NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18049, 24 September 1920, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

din^'T 1 , ''i IS op, f (l a by-law foTbid'ilm ?? tov '" ln !; alongside tramcars. lim i has announced its intenSt'ition ■ rcor - l > iLnis u tl'u ('reymoutii Railway .Sisßon 1 = on o l 0 "M neW r P i l F er r °P orts tbat ®r«. i " s ™' * wS- Vok »- * m - ai the Defwc" o 'Dolmen ° rCdlt ° f ;„3 n J "'-' 0rl: r'l, lircc : tin S. tho polos for tho n a tion "? eloetric light in Holatika rapidly** ' las been proceeding ~,J lle, coffees, poppers, sluices,, and currvs manufactured by "Duriw," 32 Octagon, IJiinwlin, arc recognised as something superior. If unobtainable from your grocer ploase. send (o above address. ' The Presbyterian General Assembly will meet in WcUmgt.cn, at St. John's Church, on November 16. * For 40 years the British public has been able to send telegrams for 6d.. On July 1 uie rate was increased to Is. ~A Rf-il Corn Cure, posted, Is 3d.-At Waters PnarmacY, 20 Princes street.... During _ tuo past season tho 10 cheeso factories in the South Wairarapa manufactuied a total of 2825 tons of choose, of a ffross value of £236,791. Two Hindu fruitselJers in Auckland have been fined x>2 and £3 respectively for hav>ng been in possession of scales which were ial.se and unjust, and theix scales were forfeited. Say "when'-" or you needn't. Simply order. Despatch will be prompt.—Wm. Urossan, "Waterloo," Oaversham.... fhe settlers of South Westland (writes Wie liokitika correspondent of tho Grey Juver Argus) are petitioning the Government to ret-ain tho steamer Hlnemoa m tha southern trade. deaths in the dominion last month 283 were of persons of 65 years and over, while 92 were of children under five years of age. Congoleum Squares have become very popular. They are made in various sizes. We have a full range, and allow d special discount of 5 per cent, off list prices. JJeautiful new patterns. See them.—A. F. r ' . Mosjriel . "These half-yearly reports should be sent m quarterly. ' remarked a minister at tho Auckland Presbytery, 'whereat even the hoots laughed. Tne curator of the zoo at Newtown, Wellington, has reported to the City Council that the following animals have been bred m the zoo: One Indian woif, one Angora goat, fotir Maltese cats. If you wish jo eat- well, sleep well, feel well, and look well take Marshall's Fosrl i Pe " '^ le bottle contains nearly 100 doses.... A thousand electric irons have been applied for to the Christchurch City Council, but not yet supplied, and as the. powerhouse is still overloaded tho Public Works Department will not authorise the supply. It -is understood (says the Wanganui Herald) that efforts are being made to have the railway workshops at Eastown removed to Marton..and that a deputation with this object in view is to wait upon the Minister for Railways at Marton this week. A Wonderful Business in a Few Years.— Make nasty, jealous opportunists says: "Oh 1 are the American Meat Trust (or some other combine). A large business could not bo run by them without some such assistance." Our reward of £100 still holds good for anyone giving information that will lead to the conviction of such ' rumour-mongers. We attribute our success to the fact that we. are enterprising and out to give best quality and value at bedrock. Others strugglo along, dealing in inferior quality and selling at liigher rates, thinking uhe public' can be so easily gullc-d.—Barton-Trengrove, leading butchers.... A new newspaper called the Lumsden Chroniclo has made its appearance in Lumsden. The paper is conducted by Mr P. de la Perclle, proprietor of the Winton Record. Mr P. Reid, Lower SJiotover, received advice early last week through the Bank of New Zealand that his peas (Maplo variety) had brought the highest price in the London market (states the' Wakatip' Mail). This is but another instance of the superior quality of tho cereals grown in tho Wakatipu. There were 40 deaths in Now Zealand last month' from pulmonary tuberculosis. Thirteen of the' deaths took place in -the Wellington metropolitan area, nine at Auckland, and eight at Dunedin, and 10 in the nme suburban areas of the dominion. /The ribbons attached to the large number of wreaths in the Masterton cemetery on a recent grave, to which pathetic sentiment and publio interest abounds (says the Age), were removed last week. A party of womeri were discovered in tho act of taking them. " I have got a job to go up to the country," said a. man in Wellington charged with theft before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. "I am going to give you a job myself," said his Worship. "'You will be sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour." And the accused stepped out of the box. An octopus measuring 10ft between the extremities of the tentacles was captured on the rooks of Milford Beach last week by tv.'o Hamilton High. School girls who were spending a holiday at Takapuna. The octopus was dragged on to the beach above high-water mark by means 1 of a garden rake: ' _ " Rifle" shooting _is one of the cleanest sports going," said tho president at tho Suburbs Rifle _ Club's annual smoke concert in Foilding this week. "A man who wishes to succeed," he said, "must be a clean liver, and that is why we are anxious to bring along all the young fellows and get them to go in for rifle shooting." "Nobody has yet produced a bine rose," stated Mr R>. Nairi), in a lecture at the W.E.A. meeting in Christchurch last Saturday n»ghfc t "although there is no knowing what tho hybridist may do in .time. Already there is a purple rose, but tho true blue .has not yet vbeen produced." Mr Nairn added that scientists were still unable to explain why any one species of flower never appeared in blues, reds, and yellows, but only in two of these colours. That -was a secret of Nature still unrevealed. Some of tho residents in the vicinity of the To Puko township have, in consequence ■of the wild behaviour of an individual, been considerably disturbed (states the Waihi Telegraph). The man's strangeness developed violence, and suddenly, armed with an axe, he threatened all and sundry! with destruction. The local constable sought by tactful means to disarm tho man, but his efforts resulted in failure, and a rough and tumble ensued. Ultimately, with assistance, the constable succeeded in relieving the man of' the axe. Some very important undertakings are to be commenced in Gore in the near future (says the Mataura Ensign). Tho largest works will be at the New Zealand Papor Mills Company's premises, where a concrete race will replace the. old wooden fiuming, and a new power-house and now machinery will be installed. The Freezing Company has already commenced alterations and additions to its works, and a sum of £7000 is to bo expended. Tho Borough Council will vety soon bo commencing to spend loan money amounting to some £9000 for the extension of drainage, kerbing, channelling, and electric lighting extension.