Lake Wakatip Mail QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY, MARCH 2 1920

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3376, 2 March 1920, Page 4

Lake Wakatip Mail QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY, MARCH 2 1920

The Lake County Council me ts on the lGth in.su A meeting of the Qiucastown branch of the R.S.A. will be held ai the rooms on Saturday evening at b p.m. The Union" Steam Shipping Comipany has agreed to me:nb ts of Parliament travelling between Wellington and Lytieiton free on production of their passes. The monthly rueeing of th • Queenstown Borough Council will be heM in the Library on Thursday evening a; 8 o'clock. The following is a record of the rainfall in Queenstown lor the past week:—24th ul;., 21 pouits; 25th ult, 19 points; 26th alt., 6 points; 27th ult., 12 points; 29th ult., lb* points; Ist inst., 3 poinite. A great amount of good wild result from the welcome visitation, as far as winter feed ais n'on-'erued. The w ather i- tine again. The children of the combined schools of the Lunivden district will picnic in Queenstown this day week. Arrangements a e b ing imade to biiug t. ; e here by special train and steamer.

The disinfectant which the local Bo:o Council has purchased for free dis :i.j'u ion amongst hou © :ol ers may be obtained on app'iration at the gas house any day at 1 o'clock.

To-morrow week Mr T. J. Cotter, auctioneer, Arrowtown, will hold a public sale of the furniture and other household effects' of Mr E. G. Collins, who i.- leaving Queenstown. In an advertisement elsewhere will be found a list of the main articles thai will be submitted.

The sped il me of the Borough Council which was called for Tuesday eve iug 'ast for fir purpose 01 consL'e ing the projio.se I improvements to the town water supply, lapsed for want of a quorum. There we:e strong counter attractions that evening. •Two successful auction sales of Crown lands \ver& held at fir Land Office, I nvercargill, on Thursday and Friday of last week. As showing the demand for pastoral country, the annua! rental of one run went from £l5O to L2OO.

The re .ovadocs rec nt'y effected at the F ; a ik f on racecourse in the shape of ]aiu;in<r, give the buildings, etc. quiie a blight appearance, a fact which was favourably 'commented on by man y present at the Lake County Jockey races last we k. The work was not carried out before its time, for the buildings were beginning lo look very delapiiated. At. the meeting of th' Oia<, r o Land Board hel 1 in Dunedin last we 'k the transfer of run 417, Lake County, 15.690n, f'om Chades Williamson to Willi im Mathias Kliott was approved, coiidi ionally.—Ti;e Lake County Coun cil submitted p'oposa's for the expenditu e of "thirds" accrued for the period ending Dec niber 31, 1919, amounting to £lO 3s Id. Mr L. Birks, (Chief Electrical Encd'ipe • for the Dominion) and Mr C. Tod I (Chairman of the Otago Expansion League), ariived in Queenstown last week-end from Wanaka. In ■com] a y with His Wo ship ihe Mayor, Mr A. Simson, the party made a nur-. ried visit to the Kawa-au 'Falls,) Prank ton, which was reported on recently as a suitable source of pow--0" for an e'e-t i a 1 -yd m fur Queenstown. Mr Berks wa,-< favoirably impressed with the potcnlia'iiiies of the Fail- a source of power and he tentatively approved of th ■ scheme, wish mo'i icarions, as propounded by Me srs Hi'ey and Co.s engineer. Mr Tod 1, interviewed by a r preventative o l ' rhe Mai!, stated that it was the de i e of th • Hydro-Electric Com* mittee in Duneiin to iuclul' Lake County in the rating aea under the Power Board, which aims at taking in a ,co.id portion of Otaco Central. When i was pointed out to At:' Todd thai the Queenstown Boough Council had a scheme u l ' its own in hand he assured u- that the Board was quite preepar d, it' necessary, to fina.nce the !o-a! p'o;w.-i:inn with a view to havi ig ir linked up with the major scheme at a later dat ■. There is at p c-e i a very strong po<sibili-/ iv o! the Queeiistown sen me maluring: ir i- a question of deeldiing as to what power is necessary b°v lore submitting the pro|>osate to the i Council and the ra'epayers. A TO MEN.—The Automatic Bachelor Button, No needle required*. Box of 10 (posted) Is* Todd's White House Arcade, 133 George Street, Dunedin,

