NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18380, 19 October 1921, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The old-age pensions in Victoria on October 1 numbered 103,429, and the invalid pensions 38,479. Tho price of half-inch water piping in Masterton before the war was 4d per foot. It rose to about Is per foot, but is now down to 7id per foot. An atmosphere of sociability prevails and persists at Willie Orossan’s Waterloo, Caversham. Regular visits prescribed.... The Westport-Stookton Coal Company shipped 1164 tons 12cwt of coal for tho week ended October 8. For tlie week ended October 8 the Westport Coal Company shipped 7205 tons 9cwt of coal and 40 tons 4owt of coke. Local sales; 206 tons 14cwt. The copious rains have greatly improved prospects in Central Otago. Grocers find customers insist on haring Hitchon’s bacon.,.. The Wairarapa Age says: What’s in a name? “O. Jerusalem” had to pay 22s at Palmerston North for leaving his car standing without lights burning. The building trade shows signs of improvement in Wanganui. During the past month 35 permits were issued from tho borough engineer’s office, the value of the buildings being £18,115. Tho best prices for pramottes and pushchairs to be had in town are at Riaoh and M'Lsnnan, Anzao square....

The coal exported from Greymouth for the week ended October 8 totalled 4001 tons 6cwt, made up as follows:—State, 1838 tons 13cwt; -Blackball, 1451 tons 4cwt; Paparoa, 711 tons 9cwt. A writ has been issued in the Napier Supreme Court in which a Napier bank is proceeding against one of the large commercial agencies for between £4OOO and £SOOO, the value of cattle alleged to have been wrongly disposed of. Flavour and strength are desirable qualities found to perfection in “Bourbon” coffee. If “Bourbon” bo not obtainable from your grocer send direct to the manufacturers, “Durio’s,” 52 Octagon, Dunedin... A tender of £4772 for* the erection of the cottage hospital at Opunake has been accepted by the Taranaki Hospital Board (says the News). The supply of fish for retail purposes in Wanganui is particularly good, and largo consignments are being sent from Hawke’s Bay to supplement local catches; “I have not reared such a fine lot of calves before as those reared on ‘Faterine,’ ” says a Kai Iwi dairy farmer. Proof of the goodness of the new Liquid Calf Food. Storekeepers , will supply.—Milne, Bromner (Ltd.), wholesale agents. Dunedin.... “When you set out to stir up publio opinion," said Mr E. C. Purdie, secretary of the Auckland Education Board, speaking for the Young Citizens’ League, “you don’t try to stir up a stone or a wall. You find an apathetic block!” Some 53,600 acres of Crown land are to bo opened for selection this month, and 10,651 are to bo opened next month. In addition, the Crown Land Guide contains particulars of 395,769 acres already open for selection. Wo cater for every room in the house from the soap shaker in the scullery to the massive oak suite for the best bedroom. Our salespeople are courteous, painstaking, and thorough, and our prices are without equal in Dunedin. We’re right out to please you Isn’t that the sort of firm worth doing business with? Too true, it is. Riaoh and M'Lennan, Anzao square.... Two anglers who have been on a fishing excursion in the King Country report that trout are very plentiful in the rivers and streams in the district (says an exchange). Owing, however, to unfavourable weather, the bags obtained were 2 not large. The Ongarue, Waimiha, and Wanganui Rivers are all well stocked with fish of small weight, though very large fish are obtainable in the Wanganui where the Whakapapanui joins it. _ A six-pounder was caught in the Wanganui while the party was at Pipiriki, while a report was current that a nine-pounder had' been hooked further up the stream) Two days old calves are a difficult ■ proposition if a cold “snap” occurs. Give them “Faterine,” mixed with skim milk or whey. Your troubles will end. Send now to your storekeeper.—Milne, Bremner (Ltd.), wholesale agents. Dunedin.... Owing to the favourable season there has been a large increase in the amount of butter produced locally (says the Poverty Bav Herald), and the returns from one local factory fully bear this out. Last month this factory manufactured 31,0001 b more butter than for the same period last year. Special reductions on all costumes during October. We have a full range of navy and black worsteds and serges, also colonial tweeds, etc. Call and get a quotation for your new season’s costume or dress. Satisfaction guaranteed.