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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2687, 24 November 1908, Page 4

The results of the Second Ballot will be posted on the windows of the Mail office this evening. The Arrow Bowling Club open their season to-morrow. We understand that several members of the local club intend to be present. The annual meeting ofthe Lake County Council takes place to-morrow. Mr P. Keid returned last Tuesday after had been looking after his mining interests in Sydney. Mr A. J. Thompson, Eeturning Officer for the Wakatipu Electoral District, was unable to announce the final result of the poll for the general election in this issue as he received word yesterday that one absent voter's permit had, through a mistake in Dunedin, not been returned. Montgomery's Entertainers played on two nights last week in the Town Hall. As usual they showed a capital lot of moving pictures which were highly instructive and at times most amusing. The picture "Eobbery Under Arms" occupies nearly an hour to unwind and is intensely interesting from start to finish. At the technological examinations of the City and Guild of London Institute Mr Cyril Brent, an erstwhile Queenstown boy, now of the Savings Bank department of the Dunedin Chief Post Office, was successful in passing in all of the following subjects : Electrical engineering (elementary), telegraphy and ordinary first-class telephony. Our congratulations to Mr Brent. Make no mistake! The most reliable watchmaker, jeweller and optician i 3 the announcement which Peter Dick, Moray Place. Dunedin, makes to the readers of the" Mail. Those who are in search of bargains in watches, clocks, jewellery, etc., should peruse the advt. which appears on page 3. Ihe opening of the tennis season J 008-09 took place at the club's court in the Acclimatisation reserve on Saturday afternoon. The weather was all that could be desired, consequently there was a laage attendance cf members and their friends. This was the first occasion on which the new asphalt court was used. As, however, the work of laying it down was completed only about a week previously it was tound to be rather soft for play, but when it is thoroughly sat it should prove a most appreciable improvement on the old shingle court. Tea and cakes, etc., were dispensed during the afternoon. Mr Thomas Williams, an old resident of Arthurs Point, passed away at his residence on Thursday last, 19th instant. Deceased had been unwell for some time past through weakness of the chest and this and other complications eventually carried him off. Mr Williams had been employed in the dredging industry in the Shotover almost from its inception. He was a hardworking and most conscientious workman and was universally respected. Deceased was only 48 years of age and was a native of London, England. He leaves a wife and three sons and four daughters—partly grown up—to mourn their loss. The funeral took place on Saturday, the remains being interred in the Queenstown cemetery. The Kev Jas. Wilson conducted the ceremony at the grave.

The Lake County A. and P. Society's sth Annual Show is advertised to take place at Lake Hayes, Arrow, on Wednesday, December 9th next. The show promises to be a greater success than ever this year, the committee having spared no expense or pains to encourage competition.. Entries for all classes (except where otherwise stated on the programme) will be received up to 8 p.m. on Saturday, sth December. Entries for classes 221 and 222 (butter in jars) close on Saturday first, 28th November. For other particulars see advertisement elsewhere.

The public are reminded of the aquatic display to be made in the bay to-morrow afternoon. Provided the weather is fine, it is intended to have a repetition of the opening day's ceremonies. It is also desired that a good photographic picture of the boats be procured for insertion in the iris Islands trip. For several weeks past he illustrated papers. In the evening "My Sweetheart " will be repeated in the Garrison Hall in aid of the Boating Club. Elsewhere will be found the full programme of the Lake County Jockey Club races which take place on the 10th and 11th December next. The sum of £225 will be given on each day, or £450 in all. There will be seven events each day. The stakes have been considerably increased this year and should therefore attract a much larger number of nominations than in past years. Nominations for all events with the exception of the Handicap Maiden Plate and Farewell Handicap must be made to the secretary on or before 11 p.m. on Saturday, 28th inst. Messrs Cotter Bros., auctioneers, Arrowtown, disposed of the privileges of the Lake County A. and A. Society and Lake County Jockey Club at their rooms on Saturday last. The following prices were realised for the former:—Publican's booth, L. Kelly, £23 10s; gates, J. Chalmers, £18; fruit stall, A. Tamblyn, £2. The luncheon booth was passed in. Lake County Jockey Club races —Publican's and luncheon booths, passed in at £32 10s; gates, J. Chalmers, £2B; race books, P. de la Perrelle, £5; fruit stall, £2 ss.

