NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18465, 28 January 1922, Page 20

NEWS IN BRIEF

The now Feilding Technical Collegeand Agricultural High School will be opened next week. The electric capstans, ordered from Home by the Timarn Harbour Board,, for the Timaru wharves,'; have arrived. A cold in the head is most distressing. Buchanan’s “Black and White” will relievo , hjbtnb’iliaa' at New Plymouth jtO‘ accommodate 50nflnm. The cost is*in the vidnity' of; £126,000.‘ >• “ Eighty, in the, shade,” mtk the official temperature registered at the Albert Park Observatory, Auckland, on Sunday last; which was the hottest day there of this summer so far, ' v , A Client has asked uS to dispose of hie Ford oar, 1920 model, newly paipted, guaranteed in first-class Condition, two ignitions, spot light. Miller types, oversize on back wheels with all spares. Price, £2OO. Riaoh and McLennan, Anzoo square.... “The amount involved is 15s, but they are defending it,” remarked counsel at the Napier Magistrate's Court the other day. “ Evidently,” he added, “ there is & big principle at stake.” * ■ The Wanganui Chronicle says that Monday, January 30, is the date fixed for tho resumption of 'railway traffic over the Whenuakura River. The Patea Press, however, thinks it will be three weeks yet-, before it can bo resumed. Our men’s working boots. No. 045, hand made, nailed and pegged with bed and toe places, is the greatest value in Dunedin Price, only 28s 6d, post free. Riach and M’Lennan, Auzac square.... The annual saving in coal made on the present electrified train services in Victoria, os compared with steam, is estimated at £58,000 a year. A ,inan who suffered from hallucinations and who was lodged in the lockup at Thames asked a reporter who visited him in tho cell for a cheque for £2OOO. After surf bathing use “Diadem” Barilla soap. It enables the elan to retain its original beauty. Make sure it is “Diadem.” Milne, Bremncr, Ltd., wholesale agents, Dunedin.... At a special meeting of the Mataura Borough Council, held for the purpose of fixing the half-holiday for the year, it was decided that the half-holiday should remain as at present on Wednesday. To Coffee, Connoisseurs.—We have landed ex Tainai a shipment of No. 1 Blue Moan, tain Jamaica, tho finest coffee grown on earth. 3s 6d per lb.—“Durie’s,” ,52 Octagon Dunedin.... There are some very heavy crops of oats and wheat in and around tho Wyndham and Edendale districts (says the Mataura Ensign). With a continuation of good weather • reaping should soon start, and some heavy yields should be recorded. Turnip crops are doing well, and an abundance of winter feed is assured. Thomson and Co., Moray place (opposite First Church) Just arrived a largo and choke selection of granite and marble monuments. ’Phone 2296.... j About £ls was recently charged for a truck of skins and tallow from Tapanui to Dunedin (states the Courier). This, with commission at S per cent, made 20 per cent, of the gross value of the goods sent. Petrol railage costs 3s §d a case, and other goods in proportion M’Gavin's special production, “ oat malt stout.” is generous, refreshing, and strengthening. A superior table beverage,., k According to a London contemporary, tho “swoose ” —that curious hybrid between a swan and a goose, bred on a Norfolk farm—has a successor. A bird has been bred which is a cross between a hen and a turkey, and is to be known as the “Churkey.” _ “A hungry man is an angry man.” No need to bo hungry. Hitchon’s bacon is cheap at tho price asked for it-. Ask your grocer for Hitohon’s. > Wholesale, Bray, Ltd,, Dunedin.... Under the microscope the organism of plague looks like a boat, remarked Dr W. F. Findlay (District Health Officer), in the course of an address in Wellington., The organism was somewhat prettily stained, and dark stains at each end added to its boatlike appearance. “Tastes” differ till they meet at tho “Waterloo” 1 All agree that Willie Croasan’s liquids are tho best.... Better estimates of the damage done by the Omoana cloudburst have now been received by the Eltham Countv Council. The county engineer states it _ will cost between £SOOO and £BOOO to repair the main roads alone, and the cost of repairing all the roads in tho devastated area would not be over-estimated at £20,000. ■ We lead, others follow. Bacon (in the piece), Is Id; sliced, Is 2d.—Only at Barton and Trengrovo’s.... • The milk supply at district factories has gone down slightly of late (says the Mataura Ensign). Tho Brydone_ Factory is now receiving 4000 gallons daily, and up to the present this factory has manufactured approximatelv 180 tons 0f cheese. The supply at the Mataura Factory is at preseat 9000 gallons daily, and up to the present 1 some 360 tons of cheese have been made. Harvesting requirements are obtainable at most reasonable prices At James Gray ■ and Sons, Milton....

