Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. The trust that's given thee guard, and to thyself be just. Arrowtown : May 21, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 1065, 21 May 1903, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. The trust that's given thee guard, and to thyself be just. Arrowtown : May 21, 1903. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We regret to record the death of Mr Dan Fitzpatrick, son of Mr Fitzpatrick, of Speargrasa Flat, which took place on Thursday last. Deceased young man had been ailing for a long time, and death came as a happy release to his sufferings, lie was only 28 years of ago He was a istoady industrious young man and a -uncial favorite. To the sorrowing relatives we tender our deepest .sympathy.. Tho funeral took place on Saturday, the Rev. Father O'Dotincli umidiictin" Ihe buriil service.

The Southland Saw-millers arc urging Government to securo the Bunk of New Zoalaml, and run ib as a State bank. We draw the attention of farmers to the advt. of Messrs Niinnio and Blair, the well-known seed merchant* of Duncdin, which appear* on page 4. A careful perusal of advt. by farmers will be beneficial to them. At Dunedin on Monday the Hor«e Shoe Bend Co.' machinery was bought by T. Steel for £llO- M'Grogor and Co. bought the pontoons for £BS and the winches for £3B. The Arrow Junction pontoons wore bought by 11. Marshall for £42 10* and the screen and gear by J. A. Sligo for L3l 10a. At Christchurch, Edwin Drapper and Thomas Houlahan, charged with assaulting an auctioneer named Walker in the right-of-way of an hotel, were each fined £lO ; in default, a month's imprisonment. Notice of appeal was given. Surgeon-major Bake well (New Zealand) reiterates in the London Times his statement that the War Office has still not settlod the claims of many colonials who served in the South African War, and Captain Mylne, of the New South Wales Bushmen, has confirmed his statement. Eoward Hugh M'Kay, licensee of the Turanganui Hotel (Gisborne), was fined £lO for exposing liquor for sale on Sunday, and £5 Is for keeping open his premises. Notice of appeal was given. Mr Barton, S.M., said he disbelieved two witnesses who swore that they wore not. served with liquor. In the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, a case in which a Chinaman was prosecuted for using light weights had to be remanded. The celestial remarked " I got no time next Monday ; can't come down hero." All right John," remarked Dr M'Carthur, " the magistrate will probably come up and try the caso at your shop." The Coroner's enquiry into the mystery of Moat Farm, in Essex, has concluded. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Samuel H. Dougal, an army pensioner, with whom Miss Holland had lived for a brief period. A shoemaker identified the boots found on the human remains found in the moat as a pair he had sold to Miss Holland. At the To Awamutu (Auckland) Police Court on Saturday, Mrs Floyd, ofKawhia, was fined £35 and costs (£ls 8s 4d), or in default two month's imprisonment in Mount Eden, for sly-grog selling. One. witness said that after drinking some whisky sold by accused she was insensible for 24 hours. The Magistrate ordered the arrest of tho husband of accused for non-payment of fines inflicted in 1902. Dealing with a perjury case in the Napier Supreme Court, the Chief Justice said: "I do not ordinarily grant probation in perjury cases, because I think it one of the worst of crimes, and one which tends to destroy the foundation of justice. If people are allowed to come into Court and give false testimony, no one could say what might be done. It might destroy the administration of justice, which, after all, is the basis of every civilised community." Ernest Simson brought an action for £3O against T. G. M'Carthy (brewer) and others at Wellington on Friday. He alleged that he had been employed by defendants to do certain work in connection with the enquiry into the validity "of the Newtown local option poll, and that, in addition to a weekly sum, he was to be paid a bonus of £3O if the poll was declared void. The dofence was a repudiation of any such agreement. At the suggestion of tho S.M. tho hoaring was adjourned to permit of an arrangement being come to between the two parties. An inobriato who requested to be locked up at Gore was placed in a cell occupied by another worshipper of Bacchus. The offender who had been first locked up was a fanner, who had come to town in quest of labor for his ploughing, and, after he had sufficiently recovered to take an interest in things in general, and his own business in particular, he offered a job to his cell mate. They promptly came to an agreement, and, after paying their respects to the justice in the morning, they promptly left to take advartage of the lino day in the fields.