NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18952, 28 August 1923, Page 12

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fifty years ago the Borough of Oamaoru had a population of 2819. The erection of woollen mills is now in progress in Wanganui. Mosgiol looking up. New enterprise star tea. S. S. Harvey’s new jewellery establishment, Exchange Buildings, a decided acquisition.... The egg market has come a crash in Wanganui (says the Herald), and the retail price is now Is 4d per dozen. The total net registered tonnage of trading vessels which have arrived in Wellington during the past month was 235,495. Best cure for influenza is Crossan’s whisky, obtainable only at the “Waterloo” dispensary. A good dose and go to bed.... At Matangi (Waikato) the factory is treating 10,000 gallons of milk daily. The milk is being skimmed until next month, when drying operations will commence. An ecno of the internment of enemy aliens during the war period is given by the following extract from the annual defence report:—“Prisoners of war—escape and capture (total cost), £4429 Os lid.” A suit of the best style, cut, and materials at £6 10a. Lot us save you a couple of guineas on your next order. —G. S. Roberts, tailor, Stock Exchange.... Nothing in New Zealand so typically marks the return of spring and the closing days of winter ns the beautiful white clusters of native clematis (Puawananga) (states the Times), which in sunny spots is now in full bloom in Palmerston North. Wo arc cash buyers of pigs, porkers, or baconers, any quantity; highest current market price paid; cheque by return mail.— Barton and Trengrove, Manse street, Dunedin.... “Tli© dairy farmer is selling butter-fat below cost of production. How does he do it?” said a speaker at a recent meeting at Masterton. “He does it by worldng long hours, seven days a week, and by his wife and children working for nothing.” M’Gavin’s special production, “ oat malt stout,” is generous, refreshing, and liliengtbening. A superior table beverage “A black opossum rug is a very valuable thing until you find out who blackened it; that may make all the difference,” observed his Honor Mr Justice Chapman, in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth (states the Daily News), when some purchases made by a Maori were under discussion. 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... Tli© comprehensive nature of the task of supplying electrical current to the residents of Southland, as undertaken by the Electric Power Board, can be gathered by the fact (states an exchange) that to traverse the roads along which the service linos have already been erected will make five days’ hard driving by motor-car.

Grays’ winter sale clones Friday, 31st August. Milton buyers will do well by taking advantage of the exceptional bargains in drapery, boots, and hardware.... , Cases of rabbits eating the bark of shrubs are not uncommon, (says the Waimato Advertiser), but the rodents are reported to be acquiring an appetite for the native cabbage tree in the Hakataramea district.

Visitors to Dunedin ore advised to stay at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Princes street South, where guests will find the best of accommodation at reasonable rates....

“In general,” reported Dr Clark, the school medical officer to the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, ‘‘the standard of-cleanli-ness in schools has improved, but there is still in many schools a tendency to allow much useless lumber to accumulate.”

McDonald and Miller, Green Island, are cash buyers of prime bacon pigs. Correspondence invited....

In delivering judgment on a motor collision case at the Masterton Magistrate’s Court recently, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., said he always .attached more importance to the evidence of an artisan than that of a labourer, the former being usually more observant. Women also were observant, and their evidence could usually be relied on. For children’s hacking cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.... Illustrating the difference between the true scientific dairy farmer and the cowspanker, Mr B. Roberts, speaking at Masterton, stated that the cow-spanker says: “I’m in this business for all I can pet out of it. not what I can put into it,” One man had told him that he had been on 21 farms in 21 years. That kind of farmer was of no use either to himself or to the community. Can you beat this for value? One bedroom suite, comprising one 3ft duchessc, one 3ft wardrobe (both with bevelled mirrors), one pedestal cupboard, one wood bed (4ft 6in, complete with woven wire mattress), one towel rail (stained in light oak or walnut colour). _ The whole suite complete for £l4 14s, It is value like this that has put us into the very front rank in the furnishing trade. —Riaoh and M'Lennan, Anzac square.... A leading Wanganui drapery house, importing direct from Home, has been advised by cable of a drop of approximately 20 per cent, in the prices for calico sheetings and of about 10 per cent, on cither general cotton goods (states the Chronicle). The advice comes from one of the bestknown manufacturers, and the fall is apparently due to the conditions obtaining in the larger markets. It is contemplated that other manufacturers will also temper- ’

