NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Building permit fees amounting to £lO6 were collected by the Master ton Borough Council during September. During the nine months ended May 31, the Oamam Egg Circle which now consists of 191 members, marketed 65,141 eggs.

‘’Bourbon” Gotteel —The ideal Breakfast beverage. The coffee-drinking public know they can rely on this brand for flavour, strength, and aroma all tho year round...

At a lecture at Masterton Mr F. W. Vosseler said that the edelweiss growing in the Tararuas were far superior in size and beauty to the edelweiss of Switzerland, No fewer than 70 fishing licenses have been issued at the Pahiatua Post Office for the present season. Forty-three were for adults and tho remainder for boys.

M'JJouakt and Miller, Green Island, are cash buyers of prime bacon pigs. Correspondence invited....

“Juries in my experience are usually gallant and side with the woman. At least that has been my experience of them,” said Mr Justice Reed, at the Full Court sitting at Wellington last week. Potato digging (reports the Oamaru Mail), which is most unusual for this season of the year, is at present taking place on several Oamaru farms.

Obanism (717): The man is happy as happy can be, with his good wife Joan and his children three. He often visits the Oban Hotel, calls for bulk whisky, and takes a spell..’..

It is a lucky shoal of whitebait that gels past the dozens of enthusiastic whitebaitera who lino the banks of the river each day (says the Grey River Argus). The bait are running well and good catches are being made.

“This family is costing us £3OO a year,” said Mr H. \V. Kathbone at a recent meeting of the Waipawa Hospital Board, referring to a family at l’akapau receiving assistance from the board;

Satisfactory snapshots assured if films left at Waters’ Pharmacy, Princes street, for developing.... A sample shipment of English newsprint arrived at Wellington a few days ago by the Tainui from England. This is tho first English newsprint to reach the dominion for some years. The Dargaville timber mills are running full time, although they both report that the local building trade -is at a very low ebb, and that nearly all their business is done outside the district. 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. .

“Oh, I never heard of any band work yet," said Mr W. T. Young, secretary of tho Seamen’s Union, when the seamen's dispute was before the Conciliation Commissioner, and tho intensity of labour was under discussion.u

“We are not talking of coastal vessels where you can put your hand down the funnel and turn off tho steam,’’ said Mr W. T. Young, secretary of the SeaTnen’s Union in Wellington recently, when tho seamen’s dispute was before the Conciliation Commissioner.

It’s wonderful how people appreciate value. We have had customers go through our stock, pencil and paper in band, taking a note of prices, etc., and come back later on in the clay with a smile that was a sure indication to us that wherever they had been no value had been quite equal to ours. Some have even told us that not only are wc the cheapest, but our goods are far and away superior to anything they had seen. —Hiach and M’Lennan, Dunedin...,

“I have more sympathy for tho boy in his musical studies,” stated Mr Lindo in a recent address before the Professional Society of Musicians at Palmerston North (remarks the Manawatu Evening Standard), “for lie suffers more distractions than a girl, and he frequently goes through, with tho study out of a desire to give way to a mother’s idiosyncracios.”

A tendency to curtail the Bible lessons in the churches was referred to by the Rev. Frazer Barton at the last meeting of the Auckland Presbytery (says tho Star). Mr Barton said that there was a growing tendency to cut one lesson out. “The Bible is little read in the homo to-day,” he said. “Therefore I fell the greater need for the lessons not being curtailed' in our churches.”

While it Aberdeen, Mr Thomson bought some choice Monuments. To make room for these, wc offer 10 per cent, discount off all sales this month.—Thomson and Co., opp. First Church.... A Canadian paper says: "New Zealand has 5440 aliens, or less than one-half of 1 per cent, of the population of the country. The aim of the New Zealand Government is to enforce tho Immigration Restriction Act and prevent as far as possible an undue increase over tho present percentage of any aliens.” 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

“It is rather unfortunate that a number of these witnesses is dead,” stated counsel during argument in conversation with a matrimonial dispute in tho Full Court in Wellington a few days ago. The case in question had occupied the Lower Court for no fewer than four days. “But there wore 15 of them left,” replied counsel of tho petitioner.

Spring-time is Kodak-time. Cameras and films at Waters’ Pharmacy, 20 Princes street....

Until the year 1923 a bike has always been a bicycle, with no specific difference, but the Christchurch City Council has included both terms in a new traffic by-law. The council (says an exchange), evidently does not mean to lose a case at court through a delinquent pleading that his errant machine was not a bicycle, but a bike.

“Well, I call it pretty good when farmers as long at the game as I’ve been are to bo taught their .business by a man who’s spent his life as a saddler, another who was a teacher, a third whose business was an engineer, and a fourth who a plumber,” said a fanner the other day when referring to the members of the Farmers’ Union most active in the canvass for herd-testing recently (states the Dannevirke Evening News). Wo are cash buyers of pigs, porkers, or baconers, any quantity; nighest current market price paid; cheque by return mail.— Barton and Trengrove, Manse street, Dunedin.... An amusing incident occurred at the Auckland Police Court the other day (states the New Zealand Herald). The accused in a certain case, on being handed over to the care of the Salvation Army, became greatly excited and began to make incoherent remarks to the magistrate (Mr F. K. Hunt). “Go and tel! it to the naptain,” said Mr Hunt, “it doesn’t interest me.” “But your Worship,” was the amazing reply, " “ your Worship, I suffer front invisible speech.” “Take him away quickly,” said Mr Hunt, dismissing the case.