At the Otago .Art Society's annual exhibition which opened in Dunedin on the 9th November, and which continues during the month, are to be seen three water color paintings of local scenery from the brush of a local artist, Miss E. Geisow, who is to be congratulated on the encouraging criticism accorded her first exhibits by the local press. Thus the ' Evening Star":—"Kitty Geisow is another exhibitor who seems to be on the right path. Her "Coronet Peak" and "Lake Wakatipu," if sketchy, have every appearance of being original,and "Queenstown " (No 417) shows that this lady sees accurately, knows what to put in, and possesses more than a little power in finishing a picture." It might be mentioned that the sale of this latter picture is also reported. Mr J. S. Evans, Warden, gave a somewhat lengthy decision at Cromwell on Thursday, last bearing on the rights of dredging companies in certain portions of Central Otago. Webber and Party, owners of a sluicing claim at the Nevis, sued the Lower Nevis Dredging Company, who had land adjoining for i>loo damages for trespassing on and dredging part of the plaintiffs' claim. It appeared that it had been a custom at Alexandra for dredges to work right up to the boundary of one another's claims, but to enable them to work the ladders to the boundary it was found necessary to encroach on the adjoining claim so that the pontoons could be floated. In the case mentioned the dredging company wanted to conform to a similar practice with their neighbour, and had thus brought about litigation. Warden Evans stated that he could not find anything in the Mining Act entitling the holder of a dredging claim to encroach on the adjoining claim for the purpose of working up to his own boundary, and to do so in a clear evasion of the rights of the adjoining claimholder to the exclusive occupation of his claim for mining purposes. Although a custom at Alexandra he could not find that it was binding on the holder of the sluicing claim. Judgment was given in favor of the plaintiff for .£5 for damages sustained through the defendant' company having deposited a certain amount of tailings on their ground. We understand that the custom referred to above was first sanctioned by a past warden nearly twenty years ago.

<The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London Office dated 21st inst.—We quote present spot values for the following descriptions of tallow: —Good mutton 325; good beef, 30s 6d; mixed, 28s 9d. Market lower tendency. Reginald Day, late secretary of the Charitable Aid Board, was charged at the Police Court on Friday last with the theft of moneys of the Board, amounting to .£234. Counsel for the Board stated that further charges were pending. Accused was remanded until Wednesday, bail being allowed in £2OO.

As a sequel to the Freeman and Wallace case, Henry Rosenburg, otherwise Howard Freeman, has been sent to goal for seven days by the Acting-Registrar for prevarication and evasion in connection with his bankruptcy examination. From November 1 the importation of prison-made goods into New Zealand has been prohibited, as a result of an Order-in-Council gazetted on September 17 last. The prohibition does not apply to goods supplied in fulfilment of contracts sent from New Zealand on or before July 30, 1903, provided that they are imported on or before February 28, 1909. Inquiries go to show that the prison-made goods against which the prohibition is directed all come from America and consist chiefly of forks, hoes, rakes, and other agricultural and horticultural implements. The Order-in-Council is practically a copy of the Canadian regulation on the subject. A country blacksmith who had a customer from whom he could not extract a few shillings for work done, succeeded in collecting it the other day. The debtor came into the forge in his best attire, and in reply to a request for payment said he had no money. "Butyou are going to the races," said the smith. " Yes," replied the man. In a moment the bar was down across the doer, and, pulling off his apron, the tradesman said, "Then I'll take it out of your hide." The money was paid at once, and the favourite went out that day minus one backer. 'Rangitikei Advocate.'

" Have followed the shearing . season through New Zealand and all over Australia," says Mr R. L. Mcßean, Duntroon, New Zealand, " and the changes of water and tucker always bring on an attack of Diarrhoea and the only relief I can obtain is from Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy. Every shed now has some shearers who use this wonderful medicine, and always carry a bottle with thein." For sale by L. Hotop, chemist.