OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Issue 1956, 20 August 1891, Page 31

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS GOSSIP, AND ADS.

From Greymouth last week 4082 tons coal were exported. Daring last week the export of coal from Westport on-y amounted to 2927 Jons. A young man named Divid Gunn dislocated his shoulder while playing football at Waimate oa Thurnday. The harbour, constructed at Belfast at a cost of nearly half a million of money, was formally opened on July 8. The immigrants brought to New Plymouth by Mr Courtney express themselves well pleased with the district aud their prospects.

Mr W. Garrard, of Christchurcb, found, in the nest of a rat, a £l-note which he had missed from his cash drawer four months ago.

Sunday lunches have become quite an institution of the London season, to the comparative extinction of the ordinary dinner party. Mr H. Belfield, formerly proprietor of the Timaru Herald, has settled down at Crediton, an ancient town on the Crede, near Essex.

In tbe Edinburgh Public Library the per centage of works of fiction taken out during a week is 47 as contrasted with 86 in England.

Four boys broke into the Primitive Methodist Charon, at Invercargill, on Wednesday night and attempted to open the safe. They were disturbed and caught. The hospital returns for the past week are : — Remaining from previous week, 87 ; admitted during the week, 15; discharged, 14; death, Ozel Oberg ; total remaining, 87. During the year 1890 the Government Printing Office paid away £18,206 19a 5d for wages and overtime, £542 14s lid for "working expenses," and £7589 0s 4d for value of material used.

A Wellington syndicate is negotiating with some of the leading English boatbnilders for the construction of a steel frame for a clipper yacht of about 16 tons. The frame would be brought to the colony and planked with kauri.

Bemstone, the Paris tailor, has the grandest show of stock in Dunedin, at 45 George street, and also in Christchurch (High street). He charges very moderate. Suits at £3 3s; trousers, 16s 6d Fit guaranteed, or money returned •

In his recently published volume Professor Wallace gives a portrait of Mrs Donnelly, whom he calls " one of the most able lawyers in relation to Native affairs that New Zealand

possesses," whose eloquence has M earned for her the reputation of a Maori Portia." A resident of Chicago recently bought in Washington a very rare book, a Latin volume, in which the name of America ia first given to the Western continent, and of which but six or eight copies are known to be in existence. The story of the book is an interesting one. Russia has added another item to the loog list of acts of intolerance against the Jews by forbidding them to observe the Jewish Sabbath by closing their stores or places of business, and compelling them instead to close on Sunday and other days observed by the Greek Church. In the Dominion of Canada alone 954,000 square miles are yet unexplored. The Dominion geological and geographical surveyors are at present engaged in the examination of tbe Rocky Mountain regions, where there are many lofty peaks which have never been measured.

Mr J. E. M. Garrow, first assistant master at the Green Island School, was on Monday presented with a copy of Burns' works and of Macaulay's Essays, both handsomely bound, as a mark of the esteem in which he io held by his fellow teachers. Mr Duncan, head master, made the presentation.

A settler up Masterton way was convicted of having rabbits upon his property and fined 20?. He immediately resigned all his public appointments and withdrew within himself^ If a friend met him in the street and said, " How d'ye do ?" he replied, as he passed on, " Don't speak to me, please ; I'm a convicted criminal." Messrs Boss and Glendioing are the successful tenderers for letter carriers' uniforms their prices being : — Tunic, 28 s 6d and 28s ; walking trousers, 18a and 17s 9d ; riding do, 253 and 243 6d ; overcoats with cape, 39s 6d ; do without cape, 34s 6i ; do riding, 255. The tender of the Zealandia Waterproof Company is accepted for overcoats with capes at 39a. The employes of Messrs Fyfe and Cuming, together with a number of their friends, responded to the invitation of the firm to meet in Albany street Hall on Thursday night, when a most enjoyable evening was spent. Dancing was kept up with great spirit till an early hour next morning, when the company broke up, after giving three hearty cheers for the firm. Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, who were, we believe, the first firm in New Zealand to undertake the manufacture of marmalade, have sent us a sample of the article neatly put up in a small stone jar, which is also of local manufacture. The marmalade is of first-class quality, and from its excellence should speedily make its way in the market, apart from its claim to support on the grounds of being manufactured locally. During the month ended June 30 of the present year there were imported into the United Kingdom no less than 64,034 bushels of apples, of the value of £37,854, as against 8798 bushels valued at £6237 in the corresponding month of 1890. This remarkable increase is 'entirely due to the large shipments received from Tasmania and New Zealand, which, arriving at a time when the supplies from America are almost over, have met with an eager demand at remunerative rates.