NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18295, 12 July 1921, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

• Over 13 degrees of frost were registered ' in Mastertou on Thursday night. ' The gate receipts in connection with the ■■ Prcbables-Possibles Rugby game at the Ath. letio Park, Wellington, on Wednesday amounted to £320. Oat Malt fcitout (M‘Gavin’s). Have you ’sampled it? It’s the real thing. You should give it a try.... Several land agents at Napier were fined last week for doing business without licenses (says the Wairarapa Age). The Customs duties collected at the port of Westport for June totalled £268 7s 9d, and the beer duty amounted to £343 9s (writes the Grey mouth Star). Thomson and Go., Moray place (opposite First Church) Just arrived a large and choice selection of granite and marble monuments. ’Phone 5296.... A gentleman who has been a resident of Southland for 40 years says that this is one of the best winters that he remembers, and eites ns evidence of this fact that only two days ago ho plucked the last of his roses growing outside, u perfect bloom. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails.... People who neglected to register children born prior to May 11, 1920, are reminded of the Act. of last session which permits them to do so irrespective of the age of the children. The Act will remain in force until November 11. Your breakfast dish—Nothing to equal our delicious bacon at Is 5d per lb.—Barton and Trcngrovo... A heavy gale raged in the Arrowtown district for a couple of hours on Friday, July 1 (says the Lake County Press). The wind sprang up about 4.30 a.m.. and half an hour later it had reached hurricane force. Sheets of iron wore torn away from several buildings in the town, but no serious damage was reported. Heavy rain set in about 6 u.m., and continued for several hours. Coffee manufacture, from its tasteless green condition into the delightfully fragrant and health-sustaining “Bourbon, brand, has our careful attention every day. —“Durie’s.” 32 Octagon, Dunedin.... A party of 30 wireless telegraph enthusiasts in Wanganui have organised themselves into a club, but cannot commence activities owing to the restrictions on the use of private wireless which were put into operation early in the war. Meanwhile the club is issuing a newspaper, the New Zealand Radiogram. A few of onr prices: Men’s heavy-weight water-tight boots, 35s and 28s 6d, post free Greener’s cartridges. 7s 6d a-box Sess than cost): FFF gunpowder, 4s lb; shot, lid lb; horse covers. 44s (cheapest on the market) ; Griffith’s I.X.L. rabbit traps, 32s 6d dozen. Try n dozen, you won’t be disappointed.— Hiaoh and M’Lennan, Anzao Square....

A Riverton resident who recently pur- ' chased six White Leghorns from a local yard began to wonder after a few weeks why his egg supply had made a large decrease. His surprise can better bo imagined than described when he discovered that the birds had built a nest in a tree, and when fourii it had 24 eggs in it. Citizens.—Study your health and we tilth and buy the prirnesfc quality. It will pay you, for the best is the cheapest at all times. We stock only the primest quality. One pound of prime beef is equal to 31b of cow beef; the same thing applies to mutton. Buy the best, and your health will be saved.—Barton and Trengrove, butchers.... The Westport Stockton Coal Company shipped 1436 tons lewt of coal for the week? ended July 2, and the Westport Coal Company shipped 7300 tons lOcwt of coal and 3b tons scwt of coke. Tho total amount of coal exported from Grey mouth for trio week ended July 2 wa s 5K69 tons 9ewt, composed as follows:—Blackball, 1440 tons 18cwt; Reefton, 464 tons 14cwt; Paparoa, 819 ton? scwt; Point Elizabeth, 273 tons Bcwt; Bierwith, 118 tons 17cwt; Baddeley, 142 tons 17cwt; and Hunter. SO tons lOcwt. Moan man story (20): The wowser whose name is conspicuous by its absence from charity lists. Wo give one value only—the best. Oban Hotel for country orders Ploughing matches are not so popular as they were 10 or 15 years ago (writes the Western Star). At Drummond on Wednesday only seven ploughs competed, as against 29 when tho association was in a flourishing condition. Apparently the young farmers are more interested in football than ploughing. If the national beverage is not whisky it’s beer. All nationalities can be suited at Crossan’s Waterloo. Cav<. rsliam.... The building trade in Wanganui continues to be quiet, but so far few carpenters are .out of work (writes the Herald). Although stocks of bricks and timber are accumulating in consequence of quietness of trade, there is so far no sign of any reduction in price. A local builder informed a reporter recently that the trade would be among the first to pick up, as soon as cheaper money became available, for tiiere was plenty of work under contemplation. There is no better agent for promoting tho accumulation of scattered nerve force than Marshall’s Fospherine. Buy a bottle to-day, and ’‘gather up’* that nerve force. Sc)d everywhere. 