Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Arrowtown, July 31, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2796, 31 July 1919, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

Arrowtown, July 31, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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* LaKo County Council meeting on Wednesday next. The monthly meeting of the Arrow Borough Council was hold on Tuesday evening. Report next week. Mr A. Jopp was yesterday electad to fill the vacancy on the Arrow Borough Council caused by tho election of Mr John Raid to the position of Mayor. The transport Chupra arrived at Lyttelton at noon on Monday. Tho local soldiers (Privates D. Jones and S. Stevenson) are expected to reach home to-morrow evening. In our report of the local peace celebrations last week, wo omitted to mention that Mr R. M Paterson, of Ayrburn, had kindly given six cases of apples. These were greatly appreciated by young and old. Mr Msssey, Sir Joseph Ward and party left Vancouver on July 16 and should be in tho dominion on August sor 6. The session will not commence for at least a fortnight after their arrival. The Railway Department announces a cut in the passenger traffic on the railways. Single tickets only will be issued, and persons travelling will have to satisfy the department that the proposed journey is imperative and business is essential. R. J. M. Lang was charged at the Foilding Police Court with attempting to cross the railway lino in Kimbolton road in front of a train. The locomotive beat the motor cyclist to it, Lang being caught on the cowcoucher and his machine badly smashed. In convicting and discharging the accused Mr Hewitt observed : “If that won’t make you careful, no fine will.” The miners of our State collieries are not without a sense of humour (says the Greymouth Star). A week or so ago the Mayor appealed to them to work on the pay Saturday, in order to relieve the distress caused by the curtailing of trains owing to the shortage of coal. Whether he was justified in making such appeal is by the way ; but evidently the miners resented it. While bunkering one of tho vessels in port, a miner’s pick was discovered, addressed to the Mayor, and extending to him an invitation to go out and hew coal on his halfholiday. The Nightcaps Coal Company notify that on Monday next, 4th August, tho price of their coal will rise 2s. and nuts by Is per ton. A statement has been made by the manager ef the Company to the effect that for the first four years of the war ended 30th S-ptember, 1919, (and this year will be worse) the mine output was 22,378 tons less, not realised £12,395 less than the four years before it, although the prices were higher. But so were wages, taxes, and supplies, con- ■ icues Mr Handysido, while the great si. rtago of mine workers was and still is the main cause of the reduced output. • ‘. all this profiteering ?” asks Mr Handy■i’OS. V cons'iotious coal-saver is the Acting Prime Minister, Sir James Allen (says the Dominion’) He sits at work in his office * ripped in a thick overcoat, neither the electric radiator nor his gas stove being in uso. It happens that his room does not contain a coal fireplace. The Minister’s example might well be followed in some other Government offices, where the coal fires are always liberally and frequently supplied with coal—better coal than most householders can ever obtain, and burned at a rste that no ordinary private supply could sustain for many days. A Masterton resident witnessed a pathetic scene, with an intensely humorous ending, at Wellington last week (says the Wairarapa Age). A young lady with her mother, had gone to the. city to welcome home the soldier boy to whom she had been betrothed four years ago. To her amazement she saw him descending the gangway cf the transport with a child in his arms, followed by a smiling damsel. The young lady swooned, and fell into the arras of her mother. The soldier, seeing what happened turned to the woman behind him, and exclaimed, “There take your bloomin’ kid and iet me go to the assistance of my fiancee !” The latter soon recovered. Explanations showed that the soldier was merely assisting the bride of a comrade, who was locking after his kit. Everything ended happily, and the nuptials are shortly to be pronounced. At the monthly meeting of the Otago Land Board last week. The following transfers were dealt with as under :—Section 27, block I, Upper Wakatipu, 47 acres 2 roods 27 poles, Mr Huntly Groves to Mr J. Cronin.—Held over for ranger’s report. Sections 34-36, block I, Upper Wakatipu. 155 acres 1 rood 35 poles, Bridget Elizsbeth O’Connell to Beatrice Cronin.—Held over for ranger’s report. Sections 28-31, block I, Upper Wakatipu, 200 acres 3 roods 32 poles, Beatrice Cronin to Bridget E. O’Connell.— Held over for ranger’s report. Sections 3G514, 36516, 36517, block VIII, Wilkin, 313acres0 roods 34 poles, Mr Alexander Humphrey to Mr Rectns J. Dunning.—Declined, as a person holdings power of attorney cannot make a declaration under the Land Act. An officer in a certain regiment is an expert gymnast, and teaches his brother subalterns bow to walk across the barrack room on their hands. While thus engaged one evening the door opened and the colonel entered the room, stared at the inverted company, shook his head gravely, and dopaited without uttering a word. Extra parade duty the next morning was the least punishment expected for this breach of discipline. Some days passed, however, and, no notice being taken, it was thought that an apology should bo offered by the instigator of these unsoldierly movements. A reference being made to the occurrence, the colonel amazed tho intending apologist by saying “ Hush ! I would net have anybody know it for the world. The fact is, I bad been dining out with an old brother officer, and ’pon my life I had no idea that ■■v tie could have had such an effect upon me !mt I could have sworn I saw you all upside down J”

