Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown, November 25 1909. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2300, 25 November 1909, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown, November 25 1909. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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5 A sharp shock of earthquake was felt in - tho district about 5 on Saturday morning o last. Cotter Bros, have just landed a big assort- * mcut of ladies and gents boots and shoes. '■ Prices defied. Inspection invited.—Advt. ' A most successful social in connection with St. John's Presbyterian Church was j lield iu tho Athoneuin Hall last evening. A report of the social will appear next issue. Civil Servico examinations aro at present bdng held in the Arrow District High ; School. Mr John Neill, of the Southland i Education Board, is conducting tho exams. \ The following candidates wore successful - in tho Oxford examinations, hold at St. Dominion's College, Dtinodin, in Juno last: Preliminary grade—certificates—Julia Duhig, Jessie Dagg, Mary McCalthy, Julia MoLeoly. j Mu.'i Charles OTeo, of Crown Terrace, mot with a somewhat painful accident the " other day. Her leg got caught i" the ' bu;~gy wheel, and she sustained u severe wrench of tho knee joint. It will he some ", little time before Mrs O'i'eo will bo able to get about. A wedding, of more than passing interest ' t )jk place at Waikaia yesterday, when Mr '. John Mclntyre, of Arr .wtown, and Miss <, Delnrgey, of Waikaia, were united in tho bomlaoi" holy wudiook. We hope to have full particulars of the happy event next j issue. i SE7ERAL ratepayers have complained to us of the frequency in which the town f water supply is turned off. No notifications f are given of the periods, and housewives i have been put to considerables inconvenience throii'di the Council's negligence in' this i re-peel. "W.uiATiru people have no occasion whali over to send to the cities for jewellery. You can obtain it in endless variety, first-class quality, and moderate cost at S. li. Potters- > I jon'j, Quocujtu •■■ a. I

Tiik Wakatipu Mounted Rifles encampment has been lixod for tho 15th to 22nd January. Thk Lake County Show on tho 3rd Do" comber promises to be a huge success 1 Most complete arrangements havo boon made, and entries for the various classes are coming in freely. Entries close on Saturday night. Mb E. H. Wilinot (Commissioner of Crown Lands) and Messrs a. Livingstone and J. A. Macpherson (Classification Commissioners for the Otago band Board) are at present in the Lakes District for the purpose of classifying several of the board's runs. Tho party expects to be engaged on this work for three weeks. A petition was presented to Parliament last week by the religious soot known as the Christadelphians praying that adherents of that church should be granted exemption from the bearing of arms. They protest against "anything to do with politics, in worldly strife, or in .arms-bearing under any conceivable circumstances or conditions." A MEETING of ratepayers was held in tho Town Hall, Queeustown, on Thursday last to discuss the proposal of lighting tho town with acetylene gas. A motion was unanimously carried favoring tho proposal, and a poll of the ratepayers will take place on the 2nd December. A OAMEKKKI'EK employod by Lord Lucas mistook a rustling in a wood near Campton, Shoflord, for an escaped deer he was tracking. Ho fired his gun, seriously injuring Mrs Cook, a farmer's wife, who was gathering nuts. A man riding a bicycle alongside a trolly tramcar at Boulogne on the morning of September 23 was lassoood by the rope with which the conductor transfers the pole of the car from one wire to the other. The cyclist was dragged from his machine aud killed. While a young Russian named Walluffsky was attempting with his cousin to reach Menaggio, near Lake Coino, from Graanto from climbing round the Sasso di San Martino, ho slipped and fell over a precipice, says tho New York Herald's Cadenabbia correspondent. In falling he caught a projecting rock, to which he clung. Ho was beyond his companion's reach, but the hitter's shouts were heard by workmen, and rescuers started out with ropes in the gathering darkness. They had almost reached him when his hold gave way and he fell 700 feet aud was killed. He had clung to the rock for two hours. An oflicer of the Tourist Department will start at the beginning of next month to erect tents on the Wakatipu-Te Anau track in preparation for the tourist season. The track has been fin shed as far as Lake Fergus, and the Department intends to put men on at once to bring it round to Lake Howden, in the Greeustown Valley, where it will join tho Greenstone track. ■'Twenty-seven sheep per acre" is a pretty tall order upon which to base the productivity of the undoubtedly rich fiats of the district (says the Poverty Bay Herald) but in the course of a land sale a wellknown local auctioneer stated that he knew of a sheep property that had carried 27 sheep per ' acre for three months—on pumpkins—and the sheep came oil in tiptop condition. When you can be supplied locally, as well, if not better, why patronise outside people. "Support local industry" is a motto which has proved itself of more value than a hundred other su,ch sayings. Support the man who lives in your midst and spends his money with you. Try S. B. Pettersson, Queenstown, for watches," clocks, jewellery, etc., and you will never regret it. The vexed question of the size of grain sacks is dealt with in the following railway by-law gazetted on Thursday night:—"The maximum weight of any class of cereal or other agricultural produce contained in any one sack to be carried by railway shall be 2001b. Any sack of any class of cereal or other agricultural produce containing a greater weight than 2Oolb shall be charged for at four times the ordinary rate of freight." This by-law will come into operation on February 1, IDIO. A white man lying sentence of death at Harrisburg (United States) has asked to be executed a day earlier than was ordered, to avoid being executed at the same time as a fellow prisoner who is a negro (reports the New York correspondent of the Daily Express). He protested vigorously against being hanged in company with a negro, and declared that he would willingly sacrifice a day of his life to escape the indignity. The execution of the white man has, therefore, been fixed to take place a day earlier than was arranged. These is some excitement among Christchurch shareholders in a Melbourne syndicate formed to exploit a new explosive called mortite, discovered in Melbourne. Only 300 .£lO original shares were issued, 100 of them in New Zealand, most of these in Christchurch, and the Lyttelton Times sayo that these shares have been changing bauds at from .£3O to £7O each. One man is reported to have offered £OOO for a share, and the holder of some slnvres states that he would refuse a much larger sum. A member of the syndicate recently went to London to float a syndicate there to buy tho colonial syndicate's rights for £300,000 and half the price paid by the Imperial Government in the event of a purchase being made. The price named for the latter is one million, two millions, " or more." " Ex-Bank Clerk " writes to the Dominion, ; :—" The notice given the public ] by some bank clerks is justified by years of unfair labor on their behalf to swell the swollen pockets of foreign shareholders. The banks think so little of principle in theso times that they offer a largo salary to the beginner, and a goodly yearly increase until ho reaches his £IOO, but thereafter bis increase resembles the train travelling up the Rimutaka incline—so slow does it come about. Tho idea in giving to the junior such a wage and promise of increases is to entice him into the service, and by the time he reaches the destination of fast travelling he is quite unfitted for other occupations, and must devote his whole life to tho bank'* affairs regaidless of pay. I, therefore, deem it unjust to entice lads inio a service under such circumstances. At a branch which I was connected with, and which is one. if the largest in this D*.minion, tho manager, aged 51, and accountant, aged 37, were ill receipt of tho ' munificent' salary of £32.") (including bouse rent) and £2OO respectively. This after a service on [he manager's part of thirty years, ami tho aecomitent eighteen. I believe thi-: ito< io be an 1 he ml.'. ,-.:: 1 <■ ■.•.'ai:i!y j|. dues nei 1.,,!; entertaining !■• a 1. »y ahv 111 in en;. r ;>. bank,"'