OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2262, 8 July 1897, Page 31

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS. GOSSIP. AND ADS.

Constable Douthell, of Auckland, has been awarded £5 by the Police department for saving life. A leading legal firm in Wellington has been appointed to represent the Hooley Trust in New Zealand. The exporb of coal from Greymouth lasb week was 3049 tons, and that of timber 172,459 ft and b7O sleepers. A Gazette published on Tuesday contains a list of teachers holding certificates under " The Education Act, 1877." The Gazette contains notices of the insolvency of four labourers, two grocers, a civil engineer, and a butcher. Tbe photographic section of the Canterbury metropolitan cycle show decided to give about £50 in prizes to amateurs. Francis Dillon Bell, the eldest son of Mr H. D. Bell, mayor of Wellington, died on Tuesday sight from rheumatic fever. The Christchurch Fire Brigade tamed out to 23 alarms of fire during the June quarter. Their plant does not rust for want of use. The Wycdham papers say that the local police are invesSigating a mysterious affair that happened at Edendale at the end of last week. The hospital returns for the past week are :— j Remaining from the previous week, 111 ; ad- ! •mitted during the week, 22 ; discharged, 2B ; deaths (David Stewart Roy and Thomas Robson), 2 ; total remaining in the institution, i 103. I Notwithstanding the wet weather that prevailed on Record Reign night, Dr Copland's bonfire on 'the Hokonuiß (the Southland' Standard says) was distinctly seen at Castle Rock station, nearLumsden— a distance of about 40 miles. At a public meeting at Oamaru on Tuesday night a large and influential committee was appointed to carry out he annual band contestb under the auspices of the Band Association. The dates fixed upon are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4-th November. The Hon. Mr Carroll states that the engineer of the Public Works department who has been recently engaged upon the North Island Maid Trunk railway line has received instructioss to proceed to Gisborne forthwith and make a trial ; survey of a line fora light railway between Gisborne and Rotor ua. - .- ' Tbe five members of the police force who v?ere most active in working up tbe case against Bosher have received a second gratuity of £5 apiece. Constable Poland, who has repeatedly . been instrumental in stopping runaways and ( saving lives in the harbour, has been made a ■ bird class constable. According to'the North Otago Time?, a settler , in the Oamaiu district;, who has taken par- ■ ticular notice of the rainfall^ says that it has not rained for a whole day during the past eight ; months. This, we believe, iB a record for dry- " ness. It is perhaps not go noticeable from the fact that the most part of the drought has occurred in winter time. Mr H. Richardson, gardener, of Gore, who ' has been on a business trip to the Lakes die- , trict. informs us (Southern Standard) that the ■ codlin moth is making great ravages among the , apple trees, there. Not a garden is without it. i Mr Richardson has left at our office some samples of the pest in a grub state, and they j ' can be inspected by anyone interested in the matter. n The treasurer of the Free 'Kindergarten Association acknowledges receipt of the following " subscriptions >r-Mrs Reid (Blderslie), £2 Is ; , Mrs Hyde, Hon. W. C. Walker, and Mr Jas. j Allen, £1 eaoh ; Otago Witness Little Folks' kindergarten fund (nineteenth), £!■; M's H. S. Chapman, 10a ; Mr» Richards, Mxb Pryde, Miss Bell, Mrs SScott, Mrs Snndstrom, Mr Higgins, j and Captain Laing, 5s each ; Mr Joseph Tamblyn (Coal Creek) and Mr Hubbard, 3s each.