NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18953, 29 August 1923, Page 12

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A total of 765 dozen eggs were railed to Wellington last i Thursday by the 'Pahiatua Egg Circle. r At the Auckland Divorce Court recently 32 divorces were granted in about three hours

Should be in every house—an assorted hamper of Crossan’s “Waterloo” wines, spirits,- etc ,is never in the way.... “Dairy cows have never been so low in prices for the past 17 year's.” stated a well-known North Taranaki farmer a few days ago. The Auckland Patriotic Association has decided to close tho Auckland Soldiers’ Club in November.

A suit of the best style, cut, and materials at £6 10s. Let us save you a couple of guineas _ on your next order.—G. fj. Hoberts, tailor. Stock Exchange.... A freak of Nature was found amongst a litter of IS pigs on the farm of Mr W. Berry, Awahuri road (reports the Feiiding Star). The freak has the bill and web feet of a duckling, about 4in long. In the last four years, said a speaker at a recent meeting in Masterton, mortgages raised on the land in New Zealand totalled £100,000,000. The 'sum of £146,698,000 has to be met under tho moratorium. •

Mosgiel couples are gazing at S. S. Harvey’s window display of engagement rings, etc. Torches being bought, wholesale....

In connection with the proposal to erect a. University College telescope in Auckland, tho Astronomical Society has jnformed the City Council that the cost of erection of the observatory will be about £300:

On and after the end of this month all push and motor bicycles used in Auckland city at night must show a red rear light. A by-law to that effect was confirmed by the City Council the other night. Wo are cash buyers of pigs, porkers, or baconers. any quantity; highest current market price paid; cheque by return mail. Barton and Trengrove, Manse street, Dunedin....

“I don’t mean to tread on anyone’s corns,” said a speaker at the Hopelands Dairy Company’s annual meeting (states the Pohiatua. Herald). “Well, you’ve mighty heavy feet,” murmured the one who was being adversely criticised.* A small boy at a big Taranaki football match on a recently Saturday was puzzled at what turned out to bo the referee (relates the Taranaki Herald). When the little chap was sitting at the tea-table, he was still talking about the football, and’ with a perplexed look on his face, he said, “Daddy, who was that painter’chap on the ground?” '■ 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....

The joke about mothers-in-law is popularly known to bo of a fairly ancient order, but probably very few people imagine how really old it is (states the New Zealand Times). Mr Drummond, head master ol the Auckland Grammar School, stated in- a lecture that ho bad actually found mention of it in an old Latin fragment in which a lady, writing to a mutual friend, quoted her husband's “malicious references to her mother.”

Obanism (671). —It is worthier to deserve honour than to possess it. Triers always at tfie 5.H.8.R..*.

A tortoise, about 2£t in length, an<3 reputed to bb over 150 years old, has been, presented to the Auckland Zoo by Dr A. Campbell-Smith. According to the Railway Statement the coal railed from Westport mines during the year was 586,684 tons, an increase of 83,188 tons on the previous year's traffic. The output from co-operative <- irties increased by 12,000 tons. Grays’ winter sale closes Friday, 31sfc August. Milton buyers will do well by taking advantage of the exceptional bargains in drapery, boots, and hardware.... Overland passengers _ report the presence of very substantial icicles in the Otira tunnel, larger than good-sized carrots, which (says the Grey River Argus) are broken off regularly by the electric locomotives in their runs through the tunnel. The Manaia district may yet become famous for its heavv-Weights (remarks the Witness). Recently a local Maori stetweet on to a weighing-machine and topped 20 stone. Now a well-known pakeha resident has turned the scale at 21 stone., This will probably take some beating. Visitors to Dunedin are advised to stay at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Princes street South, where guests will find the best of accommodation at reasonable rates....

A now kind of “silent inspector” has been erected / in Hastings, It is a solidlooking structure with a concrete base, and on each ol its four sides ere the words “Slow—Keep Left.” It is surmounted by a flashlight, which can be seen all through the night from any direction. “Though we are one of the smallest boroughs in New Zealand,” declared Mr F. Mather,- Mayor of Eastbourne, the_ other night, “we have an exceedingly big responsibility.” He stated that last vear some 980,000 people had _ been carried across the harbour in the municipal ferry service, while in the future he believed the total would approximate T,000,000 persons. M'Donald and Miller, Green Island, are cash buyers of prime bacon pigs. Correspondence invited....

