Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown, May 30, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2736, 30 May 1918, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown, May 30, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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Lateßt War News: —London, May 28, 3 p.m.—French official report: lietween tho Vesla and the Aisne the battle continues stubbornly in the region of the Plateaux, behind which our reserves are arriving. A sitting of the S.M. and Warden's Courts will be held in Arrowtown to-morrow at 10 a.m. The annual meeting of the Wakatipu Liconsing Committee will be held in Queenetown on Saturday next at noon. The annual meeting of members of St. Paul's Church will be hold on Friday evening, June 7. It will take tho form of a social evening.

A number of district residents left on Monday last for the Dunedin Winter Show. A farewell social will be tendered to Private James Keid and Mr Oswald Edie in the Atheneum ilall to-morrow evening. Messrs W. A. Scott and Sons, Dunedin insert a change of advt. in this issue. The firm are offering several lines of cycle covers and tubes at pre-war prices. Wintry weather was experienced through* out the district at the cud of last weekThere was a heavy fall of snow on the high country on Friday, and heavy rain on the low levels. Melhuish's Worcester sauce is good. It has the flavor which makes it popular. So piquant, it makes dishes just perfect. For the table it is delightful, and, marvellous of all, tho price is 60 reasonable. For Bronchitis or Asthma inhale NAZOL through the Nazol Inhaler. Immediate relief will follow. Start taking NAZOL TODAY. , We understand there is a-probability of Brigadier Wouters, late of the Belgian Artillery, visiting Arrowtown next month in the interests of the Belgian Red Cross, when he will deliver a lecture entitled " With the Belgian Army in Action." A Press Association message from Wellington states : " Regarding the list of men missing in Thursday's casualty list, the Defence Department has issued a circular to the next-of-kin stating that cabled information has been received that probably a large number have been taken prisoner. Inquiries are being made by cable, and relatives will be advised of the results." The Otago Acclimatisation Society, at its last meeting, agred that a contraot for culling 500 deer in the Hunter Valley be let to Messrs Buckley and Hodgkinson at 3s 6d per head. Asa result of information that quail were being poisoned in some districts the society decided to approach landowners with a view to minimising this as far as possible. Very heavy rain has fallen in the North Island. The Waipoura river broke through at Masterton and for about four hours the situation appeared serious. Tho firobell was rung to arouse the residents. With heavy thunder and vivid lightning the position was terrifying. The water receded at 2 a.m. and the damage is not very serious The first year's receipts from the amusements tax (states the Wellington correspondent of the Southlaud News) turned out to be scarcely more than 50 per cent of the anticipated £BO,OOO, and it is expected that the exception from tax, provided in the recent amendment of the law, of all gatherings not conducted for profit, will make a further inroad into this source of revenue. It is said that racing clubs aie not conducted for profit, and that race meetings therefore cannot be taxed. This will bring Bbout a big reduction in tax receipts. Mr Malcolm Brown, an old resident of tho district, who resides in a cottage in Peninsula St., Queenstown, sustained a fracture of the thigh on Tuesday afternoon of last week through stumbling on the rooky part of the beach in the vicinity of the old fellmongery. He waß not found till some time after the occurrence, when his condition was noticed by some passers-by, who immediately removed him to his home. Medical assistance was then summoned and the unfortunate man removed to the Lake County Hospital. Mr Brown is one of the Crimean veterans. —Mail. One of the sufferers of the big bush fire at Raetihi was a very heavy loser. It is estimated (says the Taihape Times) that it will cost him £ISOO to