NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18048, 23 September 1920, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A start has been made with the erection ot a new pohco station at Dannevirke. A poll taken jn Otaki has resulted in Saturday having been selected as the weekly half-holiday. The Bidler Council, tmdor the guidance of its engineer, intends to erect milopostg roadl °'° ° f the B ° ller Count y main M-Gavin's °at Malt Stout specially recommended for invalids. Nothing to equal it for strength-producing. Quarts, pints The Wairoa bar is in a bad state at present (says the Napier Telegraph). It has been cloyed since Tuesday of last week and three steamers are held up at. Napier. it. will interest New Zealanders in general to hoar that Mr Haydn Beck has been appointed deputy leader of the New South \* ales State Orchestra. The \\ ,-iterloo Hotel is not a drug store, but a first-class omDorium for finest beverag". Locality: Caversham.... Jhe Wellington Cit" Council has given authority for the erection of a memorial wall at the soldiers and sailors' memorial cernitery, Kurori, at a cost of £500. is reported that a Wanganui dairy company (states the Herald) contemplates paying 2s 8d per lb to its suppliers for butter-fat in the near future. Try Waters' Chap-Lotion for those roiifjh hands; Is 4d posted.—Waters' Pharmacy the cheques for the Imperial Government wool surplus profits arrived in Oamaru on Monday (says the North Otago Times), and the wool-growers will receive their shares in tho course of a few days. "The \ ifciated atmosphere of our rotten worm-oaten schools" was a phrase used in a speech given by Dr Thacker in the ol Hepresentatives a few days ago. Congoleum Squares have become verv popular. They are made in various sizes. We have a full range, and allow a special discount of 5 per cent, off list prices. Beautiful new patterns. Seo them. A. F and Co., Moapiel..., At the annual meeting of the Wyndham Dairy Factory Company, held last 'Friday, tlie following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—Directors—Messrs Arnott, Hunter an * ° Shaw; auditor, Mr Jas. I ? e n? a ' th ? (states the Westport Times) has purchased tho property rfnown as 'Lange's Estate," situated in E P & r n9" n eai : V'? P"ce is stated to bo £850, and that it is intended to erect a Marist Brothers SchooL Is your hair falling? Waters' Hair Restorer will stop it. 2s 6d at Waters' Pharniacy.... "He said he did not care about takinjr up my case as I had no money," remarked a plaintiff in the Masterton Supreme Court sol\c'?to C ' UGS k lOneC ' 38 ea '' n S s with a "The Almighty made a cow so that she could be milked every day, and so men must work in dairy factories on Sunday," said Mr J Nathan when giving evidence at the Arbitration Court in Auckland recently. One hundred per cent, more light when gas .globes are clean and bright. Use "Bon Ami. ... AT A T? a^e?ram receire<l from .Australia bv Vf F , 7 Ct :, J .°ncs. proprietor of the Gisborno .Hotel, advises that the American boxer, duly Shade, knocked out Tommy Uren at the Sydney Stadium on Saturday night, September 11, m the nineteenth round. If you wish to eat well, sleep well, feel well, and iook well take Marshall's Fos--100 r doses ° bottle contains nearly Trade at the port of New Plymouth has grown to such an extent that there is now urgent need for storage accommodation and berthage, and the Harbour Board's engineers have been instructed to submit a report on tho question. Why is Clever Mary like Turkey? Beit is the enemy of grease. Some years ago. if I had been asked which erass I would keep if I had to let all others go, I would have said perennial ryegrass, 10-day, after more experience, I would choose oocksfoot," said Dr Hflgendorf, when addressing a farmers' meefcAs "b} lrtoll Saturday. "■Bourbon" coffee is prepared by experts trom true coffee and specially-treated N.Z.grown chicory. _ This explains why so many coffee drinkers insist on ordering "Bourbon" alwnvs.,.. Colonel R. J. Collins has intimated that all the men seleoted to represent the dominion at the Emmre Rifle meeting, to be held m Melbourne in November, have accepted. The team will leave Wellington for Sydney, en route to Melbourne, by tho Moana on October 14. For