Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Arrowtown : February 27, 1836. Latest Telegrams.

Lake County Press, Issue 697, 27 February 1896, Page 2

Lake County Press . PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.

Arrowtown : February 27, 1836. Latest Telegrams.

The trust that’s (riven thee guard, and to thyself be , just.

A sensational shooting ease is reported from Wellington. A woman namad Mrs Looker shot a Mr Norbury in a public auction room. The cause for the deed was over a lawsuit. Norbury was shot through the lungs, and is in a very precarious state. London, February 2i. A Tonquin loan was subscribed in Paris thirty-fold.

The Standard complains that Mr Chamberlain has not insisted on necessary reforms in the Transvaal, and has left too much to President Kruger’s goodwill. February 25. A fire in Johannesburg destroyed a warehouse, the damage being estimated at £75,000. Wheat has declined sixpence per quarter.

The dynamite explosion in Johannesburg was caused by a locomotive colli ding with two trucks of detonators. President Kruger, speaking at a meeting of a relief committee, said the people had subscribed liberally, and might expect to receive & great deal in return.

It is reported that a plot has been discovered to dynamite the subTreasury in New York, and in the confusion to carry off 73,000,000 dollars deposited there. Thirty persons are said to be implicated. A meeting of butter sellers decided to reduce the price for best factory butter to 9|d, to take effect from today. It is stated that this is due to large consignments from New Zealand and Victoria, and increased local supplies, consequent on the recent rains, glutting the market. The lighthouse-keeper at Double Island Point, Wide Bay, has telegraphed that a coloured' man has reached there in the last stage of exhaustion. He cannot speak English, but from signs it is understood that he was wrecked in the recent gale between Norsa and Maryborough; that 34 persons were aboard the ship, and that two others were the sole survivors. There is no clue to the identity of the vessel. The Australian eleven will play a match at Colombo, and iu|Philadelphia, U.S.A. The Federal Bank of Australia has declared a further dividend of one shilling in the pound. From Ist July to date the railway revenue shows a comparative decreas of £120,000, chiefly as the result of the shortage in the wheat crop. The team to represent Victoria at the federal rifle matches in New Zealand leave by the s.s. Waihora to-mor-row. It will be chosen from the following after they reach Oamaru: Messrs Sloane, Todd, Young, M’Donald, Walker, Randles, Major lianby, Capt. White, Lieut. Clark, Sergts,. Ross, Wehsrer and Howker. In Albert Park, this afternoon, an unknown man shot a girl of five years, presumably his daughter, and then shot himself. The man is in a precarious state the girl is dead. St. Paul’s Church.—Service will be held at 11 on Sunday morning next, after which Holy Coimnunipu will bo administered.