—Ensign. A romantic incident has happened in Westland. A young man was robbed by some means of his purso containing £2. He told his grief to the policeman, and the eye of the law at length looked upon the guilty one, who was the young man's sweetheart. She had done it as a practical joke, tho only pity being that she had begun tho system too early. The case had to go to Court, and of course a verdict of "not guilty" was returned. Tho young couple and the police were so confident of innocence and lack of criminal intent that the whole party adjourned to the Reiiistiar's offico and spent the money on the bluo paper required by the Marriage Act. A laborer named Orr Marshall Shankleton died at Gisborne on Sunday, from tho effects of poison, self-administered. On tho previous Monday, a gentleman, being informed that Shankleton was to be married next day, remarked that that could not bo feme, as ho wan already a married man. Thereupon, Shankleton struck him a violent blow, splitting his lips, and damaging his teeth. On Tuesday Shankleton was married to a young girl. On Friday afternoon he was charged with assaulting tho man he had struck. He did not appear, and in his absence was lined £3. That evening Shankleton was found in a serious condition, and admitted taking rough-on-rats owing to the trouble that ho was in. He was taken to tho hospital, whoro he died on Sunday morning. A rksidknt of Port Chalmers, has received a lotter from his son, at present in Capetown, asking that a friend of his should bo warned not to follow his footstops by proceeding to South Africa. "Ho will very probably," the writer says, '•' Wander from Capetown to Port Elizabeth, thence to Durban, and through their streets until die police get hold of him and find him work on the breakwatar. When I look round me and see tho hundreds who eomo hero, with and without money, and gradually go lower and lower, until at last they go. underfoot, I can-.iot hell) feeling grateful to God that I have a position which, although poor, secures me from poverty and gives me a shilling in uiy pocket. Ah, the old homo V Wlut would 1 givo to see it and the dear faces ones again." Two cases of smallpox were discovered on the steamer Gracchus, which arrived at Lyttolton from Calcutta, via Melbourne and Southern ports, on Saturday morning. The vessel whs berthed, and when boarded by tho Health Officer the men were at work discharging the cargo, but she was ordered into the stream. Ihe third officer (Johnson) and the third engineer (Bell) were the patients, and the former diod'on Saturday night. Tho Coroner decided that an inquest was unnecessary, and ordered burial of the body at sea. Twenty-seven wharf laborers were working on the vessel when the outbreak was discovered ; of these 25 refused to be vaccinated, and' hive been arm) into ipi.lV i".f !!'.'.

Innocent par. in Ellosmere Guardian : —A. skeleton key has been picked up in Southbridge. The owner can have the same by communicating with the police. Tne Southern Standard says :—"lt is reported that one of the leading hotels in Gore has been leased for boarding-house purposes after next month at a rental of £'G per week. The valuo of a hotol evidently does not ontirely consist uf what can be made from the disposal of liquor.' At a pig killing contest in England recently, two mon aged 58 and 20 years respectively, killed and dressed 10 pigs, the average weights of which wore llOlbs each, in 1 hour 12 minutes. The best record is of a man 58 years of nge, who dressed a pig weighing 110 lbs in Bmin 20aec. A Mrs Riley, a resident of Camberwoll, when about 12 years of age—4o years ago—ran a uoodlo into her left kneeShe suffered groat agony, but tho doctor who attended her was unable to extricato the needle, and remarked to tho child's mother that it might work its way out in time. Mrs Riley 12 months ago had the Routgen raya applied to her knee, but no trace of the needle could be discovered. Curiously enough, however, sho recently felt a {tricking sensation in the right shoulder, and, putting her hand to the affected part, drew out the needle. The New York newspapers publish a remarkable acconnt of an operation performed on a cook named Claude Trimble at the Eyre County Hospital, Buffalo, recently. Trimble complained of indigestion and pains in the stomach, and underwent an operation. The physicians' report states that his stomach was found to contain 453 carpet tacks, 41 small knifeblades, 142 screw nails, 40 pin points, resembling tho points of shoemakers' awls, six and a-half ounces of ground glass, and about three inches of wire. As tho result of the operation Trimble is reported to be recovering, How ho came to swallow tho various articles is not stated in the report.