NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18763, 17 January 1923, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF

Five ladies from Australia who are attending the Science Congress that is being held in Wellington walked from Tiltham, and successfully negotiated Mount Egmont. Not ordinary cornflour! Kream Brand Cornflour is richly delicious. It makes cakes light, fluffy, or crisp.... Noticing that bees were always about his cottage, a man at Islcworth, Middlesex, searched beneath the door and found 2cwt of honey. Coffee connoisseurs! We still have some Blue Mountain Jartraica, 3s 6d per lb, the finest coffee grown on earth.—“ Dune’s,’’ coffee specialists, 32 Octagon, Dunedin.... A visiting angler naturally thinks well of the Oreti (says the Winton Record). He cast his line into the stream near Lady Barkly the other day, and landed a 9ilb trout, and later in the afternoon hooted a Silb fish. Our men’s heavy kip working boot, with heel and too plate, nailed, pegged, and riveted, is the very boot to meet the present climatic changes in the weather. A Clinton farmer mentioned to us a few days ago that this boot had given him the greatest satisfaction he had had for years. Price, 28s 6d, post free. Size, please.—Riach and M’Lennnn.... The Mataura Dairy Factory Company (Ltd.) paid out for December milk, when the sum of £7475 was distributed amongst the suppliers. The payment represents Is 4d per lb for butter-fat. The Tuturau Dairy Factory Company (Ltd.) paid out £1174 to suppliers for December milk at Is per lb for butter-fat. The newest always in ladies’ silk jumpers at the Big Store. Cbme and see them. Gray and Sons, Milton.... The hay crop in North Taranaki will be a good one this season (remarks an exchange). There is an increasing inclination on the part of farmers to go in for ensilage, which as a -winter fodder is considered to be excellent. The joy of food is flavour. Kream Brand Cornflour cakes and desserts are flavour-full and g00d.... A man named Robert Ferguson Hay, alias Healy, has been arrested in Hamilton on a charge of stealing a motor cycle at Rangiotu, near Palmerston North, ns far back as April, 1918. Accused was remanded to appear at Palmerston North. “Noxol” is Nature’s own gift to suffering humanity. Use it for all troubles of the stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels. Splondid for indigestion in any form. At all chemists and stores. 2s 6d per bottle, containing one month’s supply.... Advice of a fishing launch being missing was received by the New Plymouth Collector of Customs the other night. The Secretary of Marine telegraphed: “Advise masters of vessels to keep a sharp look out for the fishing launch Pat Marley. which left Wairau bar for Port Underwood on January 3. and which has not since been beard of.” Visit the Provincial Hotel bottle store. Dunedin. Best liquor, best prices, and best attention from Maurice Goughian.... “We are going to pot the wages out of him in spite of anything this time,” was the statement made bv Mr W. J. Joyce, counsel for the plaintiffs in the Dobson mine wages claim case (says the Grey River Argus). He was referring to one of the directors then out of town. A countless number of tempting uses for Kream Brand Cornflour. It makes wholesome. toothsome dishes,... A Christchurch sportsman reports that Atlantic salmon are well acclimatised at the headquarters rf the Waiau, in the Te An-au district. Fish up to 101 b were taken on the fly. They are well acclimatised, and exceedingly plentiful. Eleven were counted in one pool. The only drawback is the fact that the district is rather inaccessible, a long way from civilisation. A first-class Tailor is MacLeod MncGillivray, Rattrnv street (opp. D.1.C.)..,. A young lady, with her mother, was with friends on a mountain tour. Although abstemious she had been persuaded to take a couple of cocktails about half a. hour before dinner. Just as dinner was about to ba served, feeling thirsty, she poured out a glass of water and was drinking it when her mother severely remarked; “My dear. I thought you knew better than that. Don't von know that you should never mix your drinks?” This tnonlh special value is offered in ladies' hosiery, which comprises lisle, silk and all wool cashmere. We have all shades and you will find the prices right. Fast colour black hose, fine quality. 2s lid pair A. F. Cbeyne and Co, Mosg>el. Sport is gone in for extensively in South Africa,” stated Mr Hobbs, who recently relurnod to the dominion after an abeence of 20 years. “You know what the footballers can do, and you are reading in the cables how the cricketers are playing against the Englishmen—a team superior to the one in New- Zealand at present; whilst the secondary schools athletic records eclipse the Australian and New' Zealand track records.” Beautifully mellowed in Buchanan’s Blaou. and White are all the whisk- virtues that excel.. . There has been some activity among cheese buyers in Taranaki during the past week. One factory in the Stratford district is reported to have turned down the buyer’s offer, and given his firm a chance to "do business at 9id and lOd for January and February production. One company closed at 9d for delivery in February, f.o b.. New* Plymouth, and it is understood that the same firm closed with Hawera and Eltham companies on practically the same basis.

