OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2209, 2 July 1896, Page 26

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS, GOSSIP. AND ADS. The G.P.O. pays £1,250,000 a year for the carriage of English mails. Up to the present nearly 9000 shares have been applied for in the Bruce Woollen Company. j Mrs Strong, step-daughter of Robert Louis JStevenson, arrived in Wellington late on Saturday night. For wantonly assaulting a' Chinaman, Denis O'Dopnell was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment at Invercargill. At a meeting of the Religious Education League, held on, Friday last, Mr Murray Aston was appointed permanent secretary. Acting ou the decision of Mr Juitioa Williams, the Oamaru Liceusing Committee have 1 granted all bottle licenses applied for. ! Ex- Warder 'Foster, of Geelong Gaol, found ( guilty of accepting bribes from a prisonar, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment. . Probate of the will- of the late J. E. Tb acker was granted in the Supreme Court this morning. The total value of the property to be administered is £34,000. The first newspaper printed by movable block type was the Gazette, of Nurembnrg, Germany, whloh was published first in H57. No copy'of this paper is known to exist. Mr Andrew Potts, a respected resident of the Tupanui district, died on Monday at the a-g-i of 59. Thirty years ago he was employed ns a shepherd by Che late Captain Mackenzie. The hospital returns for the past week are :— I Remaining from the previous week, 103 ; admitted duriog the week, 18; discharged, 17; death (Walter Evanb), I;—total1 ;— total remaining in 'the institution, 103. The Salvation Army's new brick ball at Wellington is in Ingestrd street, cost £2100. It was opened by the Premier on Monday, aud is the second large structure recently ereoted by the Army in Wellington. Earthquakes have been rather frequent of late at Napier. List week no fewer than five, of greater or less severity, were experienced at intervals, followed by a sharp shook at. 6 o'clock on Sunday night. The Grey River Argus states that the Government contemplate erecting an enormous shed on the reclaimed jand, Greymouth, in which to dry and season timber. Surveyors are at present engaged in laying off the ground. At Auckland on Monday, Thomas Wylie. charged with having on June 6 executed a transfer of shares in the Eatie Gold Miping Company (Limited) in which the purchaser's name was not written in ink at the time of execution, s pleaded guilty, aud waß fined £20 and £1 10j costs. At a conference of representatives of 'local bodies at Christchurch it was decided that it is desirable to obtain an Order«in-Council for the purpose of regulating the milk supply of Cbristchuroh and surrounding districts. It is contemplated to establish a board for this purpose. The Gore Standard reports that Mr James Caldwell, of Wendon Valley, met with a very serious accident on Friday evening at about 7.30 o'clock. He was on horseback, and was galloping aloDg, with another gentleman, from Waikaka township towards his house. Turning a sharp corner of the road near the township, his horse ran with great force into the trap of Mr Edward Roberts, mailman, which the horsemen could not see until they were close ! upon it. Caldwell called out to his friend to take care, but his own horse struok the trap, and turned almost a complete somersault, Oaldwell was thrown heavily to the ground, presumably on to his head. He was rendered unconscious immediately, and was taken to the house of Mr M'Kenzie, clo c to where the acoident occurred. When Dr Donaldson, of Gore, attended to him, it was found that he had sustained concussion of the brain. Mr John M'Lean, of the W»ikaka Hotel, conveyed Caldwell to Grove, and he was afterwards taken to the Inveroargill .Hospital by Constable Ferguson. He was unconscious on Monday evening, but his condition had improved somewhat.

— A house well built of the best brick will outlast oae oonatruotei of g unit*