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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2659, 12 May 1908, Page 4

Very bleak weather has been experienced in the district at the end of last week." On Fridayfcmorning the surrounding mountains were heavily mantled to a low level with snow, and consequently the temperature was reduced to a state "betokening the near approach of winter.

Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., arrived in Queenstown on Saturday night and prQceeded yesterday to Alexandra, where he will preside for the first time on the Bench at the Court being held there to-day.

Mr W. Fraser,' M.P., will his constituents at -IQueenstown on Friday evening next, 15th inst., at 8.30, and at Arrowtown on Saturday at 8 p.m. Mr Fraser wishes to state that he will visit Head of Lake on Friday and will be ipleased to meet any of the settlers while the steamer waits.

We understand that the sawmilling plant imported from Southland by Mr J. C. Fenn for the cutting of the timber between Paradise and the Dart Eiver for the boarding house, Arcadia, will probably bo taken over shortly by a down-country syndicate and milling operations commenced at an early date. This should mean a splendid thing for the district as the timber in the locality has been; proved to be of excellent quality, being thoroughly sound, of remarkable endurance and admirably suited for building purposes. The friends of Mr J. Gardner, who sustained injuries in being thrown off his horse on the Frankton road on Monday week, will be pleased to learn that he is progressing favourably towards recovery in the VVakatipu hospital.

The Venerable Archdeacon Beaumont who has been Archdeacon of Queen3town for a considerable number of years, nas resigned the position. He will be succeeded by Canon Kichards, vicar of Lawrence parish..

A few days ago, Mr Green, Inspector of Mines, paid a visit £of inspection to the scheelito -properties at the Head of the Lake, several of which, held at present by local residents, are under offer to a city syndicatejwith a capital running into five figures. In some k three, at least, of these the work of getting out the scheelite has been proceeding for some time with very payable results. The ; negotiations referred to are not, of course, concerned in any way with Eeid and party's mine. We understand that Miss H. F. Powell, a lady who has earned the reputation of being eminent as a lecturer and also as an elocutionist, contemplates visiting Queenstown on Thursday first, when an opportunity will be afforded of judging • the lady's ability. The press comments on Miss Powell's entertainments are of an exceptionally- high order. A lecture on Socialism, accompanied by some well selected recitations, will form the attraction for the evening. Admission will hf* hv fiilror nnin

We are indebted to the ' Mataura Ensign ' for the report of Mr address at Riversdale on Thursday evening. A concert is being worked up by a Queenstown party to take place at Skippers on Friday, 15th inst. The proceeds are to devoted to a very worthy object, viz., the Skippers Public Library funds, which are rather low at the present time. The entertainment is to be a varied and attractive one and should prove very enjoyable. The first part of the programme will be chiefly vocal and instrumental, while the second part will take the form of a little play called " Red Riding Hood." The performers are entirely juvenile and the piece has been in active rehearsal under capable management for some time so there is little doubt of its proving a thorough success. The concert will be followed by a dance, the music to be supplied by the concert party. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., advertise a sale of sheep from Argyle and Gleneoe stations. The Foresters' annual social and dance will be held in the Garrison Hall on Wednesday, 27th May, 1908. An enjoyable time is promised. A Masterton lady owed two Masterton professional men, who happen to bo brothers, a guinea each, and to one she paid a ten-pound note and a shilling, and to the other a five-pound note and a shilling, by mistake, of course. It was not until the evening that the renf +v,« pin

A concert is being worked up by a Queenstown party to take place at Skippers on Friday, 15th inst. The proceeds are to devoted to a very worthy object, viz., the Skippers Public Library funds, which are rather low at the present time. The entertainment is to be a varied and attractive one and should prove very enjoyable. The first part of the programme will be chiefly vocal and instrumental, while the second part will take the form of a little play called " Red Riding Hood." The performers are entirely juvenile and the piece has been in active rehearsal under capable management for some time so there is little doubt of its proving a thorough success. The concert will be followed by a dance, the music to be supplied by the concert party.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., advertise a sale of sheep from Argyle and Glencoe stations.

The Foresters' annual social and dance will be held in the Garrison Hall on Wednesday, 27th May, 1908. An enjoyable time is promised.

A Masterton lady owed two Masterton professional men, who happen to be brothers, a guinea each, and to one she paid a ten-pound note and a shilling, and to the other a five-pound note and a shilling, by mistake, of course. It was not until the evening that the recipient of the £lO note discovered the mistake, and he hastened to restore the surplus. On informing his brother of the mistake, the latter had another look at his supposed guinea, finding it to bo four pounds in excess. He also returned the excess.

Fc Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2a 6d.

