NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18917, 18 July 1923, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF

Over 1000 dogs were registered in Whakatane County last financial year, £132 10s being collected in fees. , Live-pigeon shooting has been condemned by the Auckland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The winning double is sure to bo Strachan s qatmeal stout and- Kaka a1e.... The Stratford Borough Council proposes to raise a loan of £I6OO for a memorial clock for the new post office. Tallow exported from Wanganui during the last 12 months totalled 1584 tons. The quantity exported last month was 250 tons. Chas. Htncfacliff, late of the Gridiron Hotel, wishes his numerous friends to know that no is now mine host. of the Prince of Wales, the house of comfort.... New Zealand’s Victoria Cross winners receive among them an annual grant of £7O. The sum of £450 is to be spent this year in advertising New Zealand in other countries. A suit of the best style, cut, and materials at £6 XOs. Let us save you a couple of guineas bn your next order.—G. n. Roberts, tailor, Stock Exchange.... The rainfall in the Martinborough district for the months of May and June exceeded 15in. V Sir John Salmond’s trip to the Disarmament Conference at Washington cost New Zealand £2942. If C RY Z and desire-increased turnover handle Barton and Trengrove’s small goods. Best in the dominion. Guaranteed freshly made daily. Liberal wholesale rates to storekeepers. —Manse street, Dunedin.... The modest sum of £2O is spent annually by the Government in the promotion, of the sale of New Zealand 'manufactures in local and outside markets. ■ This year’s estimates provided for an allowance of '"££oo for engine-drivers and firemen employed on the Riroutaka Incline. Last year £260 was voted and £IBB used. For children’s hacking cough. Woods. Great Peppermint Cure.... This year’s vote for the assistance of stranded New Zealanders to return to New Zealand is £IOO. Last year the vote was £7OO, and of this only £72 was expended. The Government is spending £250 this year in the collection and establishment of historical matter relating to the Maori race and the early history of New Zealand. Ladies’ heavy-weighty flannelette nightdresses, with round, square, or V-necks. Sale prices, 10s ,6d, 12s 6d, 14s fid, at Gray's (Ltd.), Milton..,. ' The discovery of a deposit of shale has been made on Mr Tippet’s farm at CHfden (reports the Orepuki Advocate).- A test by the M'Leod process of retorting gives an encouraging return in' crude oil. An information has been laid against a number of Chinese at Wairoa for getting their names /m to the electoral roll, without, it is alleged, the riecessary qualifications. The doctor’s prescription: “Tonic as before.” The tonic, it need scarcely bo explained,! was Willie Crossan’s best... ‘ A fire in a bedroom of a house at Auckland occupied .by an invalid caused the beams underneath to catch- fire through the bricks becoming overheated. The fire in the grate had been alight for some v days. Stretchers for use in case of necessity on outlying football grounds are to be procured by the Wellington Rugby Union. Putara (Eketahuna) has a record for excessive rainfall-—IOO inches in 12 months. A record for the past six years, taken by a Putara resident, was supplied to the Tarim a. Power Board.. Wisdom and experience dictate that Waters’s Canadian Cough Cure, be kept in tlie home. Price. Is 6d and 3s; postage 8d extra. Waters’s New Pharmacy, 20 Princes street, Dunedin.... Last, year the total omount . paid in compensation for cattle condemned by departmental inspectors was £12,987,- of which £12,972 was paid as half-value, and £ls as full value. In New Zealand it is estimated that_ there is ono motor-car for exactly 43 inhabitants. This is a higher ratio than in almost any country of the world except the United States and Canada. The comfort and nourishment in good coffee for breakfast, dinner, or supper, is , very noticeable these cold days. Bat be sure the coffee is “Bourbon.”... Present indications point to more prosperous times in the near future for Hawke’s Bay farmers (says the Waimrapa Age). It is stated by those in a position to know that the wool clip in the spring will produce one of the'best yields ever experienced in the province. \ At a meeting of the branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association_ a number of anonymous letters in connection with the employment of the Poppy Day scheme were ordered to be burnt without being read to the meeting. The best always cheapest, though it casts more. Barton and Trengrove’s famous sugar-cured bacon is the lafit word for breakfast. Best, therefore cheapest Rolls, ll|d; half rolls. Is; rashers, ls_ 2d.- i -Mon6e (and all branches), -Dunedin.... It is rumoured (says the Taranaki Herald) that the Danish dairy farmers,eakrmed at the fact that Now Zealand butter is realising as good or better prices than their own, in suite of the great advantage they possess in their proximity to the London market, contemplate sending a_ commission to New Zealand to see how it is done, with a view to adopting New Zealand methods of marketing. ! When you have Influenza ybu want the very beat medicine that it is possible to get. There is nothing to equal Marshall’s famous Influenza" Remedy (Concentrated) for cutting the worst attack short. Obtainable chemists and stores.... The claim advanced in Melbourne that a resident of Abbotsford is the first woman auctioneer in the world goes overboard with the announcement by the South Australian Treasury to-day that an auctioneer’s town license was granted to Miss Ethel Tealde, of Adelaide, on September 8,1921; Obanism (635) ; There is no need to order two gallons from us. We send a bottle just as smartly. No order is too small for the 5.H.8.R.... . , What is probably the best oat yield so far recorded this cast season (states the Southland News) is that from Mr James Brown’s farm at Oporo. Mr Brown threshed the splendid yield of 115 bushels to the acre. The oats are very heavy, weighing 44.451 b to the bushel measure. Jack and Jill went up the hill, But Jack came quickly down. For he had seen Hitchon’s factory, And he had a whole half-crown....