NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18511, 23 March 1922, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF

A Hawke’s Bay station, together with its stock and implements, has been sold for £40,000. Weasels are reported to be playing havoc amongst fowls in the district (says the Clutha Leader) On Sunday morning two of these animals were seen scampering down Clyde street, one of them dragging the remnants of a fowl with him. M’Gavin’s special production, “ oat malt stout,' is generous, refreshing, and strengthening. A superior table beverage.... A Timaru Post reporter was informed that on Mr W. Cramvell’s place at Washdyke, 106 potatoes were picked from one root, many of the tubers weighing 21b apiece! The variety is Bod Flourball. With the object of preventing fraud at the Napier »Park races last week, all total isator tickets presented for payment were, subjected to an acid test. The scheme worked well, alt tickets presented responding by turning pink under the influence of the acid. Try Stevens’s sale for winter coats. Try Stevens's sale for dc?ss stuff. Try Stevens’s sale for ladies’ underwear. Try Stevens’s new goods, sale prices.... A Patea resident, whilst walking near the edge of the cliffs at the Hoads, picked up a tunic button with the crest of the ,18th Royal Irish Regiment on it. This regiment was camped in the vicinity some 60 years ago. Regulations under the Census and Statistics Act are gazetted, lequiring every owner of bees to furnish annually, on request, to the Government Statistician information with regard to the quantity of honey and beeswax produced within the year. . Auckland, Wellington, apd Christchurch envy Dunedin its renowned “Waterloo,” with Wiliie Crossan as host.... As showing the effect'of the land tax in Now Zealand a Palmerston North resident told a Manawatu Times representative that he knew of a property of 1800 acres of pastoral country near Feilding on which the rates and taxes amounted to £692 per annum. As an illustration of heavy motor traffic caused by high railway freights which is seriously damaging Manawatu County roads, Cr Barber reported (says the Manawatu Times) that m one day 52 heavy lorries, in addition to a number permanently engaged in carting flax, had traversed Whirokino road. Country stores supplied with our famous small goods St reduced wholesale rates. Barton, Trengrove, Dunedin.... Some idea of the heavy losses which are suffered by large city shopkeepers through shoplifting was given by the evidence at the Central Police Court, Sydney, of a shop detective from Mark Foy’s, Limited. He stated that his firm found it necessary to make an allowance of £2OOO annually for such losses. The Wairarapa Age’s travelling reporter states that a buyer secured 4000 fat sheep in the Lower Valley last week, and just about cleaned the district out. Shrewd dealers predict that prices will harden during the next couple of months, and that the rickety market experienced of late will assume some form of stability. What’s the matter, old boy? Why are you as cross as a bear? Liver out of order, eh? Well get some Dr Crossland's Noxol. It will fix you; it’s a great medicine, and it cures. 2s, at chemists and stores.... Weaner steers these days are not worth rearing (says an exchange). At the Levin stock sale last week a pen was sold for 9s—the only bid. “Well, that is the deaths knell for next year’s bull calves,” said the’ owner disgustedly. “I wish I bad knocked these on the head long ago.” The Marten Dairy Company _ has been advised that its Matakana shipment of coloured cheese averaged £5 per owt. The directors have decided to continue the payment of Is per lb for butter-fat. Already exports for 1921-22 have exceeded those of last season by 250 crates. “Articlin’’ is the most effective cure for superfluous hair. It leaves the part absolutely hairless, does not encourage fresh growth, easily applied. Price, 2s bottle. Posted, 2s 4d. 'Waters’s New Pharmacy, 20 Princes street (opp, Bristol)..,.

The Cromwell telephone system is to some extent to be remodelled and added to (says the Argus.) A departmental staff arrived in Cromwell last week and will be engaged hero for the greater part-of a year, placing the present telephone wires underground, and erecting the line to Ripponvale and other outside districts. We are cash buyers of porkers and baconers Send your pigs to Barton and Trengrove, Dunedin A curious request was received at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board, when the children of a certain country echoed petitioned for the removal of their beadmaster. “Something in the npture of a revolution?” inquired a member, aniidst some laughter. “Request declined,” commented the chairman (Mr E. C. Banks), as the board proceeded with other business. Bourbon Coffee! A blend of true hillgrown coffee and finest Canterbury chicory. If “ Bourbon ” be not obtainable from your grocer, send direct. —“ Durie’s,” 32 Octagon, Dunedin... Mr John Edie, M.P., has received a communication from the acting PostmasterGeneral advising that authority had been given for a telephone exchange to be established at Clydevale, and a trunk telephone line to be erected at Clydevale and Balclutha. Unfortunately, funds are not available for the work to be gone on with now, and nothing definite can be stated when it will be proceeded with The “Renown” carries whisky of renown —Buchanan’s Black and White. Connoisseurs say there is none better.... People well advanced in years, but who, in the evening of their lives, have ventured into were prominently in evidence among the applicants for aid at last week's meeting of the Relief Committee of the Auckland Hospital Board. The oldest of these applicants was over £0 years of age A number of applicaion* foe coal reminded the committee that winter was again approaching. ■A boon to housewives. Bon Jelly Crystals make the perfect dessert with a_ minimum of trouble and expense. Purest* ingredients used. Ask your grocer for a packet. Whole sale. Ruabon Co. (tel 449).... There is more than & suspicion abroad amongst business men who are trying to run their business on efficient and economical lines that the Railway Department is trying to influence local bodies in the southern portion of this island to rule motor traffic off the race of their portion of the earth (says the Feilding Star). Thus it is happening that the restrictions placed upon big motor vehicles are becoming more and morte