OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9941, 9 January 1894, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS, GOSSIP, AND ADS.

Small birds are playing havoc with the crops in: Canterbury. , .

Mr William Fyle is appointed deputy registrar of marriages at Blackstone.

The Bey.--E.'.Walker of the New Zealand Alliance starts on a short southern lecturing tour thiij afternoon. '

The road from Pipiriki to Tokaana (on the Lake Taupo route), a distance of 88 miles, is now open tor vehicles, though not quite finished. A famous novelist has been plunged into grief by the Ardlamqnt tragedy. Helen Mathers is a sister of Mrs Hambrough, mother of the murdered man, to whom she was much attached.

Applications for letters patent have been made by W. E. Richardson (Outram) for an invention for automatically packing or wrapping in paper or like material any description of articles of merchandise; H. T. Selwqod (Otago) for Selwpod's pan-protector for rabbit traps. Some good takes of fish were made at the back end. of last week in the Waitaki, which is now in good flshable order, and the fish themselves aire in good condition. Among other baskets Mr Sinclair obtained eight fish weighing 351b (one 8-pounder); Mr Vallange, six fish weighing 281b; Mr G. Bruce, three weighing 251b (one 10-pounder); and Mr Bruce, jun., six weighing 321b.—Oamaru Mail.

Court Excelsioiv A.0.F., held their annual meeting on Thursday evening in tho court room, Hornington Public Library. The secretary read the Balance sheet for the half-year ended 21stDecember, which showed:—Sick and funeral :Eund: Balance from last half-year, £600 Is 4id; receipts, £96 9s 6d ; expenditure, £64 6s 7(J. Management fund : Balance from last half-year, £20 3s 3d; receipts, £77 5s 4d; expenditure, £75 2s 95. Total worth ofjhe court, £554 10s lid. Membership, 57. Bro. W. R. Cole, District Chief Ranger, installed the officers for the ranisning half-year as follows: — 0.R., Bro. W. C- J, Powell; S.C.R., Bro. R. Dictison; treasurer, Bro. J. M'Naught, jun.; secretary, Bro. J. Paterson ; S.W., Bro. J. Thompson; J.W., Bro. J. Robson; 5.8., Bro. W. Gillies; J.B. Bro. T. Wren; auditor, Bro. R. H. Wilson; trustee, Bro. John Smith; delegates to district meeting, P.C.R.'s Bros. J. Paterson and J. W. Powell. Bro. Paterson was also nominated for the office of district beadle.