Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. The trust that's given thee guard, and to thyself be, just. Arrowtown, January 9, 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2460, 9 January 1913, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. The trust that's given thee guard, and to thyself be, just. Arrowtown, January 9, 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

With tliis issue we present to our subscribers a most useful almanac for 1913. It contains a vast amount of everyday information, included therein are the Court fixtures for Luke County and other local matter.

A friendly interclub match will be played on the local green on Wednesday, loth inst., between the Queenstown and Arrow Bowling Clubs.

The sum of Jc7oo was placed on the Estimates some time ago for a new post office in Arrowtown. If the Department were aware of the great inconvenience people are put to daily by the present inadequate accommodation little time would be lost iu having the now building erected.

The motor disc at the dangerous near the Powder Magazine does not indicate the number of miles per hour motorists must travel. No number is given and complaints have been made,to us in the hope that the oversight will be rectified without delay.

At the meeting of the Lake County Council on Tuesday the Clerk was instructed to write to Minister of Public Works asking i*' they would send an Engineer to make a survey and see which was the cheapest and best means of getting water to irrigate Wakatipu district. A step in the right direction.

The Daily Times records the sudden death of Mr C. G. Mountney at Waikouaiti on Wednesday last. Deceased gentleman was a resident of Central Otago and for many years ho carried on hotelkeepiug at Cromwell. He was father of Mrs W. B. Hawsou, Queenstown. Deceased was on a visit to Waikouaiti and was watching his son's and other horses doing their preliminary gallops at the time of his death. Heart disease is presumed to have been the cause of death.

• A big slice of luck has, according to the Bluff Press, befallen Captain Larson, commanding one of the fleets of Norwegian whalers, which recently made Stewart Island their headquarters. The season proved a very unprofitable one, and the fleet was ordered to return. Before doing so, Capt. Larsen decided to have a final run in the neighborhood of the Soknders, and on Sunday, the 22nd Dec, they captured a whale, which has yielded a mass of ambergris valued at 4260,000.

An interesting return has been compiled showing how the Territorial Defence System has worked, and how th ' provisions of the Act have bean observed up to November 30 last. In the whole of New Zealand there have been only 302 refusals to take the oath, and there have been out of the large army of men enrolled only 1',16l absences from drill in both Senior Cadets and Territorials recorded since the Act came into force. For dereliction of duty .40-1. Territorials and 154 Senior Cadets have been convicted, anil only 68 people have been imprisoned. On May 31 labt 61,797 Senior Cadets and Territorials had registered.

That the country policeman usually has many parts to play was exemplified at Waikaia on New Year's Day. During the wrestling bout one of the competitors unfortunately got his shoulder put out. No doctor's services were available, but Constable Herlihy, proving equal to the emergency, took hold of the man's arm and putting his foot on his armpit for leverage pulled steadily while another man pressed on the shoulder and in a minute or so the shoulder slipped hack into its place again, much to the relief of those most concerned. —Ensign.

A custom among the Maoris of the old school was to hide away their money in punga trees and such like receptacles, whore it was hoped it would be safe from the younger and more extravagant members of tribe. PJvidence of the fact that the custom still exists (says the Tribune) was secured by the manager of n, AVaverley bank the other day, when a young native walked in and deposited a quantity of silver. The notes were issued in 1892, and were as crisp and clean as the day they were issued, indicating clearly that they had been with held from further circulation by the native originally acquiring them. The silver coin, in a number of instances, were dated 1852. The bank manager ascertained from tho depositor that tho money had actually been hidden away for many years.

It is the intention of the Manitoto Early ! Settlers' Association to celebrate the jubilee of the discovery of gold in the Mount Ida district next Easter. The celebrations will be held at Naseby on Easter Monday ami Tuesday, 24th and 25th March, 1913. It is the wish of the Association to get together at Naseby on that occasion, as many of the pioneers of the district as possible, and t:. entertain them during their stay. Tf funds will permit, tho Association purposes helping to pay the expenses of those pioneers who wish to attend but who cannot otherwise do so owing to adverse circumstances. In order to raise funds to carry out the celebrations, the committee has decided to ask for subscriptions from those new in the district or who have been connected with it in the past. The Government have granted concessions as follows: Pioneers who are eld age pensioners will be granted free passes on the railways, and others will bo carried at second-class excursion rates. Any persons desirous of obtaining the above concessions will kindly communicate with the secretary, Mr Robert P. Inder, Naseby.

Arrangements have been made for the through booking of fruit by rail and se;\ from officered stations on the New Zealand Government railways to stations (both officered and flag), mid will come into operation on Ist January, 1913. Freight and all other charges must in all cases be prepaid, and will be computed separately for each sea or rail journey respectively. The charge for conveyance by sea will be one-seventh of a peony per pound, with a minimum of Od for each sea journey. For each rail journey tho charge for each consignment will bo (id up to 561 b., and over StHb. but not exceeding 1121b., Is. Persons desirous of ordering fruit and availing themselves of this arrangement can obtain coupons from the I'ostal Department for transmission to the fruit grower, and pay to the officer in charge of the Post Oilice the full amount required to cover the price of tho fruit and the freight charges from the original station to final destination station." All reasonable despatch will be given to the fruit, but neither tho Railway Department nor tho shipping companies will undertake to forward by any particular train or steamer or deliver by any particular date.

Uakbibon troops in South Africa are to be reduced from 11,500 to 6,5v.0 soldiers.

Torrential rains have fallen in Natal on the Thinskein border. A number of dams burst <in the country to the north-west, and many sheep were drowned.

Six hundred and forty-six passengers by the Athenic from London were landed at Wellington last week. The bulk of these are immigrants, and include 13 farm laborers and farmers.

Dr Sidonie Weinmann, a young woman physician at the Mannheim City Hospital, has saved the life of a woman patient by consenting to allow sufficient of her own blocd to be taken to arrest the anaemia from which the patient was dying. B»th the patient and her benefactress are doing well. \

VV. Schaep made a successful trial of his new monoplane with an Anzeni engine s,t Lyall Bay, Wellington, on Saturday, achieving short nights. It is the intention of Mr Schaef to continue short flights until he has had sufficient experience to attempt a long one. The performance was satisfactory in erery way.

Remarking to another bov, " I know a good trick," John Brady, of St. Thomas' Home, Ashton-on-Ribble (Lancashire) filled his mouth with benzine and by blowing on a lighted match caused a flame in the air. He repeated the trick, but in the third attempt his celluloid collar caught fire and Brady was burnt about the head, face and neck. He died in Preston Infirmary. At a meeting of a certain public body that took place at Christchuroh the other day (says the Lyttelton Times) an item on the pay-sheet was a couple of pounds for whisky. One of the members of the body expressed a certain amount of surprise that the item was put through so badiy, and remarked, " Why, on the Road Board we always put that down as ' nails.' "