Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown, October 27, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2348, 27 October 1910, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown, October 27, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Andy Marslaud, a boundary rider, living near M'Kinlay, Queensland, quarrelled with Dawson, a storekeeper, over a dog. Marsland shot Dawson dead, and then committed suicide. The body of Prank Melsou, 45 years of age, a resident of Woolston, who has a wife and four children, was found on the Christ-church-Lyttelton railway line. It is supposed he fell off the train. In the balloon race from St. Louis three balloons are missing and tho Canadian Government has been asked to make a search. Tho balloon Germaui landed in Quebec province having covered 1195 miles. At the trial of Crippen on the charge of murdering his wife the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and Crippen was sentenced to death. He protested his innocence when leaving the clock. At Wanganui' Godfrey Copley, a local pianist, started to play a piano at 6 o’clock on Wednesday evening. Ho finished at 10.45 on Saturday night, having played continuously for 7(ili hours. The [previous record was 75 hours. Copley finished stronglyThe rains during the last three or four weeks have delayed sowing on the different farms, but the autumn sown cereals are looking well, and the wonder is that more of our farmers do not go in for autumn crops. Experiments in the past have shown tho wisdom of such a course. Luccheni, who gained an infamous notoriety by the cruel assassination of the innocent and much-beloved Empress of Austria on September 10, 1898, and who became insane a few days ago, has committed suicide iu a padded cell, hanging himself to a grating with his muffler. Messrs Smith Bios, have sold the Clydesdale stallion Dominion, to Mr James Eay, of Wanaka. Tho horse will travel the Wanaka district this year. Smith Bros, have brought Border Knight, who had a successful season at Wanaka last year, to this district. Border Knight will travel the same rounds as Dominion did last year. Ho is a fine stamp of a Clydesdale. The Queenstown Bowling Club opened the season yesterday. Heavy rain fell iu the morning but it cleared up beautifully for the afternoon. In declaring the green open, Mr P. McCarthy, president, said ho hoped the season would bo a very successful one. No doubt it would. He congratulated tho Department on the splendid condition of tho green, lie thanked tho Band for their attendance and tho ladies for their kindness iu providing afternoon tea. Mrs McCarthy, wife of the president, rolled the first bowl and scored a “ toucher’’amid applause. The sum of a halfpenny has just been re" paid to the Hull Corporation under curious circumstances. Five years ago an old lady who lives in an out-of-the-way part of Yorkshire went to Hull and tendered two half, pennies for her fare on a tramcar. Ono of ilio coins fell, and tho conductor refused to take another, saying ho would find tho one on the floor. When the old lady returned to her country home the missing halfpenny fell out of her umbrella, and though It was five years before she again visited Hull, her first care was to call and repay the corporation.

A strange scene was witnessed in a Glasgow lodging house ono night recently. An elderly man entered tho waiting-room, and, to the surprise of tho lodgers asked if ho could do them any good. “ Certainly,” one of them replied, whereupon the visitor began handing out bank notes, of which lie distributed more than forty. The stranger disappeared immediately afterwards, and no trace of him has since been seen.

Notwithstanding the facilities afforded by tho steamer service, the old means of bringing cattle from Southland over the Staircase is often availed of by local drovers. In this relation somewhat of a record was established last week by a local young man. in the person of Mr Jack Hamilton. Jack, as ho is familiarly called, left Queenstown at 0.15 a.m. last Tuesday on horseback, via the Staircase, for Garston. He arrived at his destination at 3 p.m., mustered several head of cattle and came on to Clippings tho same night at 11 o’clock. Leaving at 7 o’clock next morning with the cattle he reached home atG.ls p.m. tho duration of tho trip being 36 hours, It should bo stated that strong winds were encountered on the evening of Tuesday, which makes tho feat all tho more remarkable. —Mail. The two last blocks of the Morvon Hills subdivision will shortly bo opened for ballot, early in December the Argus believes. These comprise an area of a little over 38,000 acres, and it will be remembered there was considerable comment over this area being granted for a term of ono year to Captain Dalgety. These are two very fine blocks, particularly so the upper ono known as “ Geordie Hill ”of 19,450 acres, a considerable area of the flat near the Lindis river being first class agricultural land, and as the rental is only a fraction over 3d per acre, there will be very keen competition for it, and probably fifty or more will be in for tho ballot. The other block is also a good ono and there is still a large number of local residents requiring land, notwithstanding the largo amount opened early in tho year. There will also bo a keen demand for the subdivisions of the Wanaka and Northbum runs which will bo offered at the same time.

