NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19905, 27 September 1926, Page 16

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Considerable mortality is being experienced among lambs owing to the depredations of wild boars on some of the South Wairarapa coastal stations, and measures are being taken to prevent any recurrence. Carpets and mats stolen about two years ago were recovered recently, along with other property, by Christchurch detectives. There are wto carpets and half a dozen small mats, and the detectives are now seeking the owner. The cost ot living reduced by purchasing Heavy Blue Denim Clothing. Uvt alls, 6s 6d; Jackets, 7s lid; Bib Overalls, 7s Ud; Overalls (double knees and seats), 8s 6d; Striped Palmer Nap Trousers, 8s lid. Posted anywhere for cash.—Kilroy and Sutherland (Limited), 192 Princes street, Dunedin... Since the rate notices were issued at least one firm in the city has advanced the price of fish by 2d per lb (reports the Wanganui Chronicle). On the other hand, some hotelkeepers and boarding-house proprietors have curtailed toe number of fish meals on their menus per week. It is reported that a large number of men were put off the Public Works Department’s job on the Balclutha-Tuapeka Mouth road last week, and that many of them have gone to other departmental works at Arrowtown, Ranfurly, and other places. Ciave your eyes. Consult Peter G. Dick, D'.8.0.A., F. 1.0. (London), optometrist. Peter Dick, jewellers and opticians. 400 Moray place (opp. City Hotel)... It is a long time since there was such a dearth of fat cattle in Hawke’s Bay as is being experienced just now (says the Napier Telegraph). Local butchers are having to go as far afield as Wairarapa and Manawatu to fulfil their requirements. Cow beef, especially, is in very short supply throughout the southern part of the island. . .... A striking result in the reticulation of the country districts by the South Canterbury Power Board is the installation of electric stoves in many homes (reports the Timaru Herald). Since the current has been switched on, the board has supplied some 50 of these stoves, at an approximate cost of £35 each. Just anded, a large shipment of the New England drop-head Sewing J Machines. These Machines are absolute'- standard in every respect, ana we are now selling them at pre-war prices and less. The “Ruby” drop-head at £9 17s 6d cash is unbeatable at the price, and the New England at £l2 10s and £l3 10s are equal to anything on the market regardless of price. We also stock the Westinghouse Electric Machine, a beautiful machine, in solid walnut. —Laidlaw and Gray, agents, Dunedin...

Describing a sore on a horse at the Wanganui Court, a witness said it appeared to have been caused more through a person riding the equine bare-back than through a saddle. The magistrate remarked thht the person riding bare-back on a thin horse was also likely to require some treatment. Counsel: “The B.P.C.A. does not make provision for the latter cases, your Worship.” Country Shopkeepers.— We supply the finest Smaligoods obtainable, at special rates. inquiries solicited. —Barton and Trengrove. Manse street, Dunedin... The position in regard to the market for white pine is reported to show an improvement (says the Greymouth Star). The price, however, is about 2s per uiuit lower than that ruling 12 months . ago. Some of the West Coast mills which have been working shorthandecl or have neen closed recently will shortly resume cutting white pine orders. The best Skin Tonic is Vi-Oatta, 2s 6d posted, from Waters’ Pharmacy, 20 Princes street...

Owing to the delay in the shipment of transformers under order by the South Canterbury Power Board, the switching on of power at Pareora has been delayed {reports the Timaru Herald). It is anticipated that the transformers will shortly be to hand, and that the residents of Patearoa will soon be able to enjoy the benefit of the white light, as many other country districts are doing. Several cases for the recovery by Clutha County Council of rates levied on behalf of the Southland Power Board were settled .without coming before the magistrate at Ba-lclutha on Wednesday last. It had been intneded to contest the rates, which were levied over unreticulated districts, but a recent test case at Invercargill showed the futility of defending such claims under the law as it stands. Coldwell’s Colonial Mowers, for a tidy lawn, 12in, 14in, 16in all in stock at bedrock prices, at Jas. Gray and Sons (Ltd.), Milton... A recent visitor to Nelson from Hawcra tells of an incident which supports the increasing indications that various native birds, which showed signs of decreasing, are again multiplying. The traveller in question, who had been accustomed for years to see two tuis in a kowhai tree, found no fewer than seven birds in it this spring. Their combined song naturally gave a remarkable effect. Obanism; English Ale and Stout, Australian Lager, Henley’s Devonshire Cyder, all brands of Wines and Spirits can be obtained from the Oban. The prices are the lowest. —Oban Hotel.. .

