Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Arrowtown : June 21, 1894. TELEGRAPHIC.

Lake County Press, Issue 610, 21 June 1894, Page 2

Lake County Press . PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Arrowtown : June 21, 1894. TELEGRAPHIC.

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(from our own correspondent). DUNEDIN, This Day, 9 a.m. At the Land Board meeting yesterday, Ranger M'Kenzie reported on Mrs Sarah Boult's application to acquire 50 acres of uusurveyed land in block 3, Dart district. Applicant allowed to acquire on lease in perpetuity at the capital value of 12s 6d per acre; surveyor’s fee, £s.—David Grierson's application to surrender sections held by him in Tarras district under perpetual lease was referred to the Ranger to report. His Worship tfee Mayor has called a meeting of electors of the Oity for Monday evening to consider the propropriety of urging Government to at once raise a loan to complete the railway lines in the North and South of a reproductive character and likely to advance and promote settlement. A man named Hiram Holly Harris was arrested by Constable O’Brien on Tuesday on a charge of larceny of jewellery from a dwelling at Hyde, and he was yesterday committed for trial. All the stolen property has been recovered. Mr A. Fraser has withdrawn from the contest for the Tuapeka seat in favor of the Hon. W. J. M. Larnaoh. Mr Scobie M'Kenzie addressed a crowded meeting of Tuapeka electors in the Lawrence Town Hall on Tuesday night, and a vote of confidence was unanimously passed. ' A mysterious robbery of £SOO in gold coin has taken place within the last few days from the National Bank at Christchurch. Up to date there is no clue whatever as to the perpetrator There is no doubt that our ‘‘spieler” friends from the other side, emboldened by their past success, are now flying at higher game. Very bad weather is being experienced in the North Island. In opening an entertainment in connect! m with Sf. Paul’s kindergarten school, Wellington, the Governor said he was a strong supporter of religious education. ■ In Melbourne: a man named Fraser was shot by a woman named Anderson in an hotel in Bourke street, and she then attempted to commit suicide. The woman is in a precarious condition. The shooting arose out of a dispute which culminated in a law suit recently. ‘' '* ,' 1 ' ’

Phe plague at.Hong Kong is increasing, the natives being quite helpless to prevent its spreading. Night and day they parade;streets firing crackers and carrying Joss sticks. The Viceroy of Canton has puMicly offered up sacrifices to propitiate “the devils.” Playing for:.the Gentlemen of England against Notts, Mr A. E, Stoddart scored 148... a y ■ Very distinctions are being conferred on Sir George Grey at Home. He has been sworn in asPriyy Council lor. , •

The Chronicle states that, acting under French influence, the Porte Has protested against the Congo Treaty A Russian; warship has been ordered to Morocco. . There ia a great outcry in Russia at the low prices ruling for wheat, which will prevent profitable sales of heavy crop. A leaky firing boat conveying a party of 70 .picnickers, mostly youths and girls, sank in the Samara, a tributary or the Volga. Forcy-five were drowned. Terrible scenes occurred when the struggling mass was precipitated into the water.

Macetown. —Applications are being invited for the position of head-teacher of the Macetown school. Salary, £l4O for a male teacher, and £126 for a female. Abrowtown, Be Warned ! A Westport shopkeeper left his shop to borrow the newspaper from his neighbor. During the few minutes he was absent four pomTds of tobacco had- been stolen from his shop. Moral: Buy the paper ; don’t borrow it. Retaliation.— The farmeis about Garston contemplate a novel step. They intend to boycott ail tradesmen Who support prohibitioft, as they consider that, as barley is their principal crop, prohibition will operate against their.interests, No doubt it will. Ik will be interesting to watch developments. Champion Mean Man.—W. Cundy, of Featherston, a justice of the peace and late chairman of the Licensing Committee, sued E. J. Seai’l for £29 17s 2d, bnt refused to recognise Searl’s contra for drinks (£26 12s). The magistrate gave Cundy a dressing-down, but apparently Cundy was too thickskinned to feel it. No Sympathy fob the Hodnd.—A Sydney commercial traveller named Sullivan i was imprisoned for one minute the other day for having given a creature named Dolenine a grevious thrashing for making improper overtwes to his daughter aged 14. i Judge Coffey commended Sullivan for his action. New Journal.— The Weekly Budget is the.name of a newspaper just launched on the sea of journalism. Some out-of-work Dunedin compositors conceived the idea of ! itarting the Budget to employ themselves. [t contains 12 pages, and m* published at the unall price of Id, We commeud it for the mpport of working men in particular. To Postmasters. — A very loose practice s followed by some outside postmasters retarding newspapers. In the case of persons caving their district, newspapers for such icrsons are sometimes allowed to aceumuate for months without the newspaper nanagement being apprisedfof the fact. We lope that in future more care may be exerised by postmasters who read this. ;

Weather.—Tho winter is a remarkably open one, and is especially appreciated by pastoralists, Pincher’s Bridge.—The County Engineer has ordered timber necessary for rendering the bridge more secure, and the work will lie put in hand as soon as the timber is landed on the ground. Honoring His Memory. Clyde residents ha ve taken initiatory steps to perpetuate the memory of the late Hon. Vincent Fyke. Known friends in other parts are to be communicated with on the question of erecting a memorial tablet.

