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Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 19, 4 September 1894, Page 2

On our fourth page will be found an article on the dairy industry. In it appears the statement that fifty thousand tons of cheese were dealt with by the firm of Christmas and Lovel of which Mr J. Kowin is the colonial representative. This should read £50,000 worth. •&*

Mrs Ballard calls for tenders for painting shop and premises.'^-

We hear that negotiations are pending for the sale of Mr Middleton’s hotel.

The Rev. G. T. Marshall will conduct service at Rahotu on Thursday next at 7.30 p.m. We hear Mr Andrew Kelly contemplates erecting a saw-mill on his property on the Patiki Road. He is having a survey made fo£ a water race and will use water power. Messrs Dickson and Co. are making great progress with the Heimama bridge. They have all the piles driven, and in the course of a couple of weeks it will be again open fos traffic.

A novel method of notifying subscribers that their subscription is due is adopted by the Belfast Weekly News. Those in arrear have their paper sent iu a colored wrapper, those paid up to datg |have their addresses written on a white wrapper.

A state of civil war prevails along the Darling river, N.S.W. The Unionist attacked the free laborers, who were protected by the police. During the melee several shots were fired and two of the attacking party were wounded.. They also sank a steamer on which were some free laborers, but no lives were lost.

Mr E. M. Smith brought the New Plymouth Harbor Board’s proposal before the House by asking the Government if they intended converting the Board’s six percent debentures into four per cents. The Colonial Treasurer said the Board had been informed that the Government could not assist them in the matter. ■

On Saturday and Sunday we had a regular blizzard over the district. On Saturday afternoon there was a heavy fall of snow along the Eltham Boad, and on Sunday morning between nine and ten o’clock enow fell for about half-an-hbur in Opunake. Two horsemen who came in from north said there was also a heavy fall of snow about Warea and Okato. For several hours there were frequent showers of hail, and it is needless to say that it was bitterly cold.

On Friday last Miss Stevenson, of Pihama, had an unpleasant experience. She was on horseback in Opunake, when a basket was about to be handed to her, at which her horse took fright and became unmanageable. He started bucking and plunging about, and, making off, ran into a barb wire fence. Miss Stevenson, however, retained her seat, and soon brought the horse to a sense of his duty. Those looking on feared that she would meet with on accident, but she rather appeared to enjoy the sport.

A correspondent writes: “ The treatment recommended for milk fever in a late issue of your paper is, I think, hardly likely to be efficacious in all cases. Haying had large experience in dairying I am of opinion that the best way to prevent it is to get any cows, which are likely to be affected, in a few days before calving and keep them milked. Giving salts is likely to lead to inflammation. The best thing to give is half-a-stone of treacle in gruel immediately after calving. At Home we found this treatment most successful. The cause of it very often i« close inbreeding, which has a tendency to produce stock lacking vitality.”

Mr O’Eegau introduced a Referendum Bill in the House which produced a lively debate but was ultimately shelved. This system prevails in Switzerland and recently the following test wag put to the people in that country : “ The proposal submitted was to inscribe in the Swiss Constitution the right of every citizen willing to work but unable to And employment to have work found or made for him by the State. The Socialists looked forward, if this proposal had been carried, to the formation of a State labor bureau and of an Unemployed Insurance Fund,to make extensive limitations of the rights of employers to dismiss workmen, and ultimately to the nationalisation of all manufactures and . industries. For the “right to work ” 75,000„votes were cast, against it 293,000, so the plan falls to the ground.” If the system'were introduced in New Zealand and applied to the co-operative plan wo think the voting would be very similar.

Mr Callender advertises for a lost oow. TJie Premier told the Hdnse that he hoped to close the session during the first week in October. A telegraph office will be open at the racecourse, Marion, on Wednesday, sth instant, from 11.80 ».m. until 5 p.m, Mr E. J. Dudley brought a best-on-record goose egg to our office which would take some beating. It measures eight inches in circumference one way and 11 inches the other, is 2J inches in diameter, and weighs 10i ounces. This should put the geese of the district on their mettle. Mr W. D. Scott reports the following sales ; Section 27, Block x, Opunake Survey District, 15 acres, from Mrs M. Higgins to Mr M. Hickey, and Section 20, same Block, from Mrs U. Higgins to Mr J. M. Hickey. The Secretary Of the Opunake Wharf Company has had the sum of £l3 handed to him as the net proceeds of the late Jetty Concert which was organized and carried to such a successful issue by Mrs Ballard to whom every praise is due for her efforts in behalf of such a worthy object. On Friday night, in the House of Representatives, after Mr McKenzie’s motion for putting an import duty on coal had been negatived, the Estimates were taken up. It being then 1.15 p.m,, Mr McGuire moved that progress be reported. The Premier opposed, and called for a division, which resulted in the motion being carried by 31 to 27. This is the first reverse the Government has had this session. ' A petition to Parliament is now being' signed throughout tho district praying for certain amendments in the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, and also complaining in strong terms of the conduct of the business of the Public Trustee in connection with the lessees.

A shocking railway accident occurred at the Hamilton railway station in New South Wales. A public school teacher named Miss Kenny was hurrying across the railway line to catch the passenger train, when a coal train dashed past, knocking her down, cutting off both her legs, and carrying her corpse on the engine for over 40 yards. She was proceeding to her duties at the Stockton School.

We have received the annual report of the Dalefield Dairy Company, Limited, Carterton. The balance-sheet shows a most satisfactory state of affairs, and it is pleasing to learn that other districts are making satisfactory progress it this industry as well as Taranaki. 316,117 gallons of milk were supplied to the Factory, which produced 819,2181bs of cheese. After setting aside £9llos for the Purchasing Fund, and £164 17s 6d for the usual dividend of 10 per cent on the paid up capital, there remained £1909 14s 8d for distribution amongst the milk suppliers. This gives an actual return for the whole season of 3fd per gallon. The Directors report very flatteringly on the management of the Factory, and state that the quality of the cheese has been fully maintained.—Eltham Guardian.

Major Mair has furnished the Rangitikei Advocate with the following information 'regarding Tawhiao’s sons:—Tawhiao’s eldest son, Tu-Tawaio, who was a bright and able young man, fell a victim to the drink curse, and died a few years back. Two sons are living, Te Pouku and Ngehe, both of whom are steady, quiet young fellows, but altogether unfitted to take up any important position. Probably an attempt to keep up the kingship will be made, but is not likely to last long, and the almost certain result will he the abolition of the form and the breakingdown of the “ king ” notion altogether.