Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The trust thats given thee guard, and to thyself be just. ARROWTOWN, JULY 3, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2792, 3 July 1919, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The trust thats given thee guard, and to thyself be just. ARROWTOWN, JULY 3, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr J. Forbes, secretary of the Soldiers' Reception Committee, acknowledges receipt of a donation of j6l Is from Mr W. Murphy for the Medal Fund.

The welcome-home social for Corporal James Toll, Gunner C. C. Johnston and Private H. Dagg will be held in the Atheneum Hall this evening. Mr C. Kidston, representative for Messrs Thomson and Beattie, Ltd., will open out in Central sample rooms, Arrowtown on Monday and Tuesday next.

At the nominations of candidates for the office of Mayor yesterday, Cr John Eeid was the only candidate nominated, and he was declared elected. His nominators were Messrs W. Stevenson and G. H. Romans.

The annual meeting of the Lake Connty A. and P. Society will be held in the Council Chambers, Arrowtown, on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Old members and intending members are asked to attend. Farmers are reminded that the meeting for the purpose of discussing the desirability of forming a rabbit board, or boards, will be held in the Council Chambers, Arrowtown, on Saturday afternoon next at 3.30 o'clock.

Meetings of householders will be held on Wednesday evening next in all school districts where the first meetings lapsed Arrowtown is included in the number, and the meeting will be held here in the schoolhouse at 8 o'clock on the evening mentioned.

Mr W. Moßride, Arrowtown, recently purchased a block of Awarima Estate, Five Rivers, and entered in to possession a couple of woeks ago. He is having a residence erected, and as soon as this is completed, Mrs Meßride will join her husband. They will have the best wishes of friends here for success in their new home.

Mr J A. Boroham,|the draughts champion, arrived in Queenstown, on Saturday evening. Eight Queenstown players engaged him in play on Saturday evening. The Mail says that of thirty one games played twenty-five were won by Mr Boreham, five drawn, and odo win secured by Mr H. Lorden All eight players were engaged at once by the champion, this being the course he usually adopts. On Monday Mr Boreham again {met a number of townspeople in the Council Clumbers, in all 25 games being played, 17 of which were won by the champion and 8 drawn.

It has been raining almo»t continuously since Tuesday, and snow is falling on the high country. Mr J. J. O'Kano, surgeon dentist, will visit Arrowtown on Thursday, July 10, and Queenstown on the following day. The town of Kangiora is now lighted hy electricity. The cost cf the installation was .£5,500.

The Otago Daily Times nays that the funds for the general work of the Presbyterian Social Service Association will benefit to the extent of £SOO under tho will of the late Mr John Edie, of Ediovale.

An Ordor-in-Council prohibits tho importation into New Zealand of wheatmeal and ground wheat, savo with tho consent of tho Minister ot Customs given on the recomondation of tho Hoard of Trade. " Tho hotels in Opotiki aro tho best conducted I have soon," remarked Police Sergeant McDonnell at the licensing mooting at Opotiki, "In fact," he added 'Opotik is a perfect paradise in that respect."

Since the armistice 02,620 army horses have boon sold in the United Kingdom for £2,075,858, at an average price of £33 4s, and 1.47H mules for £26,499, an average of £l7 ss. i Sir Joseph Ward has arranged for tho flotation of a loan up to £1,000,000 for the hydro-eloctric scheme of tho Otago Expansion League on terms similar to the Southland loan. Both loans are underwritten subjoct to tho ratepayers voting the authority for the loanj

A property agent in Auckland reports that he has just sold for £I4OO a house and section which changed hands 12 years ago for £750. Eight years ago another dwelling was purchased for £350, and he has just sold it for £BSO.

A rather novel complaint was received from a patient in a military hospital not very far from Auckland recently. Ha complained that he was unable 13 sleep at nights on account of tho snores of the night orderly on duty. I have lived to know that the great secret of human happiness is suffer your energies to stagnate! Tho old adage of " too many irons iti the fire" contains an untruth—you cannot have too man y_poker, tongs, and all, keep thum all going.—Adam Clark. ;

A negro corporal who wore campaign ribbons tor distinguished service on the Mexican border and at Vera Cruz was asked what they meant, and replied : " Well, sah, Ah don't jes' know fo' shu, but dey tells me dat this is fo* getting into Mexico, and dat un fo' getting out." A little Californian girl recently released a toy balloon with her name and address attached. She received a letter through the post some time afterwards, stating that the balloon had come down after floating more than 125 miles through the air. " I don't say that acid drops cure sea sickness," said Bishop Sadlier in an address to the Nelson Senior Cadets, " but I do know that during the first few days of the voyage it was part of the padre's duty to hand acidrops round among the seasick boys, and they derived great comfort from them."

It is officially announced that, assuming that the present arrangements will not be interfered with, practically the whole of the New* Zealand troops in the United Kingdom will have been evacuated by the end of August, and may be expected to reach the Dominion before the beginning of October. It is expected that all troops now in Egypt will be back in New Zealand by the end of August. At Thursday's meeting of the Otago District Repatriation Board, strong comments were made by members as to the action of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in connection with the recent appointment of an assistant inspector made to that body. A deputation was appointed to wait upon the society to place the position from the Repatriation Board's point of view in the interests of disabled and deserving soldiers.

