OMNIUM GATHERUM

Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 23

OMNIUM GATHERUM

NEWS. GOSSIP. AND ADS.

The coal export from Westport last week was 4209 tons.

Last week 3901 tons of coal and 161,300 ft of timber were exported from Greymouth.

A party of «ix guns from Oamaru shot 176 hares on Mr T. Meek'a Hakateramea property. Major Thomson, of Invercargill, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel of volunteers.

The Press says:— "lt is rumoured heavy reductions will shortly be made in the salaries of many civil servants."

Saunders, a publican at Johnsonville, Wellington, was fined £5 on Tuesday for refusing to supply meals to travellers.

An_ autograph letter from Oliver Cromwell sold in London recently for £54 10s, one from Nelson, written on board the Victory, fetching 15gs.

The pay sheet at the Seaward Bush railway works now averages £800 a month. The line will be opened as far as Oteramika Gorge in November.

A lady who has just died in New York left the whole of her wealth (£200,000) to be expended in the erection of a mausoleum for her remains.

MrAlpheus Hayes and party were out last week on a pig-hunting expedition on the Hook Spurs, and succeeded in killing about 30 pigs, as well as other game.

The libel case of Wrigley v. Evening Press was settled in the Wellington Supreme Court on Monday, plaintiff accepting a judgment for £1, with costs. The amount claimed was £502. The appointment of Captain Sundstrom, of the s.B. Invercargill, will baa great convenience to miners and prospectors, on the Wegt Coast, who will thus havo an opportunity of consulting a J.P. wheu ho makes his periodical visits. A doctor sent by the, South Australian Government to Port Augusta to ccc the Chinaman, Lee Kee, sappised tp be suffering from leprosy, has reported that the man is suffering from a constitutional disease, and not ' leprosy. ' -The Oamaru Borough Council have decided ', to reouce the price of gas from the Ist of next month to 12s 6d par 1000 ft, with a discount of 3s 4d per 1000 to consumers of less than 7000 ft per month, and 4s 2d to, consumers of more ' than 7000 ft.

The Oamaru Mail understands that an attempt will be made to upset the action of the Oamaru Licensing Committee in refusing a license to the Northern Hotel, on the ground that the owner and mortgagee did not receive notice of objection. •

The following are the hospital returns for the week : — Remaining from the previous week, 95; admitted during the -past week, 24 ; discharged, 12 ; Agaes Wright died in the institution during the past week, and the total number of patients remaining is at present 10S. In tue prosecution of a man for cattle straying on a railway line at Pdpikura, Auckland, where th^ line i* unf eased, Mr Northcroft, S.M., said it was hard that; the railway was not fenced, buthe had to administer the law, otherwise he would not inflict a fine. Defendant was fined Is.

Nine members of the crew of the Tainui were fined at Christchurch from £5 6j 3d (and costs £ I 83 in each case) to 17s 6d, being mitigated penalties, with forfeiture of goods, for having in their possession on board the ship at Lytteltoa cigars and tobacco valued in all at £137 en which duty had not been paid. Two lion cubs wero born at the Adelaide Zoological Gardens tha other day, and a zebra Cilf a few days previously. There are in addition to the above juveniles two baby tigers about six weeka old, and one young leopard. Aa addition has recently been made to the gardens of two wallaroos from New South Wales.

The Weotport Times states that Master Joseph Coghlan, aged nine (son of Mr Coghlan, of the Railway department), performed a plucky act on the 3rd June. His brother Leonard, aged five, fell from the wharf into the river, wheu the older lad immediately jumped into the str<--a-n and rescued the little fellow from certain death.