THE PARIS EXHIBITION CLOSED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2436, 21 November 1900, Page 13

THE PARIS EXHIBITION CLOSED.

PARIS, November 13. '* The Pari? Exhibition has closed. During tlie time the Exhibition was opetf 48,000,000 tickets were used.

-One of the oldesb and best-known pioneer families in New South "Woles— the Suttot fa mils- — celebrated the hundredth anniversary of their landing in Sydney on November 5. Vai.tjabls Discovers for. the Hair. — If your hair is tur fling gi^j or white, or falling off, use " The Mexican Hair Benewcr," for it will positively restore in every case Grey 01 White Hail* to its original colour without leaving the disagreeable smell of most " Restorers." It" makts the hair charmingly beautiful, ag well as promoting the growth o£ the hair on bald spots where the glands are not decayed. Ask your Chemist for '' The Mexican Hair Restorer," sold by Chemists and Perfumers every wheie at 3s Gd per bottle. Wholesale, depot, 33 Farringdon road. London, ELfiland.— i Advt,

During September and October £8200 in money orders and postal notes was sent from Adelaide to Tasmania, nearly all the money being forwarded in connection with racing consultations. The unusual procedure of a, person asking the police to lock him up occurred at Stratford on Saturday week, when a man suffering from the effects of drink asked a constable to take charge of- him, as he felt inclined to break things. Unlike the man who acted in such a manner in Dunedin recently, he had no difficulty in haying his request complied with, and the Stratford Gaol was placed at his disposal. "At an interview with the magistrate, he Avas convicted and discharged.

At Mosgiel on Thursday Sydney Thompson, a cab driver, of Dunedin, was fined £1 and costs on a chaige of having-, at the Taieri racecourse on the 9bh November, unlawfully played a game of chance (roulette), by means of an instrument of chance. The machine was ordered to be destroyed. The chief officer of the Penarth (says the Westland News) went ashore at Turtle Island on the outward voyage, and secured a skull of a savage who had met his death in ways peculiar to cannibal islands. With a keen sense of humour, the officer inscribed the following on the skull: — "Taken from a cannibal restaurant on Turtle Island, Barner'a Reef.— T.H.M."