The medical superintendent reported that the number of patients admitted to Wellington Hospital during the month of July was 477, against 375 for the corresponding month last year. The figure for June was a record to that time, being 462, which record is beaten by the new return. The total number of patients in hospital for any one night reached a maximum of 474 on August 4, the highest on record. A small boy was haled before the supreme power by a shocked elder sister, who ex- • plained that he had been using “bad words” (relates the King Country Chronicle). The teacher pressed the young culprit to tell what he had said. At first he resolutely refused to reveal the precise nature of his misdemeanour, but in the end he yielded so far as to mutter: “I dinna like to say it again, Miss, but if you’ll say some sweets. I’ll tell you when you come to it.” “Speaking generally, income tax in Great Britain, in New Zealand, and in almost all other countries where it was adopted prior to the war, was either at a flat rate, or a flat rate with a small addition on the higher incomes and a lower rate (generally _ half) on the smaller incomes. The graduated system of income tax, as we now understand it, was an invention of the war, and this system is now almost universal,” stated Mr W. D. Hunt, speaking on the taxpaying position at Wellington last week. “ Bourbon ” Coffee! —The ideal breakfast beverage. The coffee-drinking public know they can rely bn, this brand ■ for flavour, strength, and aroma all the year round.... A penny with a history turned up at the Winton A. and P. Association’s reunion last week (relates the Southland Times). When one of the reinforcements was leaving Wellington Dr Gow -.went to the boat’s to see tho Winton boys off. He was un- ■ able to talk to them, so wrapping a note around a penny he threw it on deck. A few days ago the penny was handed back to Dr Gow by the man who had picked up the note. It had been carried through France before it filially returned to New Zealand. 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 last ounce.—Manse street (Dunedin) and'all branches..-.

English visitors to Germany have always been rather impressed or amused by the. excessive hat-raising with 'which the men. greet each other (states the New Zealand Times). Quite a ceremony, it consists in lifting the hat high, sweeping it low and returning it to the bead with a semi-circular. movement. Now a propaganda is afoot for abandoning the performance, in the presence of a lady. Economy inspires the "reform.” With men’s hats at anything from 40,000 to 100,000 marks apiece, the damaging brandishment is regarded as too expensive a luxury. Though the \veather 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.... “The country that has had the longest experience of income tax is the United Kingdom. Income tax as now understood dates <n England from its introduction by Pitt, in 1793. in order to assist in the pro- , secution of the Napoleonic wars. It was at the time considered essentially a-~war tax. It was repealed at the close of the Napoleonic wars in 1815. It was not introduced as an ordinary peace time revenue tax until 1842, and from that time it has taken its place as a permanent source of national income in Great Britain, Tl declared Mr W. D. Hunt in his address on taxation in Wellington recently. Notwithstanding work and cold weather dainty and refined hands may be yours by using Waters’s Chap Lotion. Is 6d, posted 2s. Waters’s New Pharmacy, 20 Princes street An exhibit of commercial grades of kauri gum, which is_ to be forwarded to London with the dominion kauri gum exhibit for the British Empire Exhibition, was on view at the Auckland Chamber of Commerce An excellent range of samples was contained in the exhibit, including bush gum, bled bush chips, and mixed bush gum (says the New Zealand Herald). Rescraped and unsoraped grades of good whit© gum, swamp gum, chips; and dust were also shown, an interesting feature being samples of gumbearing soil from, the Mangawai kauri gum . reserves, before and after washing. For children’s hacking cough, Woods* Great Peppermint Cure.... “You say that you are a carrier?” asked counsel of a debtor, who was giving evidence in respect to a judgment given against him, in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland. “Yes,” was the answer. “And how many carts or lorries have you got?” “None,” replied the witness. This caused the solicitor who was appearing for the judgment creditor to ask now it was that debtor conducted . his. business as a carrier without a cart. “Oh,” said the witness, “my wife has a cart; she is the owner, and I work for her.” “Well, how much does she pay you?” ‘‘Just whatever X make,” the 1 carrier replied.—(Laughter.) Three cheers then for the banner “team, Their captain, Dave’s the man I ween. A rare good lot howe’er you take them. A rare good food is Hitch on’s' bacon.... .