OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16994, 3 May 1917, Page 10

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Large numbers of cases of diphtheria are coming into the Christcliurch General Hospital. There are indications of an outbreak of tlie disease. A notice in last week's • Gazette states that Empire Day will be celebrated on Monday, Juno 4. Since the beginning of the year them nave been only two bankruptcies in Wellington, as compared with three for til® period of last year. - M Gavin's "Huia" ale cannot be beaten lor purity, brilliancy, lightness, and clearness. suitable for family use. A superior beverage. Stocked by all aJi.k 0 grul) is . ver y prevalent in tliAslibuiton County this season. A man was arrested on Monday en / charge of having published a statement in Ti y n ty , (say - s Lhe Christchurcl lress) The u leged disloyal utterance 1 said to have been made in a restaurant in the city. Mr James Marshall, millowner met with a nasty accident. He was practising with a rifle, when the breech blew ou t and grains of powder struck him in the eve 'tile particles wera removed from the cyo (states the Wyndham lierald). For Chronic Chest Companies, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d, 2s 6d.... A painful and serious accident befell a daughter of Mr and Mrs Gordon Glasford,' of Ihakara. While on a visit to Wairarapa she fell from a height and broke both her arms, one just above the wrist and. the other a little below the elbow. • tl° H tteni P fc to raiso the price of milk in Hastings has ended in failure (says the Ilawke s Bay Tribune). The other morn- ' ing the customers of the milkmen who had notified air increase in price were informed that the old price of fourpcnco per quart would hold good. ■ According to the Wellington Post the managing director of a. local cordial factortold the Second Military Service lioard oi Monday that up to the present his firm had supplied! 31,702 dozen* bottles of mineral waters to troopships, and to the military camps 31,211 cfozen of mineral 'waters and 18,757 gallons of hop beer. lhymosa is. a scientific tooth paste retailed at Is at Marshall's Pharmacy, •85 Princcs street, Duncdin. Alade in accordance with the formula of Dr Jenkins, D.D.S., and adopted by leading dentists everywhere.... \™siso is rife at the Redwoodtown 1 üblic Q.'iiool (states the Marlborough Express). home months ago no fewer than five panes of glass were broken in one night, and ijuito recently five holes wera punched m the windows of the northern side with what appear to be pea-rifle bullets. ino matter is now in the hands ot the police. Farmers in the Ashburton County (says the Cliristchurch Press) commenced systerabbit poisoning on Tuesday. Tho Ashburton County Council has acquired a large quantity ot poison, and is" disposing °t t° farmers at a reduced rate. Giving- evidence before the Secoud Military Service Board on Mondav at Wellington, Superintendent Tait, '"of the Fire BTigade, said tliat out o£ his original stalt" of 38 men, 29 had enlisted, and his stati) n °ir totalled only 34. The instructing staff had also been reduced from nine to iour. Figures supplied to tho board showed that the total value of civic property at- risk is £1,480,436. Waters' Chap .Lotion is a guaranteed cure for rough hands'; Is and Is 6d.... "Unfortunately," said the Inspectorgeneral of Hospitals, when discussing the provision of a maternity ward at tho Masterton Hospital with members of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, / the birth rate of the dominion is at present only 25 in the IKK), whereas a few years back it was 26 or 37 in the 1000." Potatoes of the Up-to-date variety are returning an average of 18 tons to the acre on -Mr Harry Bennett's property at Willowbridge (states the Waimate Times). One root alone was responsible for 181b weight, while several of the single specimens weighed upwards of. 41b.

At the householders' meeting at Sydenham on Monday, one speaker, complaining of the frequent change of books for the pupils, said that when he was. at school at Home the books were seldom changed, so that the younger members of a family used the books of the elder ones, as they passed up the ladder, and the costliness of the system followed here was unknown. W. C., W. H., C."'—'lhese mystia letters signily Wm. Crossan, Waterloo Hotel, Caversliam. Dinna forget in purchasing future supplies.... As an indication of the shortage of labour on farms in Houth Canterbury a letter written by Mi- R, J. M'Keown, of to tho Farmers' TJnion on Saturday may be quoted (says the Timaru. Herald). Mr M'Keown, in apologising for his absence from the meeting, wrote; "I am obliged to stop at home and do the most necessary work, as I have 110 ploughmen, no cowboys, and no shepherd on my farm of 3000 acres, and I have 4000 sheep to look after." •'

fepeaking at a meeting of the Ashburton branch oi the farmers' Union on Saturday, a member stated that quite recently 200 men were camped on the Ashburton Show Grounds lor 10 days. It' this energy, sa.d the speaker, had been applied to wheat growing, he considered the county would have benefited more than by all the men had learned at camp. His son had to leave a six-horse team idle during his absence at the camp. Waters' Pharmacy removed to larger premises. NV. 14. next Herbert. Haynes. '"The hospitals are not charging as much per week as would be paid for lodging at an ordinary second-rate* hotel," said Dr V alintine (Inspector-general of Hospitals) at a meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board in Masterton, when an increase in the patients' fees, tie pointed; out that (no fees could easily be rcduccd to people receiving treatment on a report being received that they were not in a position to pay. Travellers passing, the Whenuakura pa on Tuesday week were surprised to find a number of Natives keeping up . a loud wailing as if half the inhabitants of the pa had died. On inquiry it was found that a fire was the cause of the noise, one . family which had been visiting Patea and had left a fire burning had found ouly the chimney of the house standing on returning home. A smart shock of earthquake was felt in the Canterbury district at 10.35 on Thursday night. In Christchurch buildings swayed, doors swung to and fro, pictures clattered) against the walls, and chairs rocked, whilst a distinct tremor was felt, lasting for quite an appreciable period. This tremor was rapidly followed, by another, both shocks appearing to run from </ east to west. At the Central Telephone Exchange, the shocks caused the shutters to Hy up. The Mosgiel-Dunedin train service is going to cause considerable inconvenience. Wo aiC making special efforts to lessen it by enlarging our stocks and giving better attention to all branches of our service. A trial order will convince you.—A. F. iJheyne and Co Peter Dunstan, a veteran Anzac, who acquired a farm at Timvald a tew months alter his return, has been successiul during ' his first year on the land in growing what ho ciaimed to be one of the finest turnip crops in the Ashburton district. Specimens of the crop, which is the Green Globo variety, are now on view in Ashburton the Ashburton Guardian). All the exhibits are over 15 inches in diameter. Private Dunstan has disposed of the bulk of the crop at a substantial profit. A brief but exciting runaway occurred 1 in Union street, Milton, one day last week (says the Bruce Herald). A. son of' Air Geo. Clarke, of North Branch, was on his usual delivery round, when the horse bolted with the milk cart, from near the National Bank. The cart collided against a postal letter box, smashing the box to pieces. In turning a corner the cart capsized, and tins of milk were flung out in all directions. This brought the animal's headlong career to a sudden stop, with no material damage beyond a broken shaft and loss of milk. The stimulating and aromatic properties in coffee are only brought out by an cxpert.* The grind—fine, but not tloury—is also important. These points are typified in " Bourbon Coffee."... A resident of the Trafalgar district (Victoria), who has returned from a tour of the Mallee country tells of the devastation being wrought there by mice. The wheat stacks which he saw were badly, damaged, and many households havo been overrun, In one instance a man left his trousers containing two £10 notes hanging behind a bedroom door for a few days. When ho felt for the money ho found" that the mice had reduced the paper to fragments, lie managed, however, to put together pieces showing the numbers of the notes, and so he will be ablo to redeem them.