LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 906, 12 April 1900, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Presbyterian services for Sunday next will be as follows :—Arrow 11, Frankton 3, Queenstown 7. Wksi.e\*an Church services will be held at the following places on Sunday next: — Queenstown, 11, supply ; Macetown 3, Arrowtown 7, Rev. A. E. Stevens. A CADET corn has been formed locally, with Captain Mackay as instructor. A capital idea, and, as Captain Mackay has had considerable military experience, the boys will, no doubt, within a short time be a credit to their captain and parents. The Minister for Railways has instructed the Department to carry free of cost over railways any goods that may be donated in country districts to the Indian famine fund, Such goods must be sent to some responsible person at the nearest large town and there sold, the proceeds to be given to the fund, At a meeting last evening of the committees of the Patriotic and Remount Funds it was decided to close the lists. The amount forwarded to Dunedin of the former was LOS 7s 3d and of the latter L 69 10s 7d. Hearty votes of thanks were accorded Messrs Bevin and Graham for carrying out the honorary positions of treasurer and secrEtary so efficiently. The Committee also thanked the residents for their liberal response and the collectors for their effective canvassing. We would impress upon the local Borough Council the necessity of having the footpaths at least in the main street put in thorough repair before winter. A stitch in time will save useless expenditure during the next few months. We would suggest that the footpaths be asphalted at half cost to the Borough and half cost to the ratepayers interested. The cost would be trifling to the ratepayers, but if they refused to pay their share let the Council compel them to do so by striking a rate for the purpose. We received a note yesterday with no signature, but we presume it was from a fair maiden, judging by the following question : " Can you account, Mr Editor, for the number of marriages about to eventuate locally." A rather difficult query to answer. Whether it is on account of the renewed prosperity of the district or the prospects of a cold winter we are not in a position to say, but the latter seems to be the most suggestive. Rumor has it that no less than ten couples intend entering into nuptial blessedness within a short space of time. General Sir Redvers Buller, in addition to being the wealthiest man in the British Army, is also a noted gourmand. Before leaving England his chef planned for him a different dinner daily for three months ahead, the menus comprising the rarest and costliest delicacies French and English comestible makers could provide. Each dinner was packed in a separate case, with the date on which it was to bo eaten on the cover, and the menu inside. The chef has instructions to keep on providing his master with Lucullian feasts so long as he remains in the campaign.

The plague has broken out in Perth, W.A. Over L 77,000 has been subscribed in Victoria to the war funds. Scarlatina is prevalent in some of the suburbs of Invercargill. The number of persons in receipt of the old age pensions in New Zealand now exceeds 10,000. Dr Alice Woodward has been appointed bacteriologist and pathologist at the Auckland District Hospital. A tomrstone is about the only place where the average man doesn't really care to have his name in print. Beef has been raised a penny and mutton a penny to twopence per pound all round in Melbourne. The daily pay of a general on the staff is £8 a day, of a brigadier-general £2 10s, and an A.D.C. to general 15s. In time of war France can put 370 out of every 1000 of her population in the field, Germany 310, and Russia 210. A pounu a bed per night is by no means above the average charge at the hotels in Capetown at the present time. The total British casualties in the Crimean war wore as follows:—381 officers and 20,425 men killed ; 504 officers and 11,361 men wounded. The farriers of Christchurch have decided to raise the price for shoeing horses. This is owing to the increase in the cost of the materials used in the work. The Waipawa Mail is responsible for the statement that Sergeant Major Dewar, now Lieutenant in the fifth contingent is a nephew of Lord Roberts. Ti/e Southland Education Board has decided to supply each Committee with a Union Jack