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Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 7 September 1894, Page 2

The s.s. Kaneiri left Waitara for Opunake at 2 p.m. to-day. The Opunake Town Board meets on Monday next.

Fifty persons have been burned to death in forest fires in Minnesota.

Tenders for repairs to Opunake Public Pound are to be in on Monday next. Sir George Grey will spend the winter on the continent and return to London in the spring.

. The Rev. G. T. Marshall will hold service at Rowan on Monday, 10th instant, at 7.30 p.m., and at Awatuna on Tuesday, 11th, at 7.30 p.m.

The s.s. Kanieri is advertised to leave Manukau for Waitara, Opunake, and Wellington on Tuesday.

A dance is to be held in the Awatuna Hall on Wednesdny. These dances have become very popular, and those attending may anticipate a pleasant evening's amusement.

We publish the full programmee for the concert to be held in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening next, from which it will be seen that a capital entertainment is provided.

Owing to the absence of Major Tuke, S.M., who is sitting at Palmerston N., the ordinary sitting of the Court has been adjourned till next Court day.

A number of cattle have lately died from eating tutu or tupaki in the Tauranga district. It is said that a bottle of vinegar administered to any tupaki poisoned animal will* give relief and effect a cure.

The cholera is ravaging Russian Poland, and hundreds of deaths are reported. Several villages have been abandoned, as the inhabitants fear inspection, and camps have been pitched in the. woods.

Tenders are called in the Gazette for mail services between Eltham and Opunake, via Kaponga and Awatuna (alternative), and also alternative tenders between Hawera and Opunake as at present, and via Normanby and Okaiawa.

Dr Pairman will be in attendance at Opunake on Wednesday next for the purpose of public vaccination. After that date proceedings are to be taken against all parents who have not had their children vaccinated.

Captain Edwin wired at 1.44 p.m. this afternoon as follows:—North-east to east and south gale, with rain and heavy sea ; glass further fall.

The produce merchants predict that Nelson Bros' new thawing process will create a revolution in the meat trade by restoring meat to its original condition, and rendering it more useful than the American artiole, and equal to good English meat.

Mrs Ballard notifies that she intends holding a great clearing Bale prior to visiting Wellington for the the purchase of summer goods. The stock of dress goods, ladies' requisites, millinery, and fancy goods is very choice, and the whole will be submitted at very cheap prices in order to effect a clearance. A very large number of people attended the funeral of the late Mr W. Thompson which took place yesterday. The deceased was a member of the A.C. Force when they were stationed in this district, and all his old comrades mustered to pay their last tribute of respect to his remains. He was of a very genial disposition and a general favorite in the district, and his" early death is regretted by a large circle of friends.

We have a teredo on view at oar office which was got out of a piece of stringy bark foand in the Opunake Bay. Mr B. Harrison was splitting the peice of wood when he noticed the insect and carefully extracted it. It measured 12J inches, and its body is about an inch in circumference. The head is large enough to show clearly the boring apparatus by which he cuts his way through. There is a ratchet attached to his tail by which he apparently gets a hold to push himself up to his work.

We call attention to the entertainment to be given by the Band of Hope on Monday evening next in the Wesleyan Church. A good programme has been provided, including a dialogue. Thoso who attended the last will remember how successful this part of the programme was, and will no doubt ayail themselves of this opportunity of again witnessing it. There is no charge for admission. A notice of interest to dairy farmers appears in this issue, concerning the D'Laval Alpha Cream Separators. Those farmers especially who are debarred from supplying factories, either through bad roads or distance, would consult their interests by a careful perusal of the information given. They are undoubtedly great labor-saving appliances, irrespective of the quality of the butter they produce. The prices range from £l2 upwards, which is well within the reach of all, and in a very short time they recoup their own cost. The New Plymouth Co-operative Society are district agents. There comes, in the life of every man who cannot afford it, a time of burning unrest when he is overpowered by an uncontrollable desire to live in the country. A railroad man, who doesn't know for the life of him which end of the plough you hitch the horses to, is always longing to go on a farm ; a successful merchant, who vaguely knows that you dig potatoes, although by that ho rathor understands that you mine them, as you do coal, hankers, after a certain time of life, for a cheap little place, not too far out of town, where he can sink an artesian milk well and raise his own bananas, of which he is very fond. And I once knew an able and eminent lecturer, who had lectured on " The Pyramids, their Canse and Effect," for 20 years, and who was far more afraid of a horse than- a tramp is of work, and who thought that cows shed their horns every spring, from which source the brass bands renewed their supply of instruments. Well, that man left the platform at last and invested the spoils of many successful tours in a stock farm. We cannot help it; out of the duat we came ; back to the soil we are drawn. We are children of the earth, and we do love to creep back iuto the motherarms, and get our faces'down close to tne sweet old mother-heart, when the shadows begin to grow long, when the days of the second childhood come upon us, and the time draws near when she will take us into her arms for the last time, and hush us to sleep on her cool breast.—R. J. Bcrdett, in Ladies' Home i .Journal.