NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17455, 25 October 1918, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF

The Chinese Government shipyard' at Shanghai is to build cargo vessels of 10,000 tons eaeli for the American Shipping Board. Tho military hospital at Rotorua is to bo known in future aa K<ng George V Urthopaidic Hospital. Alter passing l'aihape on Saturday evening the north-bound Main Trunk express ran into a snowstorm, and it had not proceeded far before the whole landscape was under a white mantle. V' ciera cnap l-unoil, guaranteed to cure those Uouyh Hands. — Waters' Pharmacy

A youth named Frost Kenny met wilh a paitilui accident in an electrical engineer's in Auckland on Saturday. Lie was helping to adjust tin instrument, when a blow-out occurred and his left hand waa badly shattered. • '.Gore is i.ay.ng £16C0 for as much electrio light as is supplied by an obliging Government to Cliristchurch for £340," said a councillor at the last meeting of the Gore Council.

About half of the 350 boy 3 at Christ's College, Cliristchurch, and four of tho masters, have been laid up with influenza. Fortunately, the cpidemic was of a mild type and there were no serious eases. Tho Christchurch Boys' High School also suffered to a smaller extent.

Parcels, hampers, cases of ales, wines, spirits despatched promptly to legal order.— W™- Crossan, "Waterloo," Caversham.... Tno Defence Department ,has definitely accided to take over the camp canteen at rrentham Camp and manage it for tho benefit of the troops in camp on Hnp.t similar to those now operating with respcct to Canteen at Feathersfcon. At Taihape on Monday, just after tho Auckland to Wellington express bad passed, a slip occurred three miles north of Mangaweka, stopping all traffic from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

At a meeting of the Wellington shareholders of the Nelson Co-operative Fruit Company, the scheme of the directors to provide fruit-evaporating works at Tasman ,in d cool stores for 16,000 cases of apples at iuapuua was approved). J. Waters. cJil-uiisi (next Herbert, rlaynesi for Unique Hot-water Bags""-at 'f".'.' "-ires..

Mrs Cameron, sen, of Hastings, has in the last four years knitted (at the rate of three pairs per week) 620 pairs of sooks for soldiers at the front. The third death among the influenza patients from a recently-arrived steamer occurred in Auckland on Monday, tho victim being H. Goulton, aged 25. He was a steward on the boat and was a native of Adelaide.

Chat-to, who was engaged in the Dash ilancucap at Masterton, commenced operations by throwing his rider. When the tapes went up ho turned and went tlie wrong way. Ihe high prices quoted in city'papers ore no criterion as to values offered by üb. lietore doing your spring-cleaning or' getting your summer outfit, drop ua a line for estimates; or, better still, cnll and inspect.— A F Clievrip nnd Co., Mosgiel Iho left-hand salute was abolished in the_ imperial Forces eome time ago, and 11 is announced in General OrdcN that In tuture the salute will be given by all ranks or tile iNew Zealand Forces with the right hand The old rule was that the saluto should be given with the hand furthest away from the person saluted. Buffalo Park, just outside Paris, haa been tairen over by the American Red Uross to house its lorries and ambulances, wutialo Park revives memories of the old days when Parisians used to go there to see the performances of Buffalo Bill and cowboys and Redskins. Altogether 10 floating discs have now been dropped overboard by vessels for the Marine Department, to determine the currents m Cook Strait. One of the discs must have capsized when cast adrift by the Komata, for it has gone ashore upside down at Farewell Spit. • The present nign cost of living emphasises the need for quality. In coffee no mistake is made in ordering "Bourbon." In tins. 2? 2d and Is 1d.... Creditors of the Marquis of Huntlv a®. ' cepted at the London Bankruptcy Court recently an offer of a cash composition of as m the pound. Tho composition is payable by instalments, and the payment will be completed in two and a-half years. The accounts showed liabilities. of £4297' and assets ±,350, apart from any surplus that may be derived from tho Orton estates affcer payment of the mortgages ' n°/ /) he ories T told by Sir Joseph Mard\ at tho Navy League gathering in' Wellington on Monday night related to a . !ad F. "'hose war work consisted in driving an official car used by a f V^ y n v n i! vJ- ?1 i d lm i K>rtan t member of Wlv i " Ministry On one occasion the It/Ar-J da . dinner engagement, and the Minister was late in leaving his office. ®^ a:It m,, as lol Js he s impatience would permit. 1 hen she handed the porter a shilling, and told him to give it to the tnll lS^ r + V -*t a sl 'gS retio n that he should away to dress 01116 ' had to hurr 7 Remember the boys at- the front. Assortment necessary trench comforts packed in * ny addrcss -A Prices, 12s 6d M k'ip for P artl ™l«s to manager Marshal! s Pharmacy, Dunedin A large amount "of unsecured wool is n b Xf. sported from the dominion 11 piesent, a-nd is taking up valuable freight space, stated Mr Leigh Hunt at the annual ChTmhf IT f Vclhn » ton Central ' Chamber of Commerce on Monday. Mr Hunt sa,d that the time had arrived when the dominion should scour its own wool and save much valuable freight space bv ! exporting only pure wool. 7 A feature of-'tho disembarkation of the transport at_Auckland on Sunday was the taking of a Kinem film 0 f t h e w }, o i cess, from the arrival of the vessel in stream till the landing of men, and their conveyance to their various destinations. The film was taken on behalf of the British Cross Society with the consent of Contain Hall-Thompeon, navS r , to , t!l ? GW Zealand Government, and is_ to be shown for Red Cross purposes his is the first time a kinema film has been taken here of the disembarkation of troops (saye the Star).