OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 30

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Miss Eva Ash has been r&cammended.'.for the mistuess-ship at the Poriobello School.

Fuom Greymoulh las-tweelc^ss4,lß9ft'timber t 130'sleepera, and 1608 ooal were exported.

| A' cjuantity of oranges and lemons ' by the I, Talune, from)Sydaey, were infected with .scale, Land were condemned at.W-t/liitigfe&n.

' A miner riatoed Joseph Anderson, aged .69 •years, was f o»nd dead«on Sunday '.in ! his -hut at Fulton's, -.shout five miles -'frran ■ Hyde. v — ' • Tne banbr'a'ptcies in .the- colony last sveefe wera irac'uQed 'io seven — two butehoce, -nhaker, a blscltenaibii, a saddler, ;a jfarmes, -and one not described. The fnud initiated 'by CJbief .'Juatiiee Way to provider, merooris! for Ihe 'late JSlarcus Clarke bas reached an 3it is expected that at -vriJJ reach £150. The T-Roipeka 'Times understands 'that Mr : -George Neiil Bomss into ?a laxge <of property tbrough tihe deaSb of hie father, Mejor Neill, Al'Wanganui.

The erection of "a public prospecting .battery i in the Coromanddl district -will be urged apoD ' the Government, who are bslie-ved tfco view tbe > 'proposal favourably. The Wellington City overdraft :bss inoEeaßed •from £10,138 -to £f5'705 nn^ year, "hub of 'tihi* • amonnt £2163 prqpedy bilongeS *o ; the -pTe- : vioufi year's expenSihure. Mr J. W. Brindlsy has dficided' to .sever "bis i -connection with the Victoria Insoranoe Cera* • pany, with the object af going into (business fi> I Syd-uey on his own account. i At ■ Cartarton, Wellington, on the 31st n'lfc. ' Madeline Cross wot committed -for toial on a change of mnrderiug her infau't. Bail wai " a!Jowe« in two sureties xsf £2,50 -e,a,vl>.

•From a rstare su-pplicd to the Wellington Benevolent Trnsfcees it appears 1661 persons wer& afidst&d dntin|ftae jbst at a cost of "^7795, Of these 315 were -men, '376 women, anß the real children. £2742 was gssren in monej. The hospital returnn for *hepasfc-weefe are; B« maitiing from .piedaua week, .94 ; admitted fJuitifg the -werik, 26; discbaa-^ed, £0; death* (Alice Carter, -Geocge Bradford, Yung Sac. Jiamss-Ltis^enX 4- ; — .totaiUreinsiGing ii> :bherin^ti-

ttztien, 96. Lieutenani; Blateb, of- Maungataa, -who h-a» for many yeass .past<heen an enthusiastio volunteer, has now earned .the Imperial medal. The Advocate understands that 4* will ibe tpresented te him shaftly at one '-of the 'paxadep -of 'tike East Taieri Rifles. Messrs 1. 3. Eothsehald (Wellington 1 ) .and AMoss (Dunedin) hays purchased the^ wreck of the Tasmania, iand will send io for dirers wzfch.-a'vdew'to <the .'recovery (of fefae lost jewellery, &c. Both -were passengers when vesaslwas wrecked.

As tihe result -of a raid made by tfce police on some licensed premises "in Inrercargill 'snlßcieiafc levidenfie £>l Sandsiy .trading w,&B gained ifco w»t.»»nt prosecutiionß tin 'Ons'or-two caset, 'and ttse alleged 'offenders <mll be duly «harg»6^ with .-breaches of ithe *ct.

I .Applio»tionß for betters ,patent are made hy ! John Marshall and J. C. Aphomson, of Donedin^ ! for an improvement -in butter 'workers, «ad hy \ R. Cockerel!, Bouth Danedin, for an improvaf Tftenb tor .lifting aad ;direcbir\g .battery 'for oraahiztg 'and grinding qn*rtz aud ctber ipairposes. - The Manaia ifiour ;and oabnaeal mills, belonging 4o Mrs John ftielrose, were burned on San« id»y,S9th. iFheoe was an insurance tan the building of £300 in bhe South British office, and £400 <on ithe .stock. Thcoiener her loss *t £1000 over the .insurances. Otbsr*tockistorEd an .thsjmill, vfckied efbaß6Oo,.was also •aeitroy«d.

Efc was suggested to the Hon. Mr -Ckdmaa that .» Royal commissioQ be appointed to codsider the Miuicg Bill and deal with the mining legislation, fcut the Minisbar .did, not fiavour tJie proposal. He . «aid the experience .of Royaoomaiiissions was that they provfed very «xpen« eive, "with unsatisfa'ctocy results.

In another "column in this issue Mr William Botmiface offers to "back Mf son Herbert'to row Mt R. A. PalUmountain lor th* Dingey S»oa Cbampionßhip of New Zealand for from £50 ta £100.