The following were tin only nominations received for the Wakatipu Licen-ing ComT.it.ce:—Edward Marslin, Alexandra, butcher; Charles Edward Murphy, Alexandra, boL'.ermaker; Wm. Keid, Arrowtown, storekeeper.; Richard Gross Varcoe, Cromwelil, printer. The said four men were d dare I duly elected. The Government will ap]x»int another member to bring the required nxim-i ber up to five. A Glenorchy resident informs us that another picnic was held at the Head of the Lake about th ■ mi Idle of last mo.itii. The spot chosen for the event was th 1 Ga-dcn 01 Eden,, Pa aJi e. Tl:e r 'ay wa« fine and a fair number took advantage o/vthe outing. The Gleuorchy people who participated in the gathering wre conveyed fie of charge in Mr Young's drags and several were; picked up en route in other v hides kindly lent for the occasion. A most enjoyableday was spent by one and all in the precincts ol the beautiful bush. The young folk were kept amused with the usual children's ev -nts, games, etc. The thanks of the promoters are due to the who materially assisted! in making the gathering the success it proved to b\ The sum of £4 16s wars collected during the afternoon towards the Gl norchy Soldiers' Memorial.

The popular means of conveyance to the Prankton racecourse on raoc days was. by motor. There were; scarcely fcalf-a-do/en horse-drawn vehicles in requisition, and the long row 01 motors at the stand signified that the district is quite abreast of tire times in this respect.

Messrs J. Miller, A. Sinison, Capt. Mackenzie (Que mstown), and Jno. Forbes (Arrowtown) have be-n approved of by the Repatriation Department as" .the local ooanmitlee of the Otago Board. District returned soldiers \re requited to make ap-< plications far assistance to the horn. secretary. Mr J. Miller, P.p. Box 51 Queenstown. The Railway Department advertises that excursion tickets lo Gore for the races wi'l be issuable at Qu enstown on 9th and 10th March and by the morning steamer on 11th March. They will be available up to 13th March.

Next Saturday week, 13th March, Dalgety and Co., Limue ! , DunedLn, will submit to auction at their offices, the freehold property and gold-mining claims of Mr J. McMulla.i, Arthurs Point. Larticuiars of the. two lots wilJ be found in our advertising CO-] um n.

Bowling.—There was little bowing last week. The rac s claimed moist of the Wednesday players. However, Saturday saw four rinks engaged and there was some excellent play seen in the rii/tc game betw en a local team, Campbell, Nelson, Brown ana Petiersson (s) and a visitors' Jink including Turner, Broughtou, Renfrew, Lyng (s). The play was close and exciing up the ninet enth head when the board showed 18 all. In the next end Blown and Pettersson played wide on a 'stilt" diaw and Lyng, who was drawing beautifully, notched five. The game ead'd 19—23 in the visitors' favour.—Visiting bowlers this week are: C.H. Lyng, Dun din; A. E. Crawley, Katoomba, Australia, and and W. Scobie, Riverton.

During the hearing of an, assault case be'bre th : Invercargill Court last week, Mr Eustace Russ 11, who prosecuted, stated that the man assaulted (a ranger of the Acclima i ation Society) was quite within his riights in endeavouring to secur.' possesion of a fishing net—the act which led to the alleged assault. In fact, thfl tow gave the ranger pawn' to make an arrest where anything lik" an exhibit was withheld. The Magistrate stated that the law conferred th : right on anyone to take the nam* of a man doing a wrong act. "But not many take that oik" he remarked.

Mr Robert Harkness, who visited Queenstown a few y ars ago with the Chapman-Alexander mission, gave a lantern entertainment in the Town Hall last T-esday evening. There was a very large attendance, including many people from the outlying districts. Mi' Hairkne<-;s dealt in a most interesting manner with his many expeienc s on "his world travel with "the 'Mission, illustrating his talk with many fine lantern views. Mr Harkness is a gifted raconteur, and his sto ie ; , grave and gay, of life on the other sid' of the globe held the attention of his audience to the clos' of the entertainment. Mrs Harkness again enrapture! a 1! who hear! her sing.

