NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18293, 9 July 1921, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A line of Canadian cement was sold at auction in Wanganui last Friday, and realised £8 per ton. A fall of about £4 per ton has recently taken place in the price of bar shoeing iron *

Slight earthquake shocks were experienced m Greyraouth and Hokitika districts about 7 o clock on Sunday morning. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure fop Co’'£rhs and Colds never fails.... That . the land boom in Taranaki has ended us beginning to become more and more apparent. Parrtiß have been sold recently for £2O per acre less than was paid for them 12 months ago. Oat Malt atom (A 1 Gavin’s). Have you sampled it? * It’s 'the real thing. You sho-M give it a try... m There werfc 21,660 street accidents in London last year, in which 657 people were killed and 21,003 injured. The accidents in 1919 totalled 16,226.Coffee manufacture, from its tasteless green condition into the delightfully frag, rant and health-sustaining “Bourbon 5 ’ brand, has our careful atter-rion every day. ™P ,,r^' s -'' Octagon. Dunedin.... The Bruce Woollen Manufacturing Company ig taking steps to increase , the capital of the company to £IOO,OOO bv the creation of 54,572 new. shares of £l each. Malnutrition i§. responsible . for many troubles. Give your boys and girls “Redmill Cocoa” .with their meals. It is delicious, and. besides, it. nourishes and strengthens their growing. bodies. A«lr your grocer for “Bedmill.”—Milne. Bremn*V< (Tfd ). wholesale agents • *ll* wa ® the same, night, but very early in the morning.” innocently stated a witness When giving evidence in a divorce petition heard at the Nelson Supreme Court. Kornbaiie will cure the liprst corns painlessly; Is, posted Is 28— At Waters* re-rrrmov .

Tile attitude of the working classes now, said Ear! Bathurst, at the 7Sth annual meeting of the Domestic Servants’ Benevolent Institution, is “Eat, drink, and be merrv for to-morrow the State will provide-for you.”

A real cure for rough hards is Waters* Char, Lotmn, Is, At Waters’ Pharmacy.... Jhere are approximately 250 applicants waiting to be connected up with the Wangsmii exchange, but this cannot be done owing to there being a shortage of telephones and other material. Tlie everlasting of housework is ■very wearisome. “Handy-Jack” will assist, and everything ia made bright—pots, pans, sinks, shelves, tables, etc., are ouickly made sweet and clean. Try it. All grocers.— * .< e - ® remn °r (Ltd.), wholesale “Do you show your wife all your correspondence?” was a question put to a witness during the hearing of a ease at the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui (says the Chronicle). “Not I,” replied the witness amid laughter.

There is no better agent for promoting the accumulation of scattered nerve force than Marshall's Posp-herine. Buy a bottle to-day, and “gather up” that nerve force. Sr’4 everywhere. 100 doses for 2s 6d.... The earthquake last week caused some interruption to portions of the Wanganui tele, phone service, quite a number of instruments being out of action for a time in consequence.

Mean man story (24): Sandy was accosted by M’Tnvish as he came out of the National Bank. Been stacking it away. Sandy? No man, I’ve just been filfing my fountain pen. Oban Hotel for that' wonderful Royal Navy Rum....

The register of the Repatriation Department now contains the names of 79,487 discharged soldiers. Patrons of the “Waterloo” are always assured of the utmost civility and of the best, of liquors.—W. Crosssn. Caver-sham ...

The Secretary, General Post Office, has been advised that legal time in Iceland was put. hack one hour on the 28th ultimo.

The cost of raising stock is greatlv reduced if ‘Taterine.” the natural liquid Calf and Pig Food, is used. It works out at Joss than Id per feed. Isn’t it worth while trying it. Storekeepers and dairy factories stock it.—Milne, Bremner (Ltd.), who'psale agents....

