Country Intelligence.

Dunstan Times, Issue 991, 15 April 1881, Page 3

Country Intelligence.

LAKE COUNTY.

An unexpected but very welcome little stranger turned up on the 7th inst, in the shape of a very nice cake of gold, weighing 2340z«, from the Homeward Bound mine, and which, considering the quantity of stone crushed, is a very excellent yield—the beat for a long time past. Everybody has heard how Mr Editor Chantrey Harris of the Wellington “Times’’ baa been “ had ’’ in the columns of his own newspaper; but a more glaring “sell” has been perpetrated upon Mr Editor Brown, ■of the Cromwell “Argus.” by its Arrowtown correspondent. The first case, of course, was after a gentlemanly fashion, and showed a creditable amount of wit; bat the latter is a coarse, low bred, vulgar and unclean thing. The matter has reference to the Queenstown Cannon, and the correspondent introduces into his letter what he is pleased to call a “Low Dutch saying” or war cry. But the Lake Volunteers were not to be so easily gulled, and, after enquiries from competent persons, it was found that the “ Low Dutch ” saying was not Dutch, either high or low, but a most •offensive and filthy saying, which, upon being read backwards, revealed its nastiness in plain English. Such a breach of journalistic practice has probably never been heard of before, and it is to be hoped never be again. A Canterbury paper has said that the “ Cromwell Argus ” is a disagreeable blot, but its Arrowtown correspondent has made it worse than that. ■On Sunday morning last between the hours of 5 and 6, the woolshedof Mr J. W. ■Harrison, at Watson’s Terrace, Arrow Flat, was destroyed by fire. The building is *aid to be insured for L4OO. The origin ■of the fire is involved in mystery. Major Keddell will only hold a Warden's and R.M. Conrt once a month during the winter. Last week there was a large number of cases tried, the sittings occupying two days. Mr Cowan, solicitor, onco resident at Cromwell, is now practising in the Lake County Courts, and has made a very favorable impression.