NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17483, 27 November 1918, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF

Sir Walter Buchanan, M.L.C., baa given i>loo in aid of the relief of sufferers by the lniluenza epideniio in Masterton. Captain the Hon. James Neil A Primrose M.C., younger son of the Earl of Rosobery, M.P. for North CambridgeftSsTi; 86 " 00 ' 1,1 PaJestine - An ancient Maori canoe of large dimensions was unearthed at Mataiwaka near langiterona (Northern Wairoa), by a n> cent landslip. Wm. Cruasan, Caversham, still caters for holiday supplies. Cases assorted as aesired. Order early and avoid the rush....

During the past week the growth of grass, and incidentally weeds, lias been greater than for any similar period of thia year (states the Wairaxapa Daily Times). Itogulations gazetted make compulsory the installation of wireless telegraphy in ah British sea-going ships of 1600 tons gross or upwards, not registered in New Zealand.

The police a report from the Waikari constahle on Sunday (states the •uhristchureh Press) that a man named George Henry Fitzroy Hill had fatally shot himself in the head. The case pointed to suicide. The deceased had no known relatives.

Tnn scholarships are offered by tho British Food Production Department for a course of commercial horticulture for women, with cost of maintenance and tuition at. the Horticultural College, Swanlcy, Kent Puro coffee is an excellent prophylactic Leading Dunedin medicos are among its chiefest votaries. Tho pure coffee specialists are A. Dune and Co., 32 Octagon, Dunedin....

There is a serious shortage of shearers in tho King Country, and the Waikato (says the Auckland Star) employers are finding difncilty in getting a sufficient number of men to get the work done. The Westport News states that the Union Steam Sihrp Company's branch at Wostport is paying wages' to waterside workers who contract influenza within the period agreed upon with the Watersidors' Association.

Remember the boys at the front. Assortment necessary trench comforts packed in tin boxes sent any address. Prices, 12s 6d to 21s. Write for particulars to manager, Marshall's Pharmacy, Dunedin.... The Countess of Liverpool is assisting nursing at the College Hospital ia Wellington. Sine© the beginning of the epidemic in Wellington Lady Liverpool has been sending quantities of comforts and delicacies to invalids.

The Kev. P. Stacy Waddy. M.A. (Oxoel), one of the noted inter-State cricketing family in New South Wales, and formerly heod master of King's School, Parramatta, N.S.W., has been appointed canon to the Anglican Cathedral at Jerusalem. Palestine. It is notified in last week's Gazette that grapes may in. future be imported into New Zealand from the United States, provided they are aoccmpaniMl by a certificate that they were . grown in a vineyard where no phylloxera existed.

J. Waters, chemist (next Herbert, Haynes), for Unique Hot-water Bags at lewpst nnV'Ps.... Mr Arthur Scott, engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department, met with an unfortunate accident last week (according to tie Wellington Post). While he waa endeavouring to start the engine of a motor-car the handle " back fired." striking him, and breaking the right arm in several places between the wrist and elbow. It was necessary to use the X-rays on it. Three deaths in one family in 10 days is a sad record, but unfortunately not a singular one during the present epidemio (observes the Auckland Star). On November 11 Mr Maurice Casey died, on the 17th his eldest son (Mr Theo Casey), and on the 21st the mother Mrs Margaret Casey, passed away, aged 69 years, all three deaths being due to influenza.

The prices quoted in city papers are no criterion as to values offered by us. Before doing your spring-cleaning or getting vour summer outfit, drop us a line for estimates; or, better still, call and inspect.—" A ¥ Chpvne and Co.. Mosgiel.... One well-known resident took a teaspoonful of formalin in mistake for ammomated quinine (says the Ashburton Guardian). As soon as the mixture was swallowed he recognised he had made a mistake, and rushed to the chemist, who told him to take some oil. The visitor immediately drank a bottlcfnl down.

An appeal for workmen to build another annexe at the hospital at Palmers ton North received a quick response. Between 30 and 40 carpenters and volunteer workers attended the institution on a Saturday morning. In a very short tjrno tko floor was laid down, and the walls were in course of erection. By 3.30 p.m. the work waa finished and beds and patients installed. Waters' Cliap Lotion, sruaranteed to care those Rough hands.—Waters' Pharmacy 0n1y....

Rakaia seems unlucky in the matter of a butcher. Once there were two butchers, but now there is none. Some time ago an offer was made of a shop, fittings, and slaughter-house rent free for three months to anyone who would start, but the offer was not taken up. Later arrangements were completed, cattle and sheep were in the yards, ready to be killed, when along como the influenza, and laid ttp the two butchers.

Matt Crossby is the oldest cowboy in the United States. Recently he celebrated his , ninety-first birthday by breaking in a young horse just of? the range, and followed this by roping and tying a three- < year-old steer in a little more than four ' minutes. James Douglas, a New Yorker, who died recently leaving an estate valued at 20,000,000 dollars, stated in his will that this vast fortune was accumulated after ha had arrived at the age of 40.