at half-cost, with a view to fostering a patriotic spirit amongst the children. A Melbourne insurance company lias offered a life pension of £1 a week to the first Australian who gets the Victoria Cross. This applies also to the New Zealanders. Reports state that Mr Mcenan, of Willowbridge, Otago, has reaped about 140 bushels of oats to the acre, from a 10 acre paddock. The patch was originally sown for chaff, but it proved too good for that. Pahiatua possesses the unique distinction of numbering among its residence a lady having the biggest head in the North Island, the measurement being 26in round the head, and 17in from ear to ear. It is currently reported in official circles that Mr M'Carthy, S.M., of the LakesRoxburgh, district will be appointed to Invercargill vice Mr Poynton, who has been appointed Public Trustee.—Bruce Herald. Christchurch residents are subscribing towards a gold nut for presentation to the hero of Mafeking. It is to be inscribed : "To Colonel Baden-Powell, from Christchurch, New Zealand; a hard nut to crack, : Mafeking, 1899-1900." The Wellington Times says that a young woman who had in vain tried to get a khaki suit to proceed with the Fifth Contingent stowed herself away on the Maori. She was discovered before the steamer left, and cried bitterly on being put ashore. When the pontoons of a dredge for one of the claims on the Molyneux were floated on to the r ; ver, one of those interested telegraphed "all tight." The paper publishing the telegram was careful to state that this referred solely to the pontoons. What we (Gore Ensign) believe to be a record for the colony was established at a sitting of the Waikaia S.M. Court on Tuesday, when no fewer than six prohibition orders were granted against women—five of these on application of the police, and the other on the husband's motion. The railway authorities have hit upon a commendable method of disposing of the surplus literature left behind in railway carriages. They have posted a notice in the carriages inviting travellers to hand sucli books and periodicals as they may have no further use for to the guards, who will deposit them in a box for clearance by the asylum authorities. From a Home paper we learn that oilbs of wheat were sold recently at Scottsburg, Indiana, U.S.A., for £IOO. The seller was a scientific farmer named M'Caslin, who has succeeded in obtaining a hybrid, a cross between the good old " Genessee Giant" and the " Fultz." Its value is said to lie in the fact that only one-sixth of a bushel need be used as seed to secure the same crop that a bushel of any other kind would do. At Kempsey, Sydney, a man named Lawson, his wife, and infant were spending an evening with a friend named Hindcock. Lawson was playing a violin when Handcock seized a rifle and shot him. Mrs Lawson rushed out, leaving her baby. The residents did not dare to approach Handcock's house till the morning, when Lawson was found dead, but the baby was safe. Handcock had gone away, but, while the inquest was proceeding he walked into the room, carrying the rifle. He did not resist arrest, and is believed to be insane. Dr Conan Doyle, speaking of the war, says : —I have seen more positive virtue in this country during the last few months than I saw during the last 40 years of my "life. Why should we punish Kruger ? That man has solved a problem which everv statesman had found unsolvable. I would build a monument to President Kruger of the size of St. Paul's Cathedral, putting him under it, and I would write across it : "To the memory of the man who federated the British Empire." The Dunedin Star announces a discovery of mica in Otago. The locality of the find is the head of Lake Te Anau, where a large outcrop of mica of the very finest quality has been discovered. A party have already left for the place, equipped for opening out the outcrop and ascertaining whether the mica exists in quantity. If it does, Otago will be richer by an incalculable sum, for this stuff is worth something like £SOOO or £6OOO per ton if of the quality and size that the prospectors speak of. James Reed Injured. Mr James Reed, struck his leg against a cake of ice in such a manner asto 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 i 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 he 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. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is Hd.

