LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 904, 29 March 1900, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr Speer announces by advertisement in this issue that he has now permanently settled in Auckland. We notice that Mr James D. Patterson has been promoted to the rank of sergeant in the fifth contingent.

The Railway Department offer a reward of LIOO for information leading to the discovery of the persons who caused the railway accident at Invercargill.

Wesleyan Church services will bo held as follows on Sunday next : —Queenstown 11 Mr George M'Kenzie ; Skippers Point 3, Bullendale 7, Rev. A. E. Stevens.

Christina Johnston, a Sydney young lady, has been awarded £SO in the District Court for injuries sustained through a cut on the face from a 'bus driver’s whip. Mafeking had its daily paper till Christmas but then the stock of paper petered out, and it had to become a triweekly. Recent issues are printed on buff wrapping-paper. Mr A. Solomon died in Dunedin on Tuesday last. He took a keen interest in charitable aid and municipal matters. He leaves a widow and one son, Mr Saul Solomon, the well-known solicitor. John Pope has been committed for trial at Christchurch on a charge of attempting ao murder his wife at Governor s Bay on March 1. Mrs Pope received a serious gunshot wound in the shoulder, but is now out of danger.

The Cromwell Argus is inviting subscriptions from that district in order to present a gold brick to Colonel BadcnPowcll for his gallant defence of Mafeking similar to the one raised in Grey mouth for presentation to Sir George White.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from Mr G. R. George, secretary of the Bluff Harbor Board, a copy of the Board’s annual report and balance sheet for the year ended 31st December, 1899. It is printed in pomphlet form, and contains valuable information regarding the progress of trade of the port of Southland.

A miner named Murdoch has been sentenced to death at Perth for the attempted murder of his mate, Clarke, in November last. He kept him imprisoned in a shaft for two days without food or water ; threw down lighted plugs of dynamite and beat him back several times when he attempted to escape. He was almost dead when he dually managed to get out.

A distressing drowning fatality occurred at Woodstock, Southland, on Sunday last. A boy named Fotaeringham fell into a water-hole oft deep. His sister Annie jumped in to rescue him, and got stuck in the mud. The father with difficulty saved the boy, but while he was doing so the girl sank deeper in the mire, until only her floating hair could be seen. When she was extricated life was extinct,

A countryman went with a friend to the theatre. When the lights were down and the play had commenced, he was offered the use of an opera glass. Examining it as closely as the darknrss of the place would admit, he placed it to his moutb and turned it upwards, but, finding that no liquor was coming out, he handed it back in despair, saying : —“ It’s empty, man ; there’s no’ a single drap in’t.

The goldfields’ members of the fourth and fifth contingents were entertained by their friends at a social in the Garrison Hall, Dunedin, on Wednesday evening, 21 st inst. The Hon. T. Fergus occupied the chair, and other leading men from the goldfields took a prominent part in the proceedings. His Excellency, Lord Ranfurly, Captain Alexander, and the Hon. J. G. Ward attended the social. The members of the contingents present were each presented witli a gold coin, the size of a florin, suitably inscribed.

The licensing election in Dunedin resulted in the return of the whole of the moderate candidates, who defeated the nominees of the Council of the Churches.

At the Supreme Court a verdict of “ Not Guilty ” was returned in the Greymouth manslaughter case in which a man was fatally injured in a street fight over a game of cards in a hotel. A ship captain, writing to the Hawkes Bay Herald, says that he cleared his ship of rats by giving his men a glass of rum for each one they caught. The work was done thoroughly and well. By an explosion 'of fire damp in Torbanelea colliery Queensland, five men— Johnstone, Gamble, Griggs, and Houstons (father and son), were dreadfully burned. A later measage states that Johnstone, Griggs, and Houston, junr., are dead. The Tuapeka Times understands that Mr Stratford, S.M., is putting up a residence at Milton, at which place he intends to live and practice law after Ins retirement from the Bench, which will soon take place. The local newspaper of Falkenburg, a town in Pomerania, gives the following bit of nows in a special edition : “ Reuter’s office just, announces that the Boers have sunk 46 English ironclads in Delagoa Bay with a searchlight.”

