LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 905, 5 April 1900, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The building trade is exceptionally brisk in Dunedin and Invercargill at present.

At Wellington, John Heighten has been committed for trial for the murder of his infant daughter, Since September 1, butter and cheese of the estimated value of £35,000 have been exported from Taranaki. One of the old age pensioners at the Thames is 96 years of age, and is still strong enough to go for his pension.

Wesleyan Church services will be held at the following places on Sunday next ; Queenstown 11, Arthur’s Point 3, Arrowtown 7-

Owing to the low price of oats last year a great quantity of chatf was cut for feeding sheep. Mr T. Wilson, of Ashburton, cut no less than 3000 tons.

Mrs Borchgrevinck has arrived at Adelaide, and expects to meet her husband on his return from the Antarctic regions some time this month. The Presbyterian services for Sunday will be conducted by the Rev. Blair as follows :—Gibbston 11, Arrow 2.30, Macetown 7. Services also at Frankton 3, Queenstown 7. A cricket match was played at Hawea on Saturday last between the Pembroke and Hawea cricket teams, the former winning by 74 runs. Scores : Pembroke 100 (Anderson 53 not out, Ironside 15), and Hawea 35 (Smith 16). The owners of the Asloun have been awarded £1(5,500 salvage for towing the Waikato to Fremantle, when the latter had broken her shaft. Of this amount the captain receives £I3OO, and the crew £2700.

Mrs Fraser has been acquitted of the charge of attempting to murder her husband, Dr Fraser, by shooting him with a revolver, at St. Kilda, in December last, on the ground that the shooting was accidental.

We are sending 230,000 troops to the Transvaal. To the Peninsular War we sent 30,000 ; Egyptian campaign, 30,000 ; Crimea, 26,000 ; Waterloo, 24,000 ; Blenheim, 16,000 ; and Afghanistan, 13,000.

An officer who went to the war had to postpone insuring his life through not having the ready money. The committee of the Officers’ Families’ Fund happening to hear of this, at once effected the insurance. By a strange chance the officer was killed in the first battle in 'which he took part.

Our Queenstown correspondent writes that Mr E. Helps, metaphysician and onlologist, at present in Queenstown has been making some wonderfully good cures in rheumatic and nervous cases in Queenstown already. Mr Helps had made a great name for himself in Invercargill and Dunedin where he had made some wonderful cures. [Late advertismouts compelled us to condense our Queenstown notes this issue.] The Government have appointed Mr J. C. Martin acting Judge and he will resign the Public Trusteeship. Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at Invercargill, will succeed him as Public Trustee. One of the Native Land Court Judges, whose number it had been intended for some time to reduce, will be transferred to the Magistracy. The liquidators of the Colonial Bank state that a settlement considered favorable bo the Bank has been arrived at in the appeals made against the decision given in the cases of Connell v. the Liquidators of the Colonial Bank, and Brooks v. Same. The Star states that there is a probability of a small dividend being forthcoming to shareholders of the Bank.

There is no trace of any farther survivors of the steamer Glenelg. When the captain found the vessel sinking lie headed her ashore. The gale blow with appalling fury. The captain’s last words, addressed to those in the boat, were : “ Keep oil' the wreck, or you will be swamped.” Burke (mate) jumped out of the boat at the last minute, and went down with the captain.

The Friend of the Free State says that a wounded Imperial officer in Pretoria asked one of our young nurses why they wore treated with such kindness. “Because you are suffering through doing your duty and showing obedience to orders. If Chamberlain lay on the veldt dying with thirst, with a river flowing a few yards from him, I would not move an inch to dip my fingers in it to moisten Iris lips.” James Reed Injured. Mr James Reed, struck his leg against a cake of ice in such a manner as to bruise it severely. It became very much swollen and pained him so badly that he could not walk without the aid of crutches. He was treated by physicians, also used several kinds of liniment and two and a half gallons of whisky in bathing it, but nothing gave any relief until he began using Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. This brought almost a complete cure in a week’s time and lie believes that had be not used this remedy his leg would have had to be amputated. Mr Reed is one of the leading merchants of Clay Court House, W. Va. Pain Balm is unequalled for sprains bruises and rheumatism. For sale by Cotter Bros. Arrowtown and Bullendale.

Tue Bruce Herald wants “ More cash and less prosperity.” Cabled that the Duchess of York has given birth to a son. Further fighting in Orange Free State-: casualties on the British side, 100. _ Denmark claims that there is not a single person in her domain who cannot read and write. Mr Herbert Gladstone, speaking at the Liberal Federation, said the British flag must wave over the whole of South Africa. A few days ago a horse was sold at the public pound in Tauranga for the sum of lid, and a mare and foal were also disposed of at the same time forhalf-a-crown. The bridegroom and best man at a wedding at Masterton were arrested just after the ceremony on a charge of stealing five turkeys, to make up the shortage in the poultry provided for the wedding breakfast. A stoney-hearted “ Jedge ” sentenced the couple to seven days’ imprisonment, without even allowing the bridegroom out on bail for his honeymoon.