All previous loading records were broken when the overseas liner Maimoa wont _to Tokomaru Bay. A big loading was carried out in short order, the best day’s work t seeing the handling of 12.800 lamb carcases in one day. Two lighters were engaged and each , did three trips during a day of 15 hours, from 8 in the morning till 11 at night. ' . Buchanan’s “Black and "White" oval pints again on the market Great whisky.... “So far on I know there is not_ the snobbery in the dominion that, there is at Home,’’ said the Bey. J. Lamb Harvey at Bt. Andrew’s Church, Auckland, when speaking on the subject of “Star Dust and Snobbery.” Many a county family at Home, in the eyes of the cottagers on' the estate, might appear to be very important people, but compared with the great things of the universe how poor and email they were. "May we never get into a bod cause and may we never fly from a good one.” A 1922 toast' for Buchanan’s “Black and White.”... A new development has occurred in connection with Hie oil industry in New Plymouth. A syndicate comprising business men—all of New Plymouth with one exception'—has purchased the rights over the Blenheim bore, and it is stated they intend to exploit the boro with a view to obtaining oil at about the 2000 ft level, whore oil is known to exist, and which was formerly passed over in order to roach, the lower depths. Keep marsh all's Fosphonno always near you. Take a dose when over-tired with work, hurry, or excitement. . It is a wonderful phosphorus! food that bolsters up ( tho nerves with now life and force, It’o - a genuine restorative and revitaliser. Ghemuts and stores.... A strange story of a business settlement is told from a township no groat distance from the Hauraki Plains (says an exchange). Two partners in a business quarrelled, , and one off eyed the other a certain sum to sell out his portion of the business. This sum could not be found, so it , was agreed that they should fight, and [the winner would have full possession of the business. They fought, but after a fierce encounter , the result was a draw. The two men, it is also reported, are stall partners. A helpful companion m the seaside cottage—“ Handy Jack." Makes the wash-up easy. - Ask your grocer. Milne, Bremner, Ltd., wholesale' 4 agents, Dunedin.... Lade of a school is a serious drawback to a settlement and the case of the Poroutawhajo district woo put emphatically to the ■Wellington Education Board by Mr C. J. Harkness who said they had been battling for a for three years and in the meantime children bad been seat away to convents and _ outside schools. “This sort of thing,” said Mr Harknees, i“moam breaking up the district, if ’it (continues. ” The, department announced that accommodation would receive cantideration with other urgent works. A true delicacy. Guaranteed pure and . wholesome. Best cane sugar, pure fruit juices. Bon Jelly Crystals. Ask your grocer for them. Wholesale: Ruabon Prop. Co.. 748 King street ,(tql. 449).... The now wharf oat at the port of New Plymouth has been advanced to a" total length of 6SOft t according to reports on dragging operations read at the last meeting of the Harbour Board. Commenting on the work, Mr O. E. Bellringer said ho thought' the board oould congratulate itself on the excellent result achieved. Ho* thought it was a big strike of lock that the dredge should have got through the hard formation so well, and it was highly satisfactory that! 580 of' the 900 ft cot hod now been dons. The price of softgoods and all (dosses of drapery will be found in 1922 to bo very much lower than those ruling ~in 192 L Messrs A. F. Cheyno and Co., Mosgiel, . make this statement without fear of contradiction. Their stocks and prices prove it.... ■ The Sydney correspondent of the Auckland .Observer -writes; “Ons of the local papers is laughing at. Takapuna for its bathing restrictions. - The Telegraph invites * some of the councillors who have ruled that members of the Royal Life-Saving Club should wear overcoats when not in the Water, to come across,, to Sydney and see the way they do it at Bondi. _ Actually, Sydney would send Tokapuna Wind in the matter of bathing costumes. You see people here motoring up Pitt street in bathing clothes, and it is common to board a tram, four mites from the beach, and find people travelling this distance in their scant -eea dress.” . • it is wonderful stuff for the Ever. You. will often hear these remarks by those -who have cured their indigestion, oonstipation, and liver troubles with Dr Crossland’s marvellous .medicine) Noxol Get a bottle. today if yon suffer. 