LAKE COUNTY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 971, 26 November 1880, Page 3

LAKE COUNTY.

(FROM OfR OWN CORRF-Si'ONDENT ) The chief events of the past week have hveu the mumeip.if-m lyoiai elections. At Arrow-town there were no ess than three canoi.lates { r the post of honour. There were'the present'holder of the office —Mr W.! Jenkins— and Messrs Henry Graham anil Hubert Pritchard, Councillors. The hitter lias nlreaily ftilfilte.l the coveted position, andg.wfi.ii credit. to himself aid fellow citizens. Mr Graham has many times bc. n put in nomination, ami has been as-often defeated, hut like Bruce's spider, he will doubtless succeed at last. There was a pretty good attendance of. ratepayers' present, ami they were hot din appointed in their expectations at the amount ot sp.-echiiiing. ’I he Mayor— Mr Jei,kins—was the first to hold both, and gave ins reasons fur standing again —that as having commenced the grand scheme which was in the course of a few mouths to supply 'he inhabitants with an alum Imice of nqua pa n, ins ead of the delectaide litjiu I they are now co'npe led to u-e for all household pm p .ses, he won'd like to sec the suite completed. The spoikcr then went on to sav how that, juste ul of having to pay the Aitov United Company 1.5‘i0 for the Lu-di (.reek water snoptv. they had obtained the water for L3OO I> was true they—the Corp'.rati.m-had to emp'oy two lawyers over ihc matter, but with all that theie was a great saving to he Corp nation They had hem sene’ with a wiit for 1,250 hy a Mr Mulvihill. for damages to his mining claim, but they i .tended to defend it He denied that the Council had been extravagant wi'h the.ratep yers monev, and it was ,not true that o'dy 1.71 had been expended on public works, and all the rest ..f the leve title L33i> upon sa'aries. law. printing, advciUsing, and snndiiei. Thev—the Council—had gone in vi.-orously fir re-trem-hment ; they had re luce I the salary of the Inspector of Nuisances In fact fir all that other had to do, he thought hi« s-i vices might b e dispensed with They bad also reduced the wages< f day labourers f nm lOs to 8’ tier dav. an I dray hire front 2os to 21s and from Ids to 12s respectively for two and one-horse teams As the Town 1 leik only receive 1 1,60 per annn n it was impossible to reduce him. and he was a very useful hard-working officer. Mr Jenkins fat down amidst conshlerable applause. Mr Grab mi next spoke, an 1 said that the .Mayor, the last.-.speaker,- hid taken ton much credit upon himself Unbeing the originator of the water scheme, ss well as for other things It was the Councillors and preceding Mayo s who had time most of the work upon which Mr Jenkins prided himself He dil not like to see one man get all the praise, heomse he was the head of the Conn,al, 'while the real working 1 e s were left out in (he c d Mr Graham as a rule depreca'e t all toat Mr Jenkins had done, especially- in the lavish expenditure of the Council, and he f.tllv believed that although they had nmv two lawyers employed, if Mr Jenkins had everything his own way, were there three more living at, A r row town they would a I tie employ’d hy the Corporation. He—Mr Graham —if elected, would go in 8 nelly f w retrenchment, and would even Change the Town Clerk if nec-starv. Mr Pritchard did not appear in pe son. A short speech fronrConncillor Gruber closed the proceedings. ,

Mr Edward Feamn wholate’y passed his exampiatiutt (S A solicitor. ,and admitted in Wellington, lint whose brain became affectel through overstudyhrg, died-on the, 2)th instant on being released from (be Asylum in Wellington. ’/Hi"inflicted self injuries wh : ch. proved fataly.At the'inquest a verdict,teas rephrue-l “Th itft*\!B<i f.om; natural causes." It anpeirs tllal mi t one of li is eyes. Death resulted from spasm of. tie heart.