OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2159, 11 July 1895, Page 28

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS. GOSSIP. AND ADB. The Coal Creek Company, Victoria, have struck tk aeam of hard black coal 6Jffc thick at the 545 ft ievel. More protests against the Eitatrs Company's lottery. The Prohibition League urge Parliament to reject the bill. American flour coming into the Auckland market. Oae hundred tons arrived by the Mariposa from San Ftanoiaco lasb week. A visitor to Muriwai, Auckland, to ccc the stranded whales on the west coast picked up 800oz of ambergris. The Had is valued at £2000. Mr Shera is out for the Auckland City seat. Mr Fawcufi, by telegram, pledges himself to the Central Council to stand as a Labour candidate. Mr Robert Elder, son of Mr J. R. Elder, of Maheno, has left for London to attend Spurgeon's College to ntudy for the B»pti»t ministry. The Rev. Canon Robinson, who has been appointed to take charge oi the cathedral district, is expected to arrive by the Mararoa on Sunday. The Caledonian mine at Talwal, near Nowra, New South Wale?, has paid a dividend of £170 per share for the month of May. Further large yields are expected. The Melbourne City Markets, builfc on the banks of the Yarra, are gradually subsiding. In one wall s> subsidence of 14in has taken place. The buildings cost £250,000. • The hospital returns for the past; week are as fallow:— Number of patients at the beginning of tbe week, 112 ; admitted duriug the week, 17 ; and discharged, 20. Annie O'Brien died in the institution, and the nn tuber 'of patients remiiniug last night was 108. The Dunedin Presbjtery met on Tuesday evt ning in Enox Church for tbe purpose of the induction of the Rev. William Hewitson into the pastoral charge of the congregation of that church. The Rev. I. K. M'lntyre presided, and conducted tho Bervice, preaching from the text Revelation iii, 8—" Behold, I have set before tbea an open door, and no man can shut it." The Rev. D. Borrie, who had baen commissioned to address the congrega' ion, gave them in the name of the presbytery most hearty congratulations on tho cervices and transaction of that evening. A hymn was then tnng, after which the benediction was given, and tho congregation as they retired were given an opportuoity of welcoming their new pastor. Tbe canvass foe additional capital required by the Southland Frczen Meat Company proved a failure — that is to say, the number of extra applications for shares in the company were not sufficient to place the committee in a post« tion to satisfy the bank. The failure (remarks the Gore Standard) could only be expected. Firstly, the time was far too short for a proper personal canvass ; cecondly, many application forms were issued without the explanatory circular; and thirdly, the application form con* veyed an impression nob intended. It led one to believe that £3 a share was payable in the 12 month*, whereas it should have been but £1. Thus failure has resulted for certain where success might have been achieved. The committee have formulated '» pchetne whereby they are sure tbe company will be placed in a better financial, position than if; has eves been iv before.

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