THE ROAD THROUGH THE OPUATIA BLOCK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9495, 26 April 1894, Page 6

THE ROAD THROUGH THE OPUATIA BLOCK.

Notwithstanding the obstruction by the natives, and the other opposition to this road, the Government appear fully resolved that the work on this road shall proceed without any further delay. The Department of Lands and Survey are therefore inviting tenders up to Saturday, the 28th instant, tor the opening of this road by contract in three sections, extending over a distance of about ten miles. The work has to be completed in a month from the date of the acceptance of tenders, under the usual penalties. The Government have also arranged that a bridge shall be built across the ( ppuatia River within a month. The fibril "attitude of the Government and their officers in this matter is much commended byithe people interested. —{Own Correspondent^]' =■ The following gentlemen have been nominated as candidates for the three vacancies on the Avondale Road Board :— Messrs. Harvey William Botkin, Samuel Cox, John Lake, James Malcolm, William Paterson, Peter Robertson, and Isaac Wynne. The poll will bo taken at the Public Hall, Avondale, on Saturday, May 5, between the hours of nine a.m. and six p.m. «,Db. de Jongh's Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil.—ln Throat Diseases its efficacy is onequalled.Sir G. Duncan tiibb, Bart., M.D., Physician to the Westminster Hospital, writes:— "The value of Dr. de Jonah's Cod tiiver Oil as a therapeutic agent in a number of diseases, chiefly of an exhaustive character, has been admitted by the world of medicine ; but, in addition, I have found it a remedy of great power in the treatment of many Affections of the Throat and Larynx, especially in Consumption of the latter, where it will sustain life when everything else fails.' Sold only in capsuled Imperial Half-pints, Pints, and Quarts, by all chemists. Sole Consignees, Ansar, Harford and Co., Limited, 210, High flolborn, London. 1