The Arrow Observer, AND LAKES DISTRICT CHRONICLE. Arrowtown, Thursday, Mar 4, 1880. Local and General News.

Lake County Press, Volume IX, Issue 460, 4 March 1880, Page 2

The Arrow Observer, AND LAKES DISTRICT CHRONICLE. Arrowtown, Thursday, Mar 4, 1880. Local and General News.

We would call especial attention to the sale of dairy and store cattle announced by Mr C. Colclough for Saturday. The cattle, we are informed, are of exceptionally good breeding and thoroughly quiet, so that it will be worth the while of persons with grazing-room to attend the sale, if only for speculative purposes. We hope to see a good sale, as the owner of the stock has shown great pluck in coming so far for a market. We have to acknowledge receipt of " Old Identities " from Messrs Mills, Dick, and Co Dunedin. The "get-up" of the book hi good, and the reading-matter is all that could be desired. We would advise all who wish for a memento of the- early days of Otago- to procure a copy. A meeting of subscribers to the Arrow District Hospital Committee was held on Saturday evening last in the Library Hall for the purpose of amending and adding to the rules prior handing them to the printer. Several alterations were made rendering the rules more lucid than before, aaid immediate steps will now be taken for furnishing subscribers with copies. ° There was no business for the Licensing Court at its quarterly sitting on Tuesday. A rare chance of securing bona fide bargains will be offered to the public of the Arrow District on Saturday next, when Messrs P. H, Daniel and Co. will submit to public auotion an extensive assortment of clothing boots and shoes, jewellery, &c. The idea is a. novel one, but as the profits of middlemen are saved the proprietors can afford to sell at wholesale prices.—[Advt.] On Saturday week General Davidson, lately appointed to the Inspection of the Middle Island Volunteers, will inspect the Arrow Corps and the Arrow Cadets. As- the occasion is a special one, it ie to be hoped that members of both companies will turn out in full strength, and give a good account of themselves in every respect. From the local paper we learn that Cromwell will contribute ovor £l5O to the Irish Kehef Fund. We are afraid the Arrow Committee isr using but little effort to do anything at all in the matter. If the Arrow does not come forward liberally it certainly will be about the first occasion on which a deaf ear has been turned to a cry for help. The School Committee held a special meeting on Tuesday evening, but we hold over report until next issue. Mr J. Greaves, a well-known miner in Brackens, got his right fore-aim fractured

yesterday afternoon by a stone falling upon it from the face at which he was working. The unfortunate man cam* down to the Hospital, where he was attended to and his arm set by Dr Dickinson. The fracture is a simple one. The ' Grey River Argus' states that, at the Seventeen-Mile rush, in one of the claims five dishes of washdirt yielded soz lOdwt of gold ; and that three men last week cleared over 18ozs by cradling in the same locality. It is not often that a bankrupt gets a farewell address from his generous creditors. The * Bruce Herald' vouches for the correctness of the following memorandum attached to a debtor's schedule, and signed by the chairman at the final meeting of creditors r—"We are unanimous in the opinion that the debtor is a rogue, but that it would cost too much money to prosecute him." Lately, on the arrival at San Francisco of a vessel from Honolulu, there were found on board several cases which had been shipped to that port by some Chinese in San Francisco, and sent back condemned by the consignees. _ The cases were opened and found to contain shoes. The heels appeared made as usual; but by pulling out a nail or two, and removing one thickness of leather-, a hole was discovered in which opium had been placed for introduction to the Hawaiian market. The "condemned" dodge was a part of the programme, and the shoes were returned that the holes in the heels might be re-filled with opium, and forwarded again to Honolulu. The Melbourne correspondent of the Ballarat ' Star' writes:—l have the best authority for stating that the last £SO of the Kellys was changed at Eenalla sometime agoy and it is said by those who ought to know that it cannot be long before they are on the warpath again. The purchase of arms and ammunition by Kate Kelly some time since in Melbourne: was cleverly effected, and the police blame the gunsmith for not having given early information. Had he done so, they state, they would have been able to nip Miss Kate's designs in the bud. Blenheim was visited last week according to a, local paper, by a regular cloud of mosquitoes, which swarmed round the hotels, shops, and other buildings that were lighted up. The exterior of the Club Hotel was blackened with them, whilst in the Telegraph Office it is no mere figure of speech to say they were being shovelled out with a dust pan. There was a row in one of the Auckland churches recently over the music. The clergyman, who is himself an amateur of (in his own opinion, if in that of no one else) no mean ability, not pleased with the singing on Sunday, wrote and passed to the choir a note telling them that if they did not sing better ,he would stop the organ. The choir, after' service, " went for " lie clergyman and told him he must apologise or they would leave the church. Of course the reverend gentleman had to " eat the leek." The_ poetry of the harvest will have to be re-written. A correspondent of the Chicago ' Tribune,' writing from the Dalrymple Farm, furnishes the rough material for one canto. "Just think," he says, "of a sea of wheat containing 20 square miles (13,000 acres)— rich, ripe, golden ; the winds rippling over it. As far as the eye can %oe, there is the same golden sunset here. Far away on the horizon you behold an army sweeping along in grand procession. Riding on to meet it, you see a major-general on horseback, the superintendent on horseback, repairers. No swords flash in the sunlight, but their weapons are monkey wrenches and hammers. No brass band, no drum beat or shrill note of the fife j but the army moves on—a solid phalanx of 24 self-binding reapers—to the music of its own machinery. At one sweep, in a twinkling a swarth of 192 feet have been cut and bound, the reaper tossing the bundles almost disdainfully into the air, each binder doing the work of six men. In all, there are 115 self-binding reapers at work. During the harvest about 400 men are employed, and during threshing 600, their wages being two dollars- a day with board..