OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Issue 1987, 24 March 1892, Page 20

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS, GOSSIP, AND ADS.

The quantity of coal exported from Westp'ort last week was 3672 tons. The meat on board the Elginshire has been purchased by Mr John Mill for LIOO. The Oamaru Mail declares that drunkenness and immorality are very prevalent in Oamaru.

A hawker's license was granted by the resident magistrate on Monday to James J. Leigh.

Mr T. Kennedy Macdonald has been reelected to the directorate .of the Wellington Woollen Company.

A heavy earth slip, estimated at 100 tons, ocourred on Friday night about a mile south of "the Patea railway station. The Antimony Company's mine and property at Endeavour Inlet, offered by auction at Wellington, failed to elicit a bid. The Ashburton Borough Council very properly decjined a request from the Cycling Club to allow training on the Domain on Sunday. Constable John Groves is appointed inspector of weights and "measures for the county of Vincent and the of Cromwell and Alexandra. ',' '. f Mr Jainejj Aitkin, head master of the Geraldine Schoolp-late of Ravensbourne — has been appointed head master of the Wanganui Boys' School. ' x Policy-holders in the Australian Mutual Provident Society intend to hold a meeting to agitate for the extension of the business to England.' - A hundred bags of antimony ore from a lode at Reefton have been shipped to London by the s.s. Rimutaka, in order to test the value of the mine." j^p Mr Benjamin Williamson, an old Canterbury **settier, has died- at Ashburton at the age of 81. He and his brother came to the<oolony from Scotland about 27 years ago.

The Female Employes Union, the only society of females represented on the New South Wales Trades, and Labour Council, has decided to sever its connection with that body. The hospital returoe for the past week are : — Remaining from previous week, 61; admitted during the week, 19 ; discharged, 10 ; death (Patrick Fanning), 1 j— total remaining in the institution, 691,. t Sir H. Atkinson appeared in the witness box at Wellington"yesterday, and identified some chickens stolen, f? om h[s poultry yard. Herdman, accused* of the' offence, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. Ber'nstone, the Parjp tailor, has the grandest Bhow of stock" in Duuedin, 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. • A boatman has ]U6t, found in the bed of the Thames at Hampton Court -what appears to be a relict of early British times — an ancient British canoe, made of the trunk of a tree, the interior having been burned or scooped out. It is about 30ft lo.ng and 3ft in width, and is quite black. Otherwise it is in good preservation. It has probably lain in the river bed for centuries, and might have remained there still but for the present dredging operations.