OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16685, 4 May 1916, Page 10

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

■ Tho Auckland Boxing- Associat : on has de- ( cided not to hold any competitions this ! winter season. Captain Briddoek, the Balclutha Salvation Army Officer, is starting a St. John Ambulance class for boys (says the Leader) between the ages of 10 and 16 yearn. 1 John Hill, aged 37 years, of Parneil, while . acting as military guard at Mount Eden on Thursday (says tho Auckland Star) had a sunstroke, and fell down, break ; ng hi 3 jaw. Ai'Gavin's " Huia" ale cannot be beaten for purity, brilliancy, 'lightness, and clear- ' ness. Suitable for family use. A superior and refreshing beverage. Stocked by all h0te1?.... Mr P. P. White, chief postmaster at Thames, retired at the end of last month He joined the service in 1870, and during the whole period intervening has not been absent' one day on sictc leave-. Information has been received that the mis-ing girl, Myrtle Abbott, has been located m Auckland (says the Star), where she has secured a situation. No further steps will be taken in the matter. The amount in the Auckland Savings Bank to the credit of children of the Papatoetoe Orphans' Home, payable to them at the age of 21 years, is J81044-. The Hon. J. A. Hanan, replying to a request the other day for a grant for additions to the Hamilton High School, said primary requirements must bo first. Tor bronchial coughs, take Woods' Great iVppennint Cure.... During Apr : l there were four bankruptcies in Napier, making a total of 14 for the year (says the Hawke's Bay Herald). Eight of the petitioners were Natives. No bankruptcies were recorded in D-anne-virke in April. For the current year there have been three as compared with four in the same period in 1915. At _ tho biennial movable conference of the New Zealand branch of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, just concluded at Grevmouth, Mr I. Salek was clccted Grand Master for the ensuing two years. Tho Napier branch 'of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants at a recent meeting passed a resolution suggesting that tho Railway Review, the monthly or ran of the society, be published as a part of the Maoriland Worker, and issued weekly. Waters Kornbane is ui-icqus' tor cir«njt corns; Is. —At Wafers' T'Wmacv. . Out of tho shipment of 2786 cases of oranges which arrived by tho Moana from Rarotonga last week. 56 have been condemned owing to fruit fly (says tho Wellington Post). The whole consignment is reported to have arrived in bad order, probably owing to the unfavourable season. In speaking at the meeting of ratepayers at Sumner on Monday night, the Mayor gave an instance of the high freights wlrch were now prevailing between America and the dominion (reports the Chrst?hurch Press). He stated that at present rates it -would cost £10 per ton for freight for piping for scwerag-e.

Last year, for the first time, iron work was allowed as a subject. for senior national scholarship examinations,' but: only five candidates in New Zealand took it, and these ail hailed from Stratford (says the Mew Zealand Times). The marks they gained wcro very sat and are "we'll worth quoting:—Burgess 179, Mundy 157, Henderson 142, De.'ji 142, Hoijry 119 (120 marks constitute a puss). luiivk ii lilulifiley, surgeon denteJt, 174 Princes street South (over Kiuoy and biitiii-riai!il s) I eieuhone 14%2. Although Monday morning v/as intensely cold and wet there were continued ev.denees oi sportsmen being out on tii« wairips and Jakes about ixaitangata (tays tfic correspondent oi toe Uiuthg Leader;. Ducks, etc., aluiougn picjitiuii, proved rather shy, and it uppers that nu very iaige bags were obtained.

'The origmai portrait of Captain Cock which recently came into the possession of a firm oi London picture deaieru is to bo acquired by the commonwealth. Senator l'earcu, Acting Pr.me Minister, intimated last week that the Government had decided to purciiase it ior 60 gu.neas. The picture is to be 6ent to Australia at an early data, and on arrival it will be hung in tho Queen's Hall at Federal Parliament House. .files must be treated ec.eutiiically u permanent recovery is desired. American Pile Cure (sold at 5s at Marshall's Pharmacy, Princes street) is both an internal and external treatment winch never talis....

