Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Arrowtown: September 26, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 981, 26 September 1901, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.

Arrowtown: September 26, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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A Kin n: cui.ial;, "I't lii‘'!’ioi"i , In-. Ige, | near Roxburgh, was killed a( live o'clock I mi Monday morning. lln was twist mi j round the elevator driving shaft. At live minutes !" "lie mi Tuesday j morning a large tire incurred ai AA iut"ii. 1 destroying a large block "t eight buildings, ! including the AA niton liolel and Ab.-ivs ; Hall. The trial of Cz.olgosz. has begun lie 1 refuses til speak. Hr (laylm'd staied that j (he ael Mill cause of Ihe I ’reside!it s del'll i was r!ie absorption oi hr ■'.•■n d-wu m ■■ i ■ of the jianereas. Ali; J. d. <)'Kane. dentist, will not visit | Arrow! own mi Saturday next. As will he seen from his ad\i.. .Mr O Kane Ins made • Alexandra Soul I) his head platter'. . Almithly visits will he j <.ti-1 (•> Arrow and Ciieelisim.vu. l.\ our last. isMte an error was made in | stating tlial llie purse of sovereigns presented to Rev. A. lx. Stevens was from 1 I hilh I’.daie friends. d'h" present a ton was j unde hy Air Stevens's Skippers Point friends. Tit r. ad just menu of limueiiis lire insurance claims, which approximated ToiM,tlt!o, distrihuted over forty-1 liree ollices. has heen emupleled It t""k Air Sam 11 oldern ten hours 1. ■sian Ihe claims, hj. ha vim, f i, > append his name seventeen hundred limes. Kxccpt.mg AA hiteley sin London, Hordern's is the record single tire insurance demand. AA nir.r, souse hoys were playing ‘‘ Kelly Gang” at Charters Towers, one of them, named N ielsoti, pi tinted a pea rifle at .1 nines lleddie and lire I The Iml let mitered the hoy’s 1 emplo, causing instant dentil. It appears that allot her hoy had loadeil the weapon unknown to .Nielson. I'he old story: “ Did’nt know it. was loadeil.’ The pea nile lias kilied more colonials than the .dauser. A iMKAnt: of tile AVakatipn Afmmt"d Riile.s was held mi Saturday Last. The Arrow portion oi the company tell in at the post "dice, .and, after being inspected j hv Captain Aigio. were mareiied to the | Lower Shotover, some useful held work j being gone through on the way mil. <>n j reaching Shot' iv«i* I Imy were snrjirised and j eapmred hv the < .hieensfown and Frank- j Pm division (under Lieut. Laird), who j were in ambush 1 here. Tile whole emu- | panv Were then 1 ikeU ill hand by S.-rgl,- | Major (’aialate, who pm . iieei through ; so,IK' useful drib. ill I lie evening iliej exa mural imi for mm-com mi —■!■ med others | i. ok price, in.del - the mpervision m Sorgt-Major < 'ardale. | \ Till \i. -I' Si-.rich I .wdown C.mn o. l | pn sell! Wet. ! ;■mWolli he run trkahle i wi.l. which itm drill was le-ndle.!. i A, d. script ion of t ! ; i.; i • ■ l l ill ■ • will prove | of inter to farmer-. !l - height C only ’ Unis enabling the driver to handle j on ;ji- it iies are ah- r. 1 hy means of a lever, i and tlie machine will sow from h"lh t" I 7f'ih per .acre. The ■•fair, sower consists j ~f two parts, and. sows accurately and j ni-v.-r bruises a seed. The machine will | also sow grass see 1. an 1 a ridging atlaelim. '.it may also he put on if required. Pim.ll* Laekm Stein, a deco e-e l .iewi-b | hawker, of Melbourne, has left his estate, j of ijlu . eacii, t" I ■ * Victorian Govern- j Testator stated in his will that he was tin- I married, and his relations had not been j kind I" him. and as the ( lovernment had I kindly .-.'lowed hj m, ah hough a foreigner, | t o take < i'll a hawker's license .and earn j his living in tit State, ho ie’t the < Joveru- | meiit hid he airmig'-'l claim on his estate. Tin-: Melbourne police on September ti | arrested Frederick Gerhard, a recent | arrival from Switzerland, on the strength j of a cable message received by the Swiss | Consul stating that a warrant had been issued for his .arrest on a charge of j fraudulent insolvency. Amongst his j e lie vis was found the sum of T'-MO, which j was impounded. It is believed that j accused remitted another sum of T'i,-b0 | to a Melbourne lirm. and this .also it is | expected will be impounded. Gerhard, who is believed to be an All irchist, will be exit adit ed to Switzerland. A IatKTTV serious accident happened mi (lie Ciomwell-Rbieeiistown road last week, just about where the Upper Magnetic j dredge is now lying. Air Henderson oi T;liras was driving to Rhieenstovvn Air { and Airs AlacD*maid late of Aidgmir, i who are leaving for a place at Bnrwood Station, and was driving three horses in an express Some of the luggage which was piled pretty high fell oil' and struck (he wheels. This Started tile horses, who ( went oil' at a great rate. Unfort mutely, I AL !Ri id arson lost one of the reins j , fastened to the leaders, and the vehicle went over I lie river bank, horses, express, . passengers, and luggage. Luckily no one was badly hurt. Mrs Mac Donald was severely shaken and bruised, and the two men received sumo e intrusions. About Tit; won It of luggage roiled down them bank into the river .and was lost., 1 lie [ , express sull'ercd considerable damage, and . t!ie horses were knocked about a little, j ; Considering that at this place the road is i directly over the river, it is very fortunate that no person was severely injured.— Cromwell Argus. Put.st iu:nt Roosevelt, who is 13 years j i of age, is the youngest man of all the -,J j < who have occupied the Chief .Magistracy j i of the Slates, the next youngest being | ' Genera! Grant, who was in his 47th year | t when elected. The Cmisi.it utimi stijm - j kites that "no person except a natural- j ! born citizen, or a, citizen of the I nited | Stall's at the lime of the adoption ol this ; Constitution sli.i 11 be eligible to the oliice 1 • of i’residenl : neither shall any person • ; be oiigible l:> tint olhce wlm shall noi have attain."! to the age >.f Mo years, and been , ; i l \ cars a resiil.-ot within the I nited Slates.” Tim new I’resident comes of an m old Dutch family ••(’ 'osv York, and in- t h.eriled mneli wcall hj. lie has emit ribnl ed largely to lit era i tire, ehielly mi subjects ■ i relating to ranch lile in America, but also ; on the war of ISIT, and (lie liiographics ; I of u .talile \ met leans. Hi- hobbit" .tie I h- ■•i• ib —i! as rai'eliiiig and big game. Ii am ~11 he 'Teat plains and Ihe Rocky * M 'tint on-, go.do y (cspcvia'ly mammalogy) ami held naniral history in i 1