A suit cf tlue best style, cut, and male rials at £6 10s. Let us save you a coupie of guineas on your next order. —G. S. Roberts, tailor, Stock Exchange.... The Wanganui Swimming . Centra wrestled with a knotty point one night last week (relates the Chronicle), and that was whether the caretaker of the swimming bath, employed in that capacity for part time only, was an amateur or a professional.. It was decided to apply to tho New Zealand Council_ for a ruling. As far as it could be ascertained, it appeared that a caretaker of a school Hath ranked as an amateur, but if the bath was at any time open to the public his status was that of a professional. Visitors coming? Then sort up your lac© curtains from James Gray and Sons (Ltd.), Milton. They are quoting 12s fid, 16s fid, 21s. 22s fid, 255, 30s, 35s pair.... Mr E. J. Swann, of Tauranga, has supplied the following evidence in favour of wekas as rabbiters (says an exchange): “ When driving from Matangi to Hamilton a few years ago, Mr E. Bullock, of Hamilton East, saw a weka drag a live rabbit, half-grown, on the top of a bank. They disappeared in an opening in a hedge. I mentioned the incident to Mr J. Park, who lives near Te Awamutu. He said that, in tho early days, rabbiters on his estate told him that wekas sounded tho surface about babbit holes on rising ground, and then scratched as if they were trying to locate the burrow higher up.” For that run-down feeling which gives you the “blues,” try Willie Crossan’s reviver taken at the “Waterloo.”...

One of the gathering at the ceremony in connection with the opening of the new post office at Patea last Thursday was a very old man, one of the hardy pioneer type, who did the spadework in making Taranaki what it is to-day. Speaking to a Wanganui Chronicle reporter he recalled some of the trials of other days. _ “ It was work and unceasing work,” he said. “Milk was worth 3d a gallon and butter 4d a lb, and rata firewood was chopped and sold at 8s a cord. Living—well, it was cheap, plenty of pigs and pigeons in the bush, and we did not despise an ell caught in the creek.”

The most palatable breakfast dish ii undoubtedly Barton and Trengrove’s famous sugar-cured bacon. Being the best on tho market, it is therefore cheapest. No waste —can be used to the last ounce. —Manse street (Dunedin) and ail branches.... In looking at the world we are apt to grow pessimistic, declared Bishop Averill in an address at St. Alban's, Auckland, on the occasion of tho dedication of the war memorial tower. “On every hand we see anger, hatred, and suspicion,” said the Bishop. "We hear of wars and rumours of wars, and the worlds it seems to use, has not found peace. We ask where is the fulfilment of tho hope that the death-blow had been struck to all wars? Wc, however, have our part to do. God helps those who help themselves. If we leave God out of our calculations, there is little hope of the world getting better. We might as well go back to the ethics of the jungle and fling to the winds our boasted civilisation.”

M’Gavm's special production, ” oat mall stout,” is generous, refreshing, and etiengfhening A superior table beverage.... An interesting horticultural specimen was recently brought to the Nelson Mail office —the flower of a shrub the name of which is not known. It was found amongst some manuka at Stoke six years ago, and is now growing in the garden of Mrs Rutherford, sen., at Tahuna. Efforts have been made to ascertain the name of the plant, but without result so far. Seeds were sent to England to the Royal Horticultural Society, and it will take some time before they can be grown and classified. The flower is yellow, with a slight blotch of crimson , and the seeds are borne in pod a It has been suggested that it is a species of broom, but the flower is much smaller than the broom commonly seen, though it flowers at the same time. Another suggestion is that it is a species of acacia. However, Mrs Rutherford may claim to have a very rare shrub. Mosgiel.—See that vour jewellery repairs are entrusted to the focal jeweller. Satisfaction guaranteed.—S. S. Harvey, Exchange Buildings, Mcsgiel... A youtbid Territorial who wished to be rid of the necessity of having to attend “beastly drill” applied to the magistrate ot Timaru for exemption, having a legal luminary to press the point. However, one of the conditions of the exemption was that the lad was to forego all dances and such social flutters.” This was too much self-sacrifice for the popular “young blood,” and the question of exemption was dropped with the rapidity of the proverbial hot potato. A few days ago (relates the Herald) the youth was again charged with failing to attend drill, but he did not appear. His record and his previous convictions did not bear testimony to a zealous patriotism. The magistrate remarked that there was not the slightest excuse for “ this fellow,” who ought to have known better, and put the slight consideration of £4 and costs against the defendant. Spring cleaners, after Health Week, can procure all things necessary to renovate the home from A. F. Cheyne and Co., Mosgiel. They have full stocks of rugs, linoleums, curtains, cretonnes, shadow tissue, and tapestries, etc, and re-cover furniture equal to new.... Much amusement and no little trouble was caused by a wagon load of pigs getting loose in the Auckland railway yards some days ago (relates the Star). It appears that about 30 pigs were transferred from the s.s. Clansman to a wagon, and conveyed to the yards. The driver left his charge to find out into which trucks the animals were to be unloaded, when an engine came into the yard, frightened the horses and causing them to "bolt._ The driver succeeded in seizing the reins, but before the wagon could be pulled up the heavy bumping across the rails _ had caused the crate to shift, thus releasing the animals. After a long an exciting chase all but four were recanturcd. One particularly large pig took to the water off the east reclamation, and was brought to shore fay a boat from one of the scows anchored off there. Oft in the stilly night, I dream of sad leave takin’, But wake and find to my delight I still have Hitchon’s Bacon. Cash buyers bacon pigs—Hilchon’s, Milton...