arily come into line, and this points to a favourable opportunity for buying. A nice open fire beats them all. Inspect our designs in Redcliff stone. Absolutely the latest in fireplaces, ’ihomson and Co. (opp. First Church), Moray place.... At the Magistrate’s Court, Palmerston North, counsel for defence! in a case where the owner of a car was charged with being drunk while in charge of it, was questioning a witness as td why the latter should think his client drunk simply because he drove his car from one, side of the road to the other. “Have you ever ssien a drunk man driving a car?” asked the counsel. Witness answered that he had. “And did he wobble from one side of the road to the other?” “Yes, and into the ditch,” ho stated, amid general laughter. What others have found you will find. Waters’s Nerve Tonic—tho after “flu” huilder-up. 3s, posted 3s Bd. Waters’s New Pharmacy, 20 Princes street.... “For some little time past there has been undoubted financial stringency iu_ England, the textile trades there finding it difficult to keep mills running full time, which, perhaps, accounts to a largo, extent for the volume of low-priced goods coming forward and for the large import figures. It does not follow that the ultimate consumer always benefits, but we have to meet the goods in competition, where price is sometimes the only factor,’’ remarked Mr W. H. P. Barber, at the meeting of the Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company last week. “Bourbon” Coffee!—The ideal breakfast beverage. The coffee-drinking public know they can rely on this brand for flavour, strength, and aroma all the year'round.... “The only sound solution of the defence problem—and one which would _ give the maximum of efficiency at the minimum of expense—is an agreement for mutual cooperation in which the liability undertaken by each State is clearly defined. No such agreement can, however, be' expected until it is realised that the defence problem is not simply a question of the strength of one or other of tho services, _ but of the coordinated use of tlie Empire’s resources, and also that no State cap _ expect assistance from another unless it accepts an equivalent obligation,” stated Major-general Sir E. Chaytor in his annual report on the New Zealand Defence Forces.

The 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 be • used to the lost ounce.—Manse street (Dunedin) and all branches.... “I am indeed proud of the manner in which the Christian forces are leading the way in industrial evolution in the East,” said Miss hi A. Dingman, addressing members of the Auckland Rotary Club recently. “I believe that China and Japan are the only countries where the church people have said: ‘We have a great responsibility in regard to these things, and we will lead the way in rousing the public conscience.’ ” As a result, the Christian people were now doing splendid work in supporting improved industrial legislation, the three most important measures brought forward being the abolition of child labour in factories, one day’s rest in seven instead of two days a month, and better sanitary conditions. Though the 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 style. A call of inspection will be esteemed.—A. F. Cheyne and Co., Mosgiel.... An example of the lack of knowledge of New Zealand displayed by many people in the 'United States is afforded by the receipt by an Auckland business man of a letter from a firm of publishers in New York, addressed Auckland, New Zealand, .England (states an exchange). Commenting on this, the recipient said it was rather surprising that American business men, who were usually considered to be so up to date, should bo so ignorant of the position of New Zealand, and it showed that this country had received insufficient publicity in the United States. Some months ago a New Zealander, on returning from a visit to the United States, ■ had informed him that several Americans had asked whether New Zealand was close to England. Obanism (570).—Tliose who know are appealed to by the flavour of the Oban’s bulk whisky. It’s wonderfully mellow; it’s the best Scotch, and aged-in-the-w00d.... The gamble which exists in the present method of consigning produce to the English market (says the Taranaki Herald) was strikingly illustrated at the annual meeting of shareholders of th e Tikorongi Dairy Company recently. In quoting the prices secured for the various shipments or produce, the secretary stated that one vessel which was loaded for West Coast of England porta arrived Home whilst good prices were prevailing. Delay took place in the vessel's discharge, and it was three weeks before her produce was landed. In the meantime the bottom had fallen out of the market, only a shilling being advanced on the shipment of butter. On the other hand, another vessel spent several weeks longer than she should have cruising around New Zealand, Her cargo which, according to schedule, would have arrived in the middle of the slump period, caught an improved market, and realised nearly top prices. Consistently with might and main They played the good old Rugby game. On Sunday mom, though sadly achin’, They still enjoyed their Hitohon’s 8ac0n....