LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 977, 29 August 1901, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Heavy min fell list night and the rivers are in a flooded state. The fortnightly social last evening was well attended and an enjoyable time spent. A i-akewell social will he tendered the Rev. Mr Stevens in the Atheneum Hall on the tit h of September. Wong Gong, the local Chinese interpreter, died this morning at the Chinese Camp. He was a straightforward man and a general favorite. Liei t. Jopp, of the Southland Mounted Hides, has resigned his lieutenantcy to take the ollicc of Sergeant-Major of the Southland Mounted Battalion. To-night the entertainment in aid of St. Peter's Church, Queenstown, takes place. We understand a lirst-class programme will bo presented to the public. Nicholson, one of the employees on the Meg and Annie, had his arm badly crushed in the machinery on Tuesday. He was taken to the Cromwell Hospital A parade of the Queenstown, Frankton, and Shotover detachments of the W.M.R. was held at Frankton yesterday. There was a good muster, although the weather was unpropitious. A's we go to press we hear that Mr .James Gilbraith and Miss Annie Gibson, a young couple formerly of this district were united in the bonds of holy wedlock at Mataura the other day. We wish them j<*yTue sale of Air O’Meara’s household furniture and effects takes place on I Saturday, 7th September. We can assure intending purchasers that articles for sale are of the best and in first-class order. The case against Hr Wilkins, charged with manslaughter by killing Mary O'Dowd, was retried at Auckland on Tuesday. The jury again failed to agree and wore discharged. A third trial will take place in November. The Sold bland County Council has just taken out a policy in the Government Accident insurance Department, for £12,500, covering their risk under the Workers Compensation for Accidents Act. An unsolved mystery has been disclosed at Grove Basil, near Winton, in Southland. The skeleton of a male European, apparently about 50 years of age, was found in the densest part of the hush, and it had apparently lain there for 20 years. In the top of the skull was a bullet hole. The jury returned an open verdict. The greatest, stock growing country in the world is not Australia, nor is it Argentina. No, siree, the Transvaal is easily first. .1 list reckon up the number of sheep and cattle captured (by cable).by the British during the last six months. Oxen in millions. Bulletin. According to the New York Herald Mr Carnegie told a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce who recently visited Skibo Castle that he still has £50,000,000 sterling to give away in public benefact ions. It seems a little un kind to publish such a fact. What a renewed deluge of letters it will produce ! 1

A paraoraph in the Times announced that an American gentleman desires to find a lady of title who will chaperone his daughter in England for three months for an honorarium of ,£50()(). Hrnn M'Dermid, aged 1(1, was killed in Dunedin on Saturday night. It is the practice with hundreds on Satina lay nights to walk on the roadway instead of the pavement and M'Dermid and a friend were doing this when a tramcar came down the hill past the Octagon. The driver gave a warning whistle and his friend stepped off the rails, but, for some unknown reason, M'Dermid did not. He was struck by one of the horses and one of the wheels went over his chest, crushing it. A tkst case was hoard the other day at Riverton. A number of gentlemen gave their uromissory notes as security for an advance with which to improve the recreation reserve. The money was obtained through the medium of four guarantors, who held the IMS'. s as security against liability. The money was duly raised, and the bank now wanted payment. One of the guarantors thereupon, sued one of the makers of the P.N.’s. It was contended that the-notes were only given as a matter of form, and that the money would he repaid from the proceeds of the ground. The Magistrate held that the makers of the P.N.’s were liable to the guarantors, who were in time liable to the bank. The ‘ just as a matter of form ’ pretext was as usual not verified by results.

The Compensation Court, Wellington, gave judgment, on August 24, in the two cases hoard concerning hind taken by the corporation for widening Willis street. Mrs Sarah E. Clark (nee Schultz) claimed £(1250, being one quarter of the amount of £25,000 claimed for the whole of the area in the Schultz estate at the foot of Willis street. Mrs Claik had one quarter interest in the estate, in which the other claimants by an oversight of the corporation officers, had obtained the full amount of their claim, £18,750. Mr Rendix Hallenstein, whoso land adjoined the Schultz estate, and had upon it an oyster saloon, claimed £6600. The Chief Justice said the court had arrived at the following decision with unanimity :—Compensation to Mrs Clark £3860 (including interest), with £77 14s costs and court fees ; compensation to Mr Hallenstein £4996 (including interest), with £77 14s costs and court foes. Each side was ordered to pay its own assessor, the fee being fixed at lOgs for each assessor in each of the two cases.