OMNIUM GATHERUM

Otago Witness, Issue 2692, 18 October 1905, Page 12

OMNIUM GATHERUM

The accepted tendeir for the erection of new bathe at Rotorua is said to be over £25,000. 3>lr Win. Grenfell, who is well-known in Oamai-u, has been appointed secretary of 'tne Wellington Employers' Association. i' In a sqaaTe inch of the human scalp t.he 1 hairs number about 1000, and the whole numiber on an adult scalp averages 120,000. During its sitting in Wellington last week the Arbitration Court dealt with 60 cases, and many more have to come on before the list is exhausted. The death of Trooper Thomas Fine!'. la-te of the Fifth and Eighth Now Zealand j » Concingents, at the age of 26, took jjluc 0 ' ( at A.ucklaud last week. • | JoKn Thorn, a sturdy veteran, who is now j . in jus eighty-ninth year, won the first prize j for allotment culture at the Lane-End j (Bucks, England) flower show. j Nine oases of chicken-pox developed | among the children passengers on the Papai'oa during the voyage from London. : All had recovered before reaching Hobart. j Kiekin? policemen is practised' to such an extent by Liverpool roughs of both sexc.-> , that it is suggested to provide the constables wit'i leg-guards to wear under their ; trousers. J The Ashburton No-licence Council has decided not to identify itse-lf, as a body, with any candidate at the coming election. ! Thei Wairau No-license League has decided to take up a similar position. ! A Ba-rnct (England) ecarecroAV, despite its tall hat and morning coat, has no terrors ,' for a jj&ir of blackbirds, which have built j a nest and successfully reared a brood of young ones in the iseareorow's breast pocket. ' W'hils putting out the cat a* an early hour on September 27, George Saundcrs. a ' resident of Horsham (Victoria), accidental Js* j set his house on fire. The house was ' destroyed, and five children wero with difii- \ culty rescued. . i A sorter at the Johannesburg Post Office has been found to be suffering fiom small- ( pox. It is believed that 2000 people have received letters which passed through his hands. The public is officially ad\istd to be re\aceinated. ' Evidently the fear that sheep are likely t to go back in price is groundless so far as : ! present indicaiTons go (says the ilataura Ensign). A line of t\\o-t,ooth ewes was scJd at Riversdale a few days ago at the | record price of 31s per head. j / Mrs Elizabeth Ann Lancaster, an old resi- ' dent of JTitzroy and Collingwood, died uv Fitzroy (Victoria) on September 24-, at ire r age of 103 years and 11 months. Mrs Lancaster was born in Cambridge (Eua'anl) j in 1801, and arrived in Victoria in 1850. "A daily photograph is taken cf the s.-un at at least three- observatories in the world, ! so that it shall not be up co any little cam*;-; it ought not to be up to without Voing i , eaujrht." — Dr Far-, a.fc the Pliilo.sop'iical j Institute, Christchurcii, on Wednesday . . night. ' Edward Jones, a convict in an American ' penitentiary, while serving an righr-voais' ; sentence, invented a new collar button. A j Pitt^burjr firm took up the i/ivciri on, with ! i the result that when Joner. is released in ' 1 four years' t-ime he will find a consiciosaHo < fortune awaiting- him. Last week tho Out'ook published its ascQßd no-license number entitled " The t Truth About Bruce." The. matte;; has been collected and comniled by the Rev. G. Miller, of Milton. A"n edition cf 15,010 i copies has bean printed, and it is bc]<e\<id 1 will be readily absorbed. • That the Truancy In.spc n Lcr has recently bean making a na-tne for himself («iy>3 the Mauawaru Tiincs) is evidenced by the fact tha.t on the 18th ef t.h I .* month jsto 40 townsfolk will le required to a^t^nd at the "S3r' Cbiut rcgardina: the i;on-ahcnc lanc31 anc3 at school of ihfii- oiFspvinp:. ' At a moving of the C-nm'fira cf Mana^pmp" 1 - of the South C'a,'.'-t°i-bury Educational Inotiiu'e on S'rtitri day it v-as ik-cidad t^a'" 6 '" 1 *^ at v? L-" Uf ' ot'lDunodn, sl-ouVl cord.Kt .1 rod tciv.a in botany a'ld Nature-study s-iine time cluving 1906, say from Atvl l on-.«arj*. Mr G. A. Olk-v. ihs fame.:, cy:l "t arc! ho'dsr. of the Lav-d'.: End to Jehu o' Uv°ats record, ree:nt'y r^rcuc.l M ?s Here Mabel King from drowning in th? ii'. :-• „ i:-2ai- Thanus DittC'i. _YF'«5 i\~ ur irr.ri:->l her re-sour t last mrutb. ar.d the honr>noon will bo sp-nt motoripg in th:>- Hish'a k's. Afc a mealing cl J:hc hotclkcc^es tt" Whuus'arei and the ,-vp" . ';~ -t _ was unanimously c-j' icou xha^ th-> ti-8.<3 should take no yv.rt, eH>,ov dhc.-dy 01 1 indirectly, in uhe election o: a moir.tcr foi tho Ileus « of Koprescni-at'VLS. but s'oi'ld |. confine themsehes eniire'y to il.-c lora! opticn poll. ! 'A single man. WiHiam O'B'-nn 31 yjars ,01 ase, residing at ilarvboicucli n*in.;ral.

