending March 31 waa 12,129,000 ft (says the West Coast Times), as against 8,927,400 ft for the corresponding period of last year. Waters' Pharmacy is noted for TTighogfc Quality and lowest possible charges.... "You might give that explanation again," ventured counsel at the Supreme Court at Gisborne the other morning (says the Poverty Bay Herald). " Oh, no," interjected his .Honor, " unless any one aska for it. It is very difficult to describe machinery with no other model than a single Bible."—(Laughter.) Quite_ a record in the matter of apple cultivation has been put up by Mr E. R. ■' Goulter, of dive Grange_ (says the Hawke'a Bay 'Herald). Early in the season he gathered from one tree a bushel and a-half of Irish Peach apples, while a second crop was gathered later, making two. fnll crops for the season. The Tawai correspondent of the Oamaru Mail writes: —Messrs Fleming Bros. (Waikakahi) have just finished thrashing 74 acres of velvet and Marshall's White Tuscan wheat, which has yielded the excellent _ return of 50i bushels per acre, which I believe is tho record for South Canterbury this season. Other scarce lines are twist, wincey shirting, Is lOd;. doctor's flannels, Is lid, 2s 3d, 2s 4id; stripe flannelette, la and Is 2d; colonial wool blankets, 29s 6d, 32s 6d, 37s 6d, 39s 6d; ladies' latest tweed coats, 39s 6d, 49a 6d. —A. F. Cheyne and Co., MosgieL... "We license the herds and dairies," said the Minister of Agriculture (reports the Lyttelton Times) to a deputation of dairymen on Saturday, "but we have nothing to do with the retailers. Anything might . happen to the milk in transit. It might rain, for instance. Mrs Ann Batt, a pioneer of Nelson province, died last week at the age of 95 yeara She arrived at Nelson in the Olympus in 1842. She leases four danghteja . and six sons, 44 grand-children, 53 great-grand-children, rind one great-great-grand child. > ' It is not generally known that a conductor on a tramcar can direct a passenger as to which way lie must enter the car. This was decided on Friday at the Wellington Magistrate's Court (says the Dominion), j when a man was fined Is, with 13s costs, because he failed, to obey the conductor's • instructions. A well-known Duiledinite waa agreeably surprised to find the coft'ee obtained at , " Dune's," Octagon, Dunedin,_ superior to anything ho got recently in either London or Paris.... A resident oKDunsandel, who frequently travels int& the "hills and back country, states (says the Ashburton Guardian) that wildfowl will be very plentiful at Lake Heron and- in the upper reaches of the Rakaia and Afihburton Rivers. The prospects for the shooting season he oansidtera most promising, as the breeding has been prolific on account of the mild season. Mr John Henderson, who has. been a resident of Kaikoura for 45 years, died rather suddenly on SundayAyeek. Mr Henderson, who was 79 years of age, was-at one time prominent in sport. . Ho was formerly engaged in diggings in Otago and on the Wakamarina. y As showing the effect the good autumn has had upon the dairying industry, it may be mentioned (says the West Coast Times) that on Saturday week the daily churning ■ at Kokatahi amounted to nearly 10001b of butter. The factory is, turning out, at * least, 1201b more per day than it did ol equivalent days in the preceding season. For bronchial coughs, take Woods' Great, Peppermint Cure.... < An architect giving evidence in the Assessment Court at Wellington on Friday (says the Times) stated that in recent years the cost of building had gone up 15 per oent An illustration which he give was that the bricks for a new building in Cuba, street cost £6 2s 6d per 1000. Now the cost would be £7 per 1000. Mr M'Curdy, Dunedin city engineer, motored through to \V aim ate on Friday, and inspected Waimate water head works, up as far as the falls, on Saturday, in company with the chairman of the Wa,ter Committee jand town clerk. Mr M'Curdie is to report on the waterworks generally, having in view the future requirements of Waimate..

A prominent citizen of Westport relates that a man came to him and told a pitiable story about being out of work, and having* a wife and family to provide for. The citizen was impressed, and forthwith went off to a store with the pleader for charity. An order .was duly given, but shortly afterwards the man —a strong-looking" fellow—retained to the storo arid told the storeman not to make the p&rcel too big, as he had to catry it iiomo himself. , Communicate with W. Qrossan, Waterloo Hotel, respecting conditions upon which bottled liquors may be despatched to town or country.... A good advertisement for the Balfour district was afforded last week when a line of 1700 two-tooth ewes was railed by Mr John Campbell, Longridge, to the order of a South Canterbury farmer (says the Mat aura Ensign). The line was a particularly good one, and the price (265) must be approaching a record for a large lot. The cuDs from the same mob were sold at Riveisdale, and realised 22s 6d. ' . " I have never been in Napier but the sun was shining," said Mr Justice Stringer, at the Arbitration Court on Wednesday. Mr Pryor said that ae a result of Napier's beautiful weather the painters there _ would naturally earn more than in other districts, where weather conditions were worse. He seriously urged that as a reason why Napier painters should not oak for more than similar workers had accepted elsewhere. On the evening of Sunday, April 2, the temporary bar in connection with, the rebuilding of the Royal Hotel at Lytteltan was burglariously entered, and a quantity of whisky stolon, access being obtained by forcing the lock of the front door, facing Canterbury street (says the' Christcbnrch Press). As an outcome of the_offence three men, all of whom are married and have large families, were arrested on_ Sunday morning by Defective Qnarfcermain on a charge of theft and breaking' and entering. • YVaters Kornbano is unequalled for coring corns; Is. —At Waters' Pharmacy — The growth of the dairy industry in Taranaki has been phenomenal, and the very big cheques paid to_ suppliers of factories give some indication of this (says the correspondent of the Dominion). Taking a normal season —namely, that before the war, the output of butter and cheese totalled about 32,000 tons, and this resulted in a distribution of about one millian six hundred thousand pounds sterling among factory suppliers. Both ivar seasons have seen the output and butter-fat payments increase most substantially, and though rt is impossible just yet to give accurate figures, one of the best local authorities states that this season over two million

pounds sterling' will be paid to the dairymen of Taranaki for butter-fat.