During the first five months of this year, 50 estates, of £20,090 in value and over, were certified for stamp duty, the aggregate value being £2.229,712. There were certified during the same period 1163 estates of £SOO and under, .of'an aggregate value of £219.742. # ' Our American duok horse covers at 44s are the cheapest and best in the dominion, and now we ore selling at corresponding value Griffith’s I.X.L. rabbit traps at 32s 6d dozen. Don’t miss the ’has. Sample trap sent to genuine buyers.—Riaoh and M'Lcnnaa's Co-op. Assn. (Ltd.), Anzao square...'.'"' jp A return- for the week c ended June 55 shows that there were 5257 men employed on public works in New Zealand, against 5028 employed in the previous week; an increase of 229. Of the totaj, of 5257 men employed 820 were men on unemployment relief works, leaving a total of 4435 permanent employees. Citizens.—Study your health and wealth and buy the primest quality. It will p<y you, for the best is the cheapest at all times. We stock only the primest quality. One pound of prime beef is equal to 3lb of cow beef; the same thing applies to mutton. Buy the best, and your health will be saved.—Barton and Trengrove. butchers.... A bridge is about to be erected at Dargavil’.e -sjhich will open up over 2000 acres of good dairying land, and will give the town direct communication with the railway service. which is being rapidly extended from Hclensvilln.

A society has been formed ip New Zealand with headquarters oc Gore for magicians and hypnotists, particularly amateurs. It is known as “The Mystic Circle.”

The eaie worth waiting tor.—Visit A. F. Cheyae and Co.’s winter sale. As price* wear up during the war, so now they come tumbling down. Hep la cement values are not considered. Everything reduced, and there pro many bargains, dust see them.... The police were advised that Thomas Dowell, aged 8i years, woe found dead in his bed at Lumsden on Monday night. Everyi lung was in older in the old man’s hut. and death is attributed to natural causes, tie had been attended by an Invercargill doctor, and an inquest is not considered necessary. A nephew livea in Eye street, Invercargill. Your breakiast dish—Nothing to equal our delicious bacon at Is 5d per lb.—Barton and irengrovo... “This is an oll'enoe that gives the police a great deal of trouble," said Senior-Ser-geant Eccles m the Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill, when two tiedgehope farmers were charged with unlawfully having in their possession tivo railway tarpaulins (reports the Southland Times). "itight inrough the dominion tarpaulins are being taken without leave or- sanction by tanners.”

Trior to a trip to the Old Country and Europe generally, with the object of gapping experience and material for her future work, Miss Jimsie C. Fraser is disposing, on Thursday next, in- Kutton and Watts’s auction rooms, Stuart street, of quite a number of her oil paintings of New Zealand scenery, and also of some very beautiful and artistic table centres and cushion covers, each bearing evidence on satin of her skill with the brush.... •

A request has been received by the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce from the Canterbury Chamber tor support of a proposal to obtain direct consignment of parcels through from centres in one island to centres in the other. Mention was made of the high rates ruling on parcels at present, instance being quoted where it cost 18s 5d to send a 751 b parcel from Christchurch to Patea. The Chamber decided to give its support to the propoeel.

ihomson and Co., Moray place vupposite Fijrst Church) Just arrived a large and choice selection of granite and marble monuments. 'Phone 2296.... Counsel in a case before the Court of Appeal at Wellington was endeavouring to explain a point, and was apparently uncertain how to start. “It is obvious ”ho began, and then stopped. “I beg your Honor’s pardon,” ho continued, “nothing is obvious in this Court. . . .” He turned round, feeling that he had said something not quite an fait, and met * hearty laugh from the opposing counsel, which was echoed from the Bench. A gift of £IOOO from Mrs Birch to found a scholarship in memory of her late husband, was mentioned by the Trust Board of the Wellington Diocesan School. Nga Tawa, Marton, in its report to Synod (saya tho Dominion). Eligibility for Jhe scholarship will be confined to daughters of clergy in the diocese. In his address at the opening of Synod, Bishop Sprott expreesed appredation of the gift, and said_ that the example might well be followed in conneotion with other schools in the diooeee. iour iiealth and oomfort is the first consideration, and we are supplying men'a hand-made heavy boots at 32s fid post free. Satisfaction guaranteed.—Riacli ana M'Lennan, Anroc square....