Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The trust thats given thee guard, and to thyself be just. ARROWTOWN JUNE 12, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2789, 12 June 1919, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The trust thats given thee guard, and to thyself be just. ARROWTOWN JUNE 12, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr J. W. Smith, representative for Mollisons Limited, will be in Arrowtown from to-day until Saturday next. A. welcome home social will she tendered Bfleman D Cosgrove and Privaie Thomas Beckett, in ths Atheneum Hall, tomorrow evening.

A meeting of the Lake County Council was held yesterday, when the busines transacted was of a routine nature. Pull report next week.

At Arrowtown on Saturday last Mr T. J. Cotter hold a fairly successful sale of household furniture and eflects on account of Mr J. W. Powley. The annual meeting of the Arrow Football Club will be held in the Press office to-morrow evening at 7.30 sharp. Intending members are invited to attend.

The annual meeting of the Wakatipu Licensing Committe was held in Queenstown on Tuesday, when all applications were granted. Report next week. The Chevalier barley which gained first prize at the Dunedin winter show for Donald Reid and Co. was grown by Mr John Reid Arrowtown. Barley grown by Mr Reid also gained first prize at the Dunedin winter show last year. The appointment of a North Island member of Parliament as the next Minister of Public Works was urged in a remit at the Farmers’ Union Conference (states the New Zealand Herald). The remit was adopted, with practically no discussion. The troopship Devon was fitted out to accommodate one thousand men, but at the last minute these had to be left in Egypt by reason of the rioting. Of the nineteen men who returned by the Devon, one or two brought British wives back with them, one an Armenian wife, one a Greek wife and baby, and another a French wife.

In connection with the proposal for the union of the Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist churches into one united jhurch throughout the Dominion, a vote of communicants and adherents of St. John’s congregation, for or against the proposed union, will bo taken at the service next Sunday evening. A vote will be also taken at Gibbston at the afternoon service on Sunday next, and at Crown Terrace on Sunday, 22nd inst. The deliverance of the Southland Presbytery, in connection with the recent Presbyterial visitation to St. John’s congregation, will also be read at each of the above services.

At the monthly meeting of the Southland Presbytery the Rev. D. K. Fisher, Lumsden, gave in a report of the Prosbyterial visitation of Queenstown congregation which showed a very satisfactory advance since the last visitation. The Presbytery accepted with regret the resignation of the minister, the Rev. K. C. Hunter, who is returning to Great Britain, and placed on record its appreciation of the valuable services rendered by him in tho Southland Presbytery. Mr Fisher was appointed interim moderator of Queenstown, which becomes vacant on July 13. A satisfactory report of a visitation to Arrowtown was also handed in by Rev. Tyloe. The Government has declined to purchase Mount Pisa for soldiers settlement in tho meantime. Tho leasehold consists of U7,U00 acres, with a carrying capacity of 30,000 sheep. Tho terms of tho offer wore that Mrs Nichols was prepared to dispose of tho whole station, lock, stock, and barrel, to tho Government, by arbitrated valuation, provided tho arbitrators were given tho right to call in outside expert evidence to assist them in arriving at a fair decision regarding the valuation. The lease of tho leasehold property expires at tho end of Fcbuary 1921, but Mrs Nichols was prepared to snrroudor tho rest of tho lease from the uccoptauco of the oiler.

"The waitresses pay fid a week to the funds of their union,” said Mr Bremner, a delegate to the Pahiatna Farmers’ Union Conference, " and farmers hesitate to pay £1 a year!” At Wyndham recently three young men were prosecuted for an unusual act of larrikinisiu. While a dance at Glenham was in progress they threw two buckets of water into the assembly, one through the door and one through the ticket room window, destroying ladies’ costumes and temporarily suspending dancing. Their little prank cost them £3 each, aud court costs.

A novel idea of destroying the rabbit pest has been adopted by some settlers on the Five Rivers plain (reports the Mataura Ensign). A wire netting “ drive” is erected with an enclosure at the end, and the rabbits are hunted in to the trap by dogs and a party of men. In one instance several hundred rabbits were caught atone time. During the bearing of a case at the Supreme Court at Wanganui a witness said he saw the prisoner take a kip out of his pocket to get rid of it. “ A what ?” queried Mr Justice Chapman, and it was explained that a kip was a small pieco of wood which played an important part in the gambling game of “two up.” “ I don’t think it is played as openly on the Wellington wharf as it used to be,” said his Honor, reminiscently, “ but once or twice I have walked right through them.”

