Folks are Saying:

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

Folks are Saying:

That at the Arrow Borough Council meeting an- account for 8s was passed for payment for cleaning.a grating etc. That it would have taken an ordinary man 10 minutes to do the work.

That this is a good healthy sign of the Council’s finance". That their overdraft is £298, notwithstanding. That it is likely a match hatween Arrow and Queenstown cricket teams will be played at the latter, placccn Saturday week. That an appalling dynamite explosion reported from .Johannesburg—hundreds killed. That an outline of the Government policy appears in this issue—several reforms promised.

That several colonial journals are now. being printed on Mataura Pslls paper. That a Nova Scotia photographer has this sign out: “ Babies reduced to 2dols a dozen.” That there are at present 22 cases of typhoid fever in the Christchurch Hospital. Three patients have succumbed to the disease recently. That defective drainage is the cause.

That Gore is enjoying a Leap year boom. The Standard says.- “No less than seven engagements are announced, and six of the couples will face the hymeneal altar between uow and Easter Monday.” That the Premier emphatically denies the report that the Hon Mr Ward is likely to resign. That a Chinese missionary (Mr Ching Loo) is conducting a mission in Napier. That numerous cases of sheep stealing are reported near Rangitikei. That a farmer from Waikaka says that his crops have suffered far more this year from the small birds than from the rabbits. That the Government have ordered six Maxim gnus, two of which are to be sent to Auckland and two to Lyttelton. That the Auckland mining market shows an inprovemsnt. That at Maaterton the other day a hotelkeeper was fined ±5 and costs for neglecting to stamp a receipt for money given to him in trust by a lodeer. That the teaching profession is becoming overcrowded. There were thirty applicants for the position of assistant mistress at the Stratford school, and twenty-eight for the teacher-ship of tlm Cardiff sehool. That an Assyrian hawker who deposited a sn.r of money in the Invercargill Post Office Savings Bank declined to lift the interest on withdrawing his cash. That Daybreak, the Wellington women’s paper says: “ Good men in this wicked world are few and far between.” Has it taken our fair contamporary all these years to (ind that, iu Mr Mini Mills oncii said to a man who, after pleading guilty to a charge of larceny, withdrew the plea uu.l was acquitted : “ Prisoner, a few minutes ago you said you were a thief. Now the jury sai.l you were a liar. Consequently, you are discharged.” That Gipsy Grand won the Fovbury Handicap in a common canter. That 400 applications for relief under the Pastoral Tenants Relief Act.

That the weather for the p->st few flays has beem very hot in Victoria, and several deaths have occurred from heat and apoplexy. That the rewards paid last year by the Government for the convictions of sly grogselling amounted to £93 10s ; expenses, £36 17s 4d. That referring to the coaversion of Sir Robert Stout to the safety bicycle, a writer says ; The Hon. Dick Seddon believes in the safety landau—at the expense of the country. That the reason why a New Zealand lettercard is like a good fighting man is because it takes a dace of a lot of licking and then sometimes wont shut up.