was found lying face* downwaid in a dam about 60 yards from his home on October 1. The water was about 6in deep, and only the deceased's head was in re. The decaased's younger brother was drowned in the same dam some years ago.

A man who carries the United States mails seven miles and a-half daily to a* small railway station near Washington is paid at the 'strange rate of one cent every four years. He accepts this low remuneration because the contract enables him to display '"U.S. Hail"' on his carrying waggon, and thus attract passengers

Signor Mascagni. the composer, and his wife weas* watch fobs of common Italian coins, each punctured with six holes, in which arc set t.he toeth of the first two Mascagni children, the teeth of the mother's charm being the first of her little daughter's, while the proud father wears in his charm the milk teeth of his first-born son. A littie commotion was occasioned on the Timaru wharves on Priday, when the wheelhouse of ihe- s.s. Poherua wast- discovered to bo on fire. The flames were speedily extinguished, and all danger of a serious crirflagration averted. It was fortunate that the fire was discovered early, as in a few minutes it would have spread to the magazine, in which sky rockets, gun powder, etc., arc kept.

A mysterious tragedy is reported from Xortli Shore (Sydney), where a child of 12 years has died under eiroumetaiioes that point to suicide. Boris Berge. who resided with her mother and stepfather, was sent to a butcher's shop, but instead of going there she proceeded to a chemist's and purchased a botfeie of carbolic acid. Later on sLo was discovered in an un conscious condition, and she died shortly afterwards. Mr Crawford, cattle dealer, woo was a passenger from Singapore by t-ho steamer Airlie, which arrived at Brisbane on September 29, in the course of an interview, said that things generally ?,t Java were bright. The cane crops were good, and ihc mill"-, which were mostly worked by coloured Labour, anticipated a big output within the next Iwo or three months. A jjvoat demand for Australian cattle is likely.

A serious case of poi c oning is reported fio'n Rathmine's Estate near Bnnbury (Wet Australia.) A reside.nl made some brawn, and good-naturedly distributed a poirion of it arnoiig her 'neighbour?:, but with disasn-ous resiilts A number of adults and ynimg people arf> suffering front the pffpcts of poisoains*, but the doctor is x hopeful of Iheir rer-overv A little g-ii"S, Dorothy WitliPi-s, apred three years, died. \u inquiry will oe held. ' A peculiar cas? was dealt with in the Cambridge Court a few days ago, Henry Bri-erly being charged with ha-viiig 1 no ! vi^iblp mc-ans of support. A constable said i tiio man refund to -work, and was much j pddieted to '''rink, sp-ending his tini^ wandering bptw-een Hamilton a-nd Cambridge. The acci2--<?<l c aid he had besri a good man, j but ho intended net to do any more work, find woirld make the Government keep 1 him. -ViCUf^d was sentenced to three j mrnth*' ''mpr'scmr^nt. ]

\o i *th finj-zloyed in a ofSre in W"i]inffion roet with an nnpi?asaaic a-d-%pri.iu-? tlio otbor nistfit. As he was cyolinpr to his horn 0 thicnarh the Hutt between 9 and 10 o'clock some one fired at him, *>vid^ntiv bolicvins that ho was the " ffho-t whore apooaranoe in tho disfcriot of !ste Jias paused some -excitement. The> cvHist felt ihr he had been pra-uck by som^r.hijij* l-'ow tbo shcnld" 1 ", and on reaching horn& h" foimd that a small bul'ct cr. J--K:eii po-ikil b^d gone clean through his coat.