Sir Joseph Ward hal a great reeep-i tion at Winton this day week. He was met by the Mayor and local band and received a great ovation. He stated that he and Lady Ward would be leaving for Australia shortly for a few months on an invitation received two days after the el otion. At a banquet given in honour of Sir Joseph and Laiy Ward there were 500 present and' many others were unable to gain admission. Lady Ward received a presentation of a handsome fur rug, and Sir Joseph an 11.ujninated aldress referring to his work in the constituency, the Dominion, and the Empire. The proceedings were mcost enthusiastic, tund no opposition met Sir Joseph's remarks. Many apologies from leading Liberals were r ceived 1 , all strongly laudatory of Sir Joseph Ward's services.

A Paimerston North resident who has been en gag d in an investigation states that a most 'extraordinary position will be reveaf d in regard to the electoral rolls. Th re ate approximately 530,000 persons on the rolls, but the Government Statist ticdan reports that at the end of 1919 thee wer; 250,000 adult ma'es and an almost equal number of adult females in New Z a 1 and l , a total of 500.000 includfcng overseas troop-. The source of the surplus vot rs will probably fovva. the subject of a special inquiry. SANDER & SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Messrs Sander and Sons.—lt may interest you that we (self and family) have used SANDER'S "Eucalypti Extract" for the past 42 years, and during the whole of that time 1 cannot remember being without it in the home. My first experience with it was in 1876, when I received a message to nurry home as my wife was crazy with neuralgia in the face and head. I asked my chemist on the way home to give me the best remedy he could recommend for the case, and he gave me a bottle of your Extract, which acted like magic when applied; smce then we have become accustomed to use it both internally and externally in all complaints with the very oest results. On one occasion a substitute was given to me, a larger bottle at same price—result, no good —only SANDERS Extract enters my house. Yours truly-J. HOPKINS, Auckland, N.Z., 86/5/18,

Regulations for the shooting of Virginian deer in the Lakes District are advertised in this issue of the MaaiL The Minister of Defence has approved of the following rates of pay .to VAJVfs:—First year, 4s per diem; second! year, 5a per dim; This scale takes effect from Ist March. The conclusion of arrangements for next year's supply of sugar for the Dominion was announced by the Prime Minister last week. An agreement has been arranged with the Colonial Sugar Company which has not yet been signed. However, the terms of the arraug tment ensure the supply of sugar for New Zealand for twelve months from June 30, which was the da'.e to which the pre-i vlous agreements, whioh had been due to expire o:i March 1, had been extend©!.

Ge.erat Smuts, speaking at a large and enthusiastic meeting at Pretoria, emphasised the seriousness of republicanism and the unwise attitude of Labour leaders in minimising it. General Smuts promised drastic anti-profiteering laws, sound curnency, and industrial conciliation measures, and also reform of railway administration by the establishment of joint boards. General Smuts refused to say what he would do in the absence of a clear majority.

A Brussels message states that Cardinal Merciee has issued a pastoral letter scathingly rebuking society women for induljgenc in sensual balls and absur I and audacious garments. He says the passion for pleasure and luxury is degrading family life, and that we are falling into the sink of heathen immo.aUty. Finding his warnings against extreme f minine fashions disregarded, Cardinal Ferrara has ordered th 1 clergy to refuse the Communion and the sacraments to (women presenting themselves in unbecoming attire. An Ashhurton angler, reporting on the scarcity of fish in the upper reaches of the Ashburton river, states in a northern exchange that it has become a practice for a motor car load of poachers to go out on Sundays anil secure trout by the aid of net, spea- and ev°n dynamite the scene of th ir operations usually being in the south branch about five or six miles above the bridg 1 . These poachers not only spoil other people's sport, but destroy far more fish than they actuality- take, and then openly boast about the trout they secure.