—A. F. Cheyne\and Co., Mosgiel.... “It sounds like bad language,” said a minister at a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery when a letter was read, in which reference was made to “Those: B classes.” “Hardly Presbyterian,” was the comment of another minister, and when the laughter had subsided theV clerk smilingly stated that he was only reading what was in the letter. It appeared that the “B” classes merely referred to certain Bible lessons. Obanism (101): It would take 27,600 spiders to produce 11b of web. That's a scientific fact. It takes one nip of our draught whisky to buck you up.—Oban There are 10,917 ratepayers in the Napier Harbour district. Last year they contributed £11,529 to the board. The Hawke’s Bay * County contains 3346 payers, who contributed £4743; Napier contains 2403 and their share of the total rate was £1787. Hastings with 2256 ratepayers, contributed £930. and the Waipawa County, with 707 ratepayers, had to pay £IOO3. Taranaki dairy farmers know something about rearing calves, and it is significant that the popular food just now is “Faterine.” Wonderful results achieved'in preventing scouring. Apply to your storekeeper.—Milne, Bremner (Ltd.), wholesale agents, Dunedin.... “It is a weakness of human nature to judge a man by his appearance,” remarked hlis Honor Mr Justice Frazer in an address delivered at a meeting of Justices of the Peace at Wellington, wfyen warning them to refrain from “taking sides” when sitting in criminal jurisdiction. “Remember,” he said, “there is many a red nose caused by indigestion.” (Laughter.) For those wearily bearing up against the inroads made on their health by indigestion and dyspepsia there is no surer, no safer corrective than Dr Crossland’s Noxol. All chemists and stores. 2s per bottle.... The statement that 42,000 acres of Crown lands on the Hauraki Plains, which was sold for £310,000 was now worth £1,500,000, was made by Mr J. B. Thompson, Government Chief Drainage Engineer, in the course cf his evidence before the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Commission at Paeroa. Huge sums of money, Mr Thompson said, had been made by some people on the Plains. Had the Lands Department known it could have held on to the lands and more than paid for the cost of drainage. You need to lose the blues if you are to cut any figure in your work. Exchange that down-and-out, what’s-the-use feeling for the_ strength of better health and abundant, rich, nerve force. Marsh all’s Fospherine. Chemists and stores.... A total of 3155 dairy factories had a total production value of 144,483,188 dollars in 1920, as compared with 135,196,602d0l in 1919, an increase of 9,286,586d01, according to' the Canadian Bureau of Statistics. Capital invested in dairy factories in 1920 amounted to 32,767,317d01; the number of employees was 11,211, and file amount paid tal, 28,388,026d01; employees, 10,716; and 1919 the corresponding figures were: Capital, 28,388,026d01; employees, 17,716; and salaries and wages, 7,629,997 dol. A- real our* jor rough hands is Waters’ Chap. Lotion. 1;. At Waters’ Pharmacy.... An unusual object of interest in the Nuhaka district is a monument which a Native named Pita Poipci has erected in his own honour (says the Gisborne Times.) The monument, which is in the form of a square pillar, is novel in that it has a mirror worked in on each side. Just at present it is obscured from the publio by a wrapping made with the aid of what appears to be a green horse cover. Many of the simple minded Native folk of the district still have groat faith in Poipoi’s powers to produce gold from one of the numerous valleys between Nick's Head and Waikokopu ! Watters’ Canadian cough cure cures colds quickly: Is 6d and 3s.—At Waters’ Pharmacy ... Mount Ruapehu, which is reported as having sent up a “shot” at 6 p.m. on Friday of last week, is considered by some who linvo climbed it during the last few years to be gaining in activity (remarks the New Zealand Herald). Mr W. Salt, president of the Ruapehu Ski and Ice Club, who has made a large number of ascents in recent years, says the crater lake appears more active each time he visits it. When members of the Tararua Tramping Club climbed to the crater in August last it appeared to be much more active than when several of them had seen it last, some years previously. Until about 1887 it wrus not known that an active crater existed in Ruapehu. Mr R. Speight, in describing the geology of the National Park, expressed the opinion that Ruapehu will become active again; perhaps not in the near future, but almost certainly after a long space of time.