So up (jueer atmospheric conditions wore r"inc.°i>> ; ' 1 o.i Ra-turday afternoon (siys the r fi:«i.r". Rcraldi. Thsre was a f^po invovtod mi i- ;»<?•" -"long- the whole of vhc Ninety-nile Tj! 5 .< h and aJI ,t.be visible horizon. .Voo-ii S o'clock"' ilwre was also in ploc-ps

"h"<- misfht. He caUed a "sound Piir3-«?." Th s colkjHwl t'y> sound of fhe b"oak'ns v.u-p av<l w intensifi-C'H t.hein here f\v\ I->' 1"^1 "^ ri.^t |,}vg nois" was <?re?tt!r ni sur-h like; r-von ? lor? Tray mshcre. than at x'tf wat.">r'i cdo'c. "Roth ih"se p'rononvor-a rwa -->d 10 I" 1 ? wc r lriXP'-l by r-of cotien.

The umiil luoiitli'v mPEitng cf tlie cr-:ni"ti&" . r\l il>-> Vicio r ia .Tnb' l ee Convalescent Fund iip d in tli<-> Tn-5i'53 H-iM oil Frir>oy was attended by .•re-clam^g Bafciielor (in the rhau) lien --, "'iii ip 3 Rrznsav Mpclcorrss, Uejvcld*, I=nfi. TCwen O'Neill. TVfariiu Co'auhoui. Tl'O'iiUn. ."Johnston. Brown, anri Miss Hutr'i"OT). Th° Ti»\\il -nil fir p busi^e^s f-'iJTiiricr". The foPowinjj .siiiSsciiwt^oT's were -rcsiv-d — Mi,« Keith T?amr ] v. ft 1^ ~\lvs J-Ir.i Tl-«~ f T .o-:(in- * £1 1*: L-'-^n F -o-- "<-•:, -CJ : "Urs M.-u-kerm" £1 ; I \Jr'= J I^. c '<o ! Mr. ICs; Mis Fo-k,r.g, 10s, Mss Ke'=pv, os.

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j meeting at Auckland last week whether j criminal proceedings could be taken against ; a bankrupt for failing to keep proper i books, or any books at all, the Official ! Assignee (Mr E. Gerard) made rather a startling reply. He said that, although the act provided that such proceedings could be taken for such an offence, it was useless to do so, for it was very difficult to get a jury to convict. During more than a decade of experience he had absolutely failed to secure the conviction of a bankrupt for failing to keep -proper books, or any books a.t all. One of the creditors suggested that it was because ,the jurors were in sympathy with the bankrupts. An "arrest" of a demijohn of whiskywas smartly effected by the local sergeant of police the other night (says the Gore 3tandard). Passing a couple of men,' one of . whom was carrying a bag over .his shoulder, the sergeant's curiosity was aroused by an ominous creaking coming from the bag, and an examination revealed a rom'-gaT'on demijohn of whisky. The individual explained that he was taking care of it for a second party, about whom, j however, bis information was* very meagre, j and the limb of the law suggested that he i himself would take charge of it, and the I owner could make application to the police j station when he wanted it. No owner has, j" f-o far, put in an appearance, and the j police intend returning the liquor to the 1 publican who sold it.

Dui'irg the course of his sermon at the Tokom-iiiiiTi Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening 'says the Bruce Herald) the Kcv. George Miller, in speaking of the nobility of a high moral character, condemned dincinsf in no unmeasured terms. Me ta.ij that dancing was a dangerous thing: it meant death to all other desires that conlt) »Jo good, and death to the spirirual life of a person. He remarked that dancing may not be wrong, and the sweeping- moral objections which had been inacL- -igainst it were, to his mind, an itifult to womenlcind. but there were wrao daijce^ which were an insult to good taste and good feeling. He did not know much abouu local dances, and he did not think his remarks applied to them, but there were places in the large cities where unseemly dances were carried oh. In many places the. ballroom had sunk to a low level, and some of the low ballrooms of London and Dunedin had been the ruin of thousands of young people. He beHoved that he was right in saying that, when dancing became engrossing, and when a young- woman could not rest without being at a dance every week, it was doing her harm.