LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 1067, 4 June 1903, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A farewell social will be tendered Mr J. A. Algio in the Atheneum Ilall tomorrow evening. At the meeting of school committee on Tues lay evening l;isr. it was Btatod that tl;o nett proceeds of tho social amounted to £B. At the Tahnna Park trotting meeting on Saturday hist, the local horses did no good. We hope to see thorn gain some place of honor at to-day'fi trot's. A DISMOUNTED parade of the W.M.R. will tike place in the Drill Nail on Saturday evening next. Sergt-Major Grant will bo present. Oapt. Alyie wiil be present to bid farewell to the members of the corpa. It shows how careful one should be in throwing stones. Tho other day a local resident while driving a cow throw a stone at it. Tho stone apparently struck a vital part, for tho animal dropped as dead as a door nail. As will be seen in another column, a meeting of those desirous of forming a debating society will be hold in the reading room on Tuesday evening next. Wo hope to «ee a good attendance of both old and young at the meeting. Ths wretched weather we experienced Lint week seems to have been general throughout Otago and Southland. Ou Friday last tho express train from Invercargill to Dunedin was delayed several hours on account of the floods on the line. The weather ia again fine, fortunately. The return match betweou tho Arrow and Quoenstown Football Clubs was played at Quoenstown yestorday, and resulted in a win for the home team by eight to nil—one try each spell, one being converted into a goal. The match was a very even one throughout, but it could have been a little more friendly. A nasty and painful accident happened to Mr B. Anderson while working on tho Maori Point dredge on Tuesday. His toe got jimmed in some part of the machinery, and was very badly bruised. Tho accident will necessitate Mr Anderson's remaining in the Arrow Hospital for some days. Mr W. G. Tonkin, who has boen in the employ of Mr R. Pritchard for the last two years, left for Dunedin on Tuesday last to take up a position in a grocery establishment there. Mr Tonkin carries away with him tho good wishes of tho Arrow people. Mr Tonkin always willingly assisted at local entertainments, and was ono of the promoters of tho present football club. Another breach in the ranks of Arrow's old identities occurred on Tuesday, when Mr William Bremei passed suddenly away at the Arrow Hospital. Death was due to heart disease. The deceased gentleman resided in the district for about forty years, and during that longthy period he followed the occupation of a miner at Brackens Gully. He was highly respected and esteemed, and the news of hia demise will be received with the deepest regret. Tho late Mr Bremer was one of the oldest members of the local Masonio Lodge, ftnd held a high position in tho Order. The funeral takes place ta-day at 2.30 p.m. A Southland sheep breeder received last week a cheque for between three thousand, and four thousand pounds for one lino of sheep. The French Astronomer, M. Cammille FUmmarion, ia credited with possessing ono of his works bound in the skin of a lady who was one of his mosb devoted disciples. She left strict orders in her wiil that the skin of her back should be taken off before her burial, and the volume in question bound theroin and presented to M. Flammariou. The Tapanui Courier is particularly trenchant in its remarks anonfc a recent case in thu Magistrate's Court in that township. It Bays:—lt in plainly eridonfc tha* tho testimony of witnesses in Tapanui Court is absolutely worthless, and until a conviction for perjury ie obtainad, and a severe sentenco inflicted, there will bo no abatement of this glaring evil ; and no man's life or honor is safe in Court, because a set of witnesses can be obtained to swear to anything." In a libol action in which Staples and Co., brewers, of Wellington, claimed £IOOO damages from the publishers of a small paper called Tho Petrel, issued in connection with the local option poll and tho licensing election, tho jury found for tho plaintiffs for £d damages and £2O costs. Tho libol was alleged bo bo contained in a sot of verses reflecting on the methods of Staplos and Co., in conducting their trade. PrkaOIXINO at Ashburton, thfi Ilov. A. Peters, in a sermon on " Woman in tho homo and in tho Church," said : —*' Some women put more religion into singing hyuia than thoy do into tho scrubbing brush ; there's more religion in a wellcooked dinner than in—say, a Salvation Army bonnet, and more in keeping a clean, tidy home than in being a member of the Women's Christian Union, though a good manager maybe both." CONSUMPTION and chest complaints are very prevalent among tho Maori population of the ltapaki native nettloment, saya the Press. Within the last