Wheat Market. —A London cablegram of the 17th says:—An Adelaide cargo of wheat has been sold at 23s IJd. The English and Co tinental markets are changing a little for the worse,, and the American is also declining,. That’s What He Is. —Mr Howitt, Victorian Under-secretary for Mines, was once asked: “What is an expert?” “ I will tell you,” said Howitt. “Yon know we have about, the country what we call liars. Then wo have infernal liars. We have also blanked infernal liars. The ‘ experts ’ come after this.” Bible Society.— The Otago Bible Society propose to ask Queenstown, among other country centres, to elect local auxiliary committees, to better arrange for collectors, local meetings, and adopt measures to awaken an increased interest in Bible Society work in their respective neighborhoods. . r ~ , ~ ', „ ’

Illicit Stills.—Within a week two il licit stills have been discovered—one at Wellington and the other at Keeftnn. In each case it was evident that operations had been actively carried on. At Wellington fresh dray-wheel mirks indicated that a stock had just been removed. At Reefton GOO gallons of spirits were found and destroyed. Hawks. —Great complaints continue to be made regarding the destructiveness of hawks on trapped rabbits. Their value as rabbit destroyers is small indeed, while their propensity for attacking rabbits in traps more than counterbalances tho questionable amount of good they do. It is considered by those who watch the habits of the birds closely that they do not merit protection.

Shb Had, Thought of it Too.— An old farmer, who was dying, called his wife to his side* “ Sarah,” he said, “ I have been thinking about what you will do when I have gone, ami I fear you will not be able to manage the three cowa and the few acres of land we have, and. make a living on it. I think you had better marry John when I have gone.” Sarah replied, “ Well, John and I had been talking about it,” The farmer said no more.

Draughts.— Some of the Skippers players wore in Arrowtown last Saturday, and there was a foregathering of devotees of the brod, Brodie played a match with Mr G, Morris at InvergargUl, winning seven games to one, with four drawn. Mr Morris (who is well known as the New Zealand Blondin) is considered a strong player.—The latest score in the Wyllie-Ferrie match is Feme, 10 ; Wyllie, C ; drawn, 44. This is (taken from the Glasgow Herald) authentic, but there must have been some mistake in the pre-viously-published scores placing Wyllie in the lead.

Should Journalists Marry?—A medical journal has been wrestling the subject, “Should journalists marry ? ” and has come to the conclusion that they should not. The reason giv, n is that “ the profession is So high, so noble, so engrossing, that • journalists have no time or energy for a second love,” which is very flattering to journalists. All the sam?, 1 humbly put in the plea that the journalistic collar-button is as prone to go off at critical moments as is that of any ordinary mortal whose occupation is lees noble and engrossing.

Death.—Alexander Murray, an old resident of the Queenstown district (and fr rmcly of Kawarau Gorge) died on Sunday night last ; aged 69. Deceased was at one time lessee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Queenstown, which stood on the. present site of the Mountaineer Hotel, and later on was proprietor of the Lake View Gardens. Afterwards he took up some land at Moke Creek Flat. Poor “ Sandy !” he had some faults, but a kind heart remained at the bottom (says our correspondent), and anyone calling on him was sure to be most hospitably entertained. The funeral took place yesterday at the Queenstown cemetery, and there was a good attendance. The Rev. Mr Paulin conducted the service.

bounty Tenders —Thejfollowing tenders were received for contracts Nos. 104 and 105 :—No. 104 (road Pembroke to Matukituki): M. Redding and Co. (accepted), £197 19s; Pearce and Hadley (informal), £lls 18s; D, M'Pherson (informal), £167 3s. Pearce end Hadley only put in for sections Nos. I and 2, and M'Pherson for Nos. 1, 2, and 4, and consequently were informal, as the specifications required a separate price for each section—four in number; but the .successful tenderer complied with the conditions, and was also lowest in each individual section that was tendered for. No. 105 (block 4, Nokomai): A. M'Caugbau, £52 8s fid (accepted) ; W. D. Soper, £53 19s 6d ; A. Matheson, £75 10a. Licensing.—The Dunedin Committee refused licenses to the following houses:— Apollo (Richard Powley), Royal (Patrick O’Brien), Ship Inn (A. Owen), Anchor (Gerald Eager), Britannia (Mary A. Peachey), Canongate (Christina Pacey), Panama (Patrick Moloney), Royal George (Joseph Toomey), Old Brigade (George Searle), Grange (W. H, Haydon), Pacific (George Robbs), Ayrshire (Mark J. Woodhouso), Star (Kenneth M'Kenzic), White Horae (Patrick Cotter), Shamrock and Thistle (Jane Dwyer and J, Scanlan), Bull and Mouth (Godfrey Jacobs), London (Milcom Allan), Prince Alfred (Edward Kirk), British (Daniel M. Campbell), Carmalt’s (Johanna O’Connor). From the Times we learn that these, with the Newmarket and Liverpool Arms make a reduction of 22 publicans’ licenses from those at present in existence. Several other houses narrowly escaped losing their licenses. Closing time was fixed at 10 o’clock in all cases. Six bottle licenses were granted and four refused for the purpose of making reductions.

