NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18954, 30 August 1923, Page 14

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A South Wairarapa farmer states that his ducks are suffering from footrot owing to the constant rains (remarks the Age). A firm in Palmerston has 3,000,000 feet of timber stacked in its yard, valued at over £25,000, being seasoned lor casks and butter •boxes. ■'

For children’s hacking cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.... Signs of spring gro plentiful in the Raglan district (says an Auckland exchange). The willows arc out in leaf, plum trees are bursting into blossom, and the bush is gay with the piklarcro. Last year 10,200 new subscribers were connected with the telephone system of the dominion, a record for New Zealand.

By cutting the phlegm and strengthening the lungs and tubes Waters’s Canadian Cough Cure drives cough troubles away. 3s, posted 3s Bd.' Waters’s New Pharmacy. 20 Princes street....

M'Gavm’s special production, “ oat malt stout,” is generous, refreshing, and sticngthening. A superior table beverage... In view of the difficulty of obtaining teachers, the Napier Girls’ High School Board Ims decided to inquire as to the possibility of obtaining teachers from the Old Country. 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. Cheynu and Co., Mosgiel... During last year £459,247 was spent in the dominion on the development of hydroelectric power, the total outlay in this connection to date being £2,170,100. “There are just as many cull farmers as there are cull cows in the districts,” states a critic of a certain court the other day (relates an exchange). 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.... In a court case at Auckland it was stated (says the Star) that a young man of over 20 was able to write only his own name and to read but words of one syllable. He was earning £4 18s per week as a driver and was the sole support of his mother.

, A suit of the best style, cut, and mate* rials at £6 10a. Let us save you a couple of guineas on your next order.—Q. d. Roberts, tailor. Stock Exchange..,. “Banks don’t like bankrupt clients to bo owing large sums of money. They will often carry on such a client in the hope of coming out without loss. Nursing the ac-i count, it is called,” remarked his Honor Mr Justice Hosking in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North. “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 Inglewood district was visited recently by a very severe thunderstorm and electrical disturbance (reports a Taranaki exchange). One - resident had several windows smashed, while a neighbour’s cow was killed by lightning during the height of the storm.

“There is nothing better in this world than proper recreation,” said the Rev. W. J. Kemp nt the Baptist Tabernacle. Auckland recently, “and many a man who cannot get away from his office and bis books outs off many years of his life.” 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....

The amount required to cover cost of’ cashing British Treasury notes for immigrants arriving in the dominion during the financial year 1923-24, is estimated at £IO,OOO. The passages paid fox by the Government is estimated to require £210,000. Some of the saddest cases which came before the Relief Committee of the Hospital Board are still oases of desertion (remarks the Auckland Star). There seems to come a time every pow and then when there is an epidemic of wife deserters, and many of the deserters are traced. M’Donald and Miller, Green Island, are cash buyers of prime bacon pigs. Correspondence invited....

A whale was found washed ashore on the beach near. Leithfield, Canterbury, a few days ago (says the Lyttelton Times). It was of a bluish colour, and measured 30ft in length. This unexpected visitor was probably carried up the coast during the recent southerly gales and had evidently been to close inshore, being left stranded by the receding tide. , Grays’ winter sale closes Friday, 21st August. Milton buyers will do well by taking advantage of the exceptional bargains in drapery, boots, and hardware....

The other day about 501 b of condemned gelignite was taken from the Railway Department’s magazine and -destroyed at Winiata. near Taihape, by the borough inspector ajid an official of the department (states the New Zealand Herald). It is stated that the burning gelignite made a great display, the multi-coloured flames given off by the burning substance being most beautiful.

