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Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 2, 6 July 1894, Page 2

Owing to the non-arrival of our stereo beading, which appears in this issue, we had to fix up°a temporary one for our first number. We must apologise to subscribers for the delay inihs delivery of the first number, a?, through being later than anticipated in getting the papef out, we were unable to deliver it to all subjjcribers on Tuesday evening. However, in futjie wo trust there will be no delay, and that subscribers will get it delivered oi Tuesday, andl'riday^J.vesnngs. Our office presented quite an animated appearance on Tuesday evening, the occasion of our first issue.' When everything was in readiness, Mr, G> W. Eogers, chairman of directors, turned off the first copy, and named the paper the Opunakk Times. In a neat little speech, he wished it success. The usual toastingsiincident to such occasions, followed in due course. Telegrams htWe been sent from the Auckland office to all the branches throughout the colony, and answers from all quarters have been received, to the effect that the passage of the Bank. Act has been received with satisfaction, and that there is no disposition to withdraw on the part of customers of the Bank of New Zealand. Mr G. W. Eogers Las received the following letter from the county clerk with reference to the Opua Bridge :-" Tenders received for this bridge being too late, it was decided bv the Council, at a meeting yesterday, to call for fresh tenders."—New Plymouth, July 3rd, 1894. The body of a young mar- named Percy Clement Olten, who died af Lyttelton on Saturday last, was buried sea. The deceased was aged 25, and was a'pephew of the Mr H. Williams, builder, of Lyttelton. He came to New Zealand from the Barbadoes seven months ago, shake__pff_an, attack of malarial fever whica had been clinging to' him for three years. He had expre?..jed a wish to be buried at sea. On Saturday morning, about 5 o'clock, the steamer John Anderson, with the body on board, left the wharf for the open roadstead. She went out about five miles, and while it was yet dark, the body was dropped. The coffin had previouly been weighted, and sank immediately. „

Our local postmaster, Mr J. W. Brame, in order to afford business people an opportunity of replying to letters received by Monday's and Thursday's mails, has induced the Poßtal Department to alter the time of closing the mail for the early coach from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m. This concession will be received with pleasure by the business community, as previously it was tantamount to having only four outward mails a week. The s.s. Aorore left Patea at 10 a.m. yesterday for Opunake. We hear that a great number are laid up in «nd* about Eahotu with influenza. It is also picking a few victims in Opunake. The agents of the S.S. Company and the Northern S.S. Company noiify that in futuie all freight must be paid before goods are delivered from tho shed on the beach. Mails for Hawera and way offices usually leaving Opunake on Monday and Thursday at 7.30 p.m. will in futuie be closed an hour later—via., 8.30 p.m. We notice a number ef sections of native land in this district ar\j in tbe market for lease, mostly in the Raholu district. Three of the sections are on the Kaweora Eoad, near Opunake. Influenza has found its way to Parihaka, no less than nine " tangis " being held there during the past couple of weeks. Te Whetu, who tanks about third there, is laid up, being dangerously ill. We call attention to Mr W. D. Scott's Awatuna sale, which takes place on Monday next. Tests with hardened steel shell produced astounding results during some artillery practice at Washington, Commenting on the debate a writer in the N. Z. Times says : " Mr G. Hutchison is exhaustive, wide-reaching, searching, fluent, impressive, as usual. Subtle he is, as well as comersant with facts, and as for the clauses of the bills, he has them at his fingers' ends, impressing evirybody with lha rapidity of hia mustery in the short time at his disposal." The Clarendon Hotel, Waverley, wa3 destroyed by fire at 4 a.m. on Tues lay morning. Nothing was saved. Mr Alex. Dickie had disposed of his interest in the house to Mr Palmer, who was to lake possession on Wednesday.