Local and General News.

Lake County Press, Volume VIII, Issue 449, 18 December 1879, Page 2

Local and General News.

The Wakatip* Steam Navigation Company announce that they have now made arrangements for loading wool and grain at Frankton. The Athenoeum Comrfiittee are arranging a variety entertainment (particulars' of, which appear in our advertising columns) on Boxingnigh'f. , Cardrona is not to he behind its neighbors in the matter of sports at Christmastide, Mr L'affranchi having provided a good programme .of sunning, jumping, &c, with the inevitable—but extremely popular—dance in the evening.' An alteration has been made in tlje place for holding the Arrow District Eaces. A difficulty occurred in arranging for carrying them,out on the recreation" ground as contemplated, and Mr Scoles kindly offered the stewards the use of a paddock at his farm, Millers' Flat, which offer was accepted. Tenders are called by the Race. Committee for the booth privileges at the forthcoming meeting. Tenders close at eight o'clook on Saturday evening. Nominations for the Maiden Plato and Handicaps close at eight o'clock on Saturday evening ; and acceptances on Tuesday evening at the r-amo hour. A statutory meeting of the Municipal Council was held at noon yesterday, when Mr W. Jenkins took the declaration and his seat as Mayor. Mr Gruber, in vacating the chair, thanked the Councillors for the assistance rendered during his term of offise, and, at the same time presented the Town Clerk with a pair of very neat .solitaires as a me- I mento of the pleasant manner in which they | had worked together. Mr Jenkins m'stae a short and appropriate speech on entering upon the duties of his office. . The new.battery erected for the Tipperary Company will be publicly "christened" on Wednesday next. The annual subscription-tickets for the Arrow District Hospital are, we notice, in the hands of members of Committee, and we hope soon to hear that a large number of them have been taken up. Holders of. these tickets will bo entitled to vote at the election of a new Committee next month. At the licensing Court on Monday the application of Mrs Bond for a night-license was granted; and the application for a transfer from Mr Scoles to Mr Farquhar was withdrawn. The Commissioners present were Messrs Stratford (Chairman), Paterson, and ButeL ' The Rev. D. .Ross will preach a temperance sermon in St. John's Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning next; at a quarter-past eleven. Last year the rev. gentleman gtfve the sermon in the Library Hall, but it was not deemed necessary to depart from* the usual course on the present occasion* there being an instrument in the church, and every aid to' an effective special service. We hope to see a large attendance, as the temperance question is one in which Mr Ross is thoroughly aufait. We would, remindintending applicants that the Arrow District Hospital Committee meet to-morrow evening for the purpose of appointing a wardsman and matron to the institution. The Rev. G. P. Beaumont, who has been appointed Rural Dean of Queen stown, preached in St. Paul's Church, Arrowtown, on Sunday morning last.. JThe rev. gentleman's ; ministrations were much appreciated, and he is spoken very highly of by tßose who were present. , We understand that the Executive Committee of the Hope of Arrow Juvenile Temple have decided upon holding the anniversary pic-nic during the New-Year holidays.

