OMNIUM GATHERUM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17113, 19 September 1917, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM

Tlio Waikato Hospital Board has decided to raise a loan of £30,000 for various purposes, including the erection of an adcqoais infections diseases hospital. A movement has been initiated by the ladies •of the Women's National Reserve for the formation of a Soldiers' Wives Club in Wellington. Waters' Chap Lotion is a guaranteed; cote for rough hands; Is and Is 6d— Mr T. Parsons, of Eketahtma, has been elected chairman of directors of the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union for tha twentieth year in succession. A jet black hare is reported to have' been seen at the back of Maerewberuia, and a haro drive with tho object of securing it is talked of (states the Oamaru Mail), Professor Park (Dunedin) and several of tho directors of tho Waikaia CHI and Shale Works Company, visited Waikaia last week, and inspected the company's claims. After the professor's report is made boring will bo undertaken.

American Pile Cure is composed of almost tasteless medicines for internal use and cones as external suppositories. Complete course for one month's treatment costs but 5s at Marshall's Pharmacy.... Midshipman S. T. Warr-Bockler, who drvod from a British warship in the North Sea and .rescued the ship's bulldog during a gale last March, has been awarded the silver medal of the R.S.P.C.A. The Waimarino Acclimatisation Society has been advised by the Tourist Department that sawmilling firms near Taumarunui were being prosecuted for allowing sawdnst to pollute streams which joiH the Wanganui Eiver. Two Chinamen, Yip Bor and Ah John, recently fined £50 and £60 respectively for selling pakapoo tickets at Greymouth, were arrested on Wednesday in default of their paying fines, and will be' inmates of thri Greymouth gaol for the next three monthsv Spring cleaners still have an opportunity of securing several lines at pre-war prices. Hearthrugs, curtains, and. bed quiua are always required for this important operation. Our assortment is good and valud right. Seo them.—A. F. Cheyne and Co* Mosgiel.... „ Sir John Findlay has given notice to ask the Minister of Defence whether he win stato how and on what basis sellingprioes for canteen goods are fixed and controUed by tho Defence Department, with a view; to protecting the soldiers in camp. The amount paid out for birds' heads by tho Ashbnxton County Council this year ia considerably short of that paid last year. - The largest cheques have been sent to the Rakaia district. There has not been, a great demand for poisoned wheat durmgi tho past few months. . ■ At tho Otautau sale yards on Friday 48 ewe hoggets were sold at 38s 3d, and 51 wether hoggets at 365. -The quality of this lino was exceptionally good, and the prices must nearly constitute a record for hoggets in Southland. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d, 2s 6d...« The Hokitika correspondent of the Greymouth Evening Star states that the sea hag made further inroads into the bank along Bevell street north, Hokitika. There waa a big sea running recently, bemg spring tideß, "the waves coming over the street at times. A Christchuroh business man has been! fined 5s and costs for selling coffee and chicory essence below the standard. The evidence showed that the essence was made in England, and that it contained not more than 30 por cent, of coffee. The 1000 cases of the essence now in store in Christchurch have been withdrawn from sale. That there is no scarcity of feed in the Ashburton County is indicated by the experience of a farmer who advertised for a big line of sheep to eat down an area or about 100 acres of wheat. Ho has had! only one offer of a mob of 300, though nearly 10 times that number was wanted. The opinion of authority—and good authority at that—is that Crossan'e whisky is imdoubtodly of % superior quality.... Lambs are beginning to make their appearance in all tho country districts,. ana r tho new arrivals have been favoured with splendid weather (states the Southland Times). With a continuance of the present conditions record percentages may be looked for. Lambing, however, will not be general until about the end of the month. Speaking in regard to Porirua Mental Hospital in Parliament, Dr A. K. Newman advocated that a special mental con-" valescent hospital should be established in connection with the institution. If this waa done he was sure it would benefit a large number of patients in the hospital. \Afc the Dargaville Magistrate's Court last ' week, a Kaitue- settler was convicted and fined for "bleeding" kauri trees in a Crown forest in the Kaipara- survey district. It was pointed out that in _" bleeding" tho trees, which was done in order to procure gum, defendant bad endangered thousands of pounds' worth of national property. Bourbon Coffee! The quality of this favourite brand is still being kept up to the mark. Coffee lovers who do not use Bourbon are missing a treat... Another big tangi is being held at Waitotara. The gathering took place over the wife of Pvophia, and as he is well known there are a large number of Natives. present. Bophia gave a section containing l | some 25 acres on the banks of the Oehu Stream as a scenic Teserve some little time ago; Another well-known Maori named Phillip died at Pah on Wednesday, morning, and consequently a double tangi is being held. The salvage case, in which the Union Steam Ship Company will seek to recover £8000 from the owners of the big sailing vessel which went ashore at Pencarrow Heads some weeks ago for the assistance given the vessel by their tug Terawhiti, i 3 fixed to be heard in Wellington to-morrow • (says the Wellington Post). It is expected that the case will cause considerable interest in shipping circles. Waters' Pharmacy removed to larger premises, No. 14, next Herbert, Haynes.... Business under the Arbitration Act ia summarised as follows in the Labour De-i partment .report.—lndustrial agreements (inclusive of those made between parties without reference to a Conciliation Commissioner or Council), 63; recommendations of Councils of Conciliation. 159; awards .of Arbitration Court, 168; Magistrates' Courts,- .. enforcements of awards, etc., conducted by Labour Department, 191; conducted by unions, 3. 'Out of 190 industrial dispntes 159 were settled, or substantially settled, by the Commissioners and Councils of Conciliation.

At a recent trotting meeting at Rich-' mond, Melbourne, one of the winning riders was a veteran 70 rears of age. On the same course, on August 27, Mrs Kelly, who comes from Western Australia, succeeded in.landing her mare, Creole M'Kinnoy, a clever winner in a field of 20 m the £100 event for unhoppled trotters. She has had a_ good deal of experience in riding in trotting races, and recently won a trotting event at (Drotrin on tho> same mare. Mrs, Kelly, who was loudly cheered, had to survive a protest from tho rider of the second horse, Haroldista, on the ground that she had ridden at a trotting meeting not registered by the V.T.A. The stewards dismissed the protest, and also ordered that the deposit of £5 lodged with it be forfeited.