OSMAH Pasha, the hero of the siege of Plevna, is dead. Portugal has announced that she will retain the Delagoa Bay railway. Sydney still fighting the plague. Several additional seizures and deaths are reported. A deaf and dumb man was fined 5s for drunkenness at prohibition Balclutha a few days ago. A leading English paper says :—A lady writing from Capetown states that those who have seen the various detachments of colonial troops think the New Zealanders the finest of them. Fourteen persons were declared bankrupt in the colony last week, viz., two laborers, one drover, one bricklayer, on* umbrella-maker, one farmer, one medical practitioner, one hawker, three sawmillers, two auctioneers, and a widow. General Buller, in one of his recent despatches, Avrote :"I suppose our officers will learn the value of scouting in time, but in spite of all one can say, up to this, our men seem to blnnder into the middle of the enemy, and suffer accordingly." Colonel Paget went into the fight at the Modder river smoking a cigar, and he, stopped once in the middle of a hot fire to light a match. When he came out of the trouble his khaki coat was hanging in ribbons behind him, torn from his back probably by the barbed wire. The Sydney chemists are making a harvest of the plague scare. Shjw windows are cleared of patent medicines, toilette requisites, etc., and packed with artistically got-up disinfectants. Everything the Board of Health has recommended or sanctioned has its plase there, beautifully wrapped up and charged for Accordingly. Horses even if not wounded, must often suffer terrible from long marches in war. During Lord Roberts' great march to Kandinar it was deemed better and more merciful in many cases to refrain from removing the saddle at all till the Avork was over. Sore back was, if anything, aggravated by putting on and taking off the saddles. M. Marx Lang, French Government Commissioner, visited various parts of Otago last week (says the Matuara Ensign.) He inspected some of the gold dredges at the Arrow, and some of the marvellously prolific farms in the same district. At one of the farms 132 bushels of oats to the acre had just been threshed, and a proportionate yield of barley was in prospect. The stock and crops at Edendale, and the evidences of fertility all along the journey from Dunedin southwards, excited the wonder of the visitor. There recently arrived in London for exhibition at the Royal Aquarium (says the Sporting Times) probably the most extraordinary freak of nature ever born, viz., a living man (James Barnes), the upper part of whose person is human while the lower resembles that of a horse. This Centaur (whose mother was bitten some five months prior to his birth by a vicious horse) was born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas, W.S., July 1876. His appearance is startling and extraordinary, but not repulsive. He runs on all fours, trots, paces, and whinnies like a 'horse. He is a musician as well as a freak. The following prices were realised at Ladysmith on February 21 : —For 141b of oatmeal, £2 19s 6d ; for a tin of condensed milk, 10s ; a pound of fat beef, * lis ; for a lib tin of coffee, 17s ; 21b tin of tongue, £1 6s : sucking pig, £1 17s ; eggs, £2 8s a dozen ; fowl, 18s ; four small cucumbers, 15s; green mealies. 3s 8d each ; small quantity of grapes, £1 6s a plate ; tomatoes, 18s ; one marrow, £1 8s ; a plate of potatoes, 19s : two small bunches of carrots, 9s ; glass jelly, 18s ; a lib bottle of jam, £llos : a lib tin of marmalade, £1 is ; a dozen matches, 13s 6d ; a packet of cigarettes, £1 5s ; 50 cigars, £9 5s ; Jib of cake tobacco, £2 5s ; ilb of tobacco, £3 ss. 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. The doctor may scoff, and likewise may sneer, When to his advice you lend him no ear, But- telfchim his fee is a little too dear For the good that he does when y.ai feel a bit queer. He from you the secret may try to allure The cure for all coughs so cheap and so sure. Suspense you'll not let him then too long endure, But explain that it's Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. AUTHENTIC MEDICAL OPINIONS WORTH KNOWING.—Dr Osborne savs : "1 use SANDER & SON'S EUOAUYPTI EXTRACT as a spray for nasal-catarrh, low fsver, asthma, etc., with great success. 1 find this prepar tion superior to all ethers." Dr. Stahl: " I have used various preparations oi' Eucalvptus, but I get better results from SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT than from auy other." Dr. Preston: "I never use any Eucalyptus preparation other than SANDER & sO.VS', as 1 found the others to be almost useless/ Dr. Hart: "It tfoes without saying that SLA n'DER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT is the best in the market." In influenza, all levers, throat and lung trouble, diptheria, diarrhoea, dysentery, kidney complaints, rheumatism, wounds, sprains, ulcers, etc., it is invaluable. See that you get SANDER & SONS', and reject spuriouß which are sometimes supplied by unscrupulous dealers.