100 dose* for 2s 6d.... In illustrating the growth of New Plymouth a member of the Taranaki EducaI lion Board stated, in the course of a conference with the Hon. C. J. Parr, that, while the roll number in the primary schools in 1916 was 1253, it had increased to 1607 in 152.1. Allowing for other schools, about another 200 scholars might be added to the total, in the elementary classes. A real cure for rough hands is Waters’ Chap Lotion, Is. At Waters’ Pharmacy.... Lost month freshes interfered with the dredging of the berths in the Grey River, the cut being three times partly refilled (writes the Grey River Argus). The harbourmaster recently reported to the board that half the work needed bad been done, and with fair conditions two months should see the berthage finished. Tho ground is easier as tho dredge advances. What about your furniture and furnishings? Just go down to Artzac Square and see the beautiful stock Riach and M‘Lennan have. There you will see exactly what you want at prices you like, and will bo able to set up home complete without tramp- j ing all over town.... / A peculiar position that arose at a meeting at Kcrepthi to elect a school committee was related by the secretary to tho Education Board Mr E. C. Purdie, at the meeting of the board at Auckland (Writes the New Zealand Herald). The chairman of the meeting polled 22 votes, eight candidates 21 votes, and one candidate 20 votes. The chairmah then had to exercise his casting vote in selecting four members of the committee from the eight candidates who, tied. “It is a wonderful thing to happen,” remarked the chairman of the board, Mr E. C. Banks. • Notwithstanding the fact that N.Z. is “God’s Own Country,” and as such presents innumerable objects of transcending beauty to lure the artist with brush and easel, the native-born inevitably aspire to conquests where the greatest geniuses have acquired fame. Hence the .ambition of Mies Jimsio C. Fraser to visit Europe to sketch objects of world-wide interest. To obtain some of the wherewithal for travel a sale is necessary, consequently on Thursday, this week, Messrs Hutton and Watts, auctioneers, Stuart street, are to dispose of oil paintings by Miss Fraser, on canvas, satin, and metal. Every article to be sold is a thing of beauty, and a visit of inspection prior to the sale is recommended. These paintings now on view' in Hutton and Watts’s windows.... A motorist who came through from Wellington on Monday of last week reported that a big gang of men was at work on the Paekakanki llill, just below the summit (writes the Levin Chronicle). They were reducing the grade, and the disturbance of the surface, in conjunction with the rain, had made ’ the road almost impassable. Numerous small slips had also occurred, both there and in the Ngahamanga Gorge, making motoring something of art adventure. In fact, the motorist stated that if he had not had a high-powered oar ho . would not have got through. The sale worth waiting for. —Visit A. F. Cheyne and Co.’s winter sale. As prices . went up during the war, s 6 now they come tumbling down. P-eplaeement values are not considered. Everything reduced, and there are many bargains. Just geo them.... Consideration of some scheme by which provision might be made for the pensioning of old servants with a lengthy period at service was advocated by Mr R. A. Anderson at the meeting of Bluff Harbour Board (says the Southland Timesj. It was stated that there were only three old men. in this position, one of whom, although, over 80 years of age. was said to be still doing useful work. Mr Anderson pointed out that a new hoard, knowing nothing of the service of these men, might not give them consideration unless some scheme was decided on. It was resolved to have invests gations made, and that the question should he brought up at next meeting, Winston - '‘Churchill's scathing indictment of cant and hypocrisy in the churches, “The Inside of the Cup, ’ Empire Theatre, next Friday.... , ' A Masonic medallion, bearing date 1516, which, though discovered in Ireland some vears ’ ago, was * unknown, to the Masonic authorities until recently, has been handed ever to Mr R. W. Wilson, Provincial Grand tier rotary of Tyrone and Fermanagh. The nie dal lion was found by the ca,retaker in the wall of an old country house in Derganyncville, near Dromore, County - Tyrone, belonging to Mr J. J. Nelson. It was covered with soot, and had evidently been hidden in the chimney of the house, which was built in the old wattle-and-clay style, now almost obsolete in Ireland. The members of the Dublin Masonic Lodge of re- , search believe that it is one -of the oldest Masonic emblems in Ireland, and the date it bears is 101 years before the establishin out of the Grand Lodge of England, the mother Grand Lodge of the world. Kornbane will cure the worst corns painlessly; Is, posted Is 2d.— At Waters Pharmacy.... It will be remembered that a youth named Stewart escaped from the Borstal Institute towards the end of last January, and it is generally supposed that he has not been hoard of by the authorities since. But that is not correct, as is shown by the story told a Southland News representative by an official of the Prisons Department. A little while ago a warder who was stationed at the Borstal Institute when Stewart was an inmate was riding in one of the inside aoarbments of a tramcar m Queen street, Auckland, on a Saturday night, when he saw Stewart on a front seat. The latter must have also seen the warder at the same time, for as the latter moved forward towards his man, Stewart jumped off tho wrong side of the tram, and at once disappeared in the usual Saturday nig lit crowd. It was a very narrow escape, for tho warder was almost within arm’s length of tho man. Stewart originally came from Auckland, and was previously last seen m the Hedgehope district.