NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17686, 25 July 1919, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

.The trapping of fish for the collection of tiiie yeui-'s ova. at Masterton has itsulted ia about 600,000 brown trout ova beinjr obtain&d, W. Sinclair Bruce has decided to contest the Wellington South ecat at the torUicoouug general eleuiion. Mr Brace is a supporter of the National Government, but in the event of a dissolution will support Mr Maseey. r 0 ?, 1 ? , day lasfc week - Mr Gawn Brighton, ol JNjgntcaps, had the misfortune to break u- leg, through falling off a traction engine no luLa rociiutly purchased. Lfc wae ooavcyed to the hospital for treatment. Croeaiiu's Tonus, -SijiGndid for oolds, • wugns, influenza., insomnia, eta Aa»rtod cases despatched to legal order.—"Waterloo, Cuvershiun.... Th.9 young boy Pedersen, of Bunnythorpe, who was critically injured in the Butuiythorpo railway crossing accident a number 01 .weeks ago, is now progressing very favourably, although still an inmate of thehospital. Owing to an incipient outbreak of typhoid and aso wet weather, the- peace celebrations at Whakataas were postponed indelmitely, it baing deemed inadvisable to tako tho risk, of spreading typhoid. There are six eases. Tho Kaikoura correspondent of tie Lyttelton Times reports that the whalers after numerous attempts, succeeded in landing a 'hump-back," this being the second for the season. Waters' Chap Lofaoa—guaranteed to euro Rpush or Chapped Hands. — Waters' • Pharmacy; 15.... St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Palmoreton North, has decided to erect a peace memorial building to provide necessary accommodation for Sunday School and -Bible Class work. "Tho New Zealand boys fought as well as everybody else at the front," said tho Hon. C. A. C. Hardy at Rakaia on Saturday, but the reason lam so proud of them is that they behaved throughout as gentlemen." Vcxious Auckland firms which decided not tio illuminate their premises during peace celebrations contributed liberally towards the cost of the festivities. The Northern Hollar Mills Company headed the hst with £150. A Natural Cure for Indigestion—Dr Crossland s Noxol—2s bottle!... The reduced train services bave interfered considerably with school work (saya the Dominion). The secretary of the Education Board reported at last meeting that there had been serious dislocation at various points, owing to school children and teachers being unable to travel in the normal way. Ihe best arrangements possible in the varying circumstances had been made. A deposit, of clay suitable for brickmaking has been discovered at Maurieevillo £ast. Mr A. Neighbours, of Neighbours Bros., Westport, considers the clay to bo unequalled in New Zealand ,for the manufacture of bncks. There is an unlimited supply, and there should be no difficulty in starting a payable industry. Ira J. Salyards, a house detective at tho Alamo Hotel, Colorado Springs, U.S.A., on consulting a physician after experiencing difficulty in mounting 'heights, has discovered he has two hearts, and other freakishly misplaead organs, although they are performing their functions correctly. Avoid substitutes! Demand the genuine article always. "Bourbon" Coffee is the < genuine article. From your grocer, -or direct from the manufacturers: "Durie's" 02 Octagon. I>unedin.... Recently there have been numerous casea in Palmerston North of unauthorised "joy riders" in motor cars on tho part of Irresponsible persons, and several automobile owners have been thus temporarily deprived of their care, only to find them eventually abandoned on the outskirts of the town or a few miles in the country Late on Saturday night (states tho limaru Herald) two separate parties of hoodlums, one party being in & new Ford car, were going up King street, Temuka, picking the flags from the posts, and from the fronts of private residences. One resident lost no fewer than 11 and several expensive silk flags are missing. The police have the matter ia hand. A meeting of the executive of the Taranaki Farmers' Union passed a motion that the Taranaki executive desires to enter an emphatic protest against the carriage of liquor on the railways when goods and other things essential to the carrying on of j 11 ? dustrles of the country are refused; and that copies of this resolution be sent to the Acting Prime Minister and the Minister of Railways, A Real Corn Cure is Waters , Kornbane, Is (posted Is lid).—Waters' Pharmacy li Princes street... _ T !}. e . records of liquor dealt with in the Waihi no-hcense district show a steady drop in the quantity consumed, but no material change in the individual consumption, the reduction in quantity being accounted for by the decreased population. Un the other hand there has been a steady increase in the consumption of wine durin"the past three or four years. • R -T?V M - Lan & wa » charged at the Foildmg Police Court with attempting to cross the railway line in Kimbolton road in front of a tram. _ The locomotive beat the motor cyclist to it, Lang being caught on the cowcatcher and his machine badly smashed In convicting and discharging the accused Mr Hewitt observed: "If that won't make you careful, no fin© wilL" Acting upon information laid by Mr W 1. Young, general secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union, tho police arrested on warrant James Sullivan the unions agent at Napier, on board the liner Port Pirie at Napier last week on a charge of misappropriation of the union's funds. The amount involved so far is set down at £43, representing union dues alleged to have been received by the accused eince the middle of last October. Men's Box Suits, oeautifuil? cut and well made, are now replacing the tailor-made article. We hold a splendid range, and the prices are very moderate. Abo Boys , faults and Overcoats. If you can't call and inspect them, write for one.—Cheyno IU j,I Co. Mosgiel.... As the result of a district court-martial at Trentham Camp on July 12, Private 1 nomas M'Gee, lat3 camp quartermaster's department, was sentenced to 48 hours' detontion for absenting himself without leave and losing by neglect his equipment, clothing, and regimental necessaries, and to be placed under stoppages of pay until hehas made good several articles of kit of a total value of 5s Id. The miners of our State collioriqp are not without a sens 3 of humour (says the Greymouth Star). A week or so ago the Mayor appealed to them to work on the pay Saturday, in order to relievo tho distress caused by the curtailing of trams owing to the ehortage of coal. Whether he was justified making such appeal is by the way; but evidently the miners resented it. While bunkering one of the vessels in port, a minor's pick was discovered, addressed to the Mayor, and extending to him an invitation to go out and hew coal on hia half-holiday.