Messrs U. Dimant and Co. announce that they will re-open in the Arrow 1 for the Christmas holidays. ( ~.-., The LoyAl Arrow liodge, M.U.1.0.0.E., intend holing their anniversary ball either on the 3let inst., or I,b£' and are making arrangements for carrying it out to a successful issue. , Professor Taylor (champion sltatei 1 } and Liilie (Queen of Skates) gave entertainments ! in the Libtaty Hall on Saturday and Monday evenings last." .These performers are ex'-" | ceedingly skilful in the lihes which they have chosen; and wfl were sorry to see that such small audiences greeted them—more especially on Monday. The exhibition of skating, club &c, amply repaid those who pktroiußed if. to. say nothing of the enjoyment afforded' to amateur skaters on the wheels and the amusement caused by the continual spills.. The and'distribution of prizes of the Union Sunday School will.be held on Sunday afternoon' next,' at thi-ee o'clock. The Committee will be glbd to see as many parents apd fronds present as can' make it c-iovenient to attend. . . The Cohseil-General of the Rhine has passed a'decree, " since celibacy is contrary to nature, and fills the state with evil morals," that henceforth the support of- abandoned chtodfen'elfall' be pi-ovided foi> by the deduction of a quarter of the pay or pension of every employe who is a bashelor. An indignant correspondent of a journal published in Timaru, a place where insolvencies have been tolerably numerous of late, asks " what on'earth is the use of tu>pending bankrupts'-except by the neck ?" Hares; axe increasing so quickly in some parts of the Tuapeka districts as to become quite a pest local' Times' says that if some steps' are' not taken to put them down, they will become as great' a as the rabbits elsewhere. Twenty-nine were started one day in a wrner of a small paddock which is cropped w.th oats belonging to' Mr George Murray, of Tuapekx flat. The hares are very destructive to green crops,' and have done considerable damage' in the locality.' Ths ' Southland News"' notices that in one or two gardens about Invercargill, a large grub has made its appearance among the potatoes, .This unwelcome visitor is described as being of a dark green colour, nearly two inches in length, and about the thickness of an ordinary lead pencil. It goes to work on the potato stalks, which it cuts through. In one g«fden from' twenty to' thirty were found • within a very small area. In a recent issue of the ' New York Herald' to hand by la«tt rftail, we find the following paragraph, which will tend to account for some of the agricultural depression which is now prevailing in Great Britain:'—"Yes'terday was a glorious day for America. We did not win a victory on field or flood, but we exported to Europe from New York alone two hundred thousand bushels of grain, twenty • thousand barrels and bags of flour, twentyfive hundred bales of cotton, and thousands of ions of laeafe 1 , cheese, butter, and other provisions." Ellen Tremiayne (-De Lacy Evans)' was discharged from custody by the Police at Sandhurst, Victoria, last week. The ' Age ' says : —" She will probably,rem'ain in the hospital for a few days, and then probably leave for Sydney. Mr George Lansell hasgenerously promised: to provide hef with funds. No one seeing her now would imagine her to be the same person who six months ago used to go to work every day dressed in miner's clothes." A certain wine importer recently had his pocketbook, containing.a large sum of money, cut from his pocket while entering'church. A few days subsequently he received tß'e pocketbook through the post, postage nonpaid, acwith a note, iu which the wr ter stated that after spending the money he had discovered to bis horror that he had been making use of the money obtained in the infamous wine traffic. He therefore returned the p jcketbook, and would do the same with the money should he he able to lay hands on it. . . A Timaru paper does not mince matters in exposing the painful " flat-ulency" of .Resident Magistrates throughout the colony, when it says:—" We have no hesitation in saying that although there are honourable exceptions, the Bench of New Zealand, as a whole, through the injudicious parsimony of £ucce'3sive administrations, has been rendered a byword and reproach, a disgrace to a civilized people. Instead of having tutors in legal matters, we find veritable schoolboys presiding over the members of the legal profession. It I is due to' this that in many localities clients | are skinned, fleeced, and hung up to dry, by the repeated adjournments, and the uneven decisions of tlova'ted incapables." The Welling'tori ' Chronicle * of the 4th inst. says : —The young member for Wakatipu, Mr Finn, last night, in moving the second reading of the Married Women's Property Bill, quoted, amidst loud applause, the following passage from the nuptial speech of Portia:— " Myself and what is mine to you and yours, Js now converted ; bat now, I was the lord Qf this fair mansion, master of my servants, Queen o'er myself ; and even now, but now This {louse, these servants, and this same Myself are yours, my lord." Mr Fin,p went on to say that the law in .Now Zealand at present in regard to married women's property was substantially the same as that which existed in England in the days of Shakespeare.. There is no truth in Rewi's alleged intention to isolate himself amongst the Kingites. He is said to be so ill that it is not likely he will recover. t A Church of England minister named Arthur Graves, who came out from London by the ship Serniione, which arrived at Port Chalmers on the 3rf inst., was arrested in Dunedin on Saturday,' on a charge of having forged a cheque in the name of Archdeacon Edwards for the value of £2o'. A sad accident occurred last week at Maheno. A Miss Gordon, assistant teacher at the Maheno School, aged about eighteen j ears, was proceeding to het duties that morning in a dray, in company with a lad named plamatick and Mr Davis, who was driving. While trying to ford { the stream at Davis's crossing, which has now flooded the road, the dray got into a hole which had been made by the wash of the water, and was upset. Mr Davis swam ashore but Miss Gordon and.t-.elad Ftamarick were drowned. The Immigration Department has been advised of the sailing of the ship Canterbury from London for Port Chalmers with 340 immigrants aboard.