LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2696, 23 August 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Soldieis' gift service at the Arrow Presbyterian Chnrch on Sunday evening next, A monthly meeting of the Arrowtown Borough Council will be held on Tuesday evening next. Mr T. J. Cotter, auctioneer, will hold an auction sale of Mr T. Pope's furniture and effects on Saturday next. Owing to the films having gone astray, there will be no pictures shown in Arrowtown on Saturday evening next. A jumble sale and concert, to provide funds for Xmas parcels for Wakatipu boys at the front, was held in Queenstown on Wednesday of last week, and, with subscriptions received, resulted in the sum of nearly j£l3Q being raised. On Sunday morning last the congregation at the Arrowtown Anglican Church was without a minister. After waiting for some time Mr Pope, postmaster of Arrowtown, was asked to officiate, but declined. The Rev. R. G. Coats held a service in the Church in the evening. The winter has been so remarkably mild and sunny in the Lake County that we hoar ou all sides of a phenomenal growth of vegetables. Mr Webb, of Arrowtown, showed us a sample of new potatoes grown in his garden such as we have never seen in any part of New Zealand at this period of the year. Mr Pope, postmaster of Arrowtown, informs us that the money-order office will be open from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. on Fridays, 24th and 31st August, and Saturdays, 25th August and Ist September, for the purpose of transacting War Loan business or withdrawals from the Savings Bank for investment in the War Loan. Mr Goo. Cruiokshank, S.M., of Invercargill will preside over the next sittings of the Magistrate's and Warden's Courts in this district, which are set down for Bth September. Owing to the extra bench work imposed on Mr H. A. Young, S.M., by his relieving duties in Dunedin, and the amount of travelling entailed, he has asked to bo relieved of the work at this, the extreme end of his Magisterial district, so that in all probability Mr Cruickshank will preside at the local courts during the currency of the war.—Mail.

The visit of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance to Britain cost the country J83.000, with an additional ,£I,OOO for private secretaries.

NAZOL acts like a charm in tackling coughs and cclds Penetrating and germkilling. Better than mixtures or syrups. Most economical. 1/6 buys 60 doses.

Mr R. A. Wright, M.P., says that as the majority of the British people believe in God they would be justified in appealing to Him to bring about the peace they all desired.

It seems that highly-paid civil servant 8 are again to receive bonuses this year. W 8 cannot conceive of any stronger incentiv 9 to the workers in all industries to demand increased pay, but we sincerely hcpe that this will not happen.

In the unauthorised expenditure for the past year there is an item of £328 2s 2d for expenses incurred at the opening ceremony of the Queen Mary Military Hospital at Hantner. A very expensive ceremony! The items which make np the bill would be interesting.

At Balclutha Assessment Court a farmer whose farm was valued at iJ2,54i5 offered to sell it for .£1,600, and signed a memorandum to that effect. The magistrate said he would recommend the Government to take it, seeing that it was seeking land for returned soldiers. A good way to get cheap land. Government has beeu paying too much for land.

Fob choice jewellery, wedding and birth" day presents, latest in watches, optical goods and silverware. If you wish to get your watches repaired, and desire everything of the best send to the most reliable watchmaker, Peter Dick, jeweller and certificated optician, 490, Moray Place, Dunedin (established 1889).

A proposal of the National Efficiency Board to the Government was that it should be made an offence for men engaged in any industry to hold what are known as atop-work meetings. The Commissioners expressed their opinion that grave injustice is done both to employer! and the State through the serious loss of efficiency arising out of these meetings.

" I would be the last one in the world to discourage the growing of fruit trees," said Mr L. Paynter during the pruning demonstration at Te Awainutu recently, " but the best advice I can give to the dairy faiiner is to not keep more than 20 trees. By proper selection and management this number will provide him with ample fruit for domestic use without being a tax upon his already occupied time.

Acetylene i 3 becoming an expensive form of illumination. At the present time carbide is almost unobtainable and those who are fortunate enough to hold small stocks are asking up to £53 per ton for it. The Tuapeka Times has shown an extract from a merchant's letter in which the shortage is explained by the fact that the Alby works in Norway, from which our chief supply was drawn, has been closed down and their stocks commandeered by the Norwegian and British Governments.

One of the things which attracted the notice of the Efficiency Board was the large number of holidays observed in public offices. In a report to the Government on the matter the board recommended that tin State should set an example in efficiency to the Dominion by reducing the number of holidays which are observed in the State Departments, saying that in the opinion of the board the number of these holidays constituted a grave abuse.—Farmers' Advocate,

Mr McCombs, M.P., speaking in the House of Representatives, said the policy of the budget was ' : get rich quick, for tomorrow the soldiers return," the idea evidently being that profits should be made while the opportunity lasted. The Government, which did not hesitate to conscript men, would not look at the scheme outlined by the member for Timaru to conscript wealth. We were pledged to the last mm > and the last shilling. The last man would be sent all right, but we were borrowing the last shilling at a rate that varied anywhere from 7 to 10 per cent. /

A very important inquiry is proceeding in Auckland into charges brought against the Auckland Post Office officials by the Rev. Howard Elliott that letters addressed to Box 912 had been tampered with in the interests of the Koinan Catholic Church. Mr, Elliott is represented by Mr Ostler, who in his opening statement said that the letters in question had come under a military censorship, but these letters did not affect military matters. The SolicitorGeneral (Mr J. W. Salmond) emphatically denied that a censorship had beeu established in the interests of the Koinan Catholic Church. He was not a Catholic, and he had no reason to believe that the military censor was a Catholic.

An amusing anecdote of the early days of the Thames goldfields (says the N.Z. Herald) was related at the jubilee gathering of old Thamesites at the Town Hall yes* terday by Archdeacon Calder. " There was a very decent old chap," he said, " who used to come in from the Billy-goat range and spend most of his time in ' happiness' at the Thames. There was a barmaid at the ' pub' at Butt's corner, and when the old chap was in town she was always coming round to me, saying she wanted to be married to him. I would ask her where he was, and she would reply that he was out in the street, and that he was not presentable enough to bring inside. (Laughter.) When I remarked that she was surely not going to marry the man in that state, she would say,' He will not marry me when he is sober.' (Laughter.) She tried that on three times with me, but she never got the old chap." (Laughtei.) Archbishop Ualder also evoked hearty laughter from the old identities present by recalling the Enterprise, the steamer which conveyed so many of them to the goldfield in the " rush " days. On the subject of the smells and the mixed drinks he grew eloquent, and his feeling expression of opinion that everyone who travelled on the Enteiprise ought to have been given a free passage raised roars of merriment. What is NAZOL ? Thousands answer " The beßt Cough and Cold Remedy in tbe Dominion." No cold ij NAZOL proof. Sixty doses, 1/0. Refuse substitutes.