The Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Arrowtown: January 26, 1888. TELEGRAPHIC.

Lake County Press, Volume V, Issue 278, 26 January 1888, Page 2

The Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.

Arrowtown: January 26, 1888. TELEGRAPHIC.

The trust that's given thee guard, and to thyself b- - just.

(from our own correspondent.) DUNEDIN, Wednesday Evening, 8. At the Land Hoard to-day, Captain Hedditch was granted a jetty I site on the foreshore at Pembroke at £2 per annum. —The Board approved of Richard Campbell’s application to purchase section 25a block 7, bhotover, under agricultural lease. News has been received of the I death in Sydney of Mr D. L. Simpson, late engineer to the Harbor I Board here, and at one time Provint cial Distiict Engineer at Cromwell. ' It is stated that some mines at Roxburgh are to be floated as a

company, Mr Pyke going to Melbourne to carry out tiie undertaking. Judgment has been given in favor O' Mi Carroll in the petition by Wi Pere against his return for the eastern district. A man named John Gardner has been arrested for ai alleged stickingup case in Blenheim where the hut of a shepherd was entered, and a man named Anderson was hred at. A man named Quinlan had a • miraculous escape on the Manawatu Gorge. While leading a horse the ! animal shied, and both went over a I precipice sixty feet high. The hors© ' was killed 1 but the man escaped. This Day, 9 a.m. After the Burns banquet, at which the principal speech was made by Sir R. Stout, steps were taken to I wipe off the debt on the statue, j Out of eight N. Z. University I junior scholarships four are taken by Dunedin students. Professor Black waited on the Minister of Mines to urge that schools of mines should be continued, I saying that -Id in the South Island I would only cost £1,500. Tlie reply was not favorable. The schools at Thames and Reefton, it appears, cost the colony £9OO per annum. Major-general Whitmore is on , his way south to hold his final re- . view of volunteers before retiring. Ostrich farming is likely to be sucessful in Auckland, and hatching young ostriches by incubation has. been quite a success. The old birds, have a Hue crop of feathers.