LAKE COUNTY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2069, 19 October 1893, Page 22

LAKE COUNTY.

October 14.— Very welcome rain fell on Thursday and Friday last, giving the ground a good soaking, and with plenty of warm sunshine it will bring on everything in the vegetable line amazingly Up to tho present ther? is very little Riowth, as may be judged when it is mentioned that we have neither radishes nor lettuces as yet and rhubarb is only just coming in. Another subject for inward digestion is the 'act that we a- e only now beginning to suffer for last season's shortcomings. Butcher's mfeat is fill and 7d per lb at Arrow town, and 7d and Sd at Queenstown, and as one of our local butchers told 'me that he had to go on his knees first to the sheepfanner for his mutton, and next to his customers for tl.e cash, it will be seen that butchering is not a particularly rosy game just now. Your Vote or Yolk, Li pe.— This cry is now the order of the day, aud canvassers, more or less veiled, are busy endeavouring to catch the waverers, or those who have a vote and do not know what to do with it. This, of course, does not apply to the political lady. She knows her own mind better than many uf the sterner sex, nncl if she has any doubt on the point, '-he'll iiT-t give it to the hand«omest candid \tp. It h perhaps not diflieult to predict that there will be a large percentage of informal vote, a-, many of tbe political Lidies can neither read nor write, and in tbe dilemma they are likely to do tbe wrong thing. Ho far none of oiir candidates has shown his hand, or moie politically speaking, tbe plank.s of his platform It is therefore impossible to say whether or not they are sound and pood clean timbur, or vvojm-eaton and rotten. In county elections, too, theie is to bo some little stir. The Slmtovor Riding is to be I'oiiU-steil by ISlessis U S. Cooper and 15. Uodgeis, Mr John K'lpar also being mentioned ab a probiblo candidate, foi a, rcqtiioiliou suiting him to allow himself to be nominated ia now iv circula-

tion. The Arrow Riding, too, is likely to be contested, Mr Thomas Mathieson, farmer, Crown lerrace, having declared himself a candidate, making, with the two members now serving, three candidadates for the two seats the riding enjoys Mr Larnach is now doiDg the district down about its south-western extremity, taking it on a face as he comes along. The prjbalnlity is that the contest will resolve itself into a triangular light, in which case it is extremely diilijuk to say how things may go, especially when the women's franchise is taken into account.

Rr.MOVAL.-Mr 11. Back, agent of the Arrow branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has been relieved by Mr L. Porter, late of Palmewton south. Mr Llacks destination is not known here.