Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Arrowtown: October 3, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 982, 3 October 1901, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.

Arrowtown: October 3, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Messrs SV. .Jenkins ,-mil Co., have just opened a large and choice assortment uf spring and .summer goods. See advt. on page J. The M ‘Adoo Jubilee singers gave one of their first-class entertainments, in the Atheneiun Mall on Saturday evening last, before a large and appreciative audience.

.Mi; II A. Stratford, formerly Magis trate in this district, gives notice in the Gazette that he has (incompliance with the rcipiest of the lion. Lady Ilennikcr) assumed the name of Augustus Henry Alhi u< mgh St rat f> >rd-1 lenniker. Messrs Urown, Ewing, and Co., Dunedin, announce by advt. in this issue, that their representative will make a display of spring and summer goods in the Drill Hall. Arrowtown, for three days, commencing on Monday, October ■2l. A si\-KooMi;i> house at (Queenstown, the properly of Mr M ‘Mullen and occupied byMr.L (1. I Mato, was destroyed by tire last night, together with the furniture, clothing, and ell’ccts. The children had only time to escape in their nightclothes. The building was insured in the National for £IOO ; a small insurance being on the, furniture. Tomlinson has boon sentenced to 10 years’ penal servitude for the White Clills mail robbery. Herbert and Joseph Minton have each been sentenced to 12 years’ penal servitude for attempting to rob the Henty bank and shooting manager Lamport. Ax the Waimate Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, reports the Press, a solicitor claimed a guinea for each of two cases of cattle tresspass. 'The Magistrate said that as both the cases occupied less than live minutes, one guinea was enough for the two. A xi.’Mßivii of Chinese bodies at present in the Greymouth Cemetery are being disinterred, in order to be sent back to China. It has been announced that the Greymouth Cemetery will be closed from daylight till noon, as long as the work of disinterment continues. Duui.no the financial debate Sir J. G. Ward averaged 210 words per minute for the hour during which he spoke. In print his speech took tip 14 more Hansard pages than any other member could fill in the same period. And yet ignorant people say that a woman can talk faster than a man. Tjik Mount. Hunger Mail states that Mr Guyton, dredgemaster of the Gold Deposit dredge, was severely scalded about the arms and shoulders on Thursday week, owing to an escape of steam from the boiler. He is now making satisfacti»ry progress. Relates the Wairarapa Star : -Two representatives of the swagging fraternity were reposing peacefully in the Masterton Park. One of them suddenly shrieked, “Murder! Help I His mate inquired the reason. “Oh," said he, with a bead of perspiration trickling down his sunburnt nose, “ I dreamt that I was i at work !”

| The Post states that Air W. Carncross, member for the Taieri, aiul latterly Government whip, lias purchased the I’lltliain Argus, ami will take possession of the property on Tuesday. Mr Carnemss has for many years been proprietor of the Taieri Advocate, and as he will be unable to run two newspapers at once he has decided to dispose of his southern property. He will, however, continue to represent the Taieri electorate until the expiry < f tlie present Parliament. The two boys who walked from Invercargill to Dunedin to see the Duke and Duchess of York and were “ lionised " in the northern city and presented to the Royal party, receiving autograph photographs and a royal pat on the cheek, appeared at the Invercargill Police Court on Thursday charged with stealing a boat It appears that they took the craft from its moorings in the estuary and pulled down to Clifton, where they sot her adrift. They were committed to the Caversham Industrial School. Tm: lion. Matthew Holmes, M.L.C., died at Wellington on Friday. Mr Holmes had been more or less invalided for some time and Ins death, though comparatively sudden, was not therefore unexpected. He arrived in New Zealand early in the sixties and immediately entered into the business of a pastoralist, gaining a wide reputation as a breeder of pedigree stock. He was appointed to the Legislative Council in IStiti. Deceased leaves three sons and three daughters, one cf the latter being the wife of the Hon Hen. McLean. Some twelve or eighteen months ago a Kiwitea settler lost a silver matchbox, which he prized very much above its intrinsic value, as it had been presented to him. Hopes were abandoned of recovering tlie missing souvenir till a few days ago, when one of his sheep was noticed to be very lame. The animal was caught with a view to some attention being paid to its apparenly injured limb, when to the surprise of the owner, the silver matchbox was found bet ween the cloven hoof of the sheep. The box had, from all appearances been carried thus by the sheep for some (hue, and although, somewhat injured will still he serviceable. The claim Smyth v. Fulton, the first before tlie Arbitration Court under the Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Act, came before .Judge Cooper and Assessors on Monday at Auckland. The father mid sister of William Smyth, laborer, killed by a landslip at Nihotapu while working for 11 ugh Fulton, cuntractor for waterworks for the City Council, claimed £lOll from Fulton’s widow, Fulton also having been killed in the accident. Counsel announced that the claim had been settled by a payment of £20.") to the claimants by the New Zealand Accident Insurance Co., which had Mr Fulton’s risk on (he coni rad . Di kino the past, few days speculation has been l ife as in how Iho fanny name found in the possession of the man who shot IVeide.m M'Kmley ought to be pro nounced, and not a lew citizens, not by am means noted for intemperance in lan gnage, have with their attempts to say " Czolgosz,” and t heir comments on that pat roig mic, come dangerously near dislocating I heir faces. Soil is a matter of urgent public importance that the true pronunciation is given. A Sydney F.vcn ing News reporb-r got il the other day from a foreign Anarchist whom he was interview ing. This gent leman says that it is not a I’olish name, hut Hungarian, and t hat it, should be pronounced “ Slmb gosh," the final “sh " being giv en the ■ mind of I he “ s " ill pleasure.

