OMNIUM GATHERUM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17155, 7 November 1917, Page 10

OMNIUM GATHERUM

The scarcity of domestio servants is report oxi to have beoomo yery acute in Auckland during recent months.

The depth of water at tho entrance of tho Wanganui River improved slightly during last month, there now being 18ft at high water spring tides. Patients take to it readilv! No need to shako before taking. "Shake" afterwards! Crossan's Waterloo, Caversham.... An officer back from Egypt rcoords an interesting day's shooting with a friend. "Wo got 23 Wild geese," he said, " and on the way back we bagged 19 Turks." The diphtheria outbreak in Southland is showing some signs of decreasing, the total number of cases notified during October being 75, as against 105 for September. At the Ashburton picture theatre last week an irate person demanded to know what the extra penny (amusement tax) was for, whereupon the lady who overheard him promptly replied: "Oh, that's fear the £400,000 bonus to civil servants." The high prices ruling for drapery and furnishings apply only to a limited portion of our stock Before making your purchases get quotations from us. Our goods are of sterling quality, and tho value second to none. —A. F. Cheyne and Co., Mosgiel....

It is stated by Mr C. F. Bickford, or* ''aniscr for the Red Cross Society for Auckland district, that not less than £662,000 has been collectc-d in that part of the dominion for various patriotic purposes since tho war broke out.

A local butcher publishes a notice in the Picton Press that "'owing to the tremendous increase in tho price of paper, from November 1 'one penny extra will be charged on each older for meat wrappings. Clients are requested' to. bring their own wrappings." _ In the Oreti district oat crops are well above the ground (says the Southland Times), and, judging by tho acreage in this cereal on either side of the road, farmers have not been idle, says the Winton Record. There is an abundance of feed and several paddocks have been reserved for grass seed. Bourbon Coffee is a blend of fine grade coffee® and rich Canterbury chicory.- No aDologv is necessary from a hostess who places this genuine article before her guests.... ' A remarkable whirlwind occurred at the St. Aubyn street crossing of the Hastings railway on Friday morning' (says the Tribune). Tho duet worked up in a spiral form to a great height, and lasted half an hour, and during that period prevented the traffic of horses and vehicles.

The wreck of the schooner Eunice was a misfortune for the Wanganui Harbour Board, as the vessel carried away the longrange Gigham light on the end of the south mole, and it will be necessary to send Htjmo to replace it. The cost will also bo considerable. For the present the south molo is temporarily lighted. It is stated, that at one of the narrow .reaohes of a West Coast stream, where the policeman and the acclimatisaton offical are unknown, the poachng .of trout is going on on a large scale, and that the fish aj*o being salted down, hot by the hundredweight. but by the ton, says the Greymouth Star.

Help the doctor by taking prescriptions to J. Waters, chemist (next Herbert. Haynes)...

"At the present time it is not safe to leave a motor car or motor cycle unattended," said Inspector Marsack at the magistrate's court in Wellington on Saturday. "There have been a number of cases reported to the police of motor cars and motor cycles being- commandeered by persons for the purpose of ' joy-riding.' ' The Tam&ki Company's timber mill, about 10 miles from Waihi, has been totally destroyed by lire. It had not been working 1 since some two years before the •war.' Including plant, it was valued at about £3000,' and it was not insured. The only part of the machinery which escaped destruction was a large boiler; which happened to be full of water.

At the No. 7 jetty, Lytielton, about 8 o'clock, on Saturday morning, a man, subsequently identified as Harry,. Gordon M'Beth,, single, 43 years of age, of Wellington, was discovered lying face downwards in a railway truck, with hi 3 throat cut with a razor. ' He was removed to the casualty ward, and was attended to by Dr Newell" Late on Sunday evening (says the Lyttelton Times)' he was reported to be progressing favourably. . ' When baby is cutting its' teeth, give Marshall's Vegetable Teething. Powders. They correct disorders incidental teething.; Is, Marshall's Pharmacy, chemists, arid stores.... Letters of-administration in respect of the .estate of the late James Leslie Darcy, the Australian boxer, of Memphis, Tennessee (U.S.A.), but formerly of East Maitland (N.S.W.), have been granted to Edmund Darcy, his father. Les Darcv is described in the papers as a farmer. They do not mention that he was a professional boxer. The net value of the estates for probate -purposes was sworn at £1760 15s. "My son is only 17 years of age now, and he went to lie front with the' Fifth Reinforcements,',' declared a judgment debtor at' the' Magistrate's Court at Christchurch on Saturday (says the Press). The Fifths, it may be mentioned, landed in Gallipoli in the midst of tho Suvla Bay offensive, in August, 1915, and, as they had been through the usual course of training in New Zealand before leaving, the youth must have been well under 15 ybaTS of age when he enlisted. At Napier on Thursday night a passer-by disturbed two sneak-thieves in toe act of robbing the Y.M.C.A. box outside the Trocadero of the magazines, left therein to be sent to the men at the front. _ On opening the box tho following morning it was found that several of the magazines had 'been torn by the miscreants in. their efforts to get them through the small slit at tho top of the box. In future the box will bo cleared every night to prevent a recurrence of such a despicable act. Waters' Kornbane really cures corns; Is. Wateirs' Pharmacy (next Herbert, Haynes)... Since the commencement of 1914' there has been a steady increase ,in the monthlyrainfall in Auckland (says the Star), until at the present time records of previous years are being easily broken. No such fall as the present year, J-917, has been experienced in the dominion for over 63 years, even though there are two months yet to go before the year concludes. The total rainfall for the year ending 1914 was 28.54 inches; for 1915,. 49.93 inches; for 1916, 67.10 inches; while the total fall for 1917 up to the beginning of October wss 67.12 inches. ■ On Friday afternoon the Wellington police received information of the suicide at Ngaio of. a married woman, Mrs Georgina Sutherland Glenday. When her husband, who is employed by the Defence Department, left home she. appeared to be normal. Shortly after noon, however, a «on, aged 10 years, went home from school and found liis mother hanging fronra large hook in the ceiling of one of the back rooms. The deceased woman was 44 years 'of ago, and the family only arrived from the Old Country in March of this year. Latterly she had complained somewhat qf faintuess (says the Post), but it is thought that she really never got over an attack of blood-poisoning which ■ she contracted through nursing a brother who had bfcen a victim of poison gas on the west front. A "scrap of paper" was discussed by the Wanganui County Council on Thursday. In the Parapara district the settlers raised a loan for metalling purposes on the arterial road between Wanganui and Raetihi, and in connection with it a written promise was received' from the Minister of Public Works that a Government , grant of £75 would be forthcoming. .-The Minister repudiated his written promise, and the: work cannot go on without. the promised grant. Hopes are entertained that the' Minister may fulfil the obligation _ ho entered into. With, that end ; in 'view the county will send a representative to Wellington in an endeavour to get a satisfactory settlement.