re-sow the land. He lost 2200 sheep, 17 head of cattle, three hcrses and his shede, shearing machines, 5000 feet of timber for building a wool shed, and about £ISOO worth of milling bush. He is now paying men 25s per day and found for seed sowing. His losbos will be from £4OOO to £SOOO. When he applied for relief, it is said, he was told that he was quite able to pay for what he required. There is a promise that the long controversy about the mufti allowance of 30s for returned soldiers will be ended soon, in a manner satisfactory to the men. The executive sub committee of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association is submitting alternative proposals to the Dominion Conference at Auckland: (1) That both uniforms with great coat be returned, and that the allowance be raised to £5 ss; (2) that one uniform and great coat be returned, and the allowance be J34. Either proposal to be retrospective. It is understood that the Government will accept the decision of the conference on either proposal. A woman who came before the Auckland Police Court last week on a charge of having failed to register under the Aliens Registration Act had made a most natural mistake in considering that she was not an alien. Her father was a Scotsman, and hor mother of British parentage, partly Maori, while the defendant had been born in New Zealand. The point that brought defendant within the Act was that she herself had married an Italian, who had registered as an alien, but had not thought it neoessary for his wife to register, The defendant was ordered to pay 9a costs. At its meeting last week the committee of the Dunedin Keturned Soldiers' Association decided to take no action regarding the letter from the Minister of Defence, stating that he would be prepared to form returned soldiers into separate units, provided they re-enlisted for active service in sufficient numbers. The . communication was merely minuted as " received," the reason being that the re-enlistment of any number of roturned men would provide a certain amount of moral compulsion on the others to do tho same. The committoo was -of opinion that, in tho meantime, at anyrate, it was not desirablo to apply any measure of compulsion to the men who have already done their " bit." Some interesting facts relating to the keeping qualities of butter in cold storage wore mentioned by Mr James Prouse at a meeting of the Levin Dairy Factory Com--1 pauy (states the Levin Chroniole). He said that a parcol of butter—l2 boxes—was overlooked in tho cold stores in Wellington for a period of eight years. A dealer bought tho butt or, and it opened up in first'class condition. It had beon found that butter retained its quality oven after 12 yoars in cold storage, so that when thoy hoard it that it took a long while for New Zealand butter to got to England and that it could not bo, therefore, as g<> >d as an article that was put straight from the dairy on the market, they could conclude that tho statement was made by an interested party. Does any one know how much feed a rabbit eats ? This is my experience (writes a correspondent in the Stock and Station Journal) : My children caught a young ) one, and were playing with it in tho garden. It got under the house, and used to ooiuo into the garden at night to feed. Result was that if wo hadn't laid wait and destroyed it quick and lively, the garden would have boon wiped out in a wook. Bunny's large appetite struck mo so much that I decided to test what a rabbit would really eat. I caught a young ono, and kept him for a few days until he had settled down to feed in his box. Then weighed him and ho wont GJ rzs. Then 1 kept the feed (radish tops and lettuce) up to him for 24 hours, and he ate 15 cz in that timo. (No mistake about this, and ho wasn't propared by starvation either). That is he ate liroro than twice his own weight in 24 hours. Now, does this mean that a full grown rabbit (which I find averages about 41b) eats more than, or even twice his own weight? If it does, then I lose 26,071 tons of feed per year by rabbits. Act 3 like a charm! That's what thousands say of NAZOL—the handiest aud surest remedy for coughs and colds. 60 doses 1/6. Refuse substitutes.