Princh Francos of Took, brother of Queen Mary, is dead. Tub steamer Wally has been wrecked, nemo of them were saved but 50 are missing. At the Ballarat Band Contest the Wanganui band was first in the A grade selection Prahran 2, Collingwood 3. Quickstep— Wanganui 1, Ballarat 2. v*}s£iS* C, J. Seephe made a balloon ascent at Napier, ascending to a height of 2250 feet. In the descent by a parachute ho landed on the roof of the chronic ward of tho Napier hospital, smashing four tiles. Ho escaped with only a slight scratching. A startling statement was made at an inquest at Christchurch touching tho death of Hilda Pogley, 15 years of age. Dr Syruos said death was due to peritonitis, tho result of abdominal tuberculosis. This was of long standing and was duo to drinking tubercular milk. Ho also said that 20 per cent of tho milk delivered in Christchurch came from tubercular cows. 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 such sayings. Support tho man who lives in your midst and spends his money with you. Try S. B. Pettorsson. Queenstown, for watches, clocks, jewellery, etc., and you will never regret it. Doctor Deck, of tho South Sea Evangelical Mission, in a letter, gives an interesting account of the discovery, while exploring in the island of Guadalcanal the boues of members of the Austrian scientific party under Baron Von Norbock, who were murdered fourteen years ago. The Baron and his party were the first white men to visit the island. While climbing a mountain they were surrounded by hordes of natives, who killed and afterwards ate, five members of the party, including Norbock and midshipman Do Beaufort. The bones were found scattered about and overgrown with vegetation. One skull showed where it had been pierced by an axe. A tearful comedy was enacted at the Carterton railway station one afternoon List week, when “love’s young dream” was rudely shattered by the advent of the girl's father (states the Wairarapa News). Two local people had decided to elope, and quietly went down to the 4.10 “ express.” Someone, however, got wind of the affair and telegraphed to the girl’s father, who lives in Masterton. He boarded the train at Masterton, and when it stopped at Carterton he stepped out as the flying couple stopped in. They met at the door and an argument waxed warm and furious, the irate pater eventually taking his recalcitrant daughter into tho goods train standing on the side track and taking her home to Masterton. The would-be bridegroom occupied a seat in the same train, but not in the same carriage.

For tho exhibit of grain in the pavilion at the Anglo Japanese Exhibition the New Zealand Government has been awarded a grand prize (writes the Loudon correspondent of the Christchurch Press). The chairman of the jury, a well known judge at agricultural shows iu the North of England, said it was “ the finest collection of grain, seeds, and pulse that we have ever seen exhibited,” and was “quite a revelation to the agriculturist in England.” The Agricultural Department is to be complimented on sending Horae such a fine collection. The exhibits of Garton and Newmarket oats reached the phenomenal weight of slb to the bushel, the bushel being rated at 401b. The other varieties sent are: Dun, 481b,

Waverley 50lb, Excelsior 4Ub, Webb’s Prolific 441b, Sparrowbill 481b, and Danish and Long Tartarian. Eyegrass has been sent averaging- 301b to the bushel, timothy 271b, and fescue 261b. Splendid samples of wheat are exhibited. Some of it has come from tho Crown Terrace beyond Queenstown, and it is confidently stated that no wheat in the world can excel it.