Pigs. Pigs. Pigs. We are cash buyer* of baconers and porkers. Send your pigs to Barton and Trengrove. Dunedin.... “The trouble with the miners in the South African strike,” said Mr Barton Hobbs, when in conversation with a Standard reporter at Palmerston North, “was that they all used dynamite at their work, and when the fighting occurred they took to making bombs constructed of jam tins filled with dynamite and old nails. Much damage was done in this way as thi ‘bombs’ were particularly harmful and scattered like a shower of shrapnel when they exploded.” Obanism (479). —“ Safe as a hunted wolf in his lair.” All wines and spirits are hist as safe. Wo zealously safeguard our Big Rep u ta t ion.—Oban H0te1.... It would appear that a gang of burglar? is operating in Palmerston North. Several daring thefts have lately been committed (states the Christchurch Sun’s correspondent). During the absence of Mr and Mrs (J. Allen, of Main Street East, from their home, burglars entered and removed table and dessert knives and forks, tea spoons, broad forks, butter knives, jam spoons, table napkins, tablecloths, quilts, bath towels, stockings, underwear, bedroom mats, new clothing, an.d pillow-cases. The total value of the loot from that house is £4O,

Such fulness of flavour in Buchanan’s Black and White is possibly only to a whisky that is perfect....

Extreme satisfaction at the result of the wool sale at Wanganui was expressed by a New Plymouth broker to a Daily News reporter. “It is a wonderfully good sale, and shows an advance in prices of IJd to 2d even on the sale held at the end of November.” he said. “Wool is up to 10}d, which is more than the pre-war price, whilst some wool, up till recently considered practically unsaleable, brought up to 8d a lb. The sale certainly shows that we can get pre-war prices to-day for our wool.”

Clarke’s English Effervescent Liver and Kidney Saline refreshes, invigorates. A pleasant healthful drink. Prices, Is 6d and 2s 6d; posted, 6d extra. Waters’s New Pharmacy, 20 Princes street. Dunedin ...

Considerable annoyance and uneasiness has been caused for several nights at Morrinsville through an individual knocking up residents in the early hours of the morning; (says the New Zealand Herald), and giving an account of a sister who was said to be dying. This was preliminary to a request for a little whisky or brandy. In connection with the matter, a man l giving his name as Claken. was arrested and brought before the Police Court, when he was sentenced by Mr C. M. G-ummer, J.P.. to a month’s imprisonment on a charge of vagrancy.

"What's the use of worrying?” We eater for the purses of every class in the comVnunily. You can be sure of getting the utmost value for your money. Primest quality at lowest *possible price is our motto. So “hurry” to Barton and Trongrove’s...

In order to give their employees an idea of what the timber industry is in New Zealand (states the Star), the Auckland Sawmillers’ Association have issued free tickets during the last few days to a local picture theatre, where a film is being exhibited depicting scenes from the time the timber is obtained from the bush till it la ready for use. So far 1500 have availed themselves of the generosity of the association.

Always keep Ozone handy. This pleasant effervescing friut-flavoured health salt is the ideal family medicine for all stomach disorders. At all the best stores at popular price. Is 6d. Wholesale: E.uabon C 0....

During the course of conversation at Wanganui, Mr G. Cook. Government Wool Instructor, stated that in every part of New Zealand he had visited this season there was an abundance of feed and also some very fine grain crops. He was advising farmers wherever he went not to let the feed go to waste, but to save it where possible for hay. Even if not required during the present winter, it might be handy on some other occasion.

