NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18446, 6 January 1922, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF

The retail price of milk in Palmerston North has been reduced to 4d per quart. There’s no check to the_ popularity of Buchanan’s “Block and White.’’... Twenty thousand .firearms wore registered in the Palmerston North police district last year. We lead, others follow. Bacon (in the piece), Is 2£d; sliced, Is 4d.—Only at Barton and Trengrove's.... • Fire losses in Wellington during 1921 totalled £65,950 on buildings and contents' of a total value of £705,840. “Thank you,” Black and White’s my choice every time. It’s pure Scotch,... Tile gala which was held at New Brighton on Boxing Day is expected to realise over £3OO. We recommend the public to see, the window displays of furniture on Friday nights at Scoullar and Chisholm’s, Rattray street... , \ Crops are ripening in Canterbury quickly during the present hot spell, and the fear is expressed that if rain does not come the yield will be adversely affected. 1922. —Big draw' of interest to town, suburbs, and country. A trig bargain sale of drapery at Stevens’s Value House, 51 George* street.... - A recent visitor to Kapiti Island, the bird sanctuary off the West Coast, informed a Wairarapa Age reporter- that goats were doing considerable damage to the bush, and preventing the growth of young trees in many places. ' To cure a cold an eminent doctor’s prescription is: “A hot toddy, and then to bed,’.’ -and see that it is “Black and White.”...' , The price of butter has dropped in Christchurch to Is 5d per lb. _lt is anticipated that formers’ butter will in future cost the dairies lid to la per lb, and the consumer Is 3d. Wo have at present a largo stock of odd cups and saucers at epeciallylroduced prices. It is worth your while to call«and seo this crockery. Ljwrge' stocks of other kind of crockery also.' Riaoh and M’Lennan, Anzac square.... A young man at Lyttelton obtained £ls from a. widow, on promising to marry her. Ho failed to carry, out the contract, and was arrested •on a charge of false pretences. We are still having a good run on the Domo separator. This machine is fast gaining popularity throughout Otago and Southland. Riach and M'Lennan, square.—. ' ;

_To Coffee Connoisseurs.—Wo have landed ex Tainui a shipment of No. 1 Blue Moon* tain Jamaica, the finest coffee grown oa earth. 3e 6d per lb.—“ Dime's,” 32 Octagon, Dunedin....* ■ ■*■■■ The Rangitikei town of Bulls now has its own electric, lighting' plant _in ’ operation. The existing service—a suction gas one—has been purchased at £6OOO. . Oban ism (166).—The liquor question* “What’ll you have? Oban pre-war stao-j dard draught whisky for mine, the. oasis for dry districts.”... ' i■. . The rainfall at the week-end caused freshes in most of the rivers in Wairarapa and on the East Coast, but no damage is reported. . . , The price of softgoods and all classes ot drapery will be found in 1922 to very muoh lower than those ruhng. in 1921. Messrs A. F. Ohoyne and Co., Mosgiel, make this statement without fear of contradiction. Their stocks and prices prove it.... While a young man named Smith wm attempting to alight from a moving motor lorry returning to Oama|u from Kakanui on Tuesday evening, he_ fell; _and_ one of the wheels j>assed over his left hand, which was severely lacerated. . He was taken _ to Oamaru Hospital, where he is progressing satisfactorily. ~ For household and crib supplies—cool and refreshing—for holiday time festivities. Apply early.—Wm. Crossan, > “Waterloo,” Caversham.... • . , A Taranaki man connected with the dairying industry has received the foEowing cable from his London agents, (says the News). “Cheese prices better than, butter; £56 per ton. Advise butter factories make cheese.” This message is as meaning that'cheese prices are better tljan butter by 6d per lb butter-fat. , Hitchon’s bacon’s a very, good thing to take with you camping out. Fried with tomatoes it’s fit fdr a king, or with eggs' there isn’t a doubt. "Wholesale from factory, Milton, or Bray Bros., Dunedin agents. Retail, all grocers.... The new maternity ward at the Masterton hospital is to be opened this month. The ward was formerly used for military patients." - Take advantage of our reduced prices when making your holiday purchases. 'We have Christmas gifts most suitable dor yout friends, or for father, mother, sister, or brotheri" Everything at bedrock prices during December. —A.. F. Cheyne and Co., Mosgiel.... The Oroua County Council reduced the salaries and wages of its staff 10 per cent, on January 1. “I always use Kream'Corn Flour, ” says an experienced housekeeper, “it is so _ fresh and wholesome.” Try it." When ordering ask for “Kream.”