OUR EPITOMIST.

Lake County Press, Issue 2461, 16 January 1913, Page 4

OUR EPITOMIST.

Weather warm. Rain badly wanted. One hundred and seventy week-enders arrived in Queenstown on Saturday evening Lu.fr. Excursion to Head of Lake on Monday last well patronised. Severe storms in the Old, Land. Villages cut oil, trains held up, and wrecks at sea. More trouble with firemen in Wellington. .Two steamers held up for want of stokehold crews. Peace Conference suspended. Canterbury and Southland report excelle it rains. Heavy looses of sheep in Amuri country through winter snowstorms.' Hedgehogs are reported to be very plentiful in the Gisborne district. •

Mr Archibald, E glish meteorologist, predicts an Australian drought in 1920. Mr Wragge says, no. A Master-ton farmer told an Age representative recently that he had offered 12s a day for men for harv< sting work during the holidays, and could ii't procure them.

Paris cable : The cashier of a motor works at Futeaux withdrew from the bank J62200, He called at a cafe and sat down, and his wallet was forgotten when ho left. On returning five minutes later he found that the money was gone.

Gold was first discovered in Australia on the 12th January, 1851. Some tea gjown near Melbourne has been pronounced to be of very excellent quality. The experiment was undertaken to prove that tea could be produced in the Commonwealth.