drastic. \ Careful enquiry reveals the fact that “Redmill” Cocoa is gaining popularity. Try “Redmill.” Milne _*Bremner, Ltd., wholesale agents, Dunedin.... A few days ago (says the Northern Advocate) a Whangarei man went to an accountant’s office to do some business in connection with income tax returns. Suddenly be took _ his watch from his pocket, glanced at it, and exclaimed: “Good heavens, I’ve got to be at the courthouse in two minutes to be married. I nearly forgot.” He rushed off, intimating that he would come back later to complete the taxation business. The window is the index of the home. Lovely designs in artistic draping* are being shown at James Gray and Sbns (Ltd.), Milton.... Exception is being taken by _ fanners to an increase of id a IK in the price of phosphorised pollard, supplied by the Department of Agriculture for poisoning rabbits (says the New Zealand Herald). The matter was discussed by the provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union, when several members asserted that the increase was unwarranted, as the price of pollard had not been increased. It was decided to write to the Department of Agriculture protesting against the increase. Last year w© supplied horse covers to farmers from North Canterbury to the end of Southland. Why? Because our price was 10s to 12s cheaper than others. This year we are doing the same. Covers are made of No. 5 American duck, Mt-lined, double-sewn down the back, leather washers under rivets, etc., and the canvas waterproof. Fuller particulars on application. Kiach and M'Lennan, Dunedin.... Some days ago (remarks the Marlborough Express) the engine at a Blenheim dairy factory broke down, and the engineer, by way of a joke, asked a curious onlooker if he would mind going over to the timber mill and asking for the loan of a bucket of revolutions! The messenger departed cheerfully on his errand, but returned to announce regretfully that the timber yard people had run right out of revolutions, having lent their last bucketful to the abattoirs! Obanism (230). The nicht was eoorse, the. wind was swell, the Leith was runnin’ wide. As we crossed the water at Willowbonk on the way to the Oban H0te1.... Great rents were torn in the mountains along the Karamea road by the recent heavy rains (says the Westport News). Lofty trees were carried holua bolus down the mountain side and stood up as straight as ever on the ground they have earned with them to a lower level. In another place the debris has fairly crunched up enormous black birch and other growths of the forest. One big one liee like a bridge over the road, at a height that does not impede traffic. During March white flannelette Is to 2s 6d; white sheeting, 2s lid; wire twist shirting, 2s lid; Axminster hearth rugs, 16s 6d; bleached linen tabling, 6s lid ; check glass cloth, Is 9d; crimson and green . art serge, wide, 6s lid; navy serge, 3s 6d, 4s lid, 5s lid.—A. F. Cheyne and Co.. Mosgiel.... Writes the Auckland correspondent to the Now Zealand Times;“A pitiful sight did Philip Percival Gardiner, a one-time favourite of 'the vaudeville stage, make when he appeared in the dock, before Mr W. R. M‘Kean, S.M., charged with being idle and disosderly, without sufficient means of support. He looked feeble and weary, having lest all his old-time dappemess. In applying for a week’s remand to have Gardiner medically examined, the police stated that he had been going round town with a woman and three children.” It wasn’t a tragedy exactly but it might have been fraught with grave danger to the skin. “Diadem” Barilla Soap was asked for and a common soap sent. Always see that “Diadem” is supplied. Milne Bremner, Ltd., wholesale agents, Dunedin..;. The advent of an elephant along Quay street recently caused not a little excitement, (says the Auckland Star). Followed by a crowd of small boys, and the interested gaze of many spectators, the animal, with its * rider perched on its head, appeared indifferent to the concern it caused among the commercial equine* in the vicinity. A Chinaman, making a leisurely progress along one of the wharves, received a rude awakening, as his_ horse bolted, and for some time he was quite unable to exercise control over its antics. As the Celestial was unaware of the proximity of the elephant, he appeared decidedly mystified as to the reason of his rapid whirl along the waterfront. “Marshall’s Fospherine” is a direct nerve tonic. A few drops in water and, _ hey, presto! gone are "blues” and weariness, gone that “on edge ’’ feeling. Up go the drooping spirits, back come energy and •• pep,’’ and all because the impoverished nervous system has drunk up nourishment as a blotter absorbs ink. All chemists and stores.... The wheat yield in the Moreen district is reported to be not as good as it was last year (says the Waimate Advertiser). One farmer who threshed 90 bushels to the acre in 1921 estMiates the yield this year from his 100-acre crop to average about 60 bushels to the acre. The average yield in the Morven area last year was in the vicinity of 40 bushels, but this season an average of only 20 bushels is expected. Some crops have threshed as low as 15 bushels, it is reported. The low yield is attributed to the frost at Christmas time. The oat crop, however, is reported to be fairly good Beautiful sirloin roasts, 6sd; prime ribs, s£d; buttock steak, 6id; sausages (Provincial), 4lbs for Is; mince. 41bs for Is; bacon (prime sugar-oured), la Id by the piece, la 2d in rashers. Country orders promptly attended to. Barton, Trengrove, batchers. Manse street.... It is said that there is not much strength either in the whisky or the beer drunk in London. The doings of a man at King’s Cross, who refused to pay his fare, and had to be removed from the top of a tramcar, nrove the contrary. He is over six feet high and so powerful in his cups that the first policeman who tackled him was bowled over and put on the sick list, the second was badly mauled, then there was a general dust-up on the roadway, after the obdurate passenger and a number of people handling nim tumbled together from the footboard and sprawled all over the place. Ultimately the man was strapped to an ambulance and carried to the cells. Ordered a month’s imprisonment, he remarked sadly, “I have no recollection of the The rooster from the barnyard heralds day. The busy housewife sings a merrv lay. She knoweth that it pleaseth well her man If Hitohon’s bacon’s frying in the pan..*.