LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2158, 28 February 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A tennis match botwoon the Arrow and Gibbston Clubs will be played at Gibbston next Saturday.

Again last week a large number of tourists visited Queenstown. Mu A. Scbieb, formerly of the Queensberry Hotel, has taken over the Luggate Hotel. The French census taken on the 4th March last year shows that the total population of France was 89,252.207, an increase over 1901 of 290,322. Tingle, a British locksmith, was court-inartiallcd at Warsaw and hanged at the citadel for robbing the conductor of a tramcar.

The Ponnsylvauia-Chicago express was derailed at a curve, and descended an embankment into a shallow of the Conomaugh River, near Johnstown. Fifty people were injured, and ten are missing.

Messrs Ohas. Begg and Co., Dunedin, announce in our advertising columns that they have an excellent stock of phonographs and graphophones in stock; records can be obtained at Is 6d and 2s each. Peruse the advt.

Dalgety & Co, Dunedin, report that the whole catalogue of rabbitskins was cleared at their sale on the 19th inst. Best winters 18d to 22d; outgoing winters 14d to IGd. Sheepskins— Halfbreds lOd to 10Jd, fine crossbreds 9Jd to 10d, crossbreds Bsd to 9Jd. The recent rains havo prevented good use being made of daily harvesting operations, but now the weather has taken up good progress is being made getting the crops in. Threshing has been going on apace for the last week, and it is pleasing to announce that the grain yields in the majority of instances arc turning out well.

A meeting of committee of the Lake County Miners’ Association will be held in the Press ’office on Saturday, 9tb March. The committee will deal with matters relating to the Association, and also with any subject brought forward by members of that body. Mb John Brenssell, formerly of Arrowtown and now of Cromwell district, has taken over the Queensberry Hotel. “ Jack ” will make a popular host, and his many friends will wish him success in bis undertaking. Mr Brenssell purposes working the farm in connection with the hotel.

Mr A. G. Thomson, head teacher of the Pembroke school, has been appointed to a school in Southland. The appointment means to Mr Thomson promotion, and we heartily congratulate him in attaining it. Mr and Mrs Thomson have done much socially and publicly for the Pembroke district, and we feel sure they will carry away with them the hearty good wishes of the people of that district. Mb J, Allan, of Thurlby, lost two valuable horses recently—one a draught and the other a light mare. The animals were discovered in a paddock, very much swollen, as if they had been poisoned. Both had foals at foot, and an effort is being made to rear them. Mr Allan thinks it possible that the weed —St. John’s wort—killed the animals. Mr Urquhart, of Lake Hayes, also lost a horse under similar circumstances a short time back. The weed is very plentiful on the roadside near Mr Urquharb’s. During the thunderstorm on Saturday afternoon a horse which was standing under a pine tree in a paddock at Aramoho, near Wanganui, was killed by lightning. A well-known resident had a narrow escape during the storm. While holding a horse on the river bank he received a shock which temporarily disabled one of his arms. At the Wingatui races on Saturday (says the Dunedin Star) Detective McLeod and Private-detective Kraetzer (employed by the Jockey Club) turned off the course a woman who was seen making curious signals under the judge’s; box. They watched her, and found her evidently signalling with an umbrella to some people on the top of the hill. They inquired into the matter, and the woman owned up to the whole thing. It turned out that she was signalling to someone on the hill who was communicating with town, and in that way letting the bookmakers know the winners within a minute and a-half or two minutes after each race.

Professor Park, of the Otago University College, has been engaged during the summer at Cromwell with work in connection with the geological survey under the directorship of Dr Bell. For the last few days Professor Park has been in Arrowtown, and visited several parts of the outlying district in connection with his Cromwell work. Professor Park is accompanied by two student assistants, and his report on the Cromwell 'district, which runs as far as the Kawarau Bridge, will be issued by Government in bulletin form at a later date. Professor Park expects to finish at Cromwell in a month’s time. He will then take up his duties at the University for the session, and next season resume the work ha is at present engaged in. No doubt this portion of the goldfields will claim the attention of the geological survey party next season, as it appears the goldfields are being taken in a face. Last summer the Alexandra district was reported upon. At the Exhibition Rifio Meeting just concluded Bradley, of Dunedin, won the championship, and Green Island the teams match. Among the Goldfields competitors we noted that W. Gillanders, of 'Bannockburn, finished ninth in the Southland match with a score of 61 out of a possible 70, securing a £2 prize. Sorgt. Cahill, Cromwell, also obtained a prize in the same match, and two other prizes later on. Ray, of Bannockburn, put on the possible at 500 in the Westland match, a two range shoot, but went oil at the second range, thus spoiling a good chance. Lieut. White, of the W.M.R. secured a couple of prizes at the meeting. In the Canterbury Match he put on 89 at 500, 600, and 700 yard, and in tho Nelson Match he made 60 out of a possible 70 at 500, and 600 yards. He was counted out in the Otago Match for a prize. Private Oldfield, in the Nelson Match, scored at one range M out of 65. Sorgt. Major Harris also made some good shooting.