At an inquest on the Balmain (N.S.W.) shaft accident the evidence failed to throw any light on its cause. The survivor only knew that there was a sudden bump and he found himself in the bucket alone. The inspectors deposed that they had never seen a better equipped or more carefully worked shaft. Solutions suggested were that the men had attempted to change places or that one became suddenly ill. The verdict was “ Accidental Death,” adding a rider that all using the shaft should undergo periodical examination.

Woodvillk was electrified the other evening by a gentleman tramping up Main Street in the garb that Adam originally rejoiced in. His progress along the street was slow and dignified, and spectators were for a while so paralysed with astonishment that no one made any effort to stop him. Hear the Masonic Hotel, however he was eclipsed by a horse-cover, and when next seen he was traversing the street with Constable Brosnahan, his graceful proportions enveloped in an oilskin commandeered for the purpose. The London Daily Telegraph’s Pietermaritsburg correspondent says:—A second Piper Findlatir has been discovered in the person of Sergeant Kenneth M‘Leod, who, during the charge of the Gordon Highlanders at Elandslaagte, was struck by one bulet in the arm and by another in the side, but continued to play and to advance with the Gordons. Next bullets came and smashed his drones, his chanter, and windbag, and only then did the gallant piper desist. M‘Leod is a native of Lewis, and was formerly in the Seaforth Highlanders. The records of the last words of great men have always to be looked on with suspicion, and it would appear that the last words of General Wauchope run a risk of being no exception. I believe there is a letter in Glasgow giving a graphic account of the death of that gallant General, written by one who was at the moment when the General was struck lying within twenty yards from him. He says when the General threw up his hands he exclaimed— ,l My God, men, what have I done ?” This is very different from other accounts, and somehow I like it better. The General’s alleged desire to apportion the blame was hardly like his nature.

Just before Sir R. Duller entered the army his passion for woodcraft nearly changed his career. Lopping a tree in the woods at Downes he cut his right leg so severely that the doctor declared it must be amputated or else he would die. Redvers Duller replied that he would rather die with two legs than live with one, and the leg was saved. Sir Redvers Duller’s disgust with Mr Gladstone was not reciprocated. Once, at a dinner party, a discussion arose as to the relative merits of Biblical heroes and modern leaders. Some one quoted Joshua as an example which could not bo matched in modern. Mr Gladstone, who was present, took this up at once in his vehement way. “ Joshua ! Joshua !” he exclaimed, “ why Joshua couldn’t hold a candle to Redvers Duller as a leader of men !”

In a letter to his friends in Scotland a sailor employed in a merchant vessel writes from Capetown to say that on board his ship there are only two Britishers, the majority of the rest being Scandanavians. When the latter heard the news of Colenso check they were wild with delight, saying, “ Dat’s goot, dat’s goot ; English catch it.” These men, says the correspondent, have long sailed in British ships, and have been able to save money and send it to their friends. So far as he can see, they have been well treated, and he asks the question, “ Why should they be so pleased at our reverse ?” When the correspondent wrote there were some 70 or 80 vessels at Capetown, and excepting Her Majesty’s ships and Donald Currie’s, the crews were nearly all foreign—Taking our money and re-

joicing in any misfortune befalling us. A carriage containing two English visitors, Mr Wallace, M.A., Oxon., and his wife, was passing along a road bordering a Swiss precipice near Davos a few days ago (says a London paper) when the horse ran away and hurled the carriage against a low wall, which separates the road from the chasm below. The coachman and horse were shot over, and the horse and carriage were balanced on either side of the wall for a few moments until the harness broke. The horse fell into the abyss. The coachnnui had a wonderful escape, being caught by the coat on a small tree at the edge of the precipice, Mr M'Laren was only saved by his wife catching hold of the fur coat he was wearing. A Newfoundland dog in the carriage had a still more wonderful escape. He was shot over the precipice, and, bounding from rock to rock, at length reached the bottom. His only injury was a broken tail.

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