NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18951, 27 August 1923, Page 12

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tho ordinary revenue of the Bluff Harbour Board for July was £4686, compared with £5210 for, July, 1922, a decrease of £524.

As exemplifying the extent of tho motor traffic in Oamaru, there are no fewer than. 51 petrol stores registered in the borough.

A suit of the best style, out, and materials at £6 10s. Let us save you a,, couple of guineas on your next order. —G. o. Roberts, tailor. Stock Exchange.... During tho month of July the Palmerston North municipal buses carried 35 ’3l ■passengers, travelling 8730 miles. Tho revenue derived for the period was £4745s

“Everlasting drudgery and bankruptcy is the result of keeping scrub herds,” said Mr Ross, of the Dairy Division at Enfield recently. Relief is quickly given by application of Waters’s Chilblain Ointment.' Is 6d, posted Is 9d. Try it Waters’s Now Pharmacy, 20 Princes street .

During July four overseas vessels, five intercolonial, and 21 coastal totalling 37,515 tons, entered the port of Bluff. Compared with July, 1922, this represents an increase of 10,378 tons. The wheat crops -are alreadv showing above the ground in some parts of the Oamaru district (states the North Otago Times). Spring sowing will shortly be in full swing. More bargains at Grays’. Milton: Ladies gaberdine and rubber raincoats. Sale prices, 29s 6d and 39s 6d.... The Government officer to handle onosBum skins in Wanganui, stamped 1575 in July and 2399 this month (states an exchange).* The season for killing has closed, but a large number of skins have still to come to hand. On each skin Is is collected. So far back as 1871, Hutton, the Jvmv Zealand naturalist, said: “The komako. or hell bird, is, almost extinct in the No-th Island.” That is 52 years ago, and to-day (says the Manawatu Daily Times) we have reports from Olaki and Tiritea that they are singing and nesting in trees quite near to farm dwellings. Visitors to Dunedin are advised to stay at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Princes street South, where guests will find tho best of accommodation at reasonable rates.... “Gaming and gambling,” said Mr J. W. Poynton. S.M., at Auckland (reports an exchange), “are due to a perversion of the hunting instinct still strong in ■r»*''«t of —u Unfortunately, this instinct is often degraded to base uses, the which is gambling—that is chasing after 'the other fellow’s goods.” ’ t “Peeping Tom”, has again made bis appearance in Timaru (states the Herald), and is carrying on his nefarious practice of peeping through the windows of private houses, in an unusually bold way, taking such risks as presage an early capture by tho police. M’Donald and Miller, Green Island, are cash buyers of prime bacon pigs. Correspondence invited.... “It is one of 'the greatest flaws in the jury system, a system which has been in existence in England for hundreds of years, and is part of our constitution, that a, niry may be carried away by sympathy.” said bis Honor. Mr Justice Reed at the Supreme Court at Christchurch (reports the Sun). For children’s backing cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.... A Wanganui lady recently t sent to relatives in the Old Land a price list for beef published by a local butchery firm (states an exchange). By last mail she received a London price list, giving the following prices:—Fillet beef, 2s 8d; rump steak. 2s 8d; sirloin, Is lid; ribs. Is lid; top side,, Is 8d; flank, Is; stewing steak, Is 9d: gravy beef. Is 4d: brisket. lOd. “ Bourbon ” Coffee ! —The ideal breakfast beverage'. The coffee-drinking public know they can roly on this brand for flavour, strength, and aroma all the year round—- . A good deal of bicycle stealing has been going on in Timaru for some t : rne (states the. Herald). The police had one hov before the magistrate for the theft of a bicycle recently and another for stealing a bicycle lamp. ' The latter was sent to Weraroa Training Farm, and the former was placed on profy’M l "-* for 12 -months. Tho magistrate has intimated his intention to deal more severely with offenders of this kind in tho future.

Tho most palatable breakfast dish is undoubtedly Barton and Trengrove’s famous sugar-cured bacon. Being the best on the market, it is therefore cheapest. No waste —can bo used to the .last ounce.—Manse street (Dunedin) and all branches.... It is not often .that a juryman is excused from service after he has already been empanelled and sat among tho favoured 12 (reports an Auckland exchange). This occurred in a divorce case at Auckland recently. The juryman was a brother of one of the witnesses, and the judge remarked: “Counsel thinks, and I agree, (hat it would bo better if he did not take f -— J ' part in the deliberations. The juryman agrees this . course would be better in the interests of everybody.’’ Though tho weather is hardly-like spring, nevertheless spring and summer goods are now arriving. Millinery and dress goods for the coming season are now on view, and represent everything of the latest stylo. A call of inspection will be esteemed.—A. F. Cheyne and Co., Mosgiel.... “Half house, unfurn., convs., children •welcome. . . So read an advertise-

inent iri. the Auckland Star. By reason of its uniqueness (says the Star) this advertisement has attracted particular aitfntion, for it is not since the long-distant dires before the housing shortage that children were even tolerated by landlords. . . But perhaps this “Children welcome’’ advertisement is preliminary to a change of heart, on the part of the property-owner, and that in the near future wo shall see houses advertised to be let only to those couples whom Nature has blessed —with preference to large families! Obanism (669). —“Ho. that has but one coat cannot lend it.” Just so, and never let a pal know you have a bottle of Oban bulk whisky, else it won’t keep.... There is reason to believe (states, a Wanganui paper) that some vendors of honey are not over particular what class of article they put on the market; that is, ns far as adding some other substance to ■make the honey spin out. A sample of this class of blended honey, sold to a local storekeeper, has been brought under notice. The storekeeper states that he is returning the consignment with an intimation that next time he receives honey of flint quality he will institute a prosecution. The price of honey is dear enough without being mixed, with glucose, lard, or other substances, 'which, when too liberally applied. give a flavour very much like candle grease. When you have Influenza you want the very best 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...

“!■ went to the races the other dav.” said Mr R. A. Wright (Wellington Suburbs) in Parliament last week when the Gaming Bill was being discussed. “I saw' very f

few members of Parliament there, so I must conclude this is ono of the most virtuous Parliaments in the world. I can see no difference between betting on the totalisator and betting with a bookmaker. I know people who consult fortune-tellers to see what their chances are going to bo, but an experience of my own shows that the bookmakers are reliable. .When J was contesting an election I was Void (hat the bookmakers were lying 6 to 3 on me. and the Rev. J. J. ( North explained to me that it meant my chances were two to 1. The result justified their wagers.” Wo arc eash buyers of pigs, porkers, or bnconors, any quantity; highest current market price paid; cheque by return mail.— Barton and Trengrove, Manse street, Dunedin....

A return prepared by the registrar (Mr R. O’Shea) in connection with the representation of Auckland University at the British Empire Exhibition next venr, strikingly illustrates the increased prestige of the northern seat of learning (states the Star) In 1912 Auckland University had but 510 students. In 1922_the number had more than doubled, reaching the total of 1045. There wore only 10 men graduates in 1912; last year there were 42. It is peculiar, however, that only nine women students graduated in 1922. whereas the same number took their degrees a decade ago. Educational experts consider that great as has been the growth of Auckland University in the past decade it was as nothing to the advances that will have been made in every direction by 1932. The second grade football team, ’Tis very easily U. be. seen They live in M'Uon, where they can Improve their form on Hitchon’s ham....