A novel sight was witnessed by a number of surf-bathers from Cooloongatta Beach, Dangar Bay, N.S.W. The water was greatly perturbed through a shark and a porpoise fighting. The latter got into shallow water, and became stranded. It was captured. It was discovered that the shark had bitten the porpoise badly in a number of places. A shot-gun was discharged at the shark, which disappeared.

Phcexix Thick Peel. The best Peel in the \»orlJ. Sold only io Packets *nd Tins branded "Phoenix." If you take any other you are putting up with a second-class article.

The estate of the late Robt. Pritchard, Arrowtown, has been proved at £3538.

Messrs Brown, EwingandCo. announce by advertisement that their representative, Mr A. E. Lane, will make an extensive display of winter fashions in the Town Hall, Queenstown, on Saturday 23rd May, Monday 25th, and thereafter each day till Thursday, 28th inst. An idea of the variety offered in certain special lines such as millinery, ladies' costumes, paletots, gentlemen's suits, etc., is given in the notice, and a firm with the reputation of Messrs Brown, Ewing and Co. can be relied on to give entire satisfaction.

Mr Bert Laidlaw, pianoforte tuner and repairer, representing the London Piano Co., Dunedin and Invercargill, purposes visiting Queenstown on Monday, 25th inst., when he will be prepared to undertake piano tuning and repairing. Dr Chappie of Wellington, well known in the south, having been resident there for many years prior to removing to the Empire city, and Mr A. Fraser, a previously defeated candidate, are announced as contestants for the Tuapeka seat rendered vacant by the death of Mr Bennett, M.P.

Mr J. J. O'Kane, surgeon dentist, will pay a professional visit to Arrowtown On Tursday, 14th inst., and also to Queenstown on Friday, 15th inst.

At the adjourned inquest on the body of Kathleen Elizabeth Cornish, wife of the proprietor of the Stirling Hotel, who was said to have been found dead in a passageway of the hotel on Friday afternoon, May 1, the jury returned the following verdict at 3.45 a.m. on Wednesday:—" After careful deliberation we find that deceased met her death by a fall and in our opinion the fall would not have proved fatal had it not been for the congested state of her brain, brought on by excessive use of alcohol." The foreman intimated that the verdict was unanimous, but that it had not been decided as to how deceased fell. She was in such a state as to fall anywhere and jnight have fallen against the door. The evidence was very conflicting and the jury had not much to go upon. Deceased, it was stated by Cornish, was last seen alive at about 10.15 on Thursday night when she was lying fully dressed on a sofa in the sitting room of the hotel in a state of intoxication. He then went to bed himself and did not get up till between 2.15 and 2-30 on the following day, Friday. When proceeding to the bathroom he found his wife lying in the passage between his bedroom door and where a curtain hung at the entrance to the sitting room, her face'being all bruised and discolored. A coal-scuttle which appeared to have been upset, was found close to the deceased, and he thought she might have tripped over it. The evidence given by the cook, whom Cornish stated he immediately called, also that of other witnesses conflicted considerably on important points with Cornish's evidence. Medical evidence testified to the finding of a cut 1? inches long just above the forehead on the right side of the head near the scalp, both eyes black and face and head swollen, several bruises about the body and blood matting the hair. No blood, however, was found on the floor where deceased was said to have been found, and the doctor commented on the strangeness of this.

Messrs E. L. Macassey and Co., report having sold by aution on Thursday last the freehold of the Lake Wakatipu Hotel, Kingston. There was a fair attendance of buyers. Bidding started at .£4OO, and advanced to JJ565, at which price the property was passed in, and is now for private sale.

Owing to the vacancies which have recently occurred in the personnel of the local Borough Council and to the sickness of two or three of the members the monthly meeting which was to have been held on Thursday last lapsed for want of a quorum. A meeting will likely be held next Thursday. At the adjourned inquest on Wednesday last on the body of the boy, Alexander Edgar McPhee, one of the four victims of the Otago Harbor tragedy on Easter Saturday, the jury returned the following verdict: — " That deceased met his death by drowning in Otago Harbor on April 18th through being thrown out of the oil launch Matakaua, which came into collision with the steamship Lady Roberts, such collision being caused by the careless handling of the launch by her owner, Joseph Coddoi, particularly so by shifting the tiller at a critical moment, thus taking his boat right across the bows of the Lady Roberts; and we really think him guilty of manslaughter." In consequence of this finding, Joseph Coddoi, owner of the Matakaua, was arrested on a charge of manslaughter and brought before the court and remanded for a week, bail being, allowed accused in his own recognisance of £IOO and two sureties of £SO each.