Silt <!. ('lillbrd’s Wiudwhistle easily heat Mr Stead's Knight Errant in the Wanganui (luineas, paying £2 J7s. In a bull tiglit held at Bayonne a red automobile was used instead of horses, hut the bull refused to face the motor. TilK ('hristehnrcli City Council have decided to erect placards in the streets drawing at.lent.ion to the existanee of a by-law prohibiting expectoration on the streets, so as to prevent the spread of tnbe.rculosis. 'l'm: only venomous insect in New Zealand is the katipo spider. A man dieil from the bite, of one near Auckland last, week. Such fatalities are very rare as the katipo has a bright red body, and is easily recognised. A Dakuxuton (Now South Wales) farmer named Archibald Anderson met Ids death in a peculiar manner recently, lie went out to skin a foal that had died from tetanus. He had one or two sores on his hands, which apparently came in contact with the dead beast. He was seized with a lit of shivers the next day, and died in an hour.

The Now Zealand Times, in the course of a leading article on the recent British reverses in Smith Africa, says that the whole situation is such as to favor the view expressed by some of those taking j part in the campaign—that it will take two years more to finally subjugate the ■ Boers, by which time Air Kruger's pro- ! pheey that the cost of conquering th■ Transvaal would “ stagger humanity will be on the fair way to fullilment. A constable w ho was conveying a lunatic from Hastings to W ellingt on had a startling experience. When the train reached the tunnel near Eketahuna the lunatic violently assaulted the constable, hurst the handcuffs, and leaped off the train. The lunatic was subsequently recaptured by the police from Alasterron. The constable in charge got considerably knocked about, but is not thought to be seriously injured. “ lx the navy, are you, my friend ?” inquired a man with mutton chop whiskers to his neighbor in a bus. The sailor nodded. “ Well,” said the other, “I’m not exactly in the navy, but I’m a naval contractor, that is, I furnish cheese for the navy.” “ < Hi, ye do, do ye?” said the sailor, jumping up. “ Von are just the chap I’ve been looking for t hose JO years,” and lie gave him a sledge hammer blow on the chest. “Now,” he roared, looking round with a glance, “ show me the blackguard as furnishes the butter, and I'll bury ye together.” Cecil Rhodes, hero of London Jingoes and the “uncrowned king” of South Africa, is returning to England, a physical wreck. He will consult the most eminent specialists i if London and t he C< m(inent. hut it is predicted nothing can rescue him from the clutches of general paralysis, of which he is said to be the victim. The change is especially noticeable in his bent figure, bis drooping lip, and his lack-lustre eyes—eyes which once shot magnetic tire and were his chief aid in securing power in the Dark Continent. The steamer on which he is returning is fitted out for his special comfort. i

