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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2294, 12 January 1900, Page 4

Owing to pressure on our space several reports of local interest, including accounts of a patriotic meeting at Arrow and the picnic at Beach Bay kindly supplied by coirespondents, are held over. The tourist season, though late, has re*-• suited, so far, in a busy time for the steamers and numbers of visitors are arriving every day. The superb weather of the past week will no doubt induce many to prolong their stay. The wisdom of providing a good track to Ben Lomond Saddle is now apparent as scarcely a day passes without some intrepid amateur attempting to seal* " Mighty Ben." Church of England services for Sunday next :—7.30 a.m., H.C.; 11 a.m., Matins; 7 p.m., Evensong, Queenstown, and 3 p.m., \rrowtown—Rev A. D. Mitchell. Presbyterian Services will be conducted as follows Rev R. Blair— Queenstown, 11 a.m.; Arrow, 2.30 p.m. ; Macetnwn, 7 p.m.Mr M'lvor— Gibbston, 11 a.m.;Frankton 3 p.m.; Queenstown, 7 p.m. Wesley an Church services for Sundsy next—Queenstown, 11am; Arthurs Point, 3 p m; Arrowtown 7 pm. A meeting of delegates from the various school committees in the Waimea Plains district was held lately and it was decided to hold a school excursion to Queenstown on Wednesday, 17th inst.—" Southern Standard." We have received a copy of Mills, Dick and Co.'s Otago and Southland Almanac and Directory for 1900. A boon to busy men will be the verdict of all who receive this neat ana concise directory, which is handsomely bound, and contains information useful to all business men. Mr B. Boyne is the local agent The Transvaal Relief Fund in Queenstown now totals £163. Mr Fraser, M.H.R., has forwarded five guineas to the Mayor as a contribution to the local fund.

The Queenstown Bind were favoured with a beautiful evening for their promenade concert in the Park on Tuesday last, aud the walks were thronged by visitors aid townspeople. The playing was favorably commented upon by all, and the general verdict wae one ot credit to Conductor Fraser. We hope to hear that another concert will be given next week. ♦We have received from the local agent, Ikfr L. Hotop, Stanes' Otago and Southland ifrectory for 1900. This excellent publication is too well kuown to ueed eulogising and doubtless it will be found in every office throughout Otago and Southland. As uiual * it is replete with useful information and it has been thoroughly brought op to date in every class of iuformation. A meeting of creditors in the estate of C. G. Daley was held in Auoklaud on Friday last. Debtor had five drapery shops and a clothing factory. The total liabilities amounted to £40,000. Daley disappeared and £2OO was offered for his capture. His rest was effected on Monday. The Clinton railway stati >n, and post and telegraph buildings were destroyed by fire last Saturday morning, thus interrupting telegraphic communication between Southland and Dunedin. Geddes' refreshment rooms were also destroyed. Mails from Clinton for Balclutha, Milton, Kaitangata,. Dunedin and the railway travelling Poat Office north were burnt, also those from Clinton for Waipahi, Pukerau, Mataura, Gore, Wyndham, Invercargill and Bluff. All the others were saved. There was no. registered matter in the mails burnt. All mails made up south of Clinton for placna beyond, and those made up north of Clinton for places south of it are safe. Geddes' property was insured in the Standard for £6OO on the building and £2OO on the furniture in the Australian Alliance.

The bubonic plague still rages in Noumea. When the Aorangi called at Honolulu, the yellow flag was flying, and up to that time there had been five or six deaths in Honolu-

lu. The Anglo-German agreement has recognised the integrity of the Portugese colonies. The Transvaal patriotic fund in Invercargill has reached close on £950, snd it is expected £IOOO will be the figure before the end of the month. Another Queensland horror is reported—this time from St George, w here MrsGoward and her ion, aged 17. were found murdered in their beds, shot through the heads. In a paddock adjoining, *Miss Goward and Edward Snow were found together with their throats cut. Snow was Miss Gowsrd's lover and it has been ascertained that he murdered the Gowards and then committed suicide.

Great enthusiasm in the second coairingent movement prevail* throughout the oolouy. The Otago men received a moat euthusiaatio send off, and when the M*yor of Dunedin (MrR. Chisholm) addressed the crowd from the platform of the carriage in which the men were, he could acaroefy be heard for the cheeriDg of the people. Patriotic meeting® are being held from Anokland to the and the Relief Fund is being aubacri bed to in every portion of New Zealand. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited, are juat in receipt of the following telegram from their London office Tallow ia ready of aale ; New Zealand fine mutton ia worth 28« 3d per cwt; New Zealand good beef ia worth 88s 9J per cwt; the wheat market ia ateady, the average being worth 28a per 4961ba ; longberiied is worth 29a j the mutton market is quiet, Canterbury being worth 3Jd, Otago 2Ja and Wellington 3d. There is a good demand on New Zealand beef. Arrivals of American beef are light; New Zealand forequartera hindquarters 3Jd. Mr Ritchie, head of the Agricultural Department, apeaka highly of the harveat proa* pacts in New Zealand. He believes the yield will equal that of last year. A Tkrribli Accident is often the reeult of a slight act of carelessness ; therefore wer cannot guard too much against the habit, of treating rifles with contempt. In dealing with our health, this ia a matter of great importance. Many valueable lives have been prematurely lost through the neglect of a trifling cold or for want of attention being paid to the most simple of the laws of sanitation. In order to keep the body in a robust condition, frequent doses of Holloway's Pillt should be taken; they purify the blood, whilst they cleanse the ayatem from disease germs. For rheumstics, gout, aiek headache, lassitude, liver and stomach disorders, &c., no other remedy can equal them.

A notice to our subscribera eta, is inserted in our advertising columns, Lost, two brooches. Rewards. Mr T. Gilmour's sections for sale. Notice of Council resolution re Wednesday half holiday is given. The Church of England Sunday School pic- t nio is advertised. Payment of Land and Income Tax must be made before Jan. 30. A meeting of contributors to Wakatipu Hospital is called for Thursday 25th. inst. ■ AN EPIDEMIC OF DIARKHQSA. Mr A. Sanders, writing from Cocoannt * Grove, Fla., says there has been quite aft epidemic of diarrhoea there. He had a severe attack and was cured by four doses of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says he also recommended it to others snd they say it is the best medicine they ever uwd. For sale by L. Hotop ChsmiaV