The fog sirens installed by tho Auckland Harbour Board were adversely criticised at a meeting of the Northcotc Borough Council. It was stated tho sirens disturbed the sleep of residents in the early hours of tho morning. The question was referred to tho Marine Boroughs’ Association with a recommendation that tho Harbour Board should be requested to replace the sirens with more suitable apparatus. For a pure Tailor-made Suit, best of materials only.—Try MacLeod MacGillivray, Rattray street, Dunedin...

There is still a great deal of unemployment in Timaru (says tho Herald), and the applications for employment by far exceed tho positions offering. The unemployment committee has had several deserving applications from married men brought under its notice, but unfortunately it can do little to alleviate the position. An expert chemist, who has specially trained his sense of taste, is employed hv the Metropolitan Water Board to sample the London water supply used by seven million Londoners. He abstains from smgking and follows a special diet.

The Wanganui Woollen Mills have just completed a full year’s operations, and the balance sheet for the year ended June 50 discloses a loss of £8205, which makes the accumulated deficit £22,103, for there wan a loss of £13,905 in the previous year. A recent visitor to Greymouth was _Mr M. J. Duff Fyfe, of Sydney, ‘who visited the State mines for the purpose of investigating the question whore the hand pick could not be replaced by the modern method of digging coal by compressed air power. Mr Duff Fyfe, who has had wide experience in boring operations in various countries of the world, made his investigations at the suggestion of Mr A. H. Kirabell, Under-Secretary 'of Mines. Men! There is a saving an every purchase made with us this week. —A. 1. (Jheyne and Co., Mosgiel... An innovation so far as Palmerston Worm is concerned is the introduction of taxi meters on cars plying for hire in the borough (says the Standard). Already three cars have been fitted with the registers, and it is expected that the owners will shortly be given permission to use them in lieu of the fixed scale. The Borough Council recently resolved to set aside a separate I and distinct parking stand for the use ot taxis fitted with the meters. We are famous -or saveloys.—Barton and Trengrove... . , . An exhibit in the showroom window ot the Southland Power Board is a smaU branch of a tree which fell across the main 11,000 volt feeder to Riverton on the morning of September 20, and „ caused all consumers to bo cut off until the line was patrolled and the branch removed. Though the branch appears to be quite dead, it must have contained sap m the centre of its main stem, for the current has obviously run along this conducting fluid and burnt out the pith as it travelled along. Stay at the 1 nnce of Wales HotelGood accommodation; best brands of liquors. ’Phone 721. —C. Hmchchff. proPr The r route of the Gisborne-Wairoa section of the East Coast Main Trunk raib way is to be investigated by tbenew Minister of Public Works (the Hon. K. S. Williams), who is to have a free hand in settling the matter of tb route (says the Poverty Bay Herald), irrespective of the fact that the Government. had an existing railway line from Waxroa to Waikokopu. This is the effect of an agreement reached between the Prime Minister and Mr W. D. Lysnar member for the Gisborne electorate, who has kept before the House the claims of the inland r ° Men’s Wear Week, Friday. 10th. to Friday, 17th. See windows at A. Cheyne and Co.’s... w “The construction of the Nelson. Cathedral is going alidad splendidly, saia Bishop Sadlier, of Nelson, at Christchurch last week, “’"he second contract has been let. I don’t suppose it wiU completed for some years” he said, . but the nave will be opened is soon as it is built, and the old part of the church removed The Bishop added that the nave will be built to seat 600 people. The Nelson Cathedral will not be as large as thatofChnst church, but the spire will be higher. The charm ot reai coffee ies m its flavour, strength, and aroma! Coffee lovers may obtain r.his real coffee from the coffee specialists, A Dune and Go., 32 Octagon, Dunedin... . The number of overseas tourists who will visit the Dominion during the coming tourist season promises to be a record. Auckland tourist agents have received advice from their New York principals that a party of 25 American .jurists is exDected to reach Auckland in March, 1927. The visitors will remain ir the Dpmimon for about three weeks, and will visit the principal resorts in'the ISorth and South Islands. Usually, the conducted parties remain only a few days m the Dominion, and it is pleasing to note that more time is to be spent here. . ___ Made from best pigs—Bruce Bacon... The Westland Acclimatisation