General Wauchope’s charger, Lady Majoress, from which he was shot at the battle of Magersfontein, has been taken to Britain in the transport Montfort. The deceased general expressed a dying wish that this should be done, and his faithful man, Jobsou, carried out the instructions most satisfactorily, the beautiful mare arriving in perfect condition. A young woman named Rachel Thorpe, daughter of a selector living near Cunningham (Victoria) was bitten by a snake. She tied a piece of ribbon round the finger while the snake was still hanging to it. She sucked the wound and ran to her home, about 150 yds distant, She was then sub(ected to chloride of lime treatment. This was injected once only, as no serious symptoms manifested themselves, the heroic treatment first adopted having prevented the poison entering the system.

A youth at school in Haddington, lacking musical talent, and whose voice consequently jarred during the singing lesson, was always allowed a holiday on singing days. His mother failing to divine the cause of her son’s forced absence, paid a visit to the school to inquire into the matter. In answer to her query as to why her son was sent home on such occasions, the teacher said— ‘ Why, simply because he has no ear.’ ‘ What !’ she exclaimed, • no ear ? Did ever anybody hear the like o’ that ! No car ? He has a lug like a saucer, man !’

A Native named Patara Timamo was recently drowned at Tikitiki, Waipa River, whilst driving a bull across. His horse got into a deep hole, and he was unable toswim. Tepora Terito, seventeen, years of age, made a plucky attempt to rescue him, being dragged under several times by the drowning man, who clutched her skirts, so that whilst under water she had to tear a band off her dress to escape. She was so exhausted that she was barely able to scramble ashore. Deceased’s mother, seventy years of age, dived to the bottom of the river, and recovered thebody.

The prisoners at Pentridge Jail, Melbourne, have been going in for the luxury of a strike. One morning between 80 and 100 of them refused to eat thenbreakfast, and said they would not start work until they had been given food which was sweet and wholesome. The bread given them was, they said, insufficiently baked aid sour. The governor tasted the bread, which he said was quite up to the standard, buc the prisoners showed signs of mutiny and it was not until more armed warders had been summoned that they quieted down and started work.

There is something very pathet’c about the story of Maigaret Heffernau, who lies in the Melbourne gaol under sentence of death for drown ng her infant child. She belongs to the Yackandandah districts, and left for Melbourne in October. Finding herself in sore straits about the 13th and 14th January, she wrote to her parents, acquainting them with her position. The letter, in the ordinary course, should have arrived at-Dederang on the 14th January, at 9.30 p.m. The parents did not call that night, and on the following day, the I.sth, the postoffice and all its letters were burnt. The parents thus knew nothing or their daughter’s trouble until they heard of her arrest. Evidently as no reply carae to her letter, she believed herself cast off, and was t]ms led to commit the crime for which she now stands condemned. A visitor to the Dunedin races writes to a contemporary: —“A smart case of ‘ toteriggiug 1 was worked in the Wingatui Stakes, run at Wingatui. There were only two horses in the race—Blazer and Decoy—and it was a ‘ dead cert ’ for the former. The to:alisator on the outside stand did not o[:en on the event, but a well-known Dunedin financier invested on the inside machine. He put £1 on Blazer, and just when the horses were being started he rung on three tickets on Decoy so as to make a dividend. It was so neatly done that when the ‘ dead bird’ won and the public began to walk round, they were dumfcunded to find that Blazer had paid such a ‘ divi ’ —£3 12s. The object of the punter was to get at the * bookies ’ in town, where rumor says he had Blazer heavily backed, and this is how the dividend was made. It is not often that the ‘bookies ’ are ‘ got at,’ but when they are it is always heavily.” Many Thanks. “ I wish to express my thanks to the manufacturers of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, for having put on the market such a wonderful medicine,” says W. W. Massingill, of Beaumont, Texas. There are many thousands of mothers whose children have been saved from attacks of dysentery and cholera infantum who must also feel thankful. It is for sale by Cotter Bros. Arrowtown and Bullendale.

Why Experiment on Yourself. With remedies of doubtful utility when you can get Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy which has stood the test of time ? Twentyfive years sale and use have proven that remedy to be a prompt and certain cure for colds. It will cure a cold in a day if taken as soon as the cold has been contracted and before it has settled in the system. Sold by Cotter Bros. Arrowtown and Bullendale.