Coffee We still have some Blue Mountain Jamaica, 3s; 6d per lb, the finest coffee grown on earth.—“ Durie’s,” coffee specialists, 52 Octagon, Dunedin.... ' For many months past (says the Wanganui Chronicle) the small steamer Waitangi has been a familiar sight reclining on a sandbank in the Patea River. Built at Grangemouth in the Old Country, the Waitangi was in the Australian coastal trade many years ago under the name of the Banks Peninsula. Later she was acquired by the Northern Steamship Company and traded out of Auckland, but an appetite for coal brought her into disfavour. Now the Waitangi is a familiar sight on the Patea waterfront, but it is rumoured that she will shortly go into commission again.

The taste of ordinary whisky heightens one’s appreciation of a whisky extraordinarily superior. Buchanan’s Black and White....

It is said (asserts an exchange) that on a certain railway station in this country the following directions were printed; ‘‘Hereafter when trains from opposite directions are approaching each other on separate lines, drivers will be required to bring their respective trains to a dead halt before the point of meeting, and bo careful not to proceed till each train has passed the other.” Some clay Manaia residents may have opportunities for watching the solution of this w-onderful problem of passing whilst not proceeding. Meanwhile they will be able to study the still more difficult problem of pushing forward their own town whilst they deliberately pass it by. Of all the jelly crystals on the market Marshall’s Jellies were the chosen ones for the “ Prince's Trip” right through New Zealand, because they are as pure and as good as you can make them. Ask for M*r-, shell's Jellies....

The unusual sight of a farmer rounding up his cattle by motor car was witnessed by a number of passengers by the Main Trunk express (North Island) on a recant afternoon. All the manoeuvres of an experienced stock horse were performed by this- unusual steed, as the farmer described an erratic course over the paddock in pursuit of the lagging stock, while impetus was given by a series of discordant notes on the horn, which did excellent duty as a whip. One passenger, commenting upon the farmer’s efforts, suggested that the installation of a series of arc lamps in the poultry yard should be adopted by this modern man to spur the fowls to further effort. , Country stores supplied at special rates wilh our famous small goods; freshly made daily. Barton and Trengrove, butchers and pork butchers.... “Domestic troubles” are responsible for many of the ills which assail humanity (says the Taranaki Daily News), and the term is apparently becoming an all-embrac-ing one. Recently an employee of a certain Taranaki local_ body applied to his foreman for a fortnight’s holiday, alleging as an excuse that he had domestic troubles hanging over him, and consequently could not work. The foreman lent a sympathetic ear, and readily granted leave. A fortnight later the employee went back anfl quietly resumed his duties after having served 10 days in durance vile at the expense of his Majesty’s Government, a penalty imposed by a. magistrate for the troubled one's failure to pay a debt. A sincle fact is worth a shipload of argument. Go to Wullie Crossan's, Caversham, if vou want'the best. .. . The little New Zealand penguin, whicn is almost as much fish as bird, for some unaccountable reason, usually places its nest high up. In some of the islands of the Pelorus* and. Queen Charlotte Sounds districts the nests of the penguin have been found at altitudes in the vicinity of 1000 ft. It is thought that the penguin makes nightly visits to the water for food for its young. This is a strenuous performaiice for° a small bird which cannot fly and is such an ungainly walker. Parties of campers who have been unfortunate enough "to pitch their tents in the route of penguins will find that the birds will not go round, but will invariably come through. Go steadily forward. Do not doubt or fear, Dine on Hitchon’s bacon Throughout, the livelong year....

VARICOSE ULCERS. -• Six years of suffering from Varicose Ulcers; hospital; months of enforced rest; then V'arox Treatment ; work resumed; cured m a few weeks. No more pain.” Hundreds of testimonials like this. Write Ernest Healey, Chemist. Foxton, or see Dunedin Agent, Nurse Srrickett, 11 Jellicoo crescent, Kaikorai, 7 to 9 p.m., Mondays and Wednesdays.—Advt.

An Antwerp message says that when the Banish steamer Eyabcrg had landed 20 crates of eggs, the pile suddenly collapsed, making a gigantic omelette of 5000. eggs. The owner decided upon an immediate sale by auction, and all the housewives in the district hurried to the scene to buy.