OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2664, 5 April 1905, Page 12

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

The cost of feeding the horses in tho British army is about £25 each per year.

The Victorian Cabinet has pet aside £50,000 with a view to promoting closer settlement.

A team of lady cricketers from Wynyard defeated a team of Burnie veterans by 24 runs, the latter playing with pick-handles. The Mount Vernon Estate, Hawke's Bay, which has just been taken over for closer settlement, is to be known in future as "Lindsay."

Up to the present £277 has been promised for the attempt to obtain artesian water at Marton. Three hundred pounds is the amount required.

The Wairarapa Standard states that it is almost a certainty that no-license will ug carried in the Masterton and Pahiatua electoiates this year. A child, Mary Sullivan, died at Melbourne through the clothes being burned off her body, the clothes catching firo from a spark wh&n she was playing in the street. The name of the young man who was injured while harvesting near Balfour on Monday, 27th, is Carlow. His injuries weie attended to at the Southland Hospital. Organised action is to be taken in Nelson against the Government land valuations, which have in some instances raised values 120 per cent., and in others lowered them similarly.

A further hitch has occurred in connection with the Fallen Troopers' Memorial at Tcvercargill, Mr Fraser, the successful tenderer, having notified the committee that he is not prepared to go on with the work. Dr Bell, Government geologist, who recently visited Taranaki, is much impressed with the prospects of the company which it boring for oil near New Plymouth. He also thinks there- is a great future befoie the local ironsand industry. In the last issue of the Gazette the Colonial Treasurer acknowledges receipt of 6s in penny stamps forwarded anonymously from Greymouth as "conscience money," and also 4s 6d in stamps from "Only Right" as duty short paid on goods. There were during last year, apart from the regular staff, 45 sewiner teachers in the employ of the Southland Education Board. Instruction in this important subject is now available for practically every girl in the district.

Though I am an Irishman, and should not admit that any country is better than Ireland," said his Excellency the Governor at Terauka "yet I am compelled to admit that New Zealand has a better climate than either England, Scotland, or Ireland " At the Fremantle Police Court, Captain Kamsay, master of the steamer Vennachar has been fined £40, with costs, for having permitted two Chinese members of his crew to enter the Commonwealth, in contravention of the Immigration Restriction

An alteration has been mad© in the railway regulations providing that annual season tickets available over the lines of both 01lT + \ a A?-^ JJ 11 i nU TIT I - se f ?n? n tickGts available, over the Middle Island lines, t* ill be available f or travel by steamer on Lake Waka-

A Maori branch of the W.C.T.U was formed at Putiki last week. Mrs Davis being elected president and Mis. Stirling secretary There was a large number p^2-; 1 ! thG mee£m * was « most enthup£Sge. aS maDy aS 32 si S nin & the The Taranaki Education Board, on the recommendation of its chief inspector has whiSrV? S^ bSi^ S ° Seh ° o1 -Smittee which obtain scientific apparatus for lice in their schools The board. will find half the nToteTha^ g'i*^^ ° f ™« " to. make it resemble a£s note The onp.nal markines had been vextW erased bold ferter. The deception wa; not disbank U n ° te WaS P resented afc tke At Bendigo on the 22nd inst. Judcro J'-agleson sentenced Ernest Leonard to 10 years imprisonment, the last day of each month and the last 14 days of the sentence in solitary confinement, for burglariously entering; and John Coleman to five years the last day of each month in solitary confinement, and 14- lashes, for assaulting &nd_ robbing a hawker. Both had a number of prior convictions.

What is believed to be a unique expeiience in theatrical affairs has occurred at Timaru. Miss Nellie Stewart is to ulay thei-3 for two nights next week. Last Saturday morning the first preliminary advertisement; was published in the Timaru

Herald, and a window card was displayed for the first time that day in the Dresden Company's shop. Before night every seat in the dress circle was booked for the first performance.

Peith advices dated March 21 stated that it was expected that the arrangements for pumping the Orizaba and towing her off the rocks would be completed in a few days. A huge strip of canvas is to be placed under the vessel when she is towed off, in order to check the inflow of water. By this means it is hoped to be able to temporarily repair the hull and then tow the vessel into Frema-ntle.

An effort was made at Sydney on March 17 to induce Judge Backhouse to reduce the fine of £100 imposed on Michael O'Brien, bookmaker, for betting from the steps of club in Pitt street. His Honor said he saw no reason to interfere with the magistrate's decision. Betting was absolutely spoiling all Australian sports. Small fines were no deterrent. He would confirm the conviction, and the money would have to be paid.

A man employed by the Rev. Father Hyland, Rangioia, as gardener and grooir, who had acted in a strange manner occasionally during the past few weeks, became quite insane during Sunday night (fays the Lyttelton Times). At 2 o'clock or. Monday morning he knocked up Father Hyland and threatened to do him bodily injury with a stick. Father Hylaid escaped from him and summoned the poiiee, who had considerable difficulty in lodging the man in the lock-up. Subsequently he was committed to Sunnyr.ide.

