CHIT-CHAT.

Lake County Press, Issue 2115, 26 April 1906, Page 4

CHIT-CHAT.

Weather fine bat cold. Said that several marriages will take place locally within the next few weeks. Humored that a bachelor on the brink of 50 will seek nuptial blessedness in the near future. Dredging operations by the Wakatipu dredge delayed through irregular supply of fuel. County Council select a clerk nest Tuesday, Large number of applications in. Local footballers in practice. Effort have been, and are being made to induce the Hallway Department to continue the daily train service to Dunedin during the winter months. People living iu Wakatipu are surely entitled to this concession. If not, why not ? Been suggested that a golf club should be started locally. A healty winter pastime. Think the matter over. The threshing mills are busily engaged and around the district. Yields will be quite up to expectations and good at that. Terrible earthquake in 'Frisco. Enormous loss of life and destruction of property. Owing to the bursting of the water mains, dynamite is being used to tight the flames. Martial law has been proclaimed. The distress in Edinburgh is said to begreater than for many years. Fifteen thousand persons, mostly women, are striking for higher wages at Dundee. Nearly thirty-seven million pounds will have been spent on the British Navy daring the year ending March 31st next. According to Russian newspaper estimates 72,000 persons are now imprisoned in Prussia on political grounds. As compensation for sharing in the hardships of tho siegq of Port Arthur, about 500 C male civilians who lost their property have been awarded 3Gs each. Latest reports from Frisco state the fire is under control. 300,000 are sleeping in the Parks. Terrible sufferings reported. Financial aid rapidly flowing in. New Zealand offered £5,000. Heavy rains in Southland—a gloomy outlook for farmers. Several wash-outs on the railways, and several crops damaged. Obituary—Tom Fitzgerald, the well-known circus proprietor. The Clmtto Creek section of the Otago Central Railway will be opened next month. Northern buyers, for tho first time in the Colony’s history, are scouring Southland for potatoes and offering tempting prices. The discover of radium was run over by a dray in Paris and killed.