Society has applied for the deer stalking season in Westland to open on March 1, and close on April 31 (says a Hokitika exchange . The South Westland area will be put into blocks as before, fw° Wocto holing three rifles, and seven blocks bolding two rifles with two extra licenses for local arrangements. In the South Westlanc territory the fee will be 15, and for oversea sportsmen £lO. As previously, to Government require no fee to be earmarked for culling, m regard to which a contract was let some time ago. For a wharf to be offered for sale, second-hand, is a novelty, but that situation has arisen in Wanganui (says the Chronicle), where the Harbour Board la now negotiating with the Power Board for the purchase of its jetty opposite the power St Anexhibit which attracted a great deal of interest among Masterton horticulturists was shown m the window of a fruiterer last week, in the form of a wreath designed by Miss M Nay, o Masterton. It included a number or blooms of Scarlet Amaryllis. The growing of this particular variety of Amaryllis is practically to one horticulturist in the North Island, who jealously guards the secret of successfully growing these flowers, and, desp-te temptmgoffers from New ealanders and from abroad, he has preferred to keep the cultivation of this plant to .mself. , Superfluous hair is best treated by “Anticrin” 2s Id posted.—Waters Pharmacy. 20 Princes street. .. Sometimes those who live in toe country are possessed of a very keen wit (remarks the Auckland Star). When the hospital board party was speeding on to Walworth it found that, in following an old road, its path was blocked right across by the erection of a new house, which pulled it up at a dead end. In answer to an inquiry whether the car could get past that way without turning back to tod the proper road, a pleasant-voiced workman replied that there was no hope whatever, because tbe present house was being put up by one of those unalterable things called “ an Order-in-Council,” which meant that the road was blocked for all time, and there was not even a way to get round it. There was nothing for it but for the car to turn back, while the occupants enjoyed the joke. Nothing to equal our lamous sugarcureS bacon. —Barton and Trengrove... As the result of a little argument on Thursday last an exhibitor withdrew a number of his exhibits and took them home again from the Canterbury Horticultural Society’s spring flower show (reports the Lyttelton Times). The exhibitor, who is a well-known horticulturist, -ad arrived at the show with a special display of certain flowers. The officials held that the flowers had not been grouped according to catalogue, but the exhibitor stoutly maintained that they were of the varieties set out. The outcome of toe argument was the packing up of toe flowers and their transfer to their owner’s car, thence back to the hothouse or garden. Boys’ Golf Stockings, with turn-over tops, in red, white, blue, gold, green, or other school colours; splendid quality, at reduced prices, sizes 3 to 9,2 s lid to 4s 3d.—T. Ross, 130 Princes street... The erection of premises for the Hamilton Plunket Society has been commenced. The Hamilton Borough Council has transferred a central site, behind the public library, to the society, and on this is being erected a handsome concrete and tiled-roof structure. 39ft by 40ft. Provision is made for a large waiting room, a nurses’ room, kitchenette, sun porch, and a verandah for perambulators. The rooms will be well furnished and equipped with every convenience. Material for the contract has been supplied at cost price, and the contract price (£1200) works out at very little over cost. About £9OO appropriated for the building was raised some months ago by public subscriptions. Have you tried it with eggs?—Bruce Bacon...

Motorists who drive in a manner dangerous to the public will in future be proceeded against by the Hawke’s Bay County Council rather than those who drive on the county roads at a speed greater than 25 miles an hours (reports the Herold). It is felt by some members of the council that 25 miles an hour was not unreasonable on some county roads, especially where there was a long flat stretch. Cr T. Mason Chambers said that after consulting a good many authorities he had formed the opinion that the only prosecution the council should make was against the motorists who drove at a pace dangerous to the public. It was infpossible to keep down to 25 miles an hour on open roads, and he thought it would be unwise for the council to enforce its 25 miles per hour by-law. The council decided that the chairman should confer with the traffic inspector on the subject. It’s a terrible habit, and one regrets To see women smoking cigarettes; The children want their jam with bread. And Hitchon’s ham to eat with an egg...