Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The trust thats given thee guard, and to thyself be just. ARROWTOWN, JUNE 19, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2790, 19 June 1919, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The trust thats given thee guard, and to thyself be just. ARROWTOWN, JUNE 19, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs W. Beid and Sons' annual sale is now on. Bargains in everything. There were no nominations for the office of Mayor yesterday. Fresh nominations are invited for 2nd July. A weloome-home social will be tendered Private Joseph A. Kirby in the schoolhouse, Gibbston, this evening.' All returned men are cordially invited. Owing to pressure on our space we have had to hold over letters from the chairman and secretary of the Reception Committee in reply to the letter of Mr Penglase to Arrow Borough Councillors published last week. The National Debt of New Zealand is now roughly some .£l7O per head of the population, while the national wealth is said to equal .£4OO capita.\^ Marshall Foch hns left Paris for our army fiont and he will remain at headquarters at Luxemburg in readiness to give the order to advance in the event of the Germans refusing to sign the Peace Treaty. A stag has taken up his quarters on Mr W. Shaw's farm, Lochiel (says the Winton Record). He grazes with the stock, but makes a sudden disappearance if he sees a huntsman about. Mr Shaw has no desire to see the stranger molested. The totals of the civilian and soldiers' votes on the liquor question show a majority of 10,455 in favour of Continuance. This majority may be final, and in any case will only be altered slightly as no soldier votes remain to be counted, and only one official count has not reached the returning officer. " Do you want to buy a horse ?" queried a man of a well-known stock-dealer in Invercargill the other day. " How much do you want for him ?" asked t he dealer. The salesman said that he would part with the noble steed for 25., and the dealer closed with the offer. Later the dealer received delivery of the horse which was in a very low condition, and looked as if a good feed would do it no harm. The horse has been consuming very substantial meals ever since and has prospered so well that his new owners now says that he would not sell the horse under £H>.

In the opinion of Mr 11. Beauchamp, Chairman of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand, there is every reason to believe that the wool market will remain favourable for many years. The population needing wool is increasing far more rapidly than the flocks ; indeed, it is a question whether the 3heep in the world have not materially decreased daring the p«st five years. Prices, he said, may not be as high ae they are to-day, but they will certainly be at a profitable level for sheepmen who know their business. The wool clip for the year which will clos at the end of the current month, is valued at £12,000,000. The following remarks by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., may be of interest to licensees of hotels. Aftei hearing a case in which a licensee of an hotel, at Queenstown, was charged on June 10 with exposing liquor for sale Mr Mosley stated that some licensees evidently thought that because a man came into their hotel after hours snd asked for a meal that suoh a poison thereby became a boarder. The Magistrate expressed tbe opinion that although licensees were required to supply such a person with a meal, they were Lot at liberty to open their bars and supply liquor to such a persona over the counter. Licensees so doinj; were liable to be prosecuted for a breach of the Licensing Act. Any person calling for a meal and being supplied therewith did not thereby become a boarder.

At Timaru on Saturday a meeting of farmera and pastoralists discussed, the rabbit menace, now admitted to be serious over large areas in South Canterbury. The consensus of opinion was that simultaneous poisoning was the only effective means of reducing the pest. At Fairlie and Aylbury voluntary rabbit committees have been doing good work by precept and example and the meeting decided to recommend that such committees be formed wherever necessary in prefornce to the statutory boards, and to ask the Government to increase the staff of inspectors to assist by advice and pressure to secure co-operation, and to bring the negligent to book, the committee to assist in the last-mentioned duty. Nip that cold in the bud by treating it in stantly with " NAZOL." Taken on sugar or inhaled, " NAZOL" never fails.

" I don't believe in the higher education of women. If they are good looking, it it unnecessary. If they are not, it is inadequate." This quotation from an English writer caused some amusement at the Educational Institute meeting at Wellington. " NAZOL" is not a mixture or drug, but a scientific specific which never fails to relieve the worst cold. Sixty doses oost Is 6d. During the hearing of a theft case in the Wellington Magistrate's Court recently, it was stated that a man's hat, which had been stolen, was valued at £3 17s 6d. Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M., who was on the bench, questioned the value, and when informed that it was approximately correct, he remarked that the oost of men's apparel was fast rivalling that of women. A boon to public speakers, singers, and reciters is '• NAZOL." Keeps the throat clear as a bell. Can be taken anywhere. A would-be passenger by the Earnslaw on Monday morning timed his departure rather badly, as doubtless he will not easily forget. The steamer had commenced to swing out from the wharf when he made an unsuccessful attempt to board her, plunging instead into the lake. Lifebuoys were immediately flung to him but he swam under the wharf and reached terra firm* without further mishap. A thorough wetting and a lost passage were the sum of his discomforture.—Mail. There's nothing like butter for bread. There's nothing like leather for boots, There's nothing for bullets like lead, There's nothing grows timber like roots, On foregone conclusions like these, To argue iB oussedness pure ; "lis as certain for colds you'll find ease In Woods' Groat Peppermint Cure.