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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2644, 4 September 1906, Page 4

Glorious weather prevails in the district. Glass still risiug. To-morrow will be observed locally as Arbor Day. A plot of ground next to last year's plantation has been prepared for the reception of the trees. The Lakes District Acclimatisation Society invite tenders for the right to net trout by license in the following lakes :-|-Wakatipu, Wanaka, Diamond, Hayes, Reid and Moke. The next mail for the United Kingdom and Europe via San Francisco closes at the local post office on Friday next at 7.30 a.m. A social will be held in the Garrison Hall on Thursday evening, 6th inat., under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church. A very pleasant evening's amusement is assured. The quarterly meeting of the Wakatipu Licensing Committee was held in the Courthouse, Queenstown, to-day. There being present Mr F. J. Burgess (chairman), and Dr Douglas, P. de la Perrelle and J. L. Scott. The following business was trans acted W. A. H. Schieb—Application for renewal of accommodation license at Queensberry. Granted on the understanding that the house be put into a thorough state of rapair by next annual meeting.—Helena Selwood, application for temporary transfer of license of Lake Wakatipu Hotel at Kingston to William Young. Granted.—Albert Thomson, applicatiou for permission for Elizabeth Wake Thompson to manage the Macetown Hotel during his absence for two months. Granted.—James Hymers, application for temporary transfer of license of Elbow Hotel at Lumsden to John Macpherson. Granted. The postponed Volunteer social and dance will take place on Wednesday, 12th September. The usual arrangements are being made to make this annual function as enjoyable as its predecessors.

Constable Bonner receired word on Saturday last of the death of his nether, at port, Auckland. Deceased lady was among the earliest arrivals iu the colony, having landed at Aucklaud in the ship B irnpoer in 1849. Her native place was Dublin, having been born in IS2O. As may he imagined, Auckland wa3 in a very crude state when she arrived and th<> la'e Mr* Bonner had been able to watch its process very closely up to the time of her dentil haviut.' hardly ever/stirred 20 miles away from the |d>ce during the whole of her residence i" the colony. Deceased had a family of nine, six of whom are alive. She was pre-deceased by her husband some ,'SO years. Rust and smut in wheat can be al solut'ly prevented by the use of " Tanza" as a dressing. A2s bottle makes 12 gallons of this powerful germicide. Do not fail to use it if you wish to hai vest good grain. All stores have it. Excellent lambing returns are being reported locally, says the ' Marlborough Herald.' Mild and favourable weather has been experienced, ami the results are exceptionally good. Mr W. 15. l'arker obtained 120 and 140 per cent, from (locks iu the Lower Wairau district.

Ploughing is now iu full swing, at the Head of the Lake. Mr L. Hotop has been advised that Mr Walter \\ esche, will conduct the practical examinations in New Zealand this year iu connection with the Associated Board of the Rojal Academy of Music and Royal college of Music, London. Mr YVesche has not previously visited the colony, hut" he is wellknown in Australia and has had long experience iu England as examiner to the Hoard, being considered to be one of the best of the Hoard's examiners. Mr YVesche will probably reach the Queenstown c nil- about November ] sth next. Mr llotop will, however, be notified of the exact date in due course. Tenders aro called by advt. for the conveyance of mails between various places in Lake County. Messrs Cotter liros., _ Arrow, under iustructions, will si ll the Eureka mi: o and propeity, Skippers, at Arrowtown on Monday next, 10th September, unless the lien thereon i 3 sooner satisfied. The terms are cash. In cricket fiel 1 or football bounds, Sporting with gun or following hounds, In swift horse-race oi yachting course, Where'er a man's delight finds source, Oue more delight keeps him aglow— Best game of all—'tis sport to know That Wood's Great I'eppcrmint Cure was sent.

To be mau's best medicament. The steamer Athenio on August 2 passed an iceberg, 200 ft high, in the track of vessels proceeding via Cape Horn. Those w ho have pelt-infested orchards are warned that the Department of Agriculture intends launching out on a strenuous campaign. The Department his not been too strict with people who have not taken sufficient care to keep their orchards clean, but during the incoming season the Act will be enforced with fair stringency. Don't run the risk of losing the bulk of your potato crop another seasnD. Use " Tanza " aud have good clean potatoes free from blight and scab. A2s bottle makes 12 gallons of this powerful germicide. All stores Bell it. Two men broke a window in the Orient Pacific Steamship Company's office on Cockspur street, London, and stole two New South Wales Government quartz specimens valued at £1,250 and £l5O respectively. The finest potato blight-preventing germicide known to science is " Tanza." A 2s bottle makes 12 gallons. This quantity will iteep a very large quantity of potatoes. All stores sell it. Cuyler Hastings, the Popular American Dramatic Actor, Formerly Touring Australia with the J. C. WilliamsonDramatic Company, writes as follows : For several days I have suffered from a severe cold contracted on the stcge through exposure, when a friend of mine recommended me to try a bottle of Dr Sheldon's New Discovery. He said it had cured him of a bad cold contracted a week previously. I obtained a bottle, and am pleased to say that I obtained relief after taking the fir«t dose, and in a couple of days was completely cured. Can heartily recommend Dr Sheldon's New Discovery to anyone suffering from a bad cough or cold. Pound it pleasant to take, and am convinced it is a preparation of great merit. For sale by L. Hotop, chemist.

The census returns show that there are 197,000 dwellings (including tents) in New j Zealaud. Classified they show the following as occupied aud building : Private houses, 174,888 ; hotels, 12S8; boarding houses, 1745 ; others, 1155. Unoccupied dwellings number 11,279, and those in course of con- 1 struction 1267 and tents (5381) bringing the total up to 197,003. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and success of SANDER AND SONS' EUCAYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria before His Humr Chief Justice Sir John Madden, K.C.M.G., etc. His Honor, in giving judgment, said with regard to the genuine Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, that whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc., it is not permissible to imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing sn, aud ordered them to pay all costs. We publish this to afford the public an opportunity of protecting themselves and of securing what is proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses in the Supreme Court of Victoria, and by many the last 30 years, to be a preparation ot general merit, viz—THE GENERAL SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.