Owing to the train restrictions, goods trains will be run only when a full load is available, and no wagon will be carried, unless it is fully loaded. If wagons are partly loaded at flag stations, they will be left to be filled up by other consignors, and will not be lifted until full. There is no undertaking to carry goods within any specified time, and no claim whatever will be accepted for loss or damage resulting from delay or from refusal to carry. Haulage of goods traffic will be performed as far as possible by the train notified to be run. » The big farm labourer was so queer that he felt obliged to visit a doctor. “ What are the symptoms?” asked the doctor. “Oh, I feel sort o’ swimming, an’ hot an’ cold !” The doctor examined the man. “ I don’t like your heart action,” he said at length. “ You have some trouble with angina pectoris.” “ You’re partly right, sir,” said the man, “ only that ain’t her name,” William J. Burns, the noted detective said in a lecture : “ To a well-trained detective every incident is pregnant with significance—yes, every incident is as full of meaning as—well, I am reminded of a story. a. young man sat in a parlor alone. To him a beautiful girl enters. Thereupon the young man arose, took six cigars from his upper waistcoat pocket, laid them carefully on the piano, and then advanced towards the girl passionately. But the girl drew back. ‘ You have loved before,’ she said.

When a letter was received by the Christchurch City Council from the Napier Borough Council forwarding a copy of a resolution passed by it requesting Cabinet to declare Anzac Day a statutory holiday and asking for the Council's support, Cr Flesher said he thought Anzac Day should be celebrated on the nearest Sunday to April 25. He took it that the occasion waa a celebration not a holiday. He moved that a remit to the Municipal Association be adopted accoidingly. The motion was carried. According to & recent visitor from San Francisco, that city must be a happy hunting ground for nurses. The Trained Nurses' Asaociation there will not allow any of the nurses who are members to take cases for less than fire guineas, and when a doctor engages a nurse to attend a case the latter has not only to pay the fee but to pay the nurses' laundry expenses and various other amounts, as well even to the use of the operating theatre if that is necessary. A Wanganui business man expresses himself as satisfied with his experience in giving his assistants a direct interest in the firm's profits. Speaking to a Wanganui Herald reporter, he said that about a year ago he marked a good month's business by giving each assistant a bonus in the shape of an extra week's wages, and has repeated the bonus several times since. A record month in Apiil last was made the occasion for another similar bonus, with the promise that, if May's business was as good, the same reward for assiduity would follow. Needless to say, he remarked, the extra week's wages were again earned. A young; man, while sitting in a cafe in Paris drinking with some friends, made a bet of 83 that he would box the ears of the first person who entered the cafe p.fter that moment. The bet was taken, and the party waited. Then there entered a tall, strong, burly mechanic, with broad shoulders and sinewy arms. Bardin marched up to the giant and boxed his ears. The big man looked at him, and then started to hit back. He began by smashing the jawbone of his daring little aggressor, after which he threw him on to the floor and broke a couple of ribs. According to the accounts of those present, he was just about to strangle Bardin when severl spectators intervened. Bardiu won his Bs, but ho had to be taken to the hospital in a serious condition.

One hundred and fifty Australians havft enrolled for service in Russia, and sanction for the enlistmont of another 200 has been withheld owing to the fact that they have dependents in Australia (says a cable message to the Australian papers). A Victoria Cross ofllcier has joined as a lance-corporal, and others as privates.

Known the world over for his original genius, Edison, the veteran American inventor, whon celebrating his 72nd birthday, oxprossed the hope that he would live to be 100, and so maintain the family average of the past throe generations. His great grandfather lived to be 104 ; his grandfather died at 102 ; his father lived to be 94, " There seems to be a general idea that a man is entitled to buy a drink just on the stroke of six, spend two or three minutes in consuming it, light his pipe, and get out of the bar in leisurely fashion," said Mr F V Frasor, S.M., at Wellington. •' That is not the law at all," continued his Worship. " When the law says the bar must be shut at six, that is just what it mean?."

Mr Q. T. Pulley, '• Rose Valley " Glenham. has given the Wyndam Parmer the following recipe for poisoning oats for birds :—Boil a kerosene tin full of oats till soft ; strain the water off, and turn out on the floor ; then add a stick and a half of superphosphorous, and mix through while hot. Then put into tins for use. Mr Pulley states that he has used this preparation with great success during the past two years, and recommsnds it.

A remarkable pretext for the under-pay-merit of a soldier was brought to light during the hearing at Marton of proceedings instituted against an employer for breach of the Wellington District Grocers' Assistants' Award. The prosecutor was the Inspector of Awards, whose report to the head office in Wellington ia just to hand. The employer, it appears, admitted to the inspector that he was paying a returned boldier less than the prescribed minimum rate, but stated that he did not consider himself called upon to pay the full rate because the soldier was in receipt of a pension of £1 per week. The Magistrate imposed a fine of £5, and the employer had to pay arrears of wages as well.

The sign, " A House To Let," appearing in Oaraaru at the present time is like a red rag to a ball, causing great commotion of some magnitude, and the rushing hither and thither to find its owner, and afterwards to view the premises (says the Oamaru Mail). The house shortage is extremely severe, and anything with four walla is being used for living purposes. One local resident had reason the other day to feel the full weight of the shortage. The misstress of the house had occasion to remove her curtains for the purpose of washing, and at the same time detaching the blinds for renovating. Hardly had these drapings been lowered when the rnsh set in, and throughout the day her time was occupied in answering calls to know when the house would be vacant. Needless to say, she wasted no in hanging the articles as a visable sign that the place was occupied. To young and eld, to great an! gnnll, Some day there comes a time to all, A (ime of sickness and distress, When timely aid we grasp and bless, It may be when your poor and oli, Or maybe when we've cough and cold ; But whensoe'er it be we're sure To Welcome Woods* Groat Peppermint Care.