A brisk fusiladc of fowlingpieoes from dawn onward on Monday heralded the opening oi tho season lor shoot.ng nativo game; but very few decent-cized bags camo Uiider the notice of the Wyndiiam farmer. On a sheet of water in Kcdau. Valiey, Air B. Patterson accounted for fivo brace and a-half of grey deck; and to the gains of Messrs A. W. Crosbie, H. Hunter, and Thomas Marshall seven brace and a-half of similar waterfowl were laid low on tho lagoons below Menzies Ferry. The thrasmg returns on the high country at the back oi Mataura are very gratifying to tho fanners (says the Mataura Ensign). Mr John Waugh, Windsor Downs, thrashed a 45-acre crop recently which gave 70 bushels to the acre and in addition he cut 10 tons of chaff from the crop. The oats were a nice bright sample and were grown from seed from tho Echevale district. Mr AVaugh also has a 15-acre crop of Dun oats from which he anticipates cutting between 40 and 50 tons of chaff. Warm overcoats ior men and boys are necessary this cold weather. We have a good stock of, heavy tweed ones, well lined and smartly cut, just the thing to keep you warm and coinfortaole—A. F. Chcyne and Co., Mosgiel.... On April 21' the New Zealand Dairy Association distributed amongst its suppliers the sum of £47,003 0s 9d (says the Auckland Star). This covered 740,2361b of butterfat supplied during the month of March. The payment per lb butter-fat was Is 3d, plus premiums, for daily supply and direct delivery. Tho amount distributed for the corresponding month last year was £38,415 9s Bd. Thus, the increase for the month was £8587 lis Id.

That the Waikaia district is eminently suitable for the growth of apples is evidenced from the number of specimens o£ this fruit which are at present on view in Gore (says the Mataura Ensign). Four apples ot the Yorkshire Greening variety grown in the orchard of Mr George Baxter, Wendonside, turned the scale at l£lb each. Another two, of the Brambaldening Seedling variety, from the orchard of Mr R. M'lvor, weighed ■ l£lb each. Mr M'lvor also had plums this season as big as hens' eggs.

a well-known Dunedinite was agreeably surprised to find the coffee obtained at " Dune's," Octagon, Dunedin, -superior to anything he got recently in either London or Paris....

It is expected that Central Otago will be represented at the Dominion Apple Show at Wellington next week by a magnificent exhibit comprising some 100 cases of selected fruit. Messrs Wajgth, Bennets, A. Davidson, and Kitto intend to proceed to Wellington to arrange the exhibit. Canterbury, it is said, intends to send 300 cases, but the" Dunstan Times has no hesitation in saying that its display will be easily outclassed by that from the Central Otago distr:ct, which can grow fruit equal to any grown elsewhere in the dominion. Although-since the war broke oul women in the Mother Country have figured prominently in many branches of trade and industry with which previously they were not wont to be associated, it is as yet somewhat of a novelty in New Zealand to find a woman starting on a new line of business (says the Wanganui Chronicle). To Aramolio will belong the distinction in the Wanganui province of possessing the first email goods shop conducted by a lady proprietress. The woman who is making this venture "on her own" was to open her shop for business the other morning, her wares comprising ham, pressed meats, sausages and other small goods. As per usual, liquors of the best quality always appertain at Win. Crossan's Waterloo Hotel, Oaversham....

Mr John Leydon, of Auckland, has just' received a couple of interesting Qallipoli relics from his grandson, Warrant Officer B. J. Keates, of the Australian forces (says the Auckland Star). They are a Turkish shrapnel shell and a Turkish bayonet. The shell, which weighs about 16lb, fell within i a few feet of Warrant Officer Keates, but failed to explode, and he was able to dig it out of the ground. In construction it is almost identical with the British 18-pounder shrapnel shell, except that the time fuse is of brass instead of aluminium. • The bayonet is a truly formidable -weapon, rather light in the blade, and fully 18in long, not counting the hilt. So far as ehapo goes, it might easily be mistaken for the bayonet used upon the new British short rifle. Like the shell, it bears -various inscriptions in Arabic, and, in addition, the Sultan's monogram is inscribed on the blade. Waters' Pharmacy is noted for Highest Quality and lowest possible charges.... An amusing episode was related by Ser-geant-major Dent (who vouched for its authenticity) at an open-air recruiting meeting in Wellington on Friday. The speaker, in order to emphasise a point he had made that all classes of the community were fighting side by side in the trenches, mentioned tho case of a wealthy resident of Hawke's Bay who had donned tho khaki as a private and was now in camp.- He had placed his motor car and his chauffeur at the disposal of the officer commajiding the company. One night he thought that a little refreshment in the shape of a "tot" of whisky would not go amiss, so he stole away from camp in his motor car. When he returned ho was brought before the officer who had tho use of his car, and did not worry-much ahout what his punishment would be. lie was much amazed - when the officer looked sternly at him and expressed his surprise at seeing him there. '' I am very sorry," said tho officer; "three days C.8."