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Lake County Press, Issue 698, 5 March 1896, Page 7

That at Mudgee (N.S.W.), a women named Mary Mason was sentenced to four months 'for sheep stealing. That the editor of Ae Patea Press says modestly,‘-Now as to our leader.. What onr readers understood, we cannot say ; we supply information as well as we can, but wo cannot supply brains, the little we own we require for our own use.” That the N.Z. Time:s understands that the revenue from land and income tax this year exceeds the estimate. The returns from the income tax alone is abont £BO,OOO. That a race meeting is to be held at Cheviot on the Queen’s Birthday. The principal event to be decided ia the ‘‘ McKenzie Cun, which is named after the Minister oi -Lands. . . That a visitor from the country districts was fortunately for himself, arrested by < e Napier police for drunkenness the other afternoon. On being searched at the cells £219 in notes, gold, silver- and coppers was found upon his person. That five plains shown attheMastcrton Horticultural show v eighed, and turned the scale at 17|oz. That Captain Wilrner, of Kangiora, claims to be the oldest playing cricketer in the world. He is 80 years old. Playing in a match the other day he carried out his bat for 6 runs.

That since the beginning of January, 30 eases of typhoid have been admitted to the Christchurch hospital. Of these three died, but in each fatal case there had been complications with, other diseases. That through the capsizing of a yacht in the estuary, C hristchurch, three men were •drowned.