Lake County Press. PUBLISHHD EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown: December 23, 1897. Latest Telegrams.

Lake County Press, Issue 788, 30 December 1897, Page 2

Lake County Press . PUBLISHHD EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown: December 23, 1897. Latest Telegrams.

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

Private letters from miners at Klondyke warn Australians against going there owing to the rigors of the climate and the difficulties of reaching th« field. The writers admit that Klonclyke is wonderfully rich, hut so many thousands of Americans and 0 medians are ready to rush tiie field when the spring comes tnac it would be wise for visiting Australians to make provision for returning in the event of failure.

Captain Russell passed through Sydney en route for England. The officers of the Egyptian Army have advised that 12,000 troops will bo required for the Anglo-Egyptian campaign in the Soudan.

Six hundred Askaris tribesmen have joined the Egyptian garrison sent to invest Kassala upon its recession by Italy to Egypt. A. conference of the engineers and 100 other trades has been held to discuss the proposal of tho operatives for a compromise of 51 hours as a week’s work. The resolution, that the conference agreed to has not been allowed to transpire.

The number of men out of employment in consequence of the strike in the. engineering trade is staged to be 81,000. The miners of Bendigo have resolved upon a levy of 3d per member per week in aid of the engineers out on strike in Great Britain.

A man named Gregan and his son were drinking together at Clifton Hill, Melbourne, when the son knocked the father down for making a disparaging remark about his dead mother. The son left him lying in the passage all night, and went in the morning for a doctor, but the father was dead. The son is in custody. Mr Mossop, inspector for tins Board of Works, together with three workmen named Porter, Stephens, and Hoare descended a shaft into the South Yarra tunnel. Hoare subsequently returned stating that his companions were in danger from gas. A relief party consistin,' »f M‘K>nz!e (one of the contractors), Gins n, n I I >,> t d, » *• but M'K.-nz - a i i Hr.tr - n* lr;v n r.o the surfnc and Gibma .va, ov.-r ooie. The caotuiu of the South Yarra

Fire Brigade, in a smoke jacket went down and searched the tunnel to the limits of the hose, but saw no bodies. Another attempt is being made.