children's hacking cough. Woods' Orfnt Peppermint Cure, Is 9d. 2s 9d Much laughter followed a statement made by the president Mr J. Kennedy) at the New Zealand Athletio and Cyde Union Conference in Wellington. "West Coast lias an application in," he said, "for a New /Zealand championship meeting when the Otira tunnel is opened." A DelegateProblematical." The best salt on earth (or anywhere else) is ' Leslie Shaker." Use it and you'll know.... If butter went to 2s 9d per lb, declared Dr Thacker, (Christchurch East) in the liouse of Representatives the other afternoon, the results would be serious. Butter was. as a rule, a lubricating compound, but in the present state of affairs it might prove to be the spanner thrown into the industrial machinery of the country. Don't say d'ye—say Tinter, and you will be able to make your blouse or 'hose or linsrerie "just like new again." Packets 9d or.oh ... While Mr Albert Gresnhills was sitting at home with his family at Chesterfield avenue, Waverlev (says the Stratford Post), on a recent night, someone fired a bullet through the door. He ran outside but could not see anyone. The police think that it must have been a pea-rifle oarelessly fired by some boys in the district. " Dear Sirs, —The Domo arrived yesterday. and we do feel the benefit of it after having struggled for yeara with tie old skimmer and milk pact system of getting our cream. What a beautiful imohtrne it is. There wasn't even a colour of cream left on tho milk we'separated.—Your truly — Rincli and M'Lennan, agents.... Some flowers, contrary to the general experience, have objectionable scents, and, when so scented, have dull purple or reddish tints, with nothing bright about them. The reason was explained by Mr R. Nairn at a W.E.A. lecture in Christchuroh on Saturday night (says tho Times). The scent and' colour attract the carrion feeding insects which unconsciously and by reception fertilise the flower. In the New Zealand Government offices in the Strand (writes a London correspondent to tho New Zealand Times) there is a/ splendid exhibit of apples and pear s from the llawke's Bay district, Nelson, and Otago. This collection, which lias attracted _ considerable interest, gained the Knightiah silver gift medal of the Royal Horticultural Society's show. Would prospective Gbristmto brides please let lis know their requirements as early as possible. A big rush for furniture and furnishings has already set in, and we want to bo in a .position to meet tlie heavy demands that we know are going to bo mad© upon us. Wo are the people. —Riach and M'Lennan, Anzac square.... Mr 'llanji" Wilson, captain of the Wellington representative team, speaking at the Rugby Union smoke concert on Saturday night, said that New Zealand player would hjive their work "cut out" to beat the South Africans next year. Tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force service team was strong in forwards, with sound backs, yet it had found the South Africans always a stiff proposition. A Wonderful Businesa in a Few Years.— Make nasty, jealous opportunists says: "Ohl they are the American Moat Trust (or soflio other combine). A large business could not be run by them without some such assistance." Our reward of £100 still holds good for anyone giving information that will lead to tlie conviction of such rumour-mongers. We attribute our sucoass to the fact that we are enterprising and out to give best quality and value at bedrock. Others struggle dealing in inforior quality and selling at higher rates, thinking the public can bo so easily gulled.—Barton-Trengrove, leading butchers... "Less than 20 out of 100 children _ wrote out the Lord's prayer oorrectly," said tho Rev. D. C. Ilerron at the Auckland Presbytery meeting last week, in referring to recent examinations conducted by the Sunday Schools' Union. The particular class to which ho referred consisted of children between 11 and 13 yeara of uge. Ho added that tho spelling was simply "atrocious," and an eye-opener to tho eflioiency of education in that district. Hie children did not eeem to understand t.ho meaning of the words in tho prayer, one child having written "hullo" instead of tho word "hallowed" and another "Thy king become" instead of "Thy kingdom come."