Country News.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 20, 11 August 1894, Page 12

Country News.

LAKE JOTTINGS. [From our own Correspondent.] The weather still continues frosty, and at Skippers one night last week the glass receded 22 degrees below freezing point a record for that place. A cough, similar to whooping cough, is very prevalent in the district just now, and one death has resulted from it, while a large number of children are laid up with it. At the Arrow District Hospital meeting last Saturday 31 applications were received for the office of surgeon. Dr W. H. Dutton, of Geelong, Victoria, was appointed. At last Lake County Council meeting it was agreed to ask the Government to survey the Kingston railway extension, and give an estimate of the cost for extending the line to Frankton. This is about as much as they will see of it, and the sooner they give up the idea of a railway and ask the Government to put a steamer on the Lake, the more show' they will have of getting the freight reduced between Kingston and Frankton. There were three deaths in our midst within the last week —that of Mrs Birley, of Glenorchy, of cancer; Mrs Oliphant, of Macetown, of heart disease ; and Miss O’Connor, of Maori Point, of pneumonia. The latter’s body was taken to Dunedin for interment. It is reported that three men, for nine days’ work on the Shotover River, got £l2O wmrth of gold. Aug. 7.