The West Coast Times states that a number o r those interested in the flaxmilliag industxy in South Westland are taking steps ij procure a suitable steamer for carrying the product of the mills from the corts of shipment to Wellington. A special" feature of the undertaking is that the steamer, which will not draw more than 6ft, is to trade to Wataroa. This river has never yet been entered, but like the Cascade River, which was recently navigated by the Jane Douglas for the first time, it will probably be successfully navigated.

Mrs D. Hood and family had rather an unpleasant experience on Thursday evening (says the Grey River Argus). They had just finished tea when one after the other complained of being sick, accompanied by violent pains. They had eaten se me brawn and the cause was set down to it. A Mrs Betts, who was staying with Mrs Hood, became very ill, and Drs M'Brearty and M'Kay were sent for. They stated that the system showed they had been poisoned, and they at onoe applied remedies. There was a marked improvement on Friday, although Mrs Betts was still very ill.

At Christchurch, before Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., William Henry Thomson, aged 18 years, pleaded " Guilty " to charges of having stolen two bics'cles, valued at £18 and £10 respectively. Detective Ward stated that the accused had' arrived in the colony two years ago from Tasmania, and since then he had been dodging- U p and down between Christchurch and Ashburton. He had previously stolen five bicycles, two of whicn had beon recovered. Only one of the two bicycles affected by the present charge nad been recovered. The magistrate sentenced the accused to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the- sentences to be concurrent.

"New Zealand ministers," said the new Congregational minister at Onehunga (the Rev. Mr Stoops, who has recently arrived from England), "struck me as being- a band of tired mon. They looked to me like nothing so much as a crowd of students exhausted by ovorstudy for an examination!" He wont on (says the Auckland fctar) to declaim against the conditions in wmch ministers had to work in the colony, and was not surprised that they lost thnfr verve and spring. "Taik of Sylvester Hall and R. J. Campbell ! Put them in a suburban church no bigger than a schoolroom, and a house little bigger than a barn; they might shine— they might — but !" At the official opening of Nurse Maude's Consumption Caurn. for Women at Burwood on Saturday four young mon who had been cured of consximption in the men's camp went through lung exercises, under their instructor. Mr Hornibrcok. One of the men, Mr Hornibrook stated, had been admitted to the camp 18 months previously, seriously ill with consumption. He had spent the first six weeks in bed in ono of the tents, end during that time had had six hemorrhages. Fresh air and proper treatment ha.d prevailed, however, and the man had finally been discharged quite free of the disease. Ho was now pursuing hi& ordinary work in the city. Valuable

lung exercises are taught both in the men's and women's camDS.

Th? following list of bequests made to Victorian churches and charitable and philanthropic institutions, under will of the late Miss Isabella Manson, formerly of Victoria, who died recently in New Zealand, was furnished by the Melbourne branch of the Bank of New Zealand, to whom a remittance for the total amount was forwarded by the Public Trust Office at Wellington: — Presbyterian Church of Victoria : For scholarships, etc., £7200; Scots Church Neglected Children's Aid Society, £100; Melbourne Pistrict Nursing Society. £50 ; Queen Victoria Hospital. £50 ; Austin Hospital for Incurables, £50 ; Royal Victorian Asylum for the Blind, £58 ; Melbourne Chil. cTren's Hospital, .850; Carlton Refuge, £100; Young Women's Christian Association. £100; Victorian Neglected Children's Aid Society. £100; Old Colonis's' Association, £50; Melbourr- Hospital, £50; Toorak and South- Tarra Try Excelsior Society. £50; Eye and Ear Institution. £50: MelbourneOrphan Asylum. £50 ; Vicfccrian Sunday School Union Normal College. £300; Bn-h Mission, £50; Religious Tract Society, £50; Deaf and Dumb Institution.. £53 ; Pie=shyterian Women's Missionary Union of Victoria. £100: Melbourne and Puburban t.'ity Mission. £100; and Alfred Hospital. £50.

Nurse Maude, to whom belongs the ci.stinetion of having started the first cprnpir camp for the treatment cf consumption in Now Zealand, has made another advance in hor work of combating the fell disease, a consumptive camp for woiren having been opened pt Burwood, near Christchurch, on Saturday la-t. The onenin-sj rereirony was performed by Lady Plunkct. In the course of a speech Dr C. Greenwood stated that the need for the wmo had been amply demonstrated by the large number of applications for admis=ion from persons who had contracted the drep.d disease. There were 130 known consumptives in Canterbury alone, and no doubt many more in whom, the di.-ea&e was not far advanced, and ea^h of these was a source of danger to the community. Consumption had been proved to be curable by the open-air treatment if it v.-ere taken in tfia early -stages, and the results achieved by Nurs-o Maude's camp had been m-cst eucoaraging. Among the patients in the men's ramp, about 90 per cent, of those in the first stage of the disease and 50 per cent of those yi the second or more serious stage, had been cured since it was opened some 18 months previously, and in the women's, which had been in existence only a short time, three had already been discharged as free from the disease.