A reduotion of 657 days from the racing calendar for the Commonwealth is involved by the Cabinet's decision. No cold is NAZOL-proof. And no congh and cold remedy is so economical as NAZOL. Eightoenpence buys 60 doses—more than three a penny. Mr A. P. Whatman, of Master ton, has received word that the half-ton of frozen eeld forwarded to England have reached their destination in splendid condition. The eels were taken from the Wairarapa Lake and were frozen at the Waingawa works. An Ashburton resident received a cable on Monday from England purported to be signed by his son, containing the following words :—" Well. Cable six pounds." The sum will not be cabled, as the local resident's eon was invalided home six months ago. The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Star wires:—Sir James Allen states that the total number of pensions awarded soldiers permanently and temporarily injured, widows, dependents, and others, to March 31, is 14,497, involving .£904,383 yearly. The average pension is £62 per year. A boy named Wilfred McDowall, son of Mr F. McDowall, Queenstown, was admitted to the Southland Hospital last week suffering from a gunshot wound in the foot. The youth had been out shooting rabbits, and the gun going off accidentally had caused the wound, which is not of a dangerous nature. " It's charges like this that make a solicitor's bill of costs a scandal," said Mr Justice Hosking at the Supreme Court at Palmerston North on Tuesday, when a lawyer's bill was before him for taxation. The item that brought the remark from His Honour was a charge of five shillings which the solicitor had charged for serving a summons on himself! The Minister of Defence stated last week that the Territorial officers about whose cases there had been some public comment, have gone into camp as sergeants in the Expeditionary Force, retaining their commissions in the Territorial Force. He was advised that these men were " playing the game." The prios of the breakfast egg has reached 3s 8d per dozen retail, and some producers feel warranted in the belief that it will go to 4s (states Saturday's Wellington Post). To-day, on the contrary, the situation is easier, and 3s 3d is about the figure, and the wholesale quotation 3s. It is dear euough, virtually 3Jd for an egg. Reports from reliable sources go to show that the area sown iu autumn wheat, in the Ashburton County this year is far short of last sea sou's acreage. One farmer states that spring-sown wheat is not nearly so good as that sown in the autumu, and such being the case, he did not think the area sown throughout the county would be very large. "It is not every man who will eat porridge," remarked Colonel Potter before the Defence Commission, while discussing the matter of rations. " But we had one good man porridge recently. He had been in the habit of consuming the porridge rations of the six men of his tent. His comrades were not porridge eaters, and he took their shaie very comfortably." " Simple Simon" aaks the Dunedin Starthis question : "lama married man with two children, If Igo to the war and get killed, what pensions do my wife and children get, and at what age do the children's pensions stop ?" The answer is that the widow of a private gets £2 weekly, and for each child 10s ; the pension for the children to stop when they reach the age £of 16. A party of workers at the Sydney Municipal Baths (named respectively Hillings, Pite, Shaw, Pritchard, and Winter) drew Cetigne in the last £5,000 sweep on the Newmarket Handicap. They telegraphed to the owner of the horse (Mr T. A. Stirton) at Melbourne asking what he considered would be a fair thing for them to name. Mr Stirton replied promptly that he was. pleased to hear that the men had drawn bis horse, that he believed Cetigne would win, and—he did not want anything from them. The old story of, the mysterious airship was revived at Clydevale the other evening. A resident tells of how he saw a beacon in the air in the early hours of the morning, and the uncanny feeling of being out in the dark, with the thought of German spies, Zeppelins, etc. lurking about. The gentleman does not say whether he had low spirits or any other spirits at the time of Fritz's supposed visit or yet whether the illusion might have been the result of a realistic dream. The danger to the travelling public through horses and cattle being allowed without let or hindrance to wander on the public roads, was exemplified on Sunday night when a locally owned car which was returning to Lawrence, ran into a horse at the turn below Mr T. Darton's (says the Tuapeka Times). The car, fortunately, withstood the impact without damage, but the horse was so badly injured as to necessitate its immediate destruction. In the interest of the safety of human life it is time the county took stringent measures to eliminate this source of danger to the travelling public. How a hospital ship raced a cablegram across the world was related at a meeting of the Eeturned Soldiers' Association at Wellington (says the N.Z. Times). A soldier who returned from the front sent a cablegram from Brookenhurst on April 6th last to bis relatives in Wellington, announcing that he was " well and coming home." He had arrived in Wellington about two hours and was at home when a ring was heard at the door. The soldier answered it, and received the very cablegram that he had sent about six weeks before. "That's nothing," remarked another returned soldier quietly. "I sent a cable home 12 months ago, and it has not reached there yet."

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