few weeks four children under 11 years of ago have died from lung disease and last week To Wira Pitama, daughter of Lloui Maaka, a young woman 19 years of age, was buried. Our correspondent adds :—"lt iu *.o bo hoped that the exertions now being made by tho newly-appointed Maori Councils to enforce the observance of sanitary lawn will do much to arrest tho death-rate among tho Maoris." PROIIABLY fow are awaro that a Scottish Antarctic expedition is now in the Southern Seas. Mr Bruce, the leader, wrote from the ship Scotia, at the Falkland Islands on January 22, stating that contrary to his previous intention ho is going to winter there if a suitable harbor can bo found. He has come to this decision becauso tho season is so late thero would not ho sufficient time to fix up a house and sot tho ship free. Tho Scotia has a supply of 200 tons of coal and 20 months' provisions. If winter quarters are found nothing will be hoard of the expedition for another year. A country doctor was visited by an anxious-looking farmer's daughter, who complained of a mysterious pain in her side. " Two of your ribs arc broken," said cho doctor. " Oh yes. I fell off my horse last week." The doctor pointed out the impossibility of the accident having occurred in such a manner. " Well, it must have been tho of butter that fell as 1 was lifting it down." Tho doctor was still unconvinced, and said chat the injury was plainly the result of a steady pressure, which had been applied in a circular manner. The girl blushed to the roots of her hair, and then, smiling defiantly, said, '* Anyhow, we're engaged."

Every week brings news of some appalling tragedy in Australia. The latest is a murder of a wife and two children in Melbourne, and the subsequent suicide of the husband by standing in front of a railway train. The population question :■-- Whene'er I take niy walks abroad, So many kids I Boe, That I go home and thank the Lord, They don't belong to mo. Anthony Trollopo. An earthquake recently destroyed the town of Molazghoid, in the vilayet of Van, in Turkish Armenia, killing 2000 persons, including 700 Armenians and the garrison of 400. Houses in neighboring villages collapsed. There wore large losses of cattle. A severe shock was felt in Constantinople on Tuesday. The Dean Comotery, where Sir Hector Macdonald was interred, lies to the west of Edinburgh, a little to the south of Quoonsforry Road. In it are the remains of many Scotchmen famous in different spheres—Groodsir, the groat anatomist ; Sir William Allen, the historical painter ; Lord Jeffrey, Lord Cockburn, " Christopher North." Playfair, and others. Dr Alexander Whyte, who conducted tho funeral servico, is known as tho foromost proachor iu Scotland. His life story is as romantic as that of Macdonald. A messenger Ooy at ono time, he attracted the notice of several people, who helped him to attend college. Thereafter his rise whs rapid. In four years ho had been called as colleague to tho celebrated Dr Candlish, tho loader of the Free Church, at Edinburgh, where ho has remained over sinco. Lord Rosebery, when at Dalmeny, often drives to Edinburgh of a Sunday evening, to hear Dr Whyte, and Mr Gladstone was also ono of his famous worshippers at his church. Tub attontion of our readors, especially the farmors of this district, is drawn to the advertisement in our columns, of the Milburn Lime and Cement Co., Ltd., of Dunedin. This firm aro now offering to the farmers ono of the bent and cheapest fertilisers in tho market, it being prepared from the phosphate recontly discovered in the Milburn district. This manure is in an extremely fine state of division, ; thus rendering it more quickly available as a food plant. Mineral phosphates aro, owing to thoir slow solubility, slower in their action than other manures, but, on the other hand, their fertilizing action extends over a period of years. On this account it is advisable to apply them genorously at the rate of from 3c wt to 6cwt per acre. This Company has, since last season, distributed largely to the farmers round about Otago and Southland, and have excellent testimonials as to the benefit of the manure, especially as a turnip grower. Agricultural lime, another product of this Company, is ono of tho oldest and most widely known of all ruanuros and will, we are sure, have, to be used in our district before long, if our farmers expect their gronnd to produce good crops. Tho magnitude of this trade may bo judged by ita requiring upwards of 25,000 tons of stone per annum to supply the demand, and eight continuous kilns, 40 feet deep, to burn it. Silica Portland Cement is now used by all the principle works in and around Otago, Southland, and Canterbury districts, also by the Railway and Public Works Department, and being a local industry, dossrves the support of all users of cement in the colony.