NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17685, 24 July 1919, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Lambing- has commenced at Balruddery 1 where two early lambs liavo appeared (says ] the Oamaru Mail). • The Woirarapa Patriotic Association has < ™? ced on loMi the sum of ( £7537, and of this £3812 has been repaid. < lho Balclutha Free Press States that a < trargJary occurred at the house of Mr AleS 1 MAeil on Friday night, when the house i was entered and £4 odd in cash stolen, i Hi© police have the matter in hand A Real Corn CureJs Waters' Kornbane, J Is {posted Is Waters' Pharmacy. 14 c Princes street.... , • a " awatu Times saya that the roads in the Palmerston North Eorou-li and tho ] counties round about are going from bad t to worse owing to tho constant wear of fast i motor traffic. . , "Noisy exhausts and' stinking motor cars i lam going to have put under a spetr'al by- r fe W *m s ? d r,M IO , Ma: ' ,or of Christchurch (Dr t HI J. lhacker, M.P.) to a Sun renre t sentative. At tho Auckland Police Court, before J Mr F i K S - M - Alfred & Thomas was charged that on May 5 he sold milk ' containing 6 per cent, of added water. Ho was fined £20. j Men s Box Suits, beautifully cut ana well r made, are now replacing- the tailor-made { article. W© ho*d a splendid range, and the V prices are very moderate. Also Boys' a buits and Overcoats. If you can't call and + inspect them, write for one.—Cheyno u „ ' Co. \los;r!el..r. r The fierce gale that blew early on Mon day evening played liavoc with the decora- 8 1 ". -Ihames street (says the North } Otago Tunes). One of tho large transparoncies on a frame over the top of tie 1 olytechnic verandah waa caught bv the wind and smashed one of the upper windows. Both of the largo pictures had to be removed. 8 It is understood that Mr Vivian Riddi- * ford intends to offer the Government 6000 acres of his station in Lower Valley Wai t ra-rapa, for settlement by soldiers ' Tho r property comprises a good lot of first- 1 class country, some .being suitable for dairy- t mg. •> l Avoid substitutes! Demand the genuine E article always. "Bourbon" Coffee is thn s genuino article. From your grocer, or a direct from the manufacturers: "Durie's " v 32 Ortan-nn liuiT'din. According t?> tho Christchurch Press, Mr c J- H. Burgess, Staveley, shooting- in the Mount Somers district, brought down a a fine stag. Tho head proved to bo a particularly fine 12-pomter. The measurements were 40J,m and 40in long for tho branches S 6j beam, cornet, 13i brow tino, and = o4j inches spread. j At a meeting of tho Napier High School txovornors, says tho Herald,.Mr J. L Oato said that he had had good response eo fax • to his appeal for subscriptions towards the new boys school Ho hoped to raise ±«A),JOO spread over three years, and he thought that they would need it all ; n addition to «uiy Grovemmont grant received to seouro a baUding worthy oi tho province.

! " ~ ' A returned soldier, who secured a dairy farm further north some weeks ago, dutf 1 of dairy cows in tho Palmerston North district, and made ar- 1 rangements to graze them there until ho was ready to remove them. As they are all close to calving, he is naturally anxious to get them home without delay, but he is now faced with the position that under the new restrictions the Railway Department cannot carry them. A painful accident befell Mr C Billings tL % fGW da r s (reporta the Dominion). He was cutting the head irom a tree for milling purposes, when tHe head snapped, and Mr Billings was precipitated into a deep gully, striking tho keen blade of his axe—which had fallen from his hands, and was lying face upwards ~~wifch his face. s The axe almost severed " -pilling s nose, inflicting .-d very sever© wound. s™? M suit your taste!— Try M'Gavin'a special non-deposit ale. Just the drink for the family table. Light, bright, clear. AJI hotels.... A resident °f South Invercargill, named , .avid fa. Robertson, received an injury to ills hand while watching the fireworks display at Queens Park on Saturday evening A sky rocket struck him on the hand and exploded, injuring him slightly and completely spoiling his overcoat. When he was examined it was found that a srm.ll bono had been broken. Tho matter of the fall in exchange between the time of payment of draft and the receipt of sam e by American firms was roferredto at- a meeting of the Council ot the Chamber of Commerece (reports the Christch-ureh Press). It appears that the loss suffered by the American banks through the dechno of sterling was sought to be recovered from- tho merchant., and the question as. to whether these demands should be acceded to was referred to tho Sectional Committee. 100 doses of Marshall's Fospnerine can be mV'n from the 2= 6d bottlM.. The Nelson College Old Boys' Association has compiled an interesting record of the part taken by old Nelson collegians in the great war. So far as can be ascertained, 639 old boys vront on active service, and of these 120 lost their lives. TTns represents nearly 19 per cent, of those who went to tho war, and if the number of those wounded, gassed, or disable through sickness is taken into consideration, the total casualties amount to over 50 per cent. Best fuel for internal combustion—far superior to coal—is CroPsan's Genuine i?L ' t_- Waterloo," Cavgrsham.... The high prioes being paid for rabbitskins have resulted in big business among the trappers, who are going in for the work on a large scale. The North Otago Times states that Jlr T. A. Munro's wagon brought "in from Kurow its second load of xabbitskms for last week. Each load weighed about three and a-half tons and would return the trappers a, handsome sum. Waters' Chap Lotion—guaranteed to euro Rough or Chapped Hands. — Waters' Pharmacy; 15.... Lads in .the Wyndham district have been earning from £1 to £2 a day rabbiting (says the Herald). A rabbiter at Kamaki stated he had been earning £5 to £7 a day soiling the skins /only. He worked hard, setting 200 traps, and in tile afternoons it was his practice to ferret tho warrens. He had, he said, caught in his nets as qiany as 82 rabbits in four hours and L ,V- 011 ferreti »ff> he frequently caught rabbits to the value of from £1 to a coup l ® of hours. Considerable excitement was caused in Itotorua recently by a wild rumour to the eiicct that a gensral railway strike was imminent, and that no more trains would bo run after two days. Many were so perturbed that they paid visits to the railway station, and plagued the lives of the station officials with inquiries, but as the latter had not heard anything of tho impending calamity, the inquirers went home in a relieved frame of mind. For Bronchial., Coughs. take ' Woods - A special meeting of the Motueka isorougn Council discussed a comprehensive preliminary report by Mr J. Cronbio Scott for supplying electrical energy to the borcrugh. The council unanimously affirmed the desirableness of installing electric light in the borough, and acceptcd the report of Mr Scott recommending a suction gas plant. A loan of '£10.000 is to bo asked from the ratepayers to carry out the work. The engineer estimates the cost at £7400. T