The Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown, August 31, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2391, 31 August 1911, Page 4

The Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown, August 31, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'The trust, that's ijiven tha;<;iiard, and to Ihi/se ] he just.

Latest accounts say Fowolka is stlil at largo. Heavy rain fell throughout [the district last night. There will bo no sitting of tho Wakatipu Licensing Bench to-morrow. Tub annual meeting of tho Arrow Brass Band will bo hold in the Berks ollico Ihis evening. There will bo parades of tho W.M.lt. this evening, to-morrow evening, and Saturday evening. Captain Hay will bo present. Floods in the Massine Valley, Switzerland, destroyed eight farm houses, nine persons being killed and two are missing. A passenger train on Lehigh Valley (tI.S.) railroad jumped the Lack and two cars rolled over an embankment sixty feet high into a creek. Thirty people wore killed and sixty were injured. Mc.-nns Kingsland and Ferguson’s representative, Mr Williams, will he in Arrowtown from Wednesday next for a lew days doiier work in the Arrow cemetery. Ho will he staying at Joppa, and any word left there would be attended to.—Advt. Tun final match of the season, Seniors v Jipdi f-chool team of the Arrow Ladies’ Ilocke'v «Hull, takes place in the recreation • wound on Saturday next. Flay commences at pm. As (he last two matches resulted in a draw ami a win for tho Seniors by one .■oal to nil an interesing game is expected^ Private advices from the West Coast rewort the discovery of what is believed to be'tho mother reef from which all greenstone found there is derived. A syndicate l.a.i already been formed. 475,000 lons of -tono lias actually been measuri d at an estimated value of from two to six shillings a pound on the litdd.

A new race of people who are said novel to have seen a white man or Indians is said to have beeuMiscovered by an expedition in Arctic Canada.

A I'ASSENCiEU. train on the Lehigh Valley railway near New York lotfc the track ant two cars rolled GO foot into a creek, thirty wore killed and sixty injured.

The grandstand collapsed at Elgin, lllanois, at a m jtor contest, when three him dred were injured. A panic followed and the police and soldiers used their clubs on the tor.vilicd people. Many were injured.

The difference between learning golf and motoring is, says “Puck,” that in golf at first you hit nothing, but in motoring you hit everything.

Schmidt, a French journalist, has circled the world via Siberia, Japan and Canada., in 39 days 19 hours 43 minutes, which is a record.

The budget will be delivered next Tuesday. The Star special says there will be a i 115,000 loan for defence purposes and tho education estimates will bo increased by £15,000

The Government is asking tho heads of tho banks doing business in New Zealand if they will abolish the rule prohibiting the marrying of clerks in their service until they are in receipt of a salary of £2OO.

A child bled to death through cutting its thumb. Although early in attendance, tho doctor was unable to staunch the flow of blood, which would not coagulate —a family peculiarity. Other relations had died in a similar fashion. A motor char-a-bancs was conveying 33 choristers near Consett when tho brakes failed. The car dashed down Hill at a terrific pace and collided with a tree. Five men and live women weio killed; two girls are in a precarious state, and the remainder were injured.

An Auckland telegram states that the estate of die late D. L. Murdoch has been proved at £145,225, 2s 1 Id. The trustees have been notified by the Government that estate and succession duties amount to £31,747 Is Gd. This amount will bo paid into the Treasury. Mr Murdoch bequeathed £IOOO to tho Jubilee Institute for tho Blind.

Hearty congratulations to Mr and Mrs W. J. Marsh, of Wyndham, (formerly of-Ar-rowtown), whose live daughters have now represented Southland in inteipro. ladies’ hockey fixtures at one time or another during the past three years. We fancy this must bo a world’s record. It certainly is an Australasian one.—Farmer. ,

Ladies requiring a, cheap and useful dress are recommended to write Thomson and Beattie, Invercargill, for samples of material available for their 50/- made-to-order costumes. These costumes are well cut and finished and have quite the tailor-made effect. To make sure of a tit, post with order a well fitting bodice and give length of skirt needed. Necessary measures will be taken and bodice returned by next mail...

The notorious Powelka, undergoing 21 years imprisonment for burglaries, etc., escaped again from the Terrace gaol, Wellington, between 4 and 0 o’clock on Sunday morning. He forced a small grating bodily out of the cell and got clean away. It is stated that the grating was screwed from the outside and that the screws had been removed and the holes filled with putty. He was seen running near the Botanical gardens by a milkman but has not yet been caught.

When you can ho supplied locally, as well, if not better, why patronise outside people. “ Support local industry ” is a motto which lias proved itself of more value than a hundred other such sayings. Support the man who lives in your midst and spends his money with you. 'Try S. B. i’ettersson Queenstown, for watches, clocks, jewellery etc., and you’ll never regret it.

The weeping willow in New Zealand says a writer in the Garden, came from tho willow-tree that grew beside tho grave of Napoleon at St. Helena. In tho year 1840, His Majesty’s brig Britomart cast anchor in tho harbor of Akaroa. Tho object of tho brig’s advent to this place was tho proclamation of the Queen’s sovereignty over the southern islands of New Zealand, and thus to forestall tho expected French mission, which was known to have a similar object in view on behalf of tho French Government. Five days after the British flag was unfurled, tho French man-of-war, L’Aubo, arrived, but toe late. The next day the Comte do Paris entered Akaroa with emigrants from Bordeaux to found their expected colony. On tho voyage to New Zealand the vessels touched St, Helena, and cuttings wore taken from tho willow that grew beside tho grave of their great countryman, and from those cuttings wo have the weeping willows in Now Zealand.