—Milne, Bremner Ltd., wholesale agents, Dunedin.... > . The woollen'industry in Italy is at present suffering from over-production. Jpealera, wholesalers, and manufacturers have accumulated large stocks of goods, and production is reduced ,to a minimum. Tho people are waiting for,a fall in prices and. demand is limited solely to this finest special types of goods. The factories a lO working on an average three days a week. - Waters’ Chap Lotion makes the hands beautifully soft, smooth, and white. Bottles Is 6d; posted 2&. Obtainable only at Waters’ Pharmacy, 20 Princes street, Dunedin... , _■ ; 1 A surprise party recently visited a friend’s house in the. suburbs, arid spent i a most enjoyable time (states the Napier Telegraph). Part of the entertainment provided was a boxing match, in which a wellknown Napier citizen succeeded in flooring an equally well-known professional, but it was asserted that ■, the winner’s seconds adopted an unsportsmanlike procedure aftet the second round, and this accounted for. tho vigour of the third and last round. 'V.-. The Boxing Association has the matter in baud. Maize is grown in Australia with markea success, and - one of 'its; finest Products,' - “Kream Corn Flour,” is popularity with experienced housekeepers. Insist on “Kream” when ordering.—Milne, Bremner'Ltd., wholesale agents, Dunedin.... Archibald M'Ginnea, an A.B. on the Tairoa, at present at the Bluff, was admitted to the Southland Hospital on-Mon-day night, with a fractured thigh and ankle bone, 1 sustained through a fall in the afternoon. The Tairoa was the' flagship of the: regatta’end two crews from her had been creating some amusement by having a mock'race in *wo of the ship’s boats. M'Ginnes was assisting to swing one of the boats back into ite" place when he lost his hold and fell some distance, causing the injuries mentioned. He is reported to be making good progress. The price of softgoods ana all classes‘of drapery will be found in 1922 1 to bo very much lower than those ruling, in '1921. Messrs A. F. Cheyne and Co., ' Mosgiel, make this statement without fear of contradiction, Their stocks and prices prove it.... A' doubtful compliment to bachelor efficiency was modestly ■ given by a member of the Native School Teachers’ Association, when some allusion was made to possible culinary arrangements for the summer camp next year. “At one time in New Zealand I was teaching, and I learned to make two things, and they were the only two things my sister Would allow me 'to make when I visited her later in England; One was porridge and the other scones. ■ I tried to accomplish making bread, but it did not work out too well. The last loaf I mad© had to bo chopped up with an axe for tho fowls.” i Take “ Marshall’s ’’ when' you’re busy, excited, or fidgety; take Marshall’s when you’re blue. There’s staying power, energy, calmness, cheer in every drop of “Marshall’s.” One dose revives—a bottle renews.... * A particularly mean theft was perpetrated at Clifton road, Ponsonby, oii Sunday night, Vvheii some person stripped the plum trees belonging to the Soldiers' Orphans’ Homo. The ; trees are particularly good bearing ones; They were loaded with fruit, which was to have'been utilised for making jam for tho 50 orphans in the home. Several knowing buyers trom the city make a practice of ■'balling at James Gray and Sons wlren motoring through Milton.... , “There i£ jflenty of work to bo. had in the Shannon district—indeed, right down the line,” said a • Shannon farmer • to- a Manawatu Standard reporter. Men who were willing to work, he said, could ‘obtain employment quite easily if they loft the town. The trouble was that the majority of men nowadays would not work in tho country, and this fact was responsible for so much unemployment, which at this season of the year should not exist at all We cater tor the health of the community. Our dustproof van conveys meat direct from abattoirs to shops. without ika.t of germ infection.' Not only it the quality of tho best, but every precaution taken to keep it wholesome. —Barton and Trengrove.... Tho supply of fish is fairly plentiful in Auckland at present. The City Council’s trawler Cowan recently landed a good haul of 240 baskets T}io oatch,.: which mostly comprised schnappdr, was obtained in the vicinity of Canoe Rook, off Kawau Island. An English visitor, intimately connected with the fish industry in Britain, who recently arrived in -Auckland, stated that fish was cheaper in New Zealand at present than in any other part of the world, people were grumbling in Britain because they were paying Is per Ibior fresh, fish. , Noxol is tho concentrated extract of six! pounds of valuable medicinal plants. Only thoscTwho have used this groat remedy can realise how quickly it cures indigestion, oonstipation.'iiver and stomach disorders. 2s, at chemists and stores....