Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1887.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1580, 11 March 1887, Page 2

Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1887.

Some rpports and other matter of local interest are unavoidably held over. We believe that the Borough Council held a specia! meeting last evening, with respect to arrears of tent due on the Islands, l»nt we are not aware of the resu't rf their deliberation.

Mr 81-ick, County Engineer, upon whom work seems to he pile,l rather unmercifully, left Queenstown on Wednesday morning for the purpose of inspecting con'racts lieing c.iiried on on the Martin's Bay track, ami will not be l»a<-k for at least a week. An old and inm-h resected acqnainram-e, Mr Fer-jtiH, memlter for the Wakatipn, reached here on Tuesday evening, accompanied by Mis Fergus, and we believe his visit to the district, as a »h"le, will extend over two or three weeks. As may I e seen from announcement elsewhere Mr Fergus purposes expressing his views on political matters generally at the T-iwn Ha'l on Tuesdav evening, when we have lit'le doulit he will, as hitherto, he greeted by a goodly assemblage of the free and independent. The Manpiia and Marchioness of lluntlv, who have been staying at Eichardt's Hotel since Tuesday evening, l»ft this afternoon for Kingston *n r*ute to Dunedin, after making a short trip to the Had of the Ljike and back. On Wednesday his lordship (accompanied by Mr S. Fischer, Bank of New Zealand) went to Skinners Heefs, and stayed that night at the house of Mr Fred Evans, manager of the l'lirenix mine. The next morning his lordship was shown over the mine, the electric machinery and other workings of the Pluvnix Company. On his return he lnnehed at Mr Aspinall's, Skippers Point, after wlmh he was shown over Mr Aspina'l's lease, and initiated into the process of al'uvial mining. His lordship was greatly interested in w hat he saw of our mineral resources, and was highly delighted with the grand scenery and magnificent climate of the Lakes district

We are requested by the Chairman of Lake County Council to state that the reply to Councillor M'Dougall, as reported in the Lake County Prext, was not made by him, nor, as stated to be by that contemporary, was the reply libellous, or made with the least intention of injuring Mr Scott Smith. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon at the house of Mr A. Grant, settler, Lower Shotover, before Mr W. Warren, acting coroner, and a jury of six (Mr W. Gilchrist, foreman), touching the death of an infant child, one Ellen Dale. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs Grant (who had hail charge of the child almost from its birth) that she was washing outside on the previous morning, having left the child alone on the floor of the kitchen—at the fireplace Iteing a bucket nearly full o' water with a cabbage in it. Less than 10 minutes after she sent her boy, about seven years of age, to look after the child, when he immediately returned and showed by cxpressionf that something was wrong. On going into the kitchen Mrs (J rant found the child with its head in the water—it probably having overbalanced itself in trying to get at the cabbage. Ineffectual efforts were made to restore the child to life. Mrs Grant, who is said to have beei greatly attached to the child, was the only adult person near at the time of accident. Dr Doutdas, who had often attended deceased, gave confirmatory evidence on the latter point, and also stated that he had not the least doubt that deceased was drowned accidentally. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence. It is only about a fortnight ago that Mr Grant, who is a much respected settler, lost three stacks of grain through an act of incendiarism. The inhabitants do not intend to be behind their neighbors in their endeavors to aid the funds being raised in Otago towards the statue to be erected in Dunedin in honor of Scotland's great and worldrenowned poet, Rabbie Burns. As may he seen by notice elsewhere, a concert is to be given at the Town Hall on St. Patrick's Day—the better the day the better the deed. It is a full programme. The committee is a strong one, and we have not the slightest doubt that their efforts will be rewarded by a bumper house. Archibald and William Birchall, woodcutters, Head of the Lake, were brought up at the police court this morning before Mr J. Reid, J. P., on a charge of having, on the sth instant, shot, with intent to steal, a steer, the property of Mr R. C. Bryant, Kinloch. At the request of Sergeant M'Leod, accused were remanded till Monday next —bail beinf allowed themselves, in £2OO and two sureties of £IOO each. Mr Warden Hickson, R.M., is likely to have his hands full of Court business on Monday and Tuesday. Besides a pretty full sheet for the Warden's Court and the ordinary batch of civil cases in the R.M. Court, there is an unusual number of criminal cases. The number of the latter (including two indictable offences) is 12, in addition to which 18 informations for breaches of the Rabbit Nuisance Act are set down for heating on Tuesday. The result of the crushing of the Invincible Co., for the four weeks ended sth instant, was 1670z. ldwt I2grs smelted gold, obtained from 280 tons of quartz crushed. The average yield of the gold this mouth was lldwt 22 grains to the ton, and the expenses were £34!) 2s lOd—or £285 14s lOd less than the value of the gold—thus enabling the directors to put. another £3OO to the reserve fund, which now stands at £SOO. The following are the eleven selected to represent Queenstown in the cricket match against Arrow at Queenstown next Thursday. A. Anderson, J. Bevin (captain). A. Boyue, M. Gavin, J. Gardiner, F. Green, G. F. Gil.b, J. Mehaffey. J. Moore, G. Reid and J. Robertson. Emergencies, Jas Reid and R. Simmers. Play is to commence at 11 a.m. sharp. The cricket match between Shaw and Lillywhite's team and Victoria, which was concluded at Melbourne on Wednesday, was won by the Englishmen with nine wickets to spare. Tlif latest inventor of a rabl.it exterminator is Mr G Williams, of Ponsonhy, Auckland who, (if the invention will accomplish all he claims for it) deserves the hearty thanks of the settlers in mountain localities like those of the lakes district. The Auckland Star states that Mr Williams has contrived a portable apparatus, inexpensive in chara-ter and easily worked, by means of which he is prepared to guarantee his ability in a single night to trap and carry off at least 9u per cent, of the rabbits to be found upon any area of ground a mile square. Inequalities of surface or other natural difficulties of position offer no impediment to his operation. He can either work upon mountain or plain. The apparatus was submitted to the Hon. Mr Buckley recently, and he is said to have been impressed with its great worth. Mr Williams has a second invention as an auxiliary in the shape of a light portable apparatus on wheels, by which the raohits can be kept until they are handed over to the preserving works. A well-known physician of New York declares that for diphtheria there is nothing tatter than the <ar-smoke treatment. It dissolves the fibrous exudations that choke the patient and gives relief almost instantly. The plan his been tried by many doctors in New York and found most efficacious. The treatment consists in closing up a room so that tiojie of the smoke can escape, and then burning a quantity of pitch on a red-hot shovel or stove. Dr Thomas Scott, of Warrnambool (Vic), claims to have invented a new ami effectual method of destroying rabbits by means of steel wire tubing. He inserts a hollow glass or papier mnche into the burrow. Inside the ball is a dynamite cartridge, connected with an insulated copper wire by a novel contrivance The ball is detached and the tubing withdrawn. The wire is then attached to an electric battery, ami by this means the charge of dvnamite is exploded. Dr Scott states that the effect of the explosion will lie to kill all the rabbits in a bnrrow and to destroy the burrow from end to end. He has submitted his invention to the Victorian Government.

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