Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Arrowtown : August 8, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 974, 8 August 1901, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.

Arrowtown : August 8, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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+ A mounted parade of the Wakatipu Mounted Riiles will be held at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday the 17th inst. Sergt-Major Cardalo will bo present. Our congratulations to the following on their promotion in the teachers’ classification :—Mr A. Inglis (Cl), and Misses Healey (E3), and Miss South berg (E4). Attention ie drawn to the advt of Messrs Cotter Bros, in this issue. They have now on a clearing sale at sweeping reductions for cash. The funeral of the late Miss Jolly was largely attended on Friday last. The service was conducted at the grave by the Rev. D. Keay Fisher in a most impressive manner. On page 4 of this issue will be found Prof. Notmann’s advt. He is the only electro-botanical expert advertising who will guarantee a thorough cure. Prof. Notmann has been made the recipient of thousands of testimonials, and in cases where patients cannot visit him he will forward electric appliances and concentrated treatment on easy terms of payment. Some years ago a Scotch syndicate owned a considerable sized run in Otago. It instructed its manager if anything was radically wrong to cable home at once. The manager cabled, 4 Five inches of . snow, ewes lambing and dying by the hundred.’ The syndicate cabled back, 4 Stop lambing at once.’ The firebell on Tuesday night startled the townspeople and it was discovered on ; going to the scene that a little cottage the property of Mr P. Barron, was in flames. The Fire Brigade, under Captain Murphy, was out with all haste, but as the building was outside the Borough water-supply it could render no assistance in extinguishing the flames. Everything was totally destroyed. The loss to Mr Barron is very great and the public sympathy is felt for him. We have much pleasure in introducing to residents of the Goldfields —Messrs B. and J. Peters, watchmakers and jewellers, Dunedin. The firm’s advt. appears in another column. Mr Peters visited this district some time ago for Messrs Dawson and Co., and has now started business on his own account. He is prepared to execute orders of every description promptly and at the very lowest prices. He has a very fine stock indeed and invites inspection. Mr Peters has had a wide experience as an optician. Mr P. S. Omand, of George Street, Dunedin, has without douht the best assortment of paints,, oils, colors, varnishes, glass, brushware, and paporhangings it has been our lot to inspect. Any orders from the country will receive Mr Omand’s prompt attention. He, makes a specialty of picture-framing and artist and fancy glass work. Samples will be sent on application of all materials and quotations given for every description of work. We would advise the careful perusal of Mr Omand’s advt. in this issue. At one time vacancies for servant girls were eagerly run after in Invercargill. The position is now reversed. A girl has only to advertise that she requires a situation as 44 domestic ” and she will find quite a number of mistresses bidding for her services.—News. In regard to the recent p.t. examinations,, the names of the successful candidates in which have already been published, the inspectors have reported to the Board that there are 46 p.t.s in its service, fourteen of whom are boys. They also state that the work in the examination was, on the whole, of a satisfactory nature. The annual report of the InspectorGeneral of Lunatic Asylums does not contain very pleasant reading. It says that the number of registered insane persons on the 31st December, 1900, was 2672, comprising 1581 males and 1091 females being an increase of 115 (males 71, females 44) over the previous year. The percentage of the recoveries of admissions was : Males, 3433 ; females, 47-52; total, 39'64, as compared with 27 - 58 for the previous year. Some weeks back Mark Twain went to consult a well-known West End dentist, noted for keeping his patients waiting a long time, and for indifference to the age of the magazines and papers left on his waiting-room table to beguile their tedium. Mr Clemens was kept waiting for a solid hour, and when his turn came his patience had given out, but he contented himself, as he entered the consulting room, with the caustic remark ; 44 1 see, by your papers, that there is prospect of war with the Transvaal !” Life on the veldt with our Seventh Contingent is thus described by the Lyttelton Times correspondent : — 44 We carry no tents with us, except for the officers and hospital purposes, the men sleeping out in the open between the horse-lines. We are getting accustomed to it now, and can sleep soundly through the coldest night, with the frost half an inch deep on the blankets above us. Wo have been on short rations most of the time, being down as low as two biscuits a day per man for the last few days, but fresh meat in the shape of cattle, sheep, and goats is plentiful, and costs nothing, while an occasional pig and a few poultry are to be had at the many deserted farmhouses along the lino of march. The great drawback is the lack of vegetable foods, which is always scarce, and one gets very tired of meat, more meat, and nothing but meat. We are all becoming expert butchers and cooks, and it is wonderful the varieties we get from the same articles. Take, for instance, the ordinary soldier’s biscuit. To the layman it is merely a plain, rather tasteless biscuit, but a man who has been on the march can convert it into various delicacies in the shape of toasted biscuit, biscuit fried or roasted, or even into a first-class porridge.”

Messrs W. Jenkins and Co. are now disposing of their winter stock cheap to make room for spring goods. The attention of frequent visitors to Dunedin is drawn to Mr G. Searle’s advertisement in this issue. Mr Searle is the popular proprietor of the Imperial Hotel, Dnnedin. This hotel has been renewed throughout and affords excellent accommodation. The rooms are large and the majority of them have fire-places. Mr Searle pays special attention to the requirements of country visitors and has made the tariff most reasonable..