OMNIUW GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2130, 20 December 1894, Page 34

OMNIUW GATHERUM.

NEWS. GOSSIP, AND ADS.

The Gear Meat Company's profit for the year w*« £7734, after increasing the reserves by £1437. Last week 3502 tons of coal were exported from Westport. Major Elliot, private secretary to the Governor, fell downstairs at Government House and fractured one of. bis ribs. Fishing in tbe Teviot stream on the Bth insfc., Mr Fairbairn landed 30 fish of an aggregate weight of 45±lb, the biggest fish scaling s£lb. A boy, 16 years of age, giving evidence at the Pahiatua court the other day, said he was working for 7s a week and his tobacco, and that be consumed a stick of "Juno" or •'Derby" every week. On Saturday the sum of £20 was stolen from the guard's van on the north train. The railway porter at Amberley has been arrested, obarged with the theft. An attempt will be made in the Victorian Assembly, when the Barristers and Solicitors Bill is in Committee, to insert a clause to allow women to become barristers. The present loss by the burning down of the Crruley Dairy Factory is estimated at abou& £2200, and tbe prospective los« is coniiderable, as the output this season will be nothing. There were 25 ton» of cheese in hand.

The Uuion Steam Ship Company, as some slight recognition of the services of the sei-ilerg at the Great Barrier in connection with the "Wauarapa wreck, have forwarded a number of presents to tbe various settlers. At tho Auckland Freezing Works tbe butchering and preserving departments are to be shut down and operations confined to freezing proper. This will be the moans of throwing a considerable number of men out of employment. Tbe Timaru Garrifon Band have resolved to take fche nccessaiy stepß for holding a band contest in 1895 at Timaru. The first week of October was suggested as tbe time, and the programme to include a quickstep competition. Hone Hekn, speaking at Greytown North of Ihe Sergeant- at-arms appointment, said it was breaking tbe law, yet tbe Premier who thus broke tbe law refused to shake hands with Kerei Kaibau, a Native, because tbe Native broke fche law. At Gladstone, Wairarapa, recently during an electric storm, tbe centre horse in a plough fceana of three was struck down by lightning &nd its mane singed off. It wag at first thought the animal was dead, bat it recovered |n half an hour. The ooefc of swaggers for the past 12 months %t Messrs P. and G. Hunter's station, Wairarapa, exceeded £400. At tbe commencement of ihe shearing there was such an influx of men that the firm put do over 100 extra haude on different employment*. The annual balance sheet of the New Zealand Fine Arts Sooiety shows an overdraft of £370. ifr O. F. Barraud was re-elected president. The report showed 89 subscribing and 86 artist members. Regret is expressed that bo few Wellington arttets were represented at the recent art exhibition.

The Taieri Advocate asserts that tbe closing of certain hotels in the district has caused inconsiderable inconvenience, but tho amount of liquor consumed at home has largely increased, and the amount of beer in 6gal and lOgal kegs consigned to residents would astonish the Temperanoe party. The treasurer of the Dunedin Free Kinderjarteii Ast-ociation acknowledges receipt of tho following subscriptions : — Mrs M&okerras £1 Is ; Archdeacon Fenton and Mrs Andrew Tennaat (Adelaide), £1 aach; Mrs Lindsay, 4s; "A Mother," 3« ; Mrs Cameron and " A Parent," 2s 6d each ; monthly collections, 2s 6d. The Henley River Botrd has decided to join with the Taieri County Council in opposing dredging in the Taieri river, and the West Taieri River Board is to be asked to co-operate. clerk has been instructed to draw the attention of the county council to the encroachment of the river between the old aud new Henley bridges, and also to take steps for the recovery of arrears of rates. Mr J. Mackintosh, MH R. for Wallace, declares that in assisting to pass the Advances to Settlers Act he has the katiafaction of knowing that he has not lived in vain. He has every confidence that the Government will by-and-bye, when they feel their way, bring in a measure providing for advances to industries that are conducted on a sound footing — industries in which every workman is » eharf holder and none but chareJholders are employed. If you are on the look-out foe a seasonable present and undecided as to how you can make a small sum spin out to the greatest advantage, we would certainly direct you to T. Ross, opposite the Colonial Bank. There is certainly no other plsce where you can chooie kid Rloves fiom 28 different brands, at 1* lid up to 6s 6d ; or get tsfo thousand umbrellas and sunshades with beautiful hands, from Is lid to 25s— in addition to ai> infinitude of haudkercief*, blouses, belts, purses, perfumes, or the thousand and one other nicknacks which go to make the shop of T. Ross, direct importer, one of the most attractive in town. — [Advt J As an instance of tbe utility of ambulance Classes in up-country districts, I may mention [writes our Palmerston correspondent) tbe case M a man named Alex. Thompson, who burst s bloodvessel (a Taricoia vein) lait ftrid*Y even-

ing. Dr Hislop b-sing away at the time ths case was •<s^urnir'g a serious aspect, bnt fortunately the assistance of Mr B. H Clarke, a uifmbvr of the doctor's ambulance clns« was called in, and he immediately stopped the flow of bloo 1 and relieved the p»tiant a'j once. This c»st shows Iho value of the St. John acubulauoe lecturea.