Country News

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 23, 1 September 1894, Page 12

Country News

LAKE JOTTINGS. (Own correspondent.) Weather perfect. Early lambs in the- paddocks. Sickness continues very prevalent in the district whooping cough principally, and the Arrow public school has been closed in consequence. Mr W. J. Worthington, of Invercargill, is acting postmaster at Arrowtown $n account of Mr Winterburn, local postmaster, being laid up ■with influenza.

Miss Millard, the newly-appointed mistress of the Macetown school, has taken up her duties in the new school recently erected by Messrs Walker and Campbell, of Invercargill. _ There have been four deaths in our midst lately —Mr Hugh McDowell, Mrs Dwyer, Mrs Moncrief, and Captain John Store Miller. All were old residents of the district and greatly respected. The latter was for a short period captain of the Mountaineer.

Mining matters are very dull at present, and the prospects of the Premier Mine, Macetown, are apparently not of the brightest. Last week a number of men were paid off. There are some months wages owing the workmen, and the stone that is being hauled out just now is very poor. The Sew Hoy returns are not up to the usual standard. A social gathering is to be tendered to Mr L. K. Carswell, Arrowtown’s respected storekeeper, previous to his departure for Mataura, where he intends to open a similar business. He is to be presented with a silver tea and coffee service by the members of the Presbyterian Church.