LAKE COUNTY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2202, 14 May 1896, Page 25

LAKE COUNTY.

jma.y » — ±oe we&uner rar some time pasc -iras teen wry showery, and though no .gre*t quantity of rain has fallen frequent showers have made things rather unpleasant 'for parties who have had threshing on hand, or 'have still soma of their crops to secure. So ""far we have had no winter worth speaking of, there not being even a passing JfrOßt. ' Skking is Believing. —A gentleman long since retired f r<nn active mining, and who is rusticating in th? anrifevous purlieus of Mao.vtown, has been experimenting upon thp golden hills of his neighfcouihood with tbe Rontgen ray. He has succeeded in sighting numerou* terraca< on tbe hill Bides audledes in the hills themselves, but so far -the Eolrl has declined to be photographed, and the wel' -meant attempt is therefore — for the present, at least— shorn of half its anticipated value. Hoy, <>ver, the gentleman in question hopus to eucce^ 1 wifh future attempts, and expects to revolution isi wining before long. What a future there is l—fore mininK 1 Dkath The death of Mr George Atkins, of the Armandale Hotel, King stret ', Dunedin, was received here with much regret, us deceased was "Well known in the early days at Queenstown, Where he was in buniuess as a butcher. A genial a»d free temper made him a universal favourite, and during bis rosidnnce here he figured as a shining light in a soial way, makinjr many friends. Universal sympathy m felt for his Ibere veel widow, who was the true counterpart of fcer husband School Committees —So far as they have gone the election of school committees have passed off without bloodshed. There are, however, a few hitches in some cases threatening trouble.