To Europe in four days without coal is the claim of Mr Charles A. Kuen/.el, of New York, an inventor, wiio asserts that he has discovered a method by which steamships, locomotives, and automobiles cin he driven at a higher speed than is now possible without the use of coal, by a new process, under which kerosene oil is mixed with compressed hot air, forming a non-explosive vapour. This gas is made to liow from perforated pipes, generating a heat so tierce as also to convert the water into steam instantly. The inventor claims that a few barrels of kerosene will be suliiciont to drive a vessel of the size of the Lucania across the ocean in much less time than can be accomplished by the present type of boilers. A ,novnr. game of hockey was played last, week at Gisborne between six gentlemen attired in skirts, and nine ladies arrayed in their usual cost time. Hitherto the gentlemen players had shown their superiority over the ladies, but the latter excused themselves on tile ground that their opponents were not handicapped by the impediment of skirts. In order to demonstrate their prowness in the game the members of the sterner sex adorned themselves in female attire, nicely decorated with flounces and frills, and secured with safety pins, and met the ladies on o jiial terms. They defeated their fair opponents by -I goals to 2, thus demonstrating that, no matter what the conditions are, woman has to take second place to man in the field of sport. A Gt,Asnow volunteer, now in South Africa, in an interesting letter, tells how he got a meal while his regiment was on a forced march with little or no rations, (dialers were very strict against foraging, but, in spite of till, itis empty stomach could not resist the temptation when he saw a fat gobbler standing among the shrubs on the roadside. Out of the ranks he suddenly darted in pursuit of the turkey. The major cried out, .angrily, “Halt! What do you mean! Halt!’’ A few hurried steps and the hungry volunteer laid the turkey low with a blow from his rifle-barrel. “There, bubblyjock ! " he exclaimed, as he picked it up. “ 1 reckon you’ll understand that when the major says ‘halt’ he means halt.’’ Needless to add, military disci j dine was somewhat relaxed on this occasion.

A man named Joseph Whanin was admitted to tile Auckland Hospital a few davs .in''< from Iviverhead, where lie had boon attacked by a bulldog. On being examined and treated by Dr Adams, of the hospital stall", both his ears were found to he hanging by mere shreds ; his feet were lacerated and torn open; the nose was bitten through ; he was severely lacerated above the right eye, the scalp was torn and lacerated, and Haps of the scalp torn away. Whanin had several wounds on the back of the neck, and lacerated wounds on the hips and lower extremities, lie states that he was being worried by the dog for a quarter of an hour before help came and he was rescued from the ferocious brute. Dr Adams thinks that the man, notwithstanding his frightful wounds, has a fair chance of recovery, but he will be a long time in the hospit d. An article in the Lancet on nicotine has a direct bearing upon a subject that is now engaging the attention of the New Zealand Legislature. Many people will learn with surprise that the great medical journal inverts the order of injuriousness usually associated with cigarettes, cigars, and pipes. It .-.tales that nicotine itself has been proved to ho practically guiltless of evil ell'eets in smoking, but pyridine and it, derivatives are responsible for headaches, trcmhlingaiul giddiness. The decree of (o\ieit\ in smoke depends largely upon the eoniplotness of coinbust ion. The combust ion of a cig irette is more complete than that oi a pipe or cigar. A pi|ie acts as a condenser, but the con doused products do not reach I he mouth, while considerable condensation must o'cur in I he cigar, the products reaching tlie mouth and being absorbed. There fore the Lancet places the cigar first in the order of injuriousness then the pipe, and lastly thecigxrette.

Tin: Cornwails hue rendu; I Revelstnko, in British Columbia. Whim: passing t hr.,mrli Danville. I Him, with a load of cattle, William Richmond, a millionaire ranch owner,) Tombstone, Arizona, stopped at the .1 mud ion restaurant t< > buy a sandwich, and fell in love with Lizzie Shultz, a Danville eirl, who had charge of the lunch counter. He was captivated not onlj - hy the prettiness of hot face, hut hy the excellence of the sandwiches, which, he said, were the. best he had ever tasted. After disposing of his cattle, Richmond went back, proposed, and was accepted, presenting his liancee with a cheque for £‘2(JiX} for her trousseau. The newly-married couple have started for their honeymoon in Australia. *