“I might mention,” said Mr Scully at a meeting of the Southland Rugby -Union; “that in Christchurch we went to the tepid baths and* SI out of the 22 players there wore swimmers,' and good swimmers at that.”' Brother Anastaaius: “No thanks to the facilities offered in Invercargill' at any rate.”—(Laughter.) Obanism (672). —Drop a line giving full name, address, and bccupation. We do the rest, and send a bbttle just as readily as a case.—Obpan H0te1.... According to a statement made to a reporter by a Recfton mining man, the present winter has been on© of the severest experienced in the Rqefton district during the past 40 years. About a fortnight ago, with a small party of wbrkmen, he was engaged blasting ice—some of it over one foot in thickness-in the Snowy river in order to allow a flow of water into the intake that supplies a battery. ■“I always make'it a strict rule to dim my head lights when aoproaching another oar,” remarked one of the delegates at the South Island Motor Union conference, held in Waimate, “but unfortunately the consideration thus shown is not always reciprocated. Now,” he continued, “I have a very wicked spotlight, and when the other chap ruthlessly ignores my soft light, I let him have the spot to its full advantage. It haa a wonderful effect,” the delegate concluded, amidst laughter. The inquiry for Dome separators has set in this season somewhat earlier than usual, and already we are receiving orders from all over Otago and Southland for this wonderful machine. In case you don’t know, wo may stats that the prices have been reduced during the last month,/so that not only,is the Domo the most efficient machine on the market but at the same time it is the cheapest. Price list and particulars from Riaoh and M'Lennan, Dunedin.... Four brothers, who are’ farmers in copartnership at Kaimai, Bay of Plenty, have filed a petition in bankruptcy. They are John Joseph Lowery, James Patrick Lowery, Peter Thomas Lowery ; arid William Lowery. The total liabilities in the estate are sot down at £3ll 12s 9d, all ■of which axe unsecured debts. 1 Assets are estimated at £165 10s, including stock-in-trade valued at £l6l. The deficiency is thus £146 2s 9d. A meeting of creditors'is called for September 4. /

An assorted case of wines, spirits, .ales, stouts, etc., promptly despatched to ‘legal order by Wm. Crossan, Waterloo Hotel, Caversham....

Fiji is to bo represented at the British Empire Exhibition next year. The Government’s decision came as a surprise to residents in the island, as some time ago the Secretary of State refused to sanction the spending of £IO,OOO on a Fiji exhibit. There is sure to be a willing response to the Government’s request for financial aid. As aji integral producing part of the Empire Fiji desires to have its_ development recognised. Tlie island colony is to have',, its own building in the Empire Exhibition. Mosgiel for courtesy. If S. S. Harvey, the Mosgiel jeweller, lacks what you need, say so and watch results.... ’Hie fall of the mark has for many months been the subject of comment, and ati idea of what it has come to may be gleaned from missives received in Napier last week (says the Telegraph). The Napier Chamber of Commerce has received five copies of the German newspaper, Tageblatt, and the postage, in 200 and 100 mark stamps, was equivalent to £ls in English money, normal rate of exchange. In another case a firm received a booklet which would cost about threepence postage in New Zealand, stamped with 180 marks._ These are only two of many cases in which the fall of the mark is vividly depicted. Wo are cash buyers of pigs', porkers, or baconers, any quantity; highest, current market price paid; cheque by return mail.— Barton and Treilgrove, Manse street, Dun* odin....

At a football match at Pahiatua on a recent Saturday an amusing incident happened (relates the Pahiatua Herald). Within a minute of the resumption of play in the second spell a line-out resulted, a player in the Bush team secured the leather, was swung j completely round, and then dashed, brilliantly for his own goal line, some 40yds distant. He had travelled some 25yds in this fashion, when the referee, equally astounded as the onlooker's, so far forgot himself as to deem it a case for the whistle. Realising immediately, however, that the mistake was his, he promptly awarded a free-kick to Hawke’s Bay, at about which time, the hitherto bewildered spectators, voiced their merriment. 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.... An amusing incident which occurred in Napier is related by the Daily Telegraph. A man was conversing with an- assistant in a baker’s shop when a woman came in and purchased a loaf of bread. The broad was parcelled, and tied up, and the customer left the shop. Ihe customer was not long gone when it was noticed that the string which came up through a hole in the counter, was moving. It did not take a second to see that the string was merrily moving along the counter, along the floor, and into the street. _ Running outside, the man saw the string disappearing into a shop on the opposite side of_ the road. He went across, and after explaining matters, broke the wanderer from the parcel of bread and returned it to its sanctuary beneath the counter. The lady assistant had forgotten to sever the string after tying the parcel. , Oh! piggie dear, and did yCu hear Your life will soon be taken, For pigs like you are made into The famous Hitchon’s bacon....