Code Messages. —We publish the following for general information at the request of the Telegraph Department:—“ An arrangement was made at the Purls Conference of I 1890 for the International Bureau at Berne to prepare an official vocabulary of code words. This work is now approaching completion, and it is expected that the list, which will consist ot about 200,000 words, will be issued shortly. The words will be arranged alphabetically, and will be numbered consecutively 000,000 to 200,000, The employment of words taken from this vocabulary will become obligatory for all code messages exchanged between stations in the European system after the expiration of three years from the date of its publication. It is expected that the use of the words contained in this vocabulary will also become obligatory for messages exchanged with the extra-European system shortly aster the next Conference. These companies propose to sell the code vocabulary to the public at cost price, plus an amount Co cover freight. The price will probably be something between 10s and 15.) per copv,. Orders for this book should be received before 28Hi June, at thcdjaoal, Govern meat Telegraph, Office,.

Where is Lake County?— Government are going to maintain 252 miles of Inangahua County’s roads for a year or two to enable the County’s finances to improve. This kind of thing should be done on some plan, and in that case Lake County would have a strong claim. New Court Rules.—A special Gazette of 61 pages is issued, containing new rules for Magistrates’ Courts under last year’s act. All the former rules are revoked. The new code comes into force on July 1. The stipendiary magistrates of all courts in the principal towns are given both ordinary and extended jurisdiction.

A Mud slinger.—ld the current issue of the Tablet appears a snorting article, in which the Dunedin Star is called a disgrace to journalism. The Tablet objects to certain statements made by the American correspondent of the Star as to a dispute which has occurred between the Rev. Mr Whslan (editor of the Watchman) and the archbishop of St. Louis, and speaks of the correspondent as “a man hired to do the dirty work at a distance.”

Lake Freights. Messrs Johu Brown and T. M‘Donnell waited on the directors of the Wakatipu S.P. Company on the Bth inst. as a deputation from the district farmers in support of a petition asking for a reduction in the freights on farm produce. The matter was freely discussed, the deputation making it evident that the old rate of 5s per ton should be restored instead of the present one of 7s 6d. The directors returned no definite, answer, merely saying the question would be considered. Ball.—The bachelors of Frank ton and Lower Shotover held a ball in Mr Frank M‘Bride’s loft, Frankton, on Tuesday evening, when there was a very large gathering, all parts of the district being represented. There was a floor space of 30x50, which was taxed to the utmost. The bachelors (of whose committee Mr A. M'Caughan was the ' energetic secretary) welcomed the visitors and did all in their power to make the evening enjoyable. Mr and Mrs M‘ Bride also assisted in no small measure in making matters pleasant—indeed the bachelors and their friends are much indebted to the kindness of Mr and Mrs M‘Bride. Music was supplied by Messrs Barnett and Murphy (violins) and' an army of voluntary pianists. Mr J. J. M'Bride was M.C., and carriedont his duties well. Miss Mathesnn sang a song, for which she was encored, and Mr W. Stephenson also sang. Refreshments were supplied in plenty. Dancing was kept up till an early hour on Wednesday morning. One Box of Clarke’s 841 Pills is warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs in either sex (acquired of constitutional), Gravel, and Pains in the Back. Guaranteed free from Mercury. Sold in Boxes, 4s 6d each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors throughout the world. Proprietors : The Lincoln and M.”>land Counties Drug Company, Linoln, England. The words “ Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Company, Lincoln, England,” are engraven on the Government Stamp, and “CLARKE’S WORLD FAMED BLOOD MIXTURE” blown in the Bottle, without which nene are genuine. MEMORANDA. Abstract of New Advartlssm? s. A small sum of lost money is advertised for. It is the property of one who can illafford the l-.sa. The Arrow Quadrille Assembly hold a Social on the 29t!i., Tenders wanted for annual supplies to the Arrow Hospital. Applications invited from duly-qualified medical men for tho office of surgeon of Arrow District Hospital. Subscribers not receiving their copies of the Press in proprer" time are arc requested to notify the proprietor without delay. Dates of Sales, Meetings, &c June 29 Arrow Quadrille Assembly’s Social. July 7 —Tenders for annual supplies to Arrow Hospital due. August 4—Applications for office of surgeon to Arrow Hospital due. June 22—Dance at Miller’s Flat. Juno *26—Annual examination of pupil teachers at Queeuston and Pembroke Arrow Borough Council —fourth Tuesday in the month. Arrow District Hospital—first Saturday in the month.

Arrow School Committee —second Erid iy in the month.