2a, at chemists and stores...., , , A', 'lions to 'uhpresS' ihjhds' of 'BfSSWdflnq the' df tne' loes- 'of life , in - the' Great Wtiri The official list; of British dead, taking the Empire, , was nearly a million. Marching in fours ,at intervals of a yard, these dead soldiers would. form ' a column over 120 miles long, or from Paddington to beyond Bristol Marching past in fours at the rate of four miles on hour they would take oveir. 30, hoars to pass a given point If 100 of their bodies had been placed in a railway tnlck, and 40 trucks made into a trainload, it would have required about '220 trains to carry them away. This is the oost of war to one of the fighting nations, and IS nations were deep in it > \ve cater for the health of the community. Our dustproof van conveys meat direct from abattoirs to shops without fear of germ infection. Not only is the quality of the best, but every precaution taken to keepi it wholesome.—Barton and Tron’^ppovo.... Mr lan Monro, a young farmer of Bannockburn, is said to have invented a valuable accessory to the farmer’s binder (says the Mataura Ensign). It fits on to any binder, collects all the sheaves, builds them into a stook on a platform, which is about 2ft 6in from the ground, then the stook is dropped, the distance which it drops odds to its firmness, .thus enabling the stock to withstand windy weather. Touching on the invention, a correspondent writes as follows: “When it is taken into consideration that there are usually _ two or three men following a reaper and binder placing the sheaves in position, it will be seen that a great saving of labour should result. /The device is said to be capable of stocking whatever a binder can tie. For the adjustment of the stooker on extrahorse is required.” Obanisnj (186): The worker _ cams ms cheering glass as well as any ither Wees; ■ Oban draft, he wants, not empty gas; so then supply him. The man is naethin’ but an ass that would deny him. Oban Hotel. - “If you come in here I api going out,” emphatically declared bankrupt at a meet 4 ing of creditors in Dahnovirke (sayo the News), when a certain creditor took his seat. Bankrupt immediately rose and prepared to leave the room. ‘You axe required at this meeting and cannot go away,” said the District Official Assignee, “and you wifi be given fair play.” On the advice of his counsel bankrupt resumed -■ his chair. Throughout the proceedings it was evident that bankrupt and the creditor referred to (who was a wages creditor) were not on the best of terms, and occasionally sharp personal recriminations were hurled at one another, the other creditors present wondering if they were going to witness a second Carpentier-Oook exhibition. Hap--pily the District Official Assignee, with splendid tact, was able to preserve order, and the meeting concluded without serious bother. . Complexion protection is assured by using Waters’ Vi-Oatta Face Cream. It counteracts hot suns and parching wind. Jam 2s; posted 2s 6d.—Waters’ New pharmacy, 20 Princes street, Dunedin.,.. Some idea of the extent of the wheat harvest in the Ashburton County in the present reason may be gained from a special return prepared by the Assistant wheat Controller (Mr A. W. ' Smith)'- at the request of the Ashburton. Guardian. The total area in wheat is 69,096 acres, comprising 50,770 acres of Tuscan, 14.438 acres of Hunters, and 3883 acres of Velvet or Pearl The number of *growora in the county is approximately 850. An average yield for the dominion is about 28 to 30 bushels per acre, and, taking the lower ■ figure, it is found that the total 1 harvest ' from the Ashburton County may be expectod to bo about 2,000,003 bushels. Taken at 5s 6d per bushel, the cash return thus works out at £550,000. _ The estimated ereain wheat in the dominion this season is 363,000 acres, so that 'the Ashburton County accounts for almost one-fifth of the total acreage.