OMNIUM GATHERUM

Otago Witness, Issue 2707, 31 January 1906, Page 2

OMNIUM GATHERUM

A Thames wire =tale« that the shipping export of timber from the port is very biisk. The barque Empreza left with half a million feet of timber for Australian ports. The first hotel in New South \Vahs to be called upon to pay the maximum licence fee of £10C a year •« the Grand tVntril, York street, Sydney. the rental of v. hi oil was asse-aed at £3000 a year, which carried the maximum fee. Two skeletons were found on the beach near Raglan. Auckland, a few days ago, also small piece- of clothing, bone buttons,and the remnants of a woman's boot. Over 20 years ago a sailing vessel, during a. westerly gale, gain-etl the harbour, and on her subseltxient voyage she was wrecked near by. On that occasion the captain had his wife aboard, and it is believed the remains are theirs. Included in the shipments from Aapklancl by the Manuka on Monday last were two boxes cf gold, valued at £6776, shipped by the Waihi Gold Mining Company; 55 e^ts kauri gum for London; and lines rf t.mber. pumice, sand, fungus, copra, c'(:, for Australian ports. She also had on board two valuable yearling colts, purcha-ocl for the respective" sums of 1100 guineas ai.d 450 guineas at the recent sale cf aJt Walters 1 :, Glei.oia Paik Mock, on U-n.-ilf of two Australian '.portsnu-n. X commercial firm m Chmtehureh was rather curprisr-d (-av= the Lyttelton lim<s> to reiene from London on Thursday last, ai. advert i->iiiK card -etling out the. adiant*!>e, of the International Kxlnbitiori. r lh#> froi.t of the oard bears a well-known repre--tTitation of the exhibition builclmj?, bathed in sunlight ai.'l with banner flying from ihe turrr-t> In the foregiound there ha. good picture of the A^oti. and on the green bank-, there is a large proportion, of the 1.800 000 necple who are expected to vi-it ihp Exhibition. The advantage* of the undertaking are br.efly ?et out on th© card Mr -T. Collin- has !=>avs the X-yttelton Time-) presented to the Christohureli Museum some Maori relies found on the? property formeily owned by him at Redeliff*. " The property is bounded on one .-ide by a cliff about 200 ft high. Half-way up the cliff Mr Oollius tcfim-d a cave, in which there were the r&mains of a Maori basket and other articles. Hanging out of the cave there were the remains of a. flax i - ope. It is -thought that the cavo was occupied by a Maori refugee, who wan probably at enmity with the tribe that occupied the .district, and hid in the cave, using the rope to help fr'f" x»ich hi* hiding place..