OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2410, 10 May 1900, Page 37

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

The Gazette notifies that land aggregating 31.4 jjoles in block "VII, Oamaru survey district, has been taken for the purpose of the Waitaki-Bluff railway.

Mr and MvsG. F. Mitchell, of Balclutha, have received from their son George, a member of the first contingent, a booklet containing 16 splendid photographic views of Bloomf ' ii hoi i

Mr E. S. Stronach, accountant at the Milton branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has (says the local Herald) severed his connection with that institution, md has entered into the sharebroking business at Dunedin.

The Gore Standard -states that a Waikoikoi farmer threshed the magnificent average of over 100 bushels of oats to the acre off a 16acre paddock. At current prices this means, roughly, a return of about £7 10s per acre.

It is somewhat extraordinary (says the Express) that sine© Mr Hogg, M.H.It. , congratulated the Eketahuna Progress Association upon there being no use for the local cemetery, four sudden deaths should have occurred in the district within four days.

The Clutha Free Press reports that Mr Wells, stationmaster at Stirling, who is under orders to proceed to Newmarket, on the Auckland section, was presented by the residents of Stirling with a beautiful marble clock on Thursday night. Mr James Hunter, of Winton, landed three

I eels while fishing in the Oreti River on | Saturday, one, -'of them weighing 71b. On ' opening this one he discovered a 10-inch trout in its stomach, the fi^h "being in splendid order and not at all marked. The current season has already proved to be a profitable one for the great bulk of our dairy farmers (says the Wyndham Herald), the- excellent prices secured for cheese enabling the factories to pay higher rates for the milk. The returns of one supplier for the unfinished - reason are about £8 per cow for a good-sized herd, and he expects ere the season ends that he will average £10 per cow. Proceedings have Been initiated (according to the Southland Daily News) foi the recovery of £1000 damages, alleged to have been suffered by an Invereargill young lady owing to alleged breach of promise of marriage by a divinity student, formerly residing in Southland and now in the north. The case is to be heard at the June sittings of the Supreme Court in Invercargill. | At Mataura on Saturday night, Mv James West, whvD ha& been employed in the engineer- • ing department at Messrs W. Gardiner and j Co."s works, was the recipient of a present : from his fellow-employees on the eve of his j departure for Port Chalmers, where he has received an appointment with the Duneclin Engineering Company. They take things coolly in Orepuki. On Sunday r^ight they had a ?eveie earthquake shock. It wakened a sleeper in one of the hotels, who thought that someone had caught him by the shoulders, and he asked what all the row was about. To this came the reapsnring reply from an adjoining room: "Don't bother ; it's only an earthquake." — Southern Cross.

C.J.C. Grand Stand Handicap, '/anuari 1887. ' j One mile and a-half. — Tire, 2min 35 o-seeof Hawke's Bay Cup, March, 1900. , One mile and three-quarters. — Advance, Smiif 4sec, "Wanganui Cup, ISOO. j Two miles — Ilosefeldt, 3min 29seo, 2Tew Zeft*, land Cup, November 3893. Two miles and a distance — Occident, 2mij& 50sec, Dunedin Cup, February 1892. Two miles and a-quarter — Seahorse, 3xuu} 56 l-ssec, Canterbury Cup, 1899.