LAKE COUNTY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 29

LAKE COUNTY.

Arrowtown, September 17. — Never was spring later in finding us out than this year. Here's the middle of September past, and no growth yet, and, what is worse, lamba will soon make their appearance, and there will be nothing for them and their mothers to eat. However, we have reason to hope that when the warm weather does come,, it will make up for lost time, and do as much work in one day as in two at ordinary seasons. Resigned.— lt is stated that. Mr Wesley Turton, solicitor, at Queenstown, has resigned his position as representative for the Wakatipu district of the Public, Trustee. If the report is correct the resignation is noteworthy, in so far that Mr Turton was the only solicitor holding such a position. Glorious Outlook.— The Cromwell Argus is responsible for the statement that beer of very excellent quality is produced at the Queenstown brewery, and that connoisseurs are asking for it in x-unedin. As a reason, is given the fact that the beer is made from lake water, and as the supply of this is not likely to run short in a nurry, there ought to be a great future before Queenstown beer. Kismet — The , tragic and lamentable death of the Empress of Austria is an act of so wanton and diabolical a nature that I may be excused for adding my mite to the general lamentation .that is called forth by tho deed. It is of course not necessary to refer to the details of the affair, sxiffice it to say that many years ago a paragraph went the rounds of the papers of an astrologer having cast the horoscope of the Empress's birth, which showed that she would, die a violent death by firearms. A gipsy having previously told the Empress that she would die from a stab in the breast, the ill-fated lady made light of Tbpth predictions. Yet how terribly true was the forecast, taken in a general way. In this connection it may be mentioned that_ many years ago, when Napoleon 111 was in the height of his glory, he and the Empress Eugenic consulted a famous fortune-teller in Paris, who foretold their downfall, adding that the Empress Eugenic would die a violent death. There can be divined no political reason or danger for such, an act at the present time; the prediction is nevertheless put in a peculiar light by the equally senseless murder of the Empress of. Austria.