OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2009, 25 August 1892, Page 32

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS, GOSSIP, AND ADS.

A Scenery Preservation Society has been formed iv Taranaki.

From Greymouth last week 3463 tons of coal were exported, and from Westport 3909 tons. 11 Lord Wortley " has been at work in South Canterbury, and a warrant has jbeen issued for his arrest.

A company is being formed in Melbourne to utilise coal screenings and dust in the manufacture of briquettes.

TheJ funeral of the late Judge Broad took place at Nelson on Friday afternoon. The procession waß a very long one. A halfcaste girl, 10 years of age, named Ashwell, died at Otago Heads on Friday. She had been ailing for some time.

The output of coal in New South Wales during 1891 amounted to 4,037,929 tons, being an advance over 1890 of 997,053 tons.

Dividends have been paid by the mines on the Barrier to the., amount of L 4,710,370., 710, 370. Of 44 mines only 11 have paid dividends.

A correspondent of an Invercargill paper figures it out that m 1897 the exports from the Bluff will equal those of Port Chalmers. EJJohn Ebenezer White, one of the original discoverers of the famous Shotover mine, Hunt's claim, Thames, died of disease of the brain and paralysis.

The costs to the Timaru Harbour Board in the Lyttelton case amount to L 4557 15s 2d, of which L 2070 9s were recovered from the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company. It is expected that the Queensland Separation League will, owing to the failure of the Colonial Government to effect separation, ask for an Imperial Act providing for the necessary separation of Queensland.

The Gore Standard states that Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co., as agents for W. H. Soul, have laid an information against W. John Moffett, of Invercargill, for a breach of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Acts.

On meeting his class in practical biology on Thursday morning — for the first time since the publication of the intelligence that the degree of Doctor of Science had been conferred upon him — Professor Parker was greeted by his students with three cheers.

The sequel to Arbor Day at Castlecliff, according to information supplied to the Chronicle, is that the whole of the trees planted in the London park by the Castlecliff committee have been eaten by the goats kept by the residents in the neighbourhood. At the Woodvillo Jockey Club meeting the president said ho had ridden four New Zealand grass-feed horses 200 miles in 24 hours — a performance, ho did not think, that could bo beaten by horses in any part of the world. At the time this was done Mr Harrison was riding over 15st.