A telegram from Ho bar t to a Sydney paper state.?: Gorge Pearce, aged 17, had a remarkable exp rience whilo rabbiiing with his father near Strickland* He thrust his hand into a hole to pull out a rabbit, and his thumb was immediately seized by what was subsequently found to be a large snake. He draggled the snake out of the hole, still holding to his thumb, and called to his father wno Killed) the snake. The father's' pockeHknile was too blunt to treat the wound, and he therefore told the lad to hold his thumb at the end of the gun barrel, and pulling the trigger, he blew the thumb off. Th; lad was taken to the nearest doctor, and he is now progressing satisfactorily. Fifty years ago.—Fortunes are still being dug up in the Otago Goldfields. One claim at Skippers, worked by two men, yield.d 288 ounces of gold last week, valued at £IOBS. Not a lad week's work.

How to make money without working.—A man bought a dairy farm near Palnierslon JSorth just one year ■ago at £l4O an acre. He has now sold it at £lßo—a L4O per acre increase in a year. B-tteir still, a local speculator bought a Kairanga block one morning last week, and before sundown had sold it at a clear profit oi £I2OO. These are not isolated oases (says the 'Manawatu Daily Times'); similar instances occur almost daily. However, there a;e still a few people working for a living. The "Ladd" Egg Beater makes 2 go as far as 3 Very Best Beater-mixer and whips cream in a jiffy. Posted 3s 6d Todd's, 133 George St., Dunedin.

The following recipe for making jam with saLt and sugar is given in an exchange:—Excellent jam can be mad' with 3 to 6 ounces of sugar to; a pound of fruit. See that the fruit is dry and in good condition. Weigh it. Take an earthen fireproof pot; cheap 1 adless glaze-ware or a good enamel pan will tie. Do'not use m taL preserving pans. Pick the fruit from the staßks into the pot. Ln the case of plums, cherries, gooseberri s and the like, prick them wi|th a plated fork as they are put in. La. the case of apples peel, core and cut them up and wrigh. them. Spi inkle oveir the fruit evenly* 1 to 1* drachms of ordinary table salt, according to the acidity of th: fruit. Cover the pot ,and leave for four ■to six hours, shaking it occarionaliy. Add from 3pz to 6oz of sugar to each pound of fruit, according to taste. See that the pot is; set well above the fire, cover it, and allow it to cook, gently stirring occasionally. Do not add any water as the saLt will draw out suffici nt juice to prov nt burning. If desired, add more sugar to tasjt ', but do not excel d Goz to the pound of any kind of fruit. Vegetable marrow only requires 4oz to lib of marrow. Bofil down to a proper consistency, and turn into pots previously warmed. (Skimming is unnec.ssary.

H. E. Shacklock, Ltd. manufacturers of the pea-f ct range, "Orion" insert a change of advertis mmL Mr H. G. Gill, 11 and 13. Frederick St., Du:.edin, is prepared to supply photographic materials of all kinds, also camenas of all sizes at lowest prices. Amateur work, developing, printing, etc., will be- promptly attended to. The Southland Hospital Board invites ie:ide;s for suppli s to the Lake County Hospital of gro-enes, bread, meat,' and the conducting ot fuue.-aLs, for the period ending <jl*t March, 1921. Tenders close on lUtn March! at 8 p.m. Mr Clias, Williamson, Birchdale Station, Greenstone, notifi s that all claims against him must be rendered to him at his address on or before 13th March. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile.? Agency Co. ask rabbi'ers to. consign : their skins to them as they will then be classed and catalogued by "xperte and soil at the highest prices. Miller and Co. alvertise that th >y have just opened up a good & iect J°" of winter costumes, aJso a rag range of blouses in Jap crepe de chin '. Brown, Ewing and Co, Ltd. Dunedin, make an announcement mjms effect that they are now showmg an extensive rang' of autumn reason goods in all departments. Jhw mui pays ix).stage and rail on all parcel* of drapery and clothing. A boon to pubHc epeaker| and reciters Is 'NAZOL. Keeps tne throat clear as • bell. Cm bo taken anywhere.