M.C.C. defeated Hawkes Bay by an innings and 80 runs. It is reported from Buda Pesth that M. Nicolas De S/.mere, a well-known sportsman, lost upwards of £27,000 at cards in one of the smart clubs. The campaign in New Zealand of the Irish Home Rule delegates, Messrs Devlin and Donovan, realised something over £SOOO in aid of the cause. When all the expenses of the tour have been liquidated there will probably be about £4700 to transmit to the fund.

A nocTou who was recently called to attend Antonio Cussiamano, an Italian laborer, of Irvington, New York, prescribed a powder and a porous plaster. Cussiamano sprinkled the powder over the plaster and ate it. The doctor had great difficulty in saving his life. At the Magistrate’s Court, Milton, on Wednesday before Mr Cruickshank, S.M., twenty settlors in the Tokomairiro district were fined for failing to destroy noxious weeds on their were inflicted, and in the remainder the minimum penalty of 10s was imposed, those having done good work in clearing their land since the cases were first heard in December.

At the Amateur Athletic Championship Meeting, the Championships resulted as follows: High Jump—Orbell (Canterbury), sft Bfin; Three-Mile Flat—Prendervillo (Wellington) 1, Murray (Otago) 2 ; Mile Walk—Rowland (Canterbury); Half-Mile, Burke (Otago) 1, Bradbury (Wellington) 2; 440 Hurdles—Murray (Canterbury) 1, O’Kane 2; Otago Harriers’ Teams’ Championship—Otago 1, Canterbury 2; Mile Relay Race—Wellington 1. The experiment has been tried this season by Mr T. Hassell, of Kaiapci Island, on a small plot of ground, as to whether diseased potato tubers would produce a diseased crop. The potatoes were put in under the usual conditions, and the crop to all appearances is quite healthy. The leaves and tubers have been under close observation for the reappearance of blight, but so far no indications of its reappearance have been detected.

A Nkw York pastor who not long ago engaged a lady to give whistling solos from his pulpit, has hit upon another device to attract those for whom the ordinary service has no interest. He left the pulpit before the sermon recently, and his place was taken by a performer on musical glasses, whose performance a large congregation appreciated. A well-known violinist is announced to appear at church one Sunday. The body found in a plantation at Rakaia on Tuesday contained a bill addressed “ Peter Anderson, Kinloch,” for £2 6s lOd, from Mr Lynch, storekeeper at Queenstown. The deceased is supposed to be a Scotch engineer, and it is thought that he left Glenorchy three weeks ago for Christchurch, saying that he had two sisters in that city, one a dressmaker and the other a boardinghouse keeper. Further than this, nothing is known of the man, and the police authorities invite the relatives to communicate with them, A Russian writing from Odessa to the Daily Mail, made this statement: “Z, has returned from six months in gaol for a political offence. All night and all day an instrument in his cell ground out the Russian National Anthem—‘to teach him patriotism.’ It had the desired effect. Z. is a hopeless idiot. Other prisoners have been confined in a cell illuminated by a blinding blue light, and in a few months have been rendered inbecile. The convicts Bid and Dl 7 have been flogged to death, and their prostrate bodies stamped on by soldiers.” At Feilding Court Vera Grurawald was charged with assaulting her husband. The evidence showed that while Grumwald and his employee, William Underwood, were in the cowbail, accused had attacked them by throwing apples and bricks at them. When Grumwald went out to protest, his wife rushed at him, kicked him and tore his clothes. "With the assistance of Underwood she was at last tied up and given into custody. The cause of the assault was jealousy and the treatment of his step-son by Grumwald. Accused was convicted and discharged, with a caution. She was then charged with having forged a cheque for £4 drawn in the name of Mr Doebelll, her brother-in-law. On this indictment she was remanded to the Supreme Court, Wellington.

A TABLOID novel. Chapter I. Patrimony, Chapter 11. Matrimony. Chapter 111. Acrimony. Chapter IV. Alimony. Shortly after the late express left Waipahi on Saturday night it was reported to the guard that a man had fallen oil the train. It was ascertained definitely when the train arrived at Gore that tho man in question was not on the train, and tho railway department arranged for platelayers to bo sent from Waipahi to search for him. They came south as far as Pukerau, and reported that ihoy were unable to find any trace of him. Meanwhile a train was equipped at Gore and proceeded slowly to Waipahi. The man was eventually found at the bottom of a bank some three miles south of Waipahi station, uninjured, and sound asleep. As may bo gathered from the above account, ho was hopelessly drunk, and to tho proverbial luck usually following men in such condition he probably owes his good fortune. It is believed that tho man is a resident of Wyndham.