OMNIUM GATHERUM

Otago Witness, Issue 2319, 11 August 1898, Page 26

OMNIUM GATHERUM

i The Bluff harbourmaster recommends tha Doarcl to serme a more powerful tug boat. Golf is becoming exceedingly popular amongst tho J\'ative.> in ihe Hastings district. The Moana conveyed to Honolulu the first news of the annexation of Hawaii by the tfnited Slates. There wore seven bankruptcies in thocolony lubL week— a labourer, a butcher, a pain tor, a decoiator, a storekeeper, a baker, and (ho wife of a miller. j Mr M'Ponald, president of the North ! Otago Educational Institute, favours free eduj cation in tho High School* rather than con- ; tinua Seventh Standard teaching in country ' scljoolj. ! Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company ! paid in dividends for the pasl year £300,000, and in wa%es £1 39.000. Government received £15,000 as dividend duty, and £8000 as royalty. Tho Mayor of Caversham (Mr Wilkinson) lias paid to Jamas M'Auliffe, who was shot by a burglar recently, £5 out of the money* now being collected in recognition of the lamplighter's plucky act. The Australian record for s\ift siuUino; has been made in tho Brilliant Desp Lead, Charters Tower-, — 1052 ft through hard grry granite in less than a year. The shaft is 121 1 by 4fb in the clear, timbered into three compartments. The Johanna 'burs; Town Council lias an overdiaft al £100,000, they want, £150,000 more. A local paper says there are over 1000 empty houtes in Johannesburg, and the population is growing pooiei* and loid numerous day by day. The prisoners diet at ihe Napisr craol ur-ust be exceedingly good, judging by -i •slo-'orrienl made by the gaoler at the Sup re ne Covi t the other day. In the course of a couple of months or ?o, ho said, a prisoner ha! put en in weight something like 201b. Tho Oh) ist church City Council have adopted what is urgently needed in DuneJin — namely, the putting up of notices ;n; n the streets asking pedestrians to " keep to the right." The number of persons who do not know this rule of the path is fiurprising. John W. Lee, a schoolmaster, was drowned in a flood afc Hukercnui on Saturday morning. The body has been recovered. Deceased, a promising young man, was a .son of Mr Wesley Lee. Mangapai. formerly inspector under Leeds School Board. Louis Doyle and Samuel Cousins were committed for trial for conspiring to defraud various merchants. They gave orders by telephone for paresis of goods in the name of a well known resident, but were overheard vl ihe machine and followed and. arrested. The Piogres.Mve Liberal Association have passed the following resolution to be fcrwarded to the Government: — "That this association is of opinion that it is in the best inteiests of the colony that the Government should purchase or build steamers for the Wellington-Lyttelton trade." The special committee set up by the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association to consider the question of future shows passed the following motion: — "That this committee report to tho general committee that the result of the canvass for subscribers make it apparent that it is advisable to wind, up the association." Mr Justice Edwards gave judgment on the 2nd on petition of the Solicitor-General that the Mokihinui Coal Company be compulsorily wound up. He also ordered that the voluntary liquidation of the company under the supervision of the court be continued, and removed the present liquidators, substituting in their stead Mr Alexander Simpson, of Marton, commission agent, as liquidator ; costs to be paid out of the funds coming out of tho hands of the present liquidators. Mr Ernest Rutherford, who has been ap j pointed Professor of Physics at Magil] University, Montreal, was educated at Nelsoo College and passed to Canterbury College vitlt a junior scholarship in 1890. lie took his B A. degree and gained a senior scholarship in ]89'-> He graduated M.A. in 1893 with double . j c\ ■ honours in mathematics and physical ■■io'KO. ']']". " lowing year ha took the dew o ,>f 1' 'Se. . , id at the same time gained dio lllk 1 t, < ■ >,i 1851 Science Scholarship, lakui^ - n>- subject "Electricity." 'lh'u , \r>hu 'i,n i« iffered periodically to tho unu ■•-uv ' . In commis-sioners of the e\h!l iiuiM of J'"i V<j proceeded to Cambridge Lai' \ 'a \hoto hs has beeo making a v> >' i''-l> < f dternatmg currents of eioi >i. 't '•!>> aphing without Mfivca.