LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 1063, 7 May 1903, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ferrets and weasles are very numerous on the Crown Range. Couohs and colds are very prevalent in tho district at present. Next Wednesday the Arrow and Queonstown footballers try conclusion? on the Arrow ground. The trial of the New Massey Harris plough and harrows will be held on Mr Scoles' farm on Saturday afternoon next. By an explosion in tho Kobe torpedo factory, in Cleveland, Ohio, 50 houses were wrecked, a dozen porsonskilled and 50 injured. Our Gibbston correspondent writes : Threshing is nearly finished, and, considering the crooked season, the yield has boon fairly good. AiOamaru Margaret Andrew* was fined £2O and costs, a month's imprisonment in default, for sly grog-selling. Tho defendant is a boarding-house koeper. We again lemind our readers of the concert" and dance at Millers Flat tomorrow night. Tho weather at present gives promise of being fine for this annual event. Tho Crown Terrace presents quite a pretty picture just now, with the various crops in stook. There arG many magnificent crops, and some handsome yields are in store for our Terrace friends. W. Delaney at one time a New Zealand leading pedestrian —ho used to rnn ten miles within the hour—has become blind. Delaney some years ago gave an exhibition of his staying powers in tho Arrow Drill Hall. Davis, a snake-charm or, while giving a lecture at Ross (Tasmania), allowed a tiger snake to bite him and applied his antidote, but it was ineffectual, and he died a few hours later. The authorities destroyed 15 snakes amongst his effects. At a meeting of the Arrow Public School Committee on Friday evening last, it was decided to appoint a man to attend to the cleaning of the outhouses. Tho Committee also decided to hold a social and dance in tho Atheneum Hall on Friday evening loth May. Don't forget the date. We regret to record the death of tho second daughter of Mr William Patton at Dunedin on Monday. We have not heard what was tho immediate cause of death. In order to attend the funeral, Mr Patton had to ride from Macetown to Alexandra on Monday night to catch the Tuesday morning's train. The Cabinet is requesting Education Boards and School Committees to arrange for the proper observance of Empire Day on the 25th. Scores of telegrams from all parts of the colony and some from abroad were received by Mr Seddon, congratulating him on completing ten years as Prime Minister. A potition bearing over three thousand signatures, will be presented to the Governor, praying that pardon should be granted to Sarah Fogo, convicted about three yoars ago of the murder of her husband, and now undergoing imprisonment for life. An Indiana lac'y recently gave her brother, George Overshino, a preparation to cure him of the drink habit. She secretly mixed it with his food, and it proved effective. Overshine is now suing his sister for £IOOO damages for loss of his thirst. A young women named Elizabeth Young has been arrested in Napier in connection with the finding of the bodies of the two infants in tho Iron Pot on. Easter Sunday. She was charged at tho Police Court with concealment of birth. She ploaded guilty, and was committed for trial. The Now Zealand Illustrated Magazine for April is a very interesting number. It is strong in colonial articles and sketches. ""The Lady's Bower" is occupied with the question of " Culture in New Zeal nd Girls. ' Miss Ettie Rout has a short but interesting contribution on " Commercial Education," and Miss E. Hodgkinson, M.A. is represented by a most readable article on " The Paper Nautilus." In connection with the Chalmers licensing petition case, disposed of by the Court of Appeal, it is pointed out by the petitioners that their petition was not addressed to Mr Graham, S. M. It was not addressed to any magistrate, but was filed in the Magistrate's Court, and the magistrates, without reference to the petitioners, agreed between themselves that Mr Graham should hold the enquiry. William Waldron was charged at Ophir on Thursday with having, on 28th March, sold beer without a license. The defendant keeps a boarding house and butcher's shop close to a hotel at Ida Valley, and also has a farm. Mr Mclnnes, S.M. fined him £25 and costs. Mr Hanlon pointed out that the conviction meant the confiscation of liquor to the value of £l7 10s, and the fine was reduced to £lO. The Sultan of Johore is on a visit to Western Australia for the benefit of his health. Ho speaks highly of Austrralian bred horses. Some years ago, owing to an accident with a horse, the whole of his teeth were knocked out and have been replaced by golden teeth, each set with a large diamond, producing a weird effect when ho smiles in the sun, which catches the diamonds and makes a Hash like fire. A TERRIBLE tragedy was enacted just before the mail left in one of tho poorest quarters of Berlin. A bankrupt publican, named Molz, asphyxiated himself, his wifo, and three daughters with coal gas. Melz had made the most careful arrangements for tho deed by laying down an indiambber tube to convey gas from the kitchen into the owo bedrooms where ho and his family slept. He left a letter, recommending his son, a boy of 16, who is weak-mindod, to public charity. TllK editor of tho Hastings Standard is disturbed, witness this item:—"The spectacle of two young ladies, existing on tho very fringe of advancement, riding on horseback in divided skirts, Attracted some attention from the populace of Hastings dining tho past few days. Tho effect is sloppy and ungraceful, and while no one has a right to object to a lady sitting her horse to suit, herself, there is no reason why s.ho should outrage the public by adopting garments as unsightly as they are clumsy." That editor had evidently an antiquated mind. At the inquest on tho Stoke Orphanage fire, the jury found that tho boy Wilson re-entered the burning building after having got out, and lost his life therein. They recommended thai, if the school be rebuilt, a night-watchman be kept. They also expressed commendation of the conduct of Messrs Fit/.got aid and Beech, toachors, and of a boy named Dennis, who, it transpired, went into a dormitory after all tho occupants had apparently been got out, and found the boy Wilson asleep wit!' the bed clothes over his head. lie had carried Wilson some distance when he stumbled, ami Wilson woke. He then carried him to the lire escape shoot and sent him down. The origin of the lire has not been ascertained.

The fatalities in the Frank rock-slide disaster in North-west Canada numbered 56, and the damage done is estimated at £300,000. Dr Monckton, of Fielding, says that stiong whiskey is an antidote to carbolic acid, and thaf persons who accidentally swallow the acid should be dozed with whisky. There are those who would swear that they had swallowed a pint of the acid if they thought it would procure them an ample libation of whisky. Tjte Rev. Kayll, Anglican minister at Gore, entertains enlightened views on Sunday labor. Prior to the commencement of his discourse on Sunday evening, he stated that he had been asked frequently lately to make a pronouncement in regard to the question of harvesting on Sundays in view of the late season, and the bad weather. He said that we had not rigid laws in regard to Sabbath observance as the Jews had under, the Mosaic Dispensation, and they were always allowed to rescue their harvest from possible danger, even although it involved working on the Sabbath. Distinctly there was nothing wrong with farmers working on Sundays to save their crops if there was any reasonable fear that the harvest could not be rescued in good order otherwise.