At a recent test of the Isaac Pitman Shorthand Writers’ Association (states Pitman’s Journal), Mr Herman J. Stich, an American Court reporter, wrote under most rigorous rules at the rate of of 300 words a minute for five consecutive minutes, and then presented a transcript that, with only two immaterial errors, almost reached perfection, the percentage of accuracy being 99.9. Mr Stich’s performance is described as the finest in the history of shorthand. The large sum of £1562 Is 4d has been paid out by the Southland War Fund Association during the past six weeks. The largest grant made was for £2O and the smallest 19s 3d. A modest application was for the price of a spade and an axe (18s) by a returned soldier who had secured a contract to clear some scrub in a country district. This man’s case was fully considered and instead of granting him 18s he was given a cheque for £6. The sum of £l7 4s. was paid out to assist in two maternity cases. Weekly grants were afforded in four cases to tide dependents over a period of stress.

On the strength of their latest American returns Messrs J. K. Mooney and Coy, the well-known and popular Dunedin Skin Merchants, are in a position to still offer boom prices for winter skins as per their advertisement in another column. It will be noticed that they make a special reference to ferret skins. Owing to the Government placing restrictions on the killing of ferrets they are unable to purchase any further lines with the exception of those caught prior to Juhe 1. The firms’quotation (details appear in their advertisement) ranges from 4s each to Is each for black tipped varieties.

A romantic war story, which is known to be true, has come to the knowledge of the Acting-Defence Minister of Australia. The conduct of a young married Englishman led to his wife separating from him, and, regarded as a hopeless “ waster,” he went to Australia, enlisting in the Australian forces at the beginning of the war. He received his commission in France, and was seriously wounded. He woke to consciousness to find that his nurse in the clearing station, where he was retained owing to being in too serious a condition for further transport, was his wife, who had undertaken nursing work. The fact that the “ waster” had made good, and the loving kindness of his nurse, removed the estrangement, and the couple are now happily re-united. Referring again to the matter of misrepresentation at the Dairy Association’s dinner in Dunedin, the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald said that the other day he had seen in a paper not very far from Dunedin an article dealing with his sins, and all he could say was that this was deliberate and bare-faced lying, with no ignorance about it. He was in the happy position of drawing XIOOO a year and spending X2OOO to earn it.— (Laughter.) If he was among the missing at the next general election he'would be a much happier man, and. when the issue was decided he would sink his individual aspirations and work and give of bis best in the service of the people he represented, and he believed his colleagues would do the same.—(Applause. “ They didn’t give us much encouragement to play billiards in England,” says a returned New Zealander. My mate and me went into a saloon in one of the seaports, and found 28 tables there, but only two cues for each table, so that you had to use them whether they suited or not, and the girl in charge wouldn’t give us the balls till we paid a shilling. Then she put the clock on us, and we were told it would be another shilling in half an hour, no matter if the game was about finished ; and we had to put a penny in the slot to get a measly bit of the worst chalk I ever used. I have been told that this is the way they work the billiard rooms in London too, and that is likely to be true, for I know a chap who is going Home to set up a saloon on New Zea. land lines, and he reckons it will take on.»

At practically every meeting of publibodies resolutions from other bodies with requests for support are either formally “received” or upheld, to give, in the latter case, the labour of reply to the harrassed Undersecretaries of Government Departments. Asusu~l, the Invercargill Council had such a resolution before it on Friday night, but it was a resolution out of the ordinary rut of grievances. It came from the Waihi Borough Council, and read as follows : “ That the Municipal Corporations Act be amended so as to allow payment of not less than £1 l/-per day to councillors engaged on borough council business!” Laughter greeted the reading of the resolution, and councillors assured the Mayor that they favoured the suggestion, but their mirth had an ambiguous effect. Ultimately, the proposal met the fate of many predecessors, the sentence of “ received” being passed unanimously. When children come home from the pictures

Through the damp of a winter’s night, All parents who care and of colds beware, Take measures to keep them right. The\ tuok them warm and snug in bed,

For of oroapy colds they’ve needful dread ; At signs of such too make things sure, They give them Woods’s Great Peppermint Cure.