NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17482, 26 November 1918, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF

The unwclcome mosquito is again in evidence in Napier. Tho Inglewood Record has had to temporarily suspend publication ss a result of the epidemic. The Ancient Order of Foresters had at ™ of 1917 a total membership of X,563,642.' Funds increased during tho year by £157,101.

Austrian penals are still to tho foro (says tho Napier Herald), others being off the market. It was noted that after Auekrla,,„ surrender her pencils arrived in town m 12 hours.

, i? ure . !*?, SUJt y Qur taste!— Try M'Gavin'a " bpeeial non-deposit ale. Just the drink All h tel y teble ' LiEht> bright ' clear -

The Chelmsford Town Coimcil has adopted a scheme for the erection of 960 h ? u ®9 s for working-class families on a site of 80 acres, which will allow of 12 houses to the acre.

A colonial girl, who has been helping with the harvest in the Old Country, writes: "I wanted to tie up. every sheaf m rod, white, and blue ribbon, bat farmers seem to have no souls."

ii you wish 10 purchase a headstone, ihomson and Co., Moray place (opposite l'irst Chjrch), have the best selection, and prices to suit a 11...

Barfiold experienced a very violent thunderstorm on Thursday (states the Christchurch Press). Torrential rain fell for about an hour and then eased off, when a southerly wind set in with heavy rain. An enormous quantity of water fell during the thunderstorm.

Mr Hugh Morrison, president of the Wairarapa Farmers' Union, informed an Age reporter that quite a number of dairy fanners were down with the influenza, and that unless help could bo procured to continue the milking many herds would b« completely ruined.

Waters' Chap Lotion, guaranteed to cure those Rough hands.—Waters' Pharmacy 0n1y.... '

At Chnstchurch Dr Thacber, M.P., has placed at the disposal of Air J. B. Struthera the sum of £100 for expenditure in connection with the free distribution of neoessanes to those stricken with influenza. Approximately 10.000 reservists' appeals and rehearings have been dealt with by the 1' irst Auckland Military Service Board during its term of office. About 6000 cases have been heard by 'the Second Military Service Board.

The high prices quoted in city papers ara no criterion as to values offered by us. Before doing your spring-cleaning or get* ting your summer outfit, drop us a line for efitun&tes; or, better still, call and inspect.— Vpjf and Co., Afosgiel.... I here is a shortage of coal in Wanganni at present duo to the ravages of the epidemic. Local coal stocks are almost depleted. Shipping is held up owing to the epidemic, and it is uncertain "whether any of the mines aTC working.* Owing to the clanger of public meetings during the course of the epidemic, it 19 impossible to fix dates for the by-elections Wellington South and Palmerston 1 ? rt i?V for tlle of successors to the late Mr Hindmarsh and the late Mr Buick. Ihe Prune Minister on Tuesday was unable to hazard a date for these elections. J. Waters, chemist (next Herbert, Haynes), for Unique Hot-water Bags at lew est prices.

A truck of wool that recently came to Dalgety s store contained an interesting addition (says tho Ohri&church Sun). Under ' the cover over some bales that came from Balmoral Station a large double and roughly-built magpie's nest was snugly nestled. Another similar instance happened some time asro. when a truck came m with three hen's eggs in a nest under the tarpaulin. An anomaly in the Hospitals Act has been revealed. A young woman, 19 yeara of age, recently became a patient of a Wairarapa hospital. Tho charge for her maintenance amounted to £59 7s. She was without funds, but a claim was made against her father. Tho father has repudiated all -liability, and tho board, having consulted its solicitor, has discovered that under the Destitute Persons Act a demanj can only be' made upon the parent of a child under 16 years of age. Representations are to bo made on the matter to the Minister of Public Health.

No vomiting, no indigestion; but strong, sturdy children, with good teeth and robust constitutions, result from use of Dr Duroy'a No. 2 Farinaceous Food. Excellent for invalids also. All grocers stock it.... In consequence of tho reorganisation measures affecting the Department of Agriculture, tho Fields Division of the department is nhoxrk_ to be disestablished, tho greater part of its personnel being absorbed into tho Live Stook Division (states the Dominion). Mr J. Brown, who has been Director of the Fields Division for tho past three years and a-half, with headquarters at the Ceneral Development Farm, Weraroa, has decided against assuming a new status and responsibilities in_ the dopa.rt.ment when his division is disbanded, and he will according- retire from the service shortly.

Should a man who is suffering from influenza be allowed to oontinue selling milkf The question confronted the Wangaaui Borough Counoil at its last meeting, and the council came to the conclusion that milk-vending was, in the public interest, tho most dangerous of all occupations for any epidemic-stricken man whose motto seemed to bo "Business as usual." The milkman- in question is to be ordered to cease operations whilo Buffering from the disease. —Chronicle.

Puro coffee is an excellent prophylactic. Leading Dunedin medicos are among its chiefest votaries. Tho pure coffee specialists are A. Durie and Co., 32 Octagon, Dunedin....

John Campbell, a full-blooded Red Indian, arrived at Vancouver at tho end of August from Fort Yukon, having travelled 5000 miles by train and canoe and steamer to Vancouver to enlist in the Canadian army. He started from the Arctic Coast near Herschel Island, and walked along the trail to the head of the Porcupine River, where ho worked for several months in order to get money to pay his passage to Vancouver.

Owing to the increasing popularity of Crossan s wines, spirits, ales, and stouts, the "Waterloo" proprietor (Cavorsham) sticks to his patrons.... Two men, Alex. MTLean and Gordon "Wheeler, working on Mr W. Stewart's survey party, have been lost in the bush a few miles from Raetihi. The meai failed to return to camp, and a soarch party discovered certain portions of clothing, but no tools, at he place where the men were last working. For several days searchera under Constable M "Cowan have scoured the adjoining country, but no trace of the missing men van be found.