Hon. A. M. Myers anticipates 70,000 tons of coni from overseas within next six weeks Evidence of the big cutting in freight rate? by the Japanese was shown to a New Zealand Times representative. According to an invoice, the Osaka lihoson Kaisha is charging 22s 6d per ton from Japan to Sydney. The ordinary charge for the same cargo from Sydney to Wellington is 35a per ton. In an interview Marshal Foch frankly assumed the possibility of another groat war. Ho described the developemont and achiovments of Kitchener’s Army as marvellous. “ Next time," ho said, “It will be better done but wo must not wait for her." Asked what should bodono, Foch exclaimed: “ Oh, how can I say ?” “ Hut next war, more than ever, will be of machinery. It will be essential to have reserves, material and laboratories. Our inventors must keep abreast of, and, if possible, ahead of the mechanical side.” The report from Wellington that steps are "ping taken to re-appoint Professor von Zedlitz to the position of Professor of Modern Languages at Victoria College was discusse 1 by the executive of the Returned Soldiers’ Association at Auckland and it was decided to make emphatic protest against the suggested re-appointment of vou ZedHtz and to request that no alien enemy who had been interned, be allowed to bo reinstated in any position and further to demand that any German or enemy alien at present holding a responsible position be removed from office. A Dunedin merchant has given a member of the staff of the Daily Times his idea of the chief cause of the high cost of living. He stated that the large amount of borrowed money, and the increased issue of paper money by the banks, had caused an abundance of what might be termed artificial money, and that as a result there was a tendaucy to pay more than its actual value for land, for instance, with a general upward trend in prices of produce. Another point put forward for the high cost of living was that no matter how high prices soared, the average housewife exercised no restmint in purchasing in the face of the heavy prices asked. The merchant went on to say that if the general purchaser would only refrain from buying at high values, and ask for an article of more or loss similar character at a lower cost, the tendency must be to lower the price of most high-cost commodities. At a meeting of limbless soldiers last week the statement was made that only 45 limbless men had returned to Canterbury. This, remarks a returned soldier contributor to the Star, seems rather out of proportion to the nurabsr of New Zealanders who have lost limbs in the war. I have been informed that the number is somewhat in the vicinity of 1000 altogether, and when I was at the Oatlands Park Hospital in England last year there were about 350 “limbies” in hospital at the same time. The education scheme was not compulsory with them, but they were offered certain privileges if they accepted instruction, and very few declined to avail themselves of the training and the privileges offered. It is small wonder that since returning to New Zealand the majority of the “limbies” have successfully repatriated themselves. At the meeting last week only one of 16 present was out of employment. A keen desire to go on the land was evinced by some of the men, and the suggestion was made that the “limbies” should be given prefeernce in ballots for sections specially suitable for them. Aeroplaning is considerably expensive according to a London correspondent of the Australasian, who writes as follows ;—Society women have discovered a new sensation, or, rather, remembered an excitement which seemed possible before August, 1914, but was stopped by the world war. The sensation consists in purchasing the right to a short flight in an aeroplane, with the addition of sundry “stunts,” if so desired. The Staglane Aerodrome at Hendon is the centre of the new craze for civilian flying. Here is the tariff for some of the thrills : Spin 21s 6d, roll 10s 6d, grand roll 21s, falling leaf 21s, stalling 21s, looping the loop 425. A plain flight costs a guinea, but most people, men and women, who were tempted to enter the aeroplane at all have been persuaded to subscribe to one or two extras. Not a few paid 6J guineas for the whole bag of tricks. The general opinion of those who survived was that the bonne bouche was the “falling leaf.” This consists of the pilot tilting his machine over on one wing until it begins to fall sideways. Then he straightens the machine and repeats the operation in the other direction. Finally, the flight ends with a nose dive. Very good value for a guinea, is it not ? A rather sensational occurence is reported from Nireaha (says the Eketahuna paper). Mr and Mrs Hall last week went to Wellington to meet Mrs Hall’s brother, who was returning to the Dominion, and Miss Myrtle Hall was at home in charge of the house. One afternoon just as Miss Hall was about to leave the house on her music-lesson rounds, a swagger appeared and demanded a cup of tei. Miss Hall informed him that the fire was out, but as the man was insistent she consented to light up the fire. The man then asked truculently if he could go inside and was met with a prompt refusal. Miss Hall without thought stating that her parents were away. The man thereupon attempted to force his way into the house, but the door was slammed in his face. He thereupon picked up a tomahawk and attacked the door. Miss Hall rushed to the telephone, and just managed to indicate to the exchange that a man was breaking in—then there was silence. Eketahuna immediately rang up Mr Dowden, of Nireaha, who ran across to the house. The man had disappeared but he found Miss Hall lying in front of the fire in a faint, and with the the corner of her apron alight. Thus was averted what easily might have been a tragedy. The settlers and police are searching the district for the man, but so far without success. The Christchurch correspondent of the Dunedin Star says that at a meeting of the Canterbury Land Board an understanding was arrived at in repect to applications from discharged soldiers for financial assistance in setting up poultry farms. The Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr H. D. M. Haszard) stated that the case before the board was that of a discharged soldier to whom the board a short time ago had advanced £SOO towards the purchase of a suburban property. He now made application for a further advance of £350 wherewith to purchase fowls to stock the farm and the necessary plant. About £l5O was for the purchase of foodstuffs. The board declined this application, as they considered that it was too speculative a proposition for a man (such as the applicant was) who was not a thorough expert in poultry-raising and management, believing that it might lead to the disappointment of the applicant himself and to loss to the Government. The board were prepared, however, to recommend a grant of £SO for the purchase of plant of a tangible character used in connection with poultry-raising in this case. The Commissioner added that the man was a tradesman, and the board were of opinion that it would be better for him to continue at his trade and work gradually into the poultry business as he gained experience of it. The board considered that the matter was of sufficient public interest to permit of the publication of the facts in order that discharged soldiers who might be thinking of making similar applications might know the attitude adoped by the board.

One day while waiting by the “ phone” To send a message of my own, I heard across the lines a call, In urgent, anxious accents fall—“Is that you, Central ? Hurry do ! Please put me on to 2 0-2. It’s dosing time, I’m late, I’m sure ; I'm after Woods’ (Jreat Peppermint Cure.