LAKE COUNTY. .

Otago Witness, Issue 1957, 23 May 1889, Page 16

LAKE COUNTY. .

May 20.—The change in wardens and R.M.s for this district,' which has, been so long*prognosticated, is now a settled fact. Mr J. S. Hiokson is to take, charge of the Inveroargill district, while Mr J. N. Wood takes Mr Hiokson's place. The change being , made somewhat abruptly, no warden's'court .could be held at the appointed time at Queenstown, in' consequence of which a number of gentlemen from Dunedin and Invercargill, who attended at Queenstown as witnesses land legal advisers, were'put to considerable inconvenience and loss, the court being adjourned for, a month. Though some people, were inolined to, find fault with Mr Hlolcaon for not going on with the case, that gtntleman can hardly be blamed for not taking up a complicated case','which he would hot have bad time to hear before it ftrould have had to be adjourned and heard over again by his successor. At the Arrow court, where Mr Hickson had to deliver judgment in a postponed caie from a previous sitting, the occasion was made'the means of an interchange of mutual compliments between the benoh and bar,"tho,.relations between whioh have always been of the most cordial kind., Fabbwelj,.—MrG. H. Boydj who for threo years has dispensed finanoial consolation at the Arrow branch r of the Bank of flfeW Zealand; was entertained previous to his departure for Greymouth by a convivial party ,toja spread, at which sentiments of good fellowship were freely interchanged. Spliced.—A marriage which earned quite a. sensation here was celebrated last week, the hero and hf rome respectively being Mr William M'Kibbon and Miss Talbot. After the interesting ceremony, whioh •took place in St. Paul's Episcopal Ohurob, Arrowtown, th»' party (some 30 in number) drove to Queenstown. where Mrs M'Bride," hostess of the' Harp of Erin Hotel, had prepared a sumptuous breakfast, to which full justice was done; the happy pair starting on their honeymoon for Dunedin at its conclusion. > . ' OBITUABY.-rAt the Arrow Hospital Mr James M'Oormiok passed peaceably .away the other day,. after a lingering illness of long standing. The'-de- 1 ceased was a quiet and unobtrusive man, and for many'yeara worked on our farms and at oar mines with varying success. He was a native of Ireland, and in his 56th year. ■ ■ ■ , Our Soknxby.—lt is quite upon the cards that' through " parsimony," of which we have heard so much lately, the Government will spend a good deal of money to' no purpose, diffusing it • over, at lot of ground, whereas if they would utilise existing facilities at Queenstown and ,Lake Wakatipu. by connecting .them with Milford Sound very muoh might be done by a small expenditure. ' The subject maybe further expatiated upon at a future'time. ' '