LAKE COUNTY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2215, 13 August 1896, Page 25

LAKE COUNTY.

August B.— We hava had as fine a bit of winter weather during the past week as anybody could wish for. The nights and mornings were frosty and sharp, but the days were bright and pleasant.

Political.— Mr Henry Graham, storekeeper, and mayor of Arrowtown, and an old resident in the district, openly announces himself as a candidate for Wakatipu (sic) at the next election. Mr Graham declares himself as an " Independent Liberal," whatever that may mean. However, the term is sufficiently vague and ambiguous to mean anything and everything. It appears there is another Richmond in the field, in the person of a Dunedin agitator prominent in the Knights of Labour movement, and who many year* ago was well known in public life at Cromwell and also in the early days at Arrowtown. Those days and associations have, however, departed, and a new race has sprung up that knows not of the district's faded antecedents. Funeral— The very large cortege that followed the remains of the younger daughter of Mr and Mrs JFheeley to their last retting, place shows plainly the widespread sympathy that is felt for the bereaved family.. It is safe to say that there' is not a family for many miles around the district that was not represented by one or more of its member**, demonstrating the esteem in which the bereaved family is held aud the good will entertained for them. A large number of school chil-. dren and young people, friends of the deceased, of all denominations precfided the hearse, and tang a hymn at the grave iv a very feeling manner. The Rev. Father Lynch, pastor of the Roman Cttholic Church, Arrowtown, officiated at the grave, and after pei forming the rites of his Church delivered a fervent and earnest funeral oration in a very impressive manner. Death.— On Mon lay last Mr R. Stephenson, for many years a miner on the Shotovar, died after a long illness at Frankton. The body was taken up to Skipper's Point, to be placed beside that of his brother James, who died a short time ■ ago.