Untitled

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 December 1894, Page 2

Applications for the position of poundkeeper are called for by the Town Board.

It is rumored that Carbine has been sold to go to America. The rainfall for the mouth of November was 4-89 inches. Rain fell on 19 days, the heaviest being 1-21 on 19th inst, Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co notify entries for their Opunake sale, which takes place on Tuesday next. Mr W. D. Scott notifies that owing to the Manaia races being held on Friday, December 21st his Opunake sale will be held on Thursday, December 20th. MrW. D. Scott advertises a sale of Drapery, Boots, and shoes for Saturday, December loth, which will be sold without the slightest reserve.

Mr Newton King sells stock at Stony River to-morrow, entries for which appear in this issue.

Mr E. E. Morgan, land agent. Eanotu, is prepared to give all information to intending tenders for the lauds about to be leased by the Public Trustee.

Mrs Beeson, proprietress of the Ciiutsworth House boarding establishment, New Plymouth, has a notice in this issue to which we call the attention of visiters to New Plymouth.

We regret the accidental omission in publication of the following names from the committee appointed to arrange the complimentary banquet to Mr W. W. Middleton:— Messrs D. McGregor, C. F. McGregor, M. Dillon, and D. Wilkie. Mr Orchard has just opened up his stock of fancy goods for the Christmas season. In order to display to advantage the large and choice stock, which was personally selected in Wellington by Mrs Orchard, ho has fitted up a special show room,. He has a large number of novelties, which are in the market for the first lime this season, consisting of imitation fruit and pastry, pipe., racks, games, dolls, watch.stands, Ac. There is also a very nice assortment of hand-painted plaques, pictures, and cards from Mrs Orchard’s brush, which is sufficient warranty of their artistic worth. He is determined that there shall be no necessity to send out of Opunake for anything in, his fine, by supplying the largest assort men t of goods yet shown in the toy udijo. and at popular price/

The State School is to be examined to morrow.

Complimentary ball to Mrs W. W. Middleton takes place to-morrow evening. Rev G. T. Marshall will preach at Rowan Road on Wednesday, December sth, and at Rahotu on Thursday, December 6th, both services commencing at half-past seven. The balance of stock belonging to Messrs Brightwell and Son will be sold by auction about the 22nd December, when every line will be absolutely cleared irrespective of cost. —Advt.

The Woodvilie Examiner has declined an advertisement from a new firm of Chinese tradesmen, on the ground that Chinese competition is unfair to the other business people of the town.

An instance of the ruling passion being strong at death was exemplified by Elijah Cockroft, the jockey, who was hanged at Ballarat, on November 12th, for the murder of Fanny Mott. While standing on the scaffold, and shortly before the fatal moment came, he surprised the officials by asking what horse won the Melbourne Cup. On Thursday, at Stratford, Mr W. Murray, Inspector of Schools, was presented with an illuminated address by the Chairman of the School Committee, on behalf of the children attending the State School. Mr Murray, who Is retiring from the inspectorship, made his last examination of the Stratford School on Thursday. Nominations/or events at the forthcoming meeting of the Opunake Racing Club for Ist January were received on Saturday, Ist inst. There were 50 nominations received, being two in excess of last year. The unfortunate fire* by which Messrs Hearn and Kennedy lost their horses also made a difference, as a couple of their horses would have been nominated for several events.

The Australian papers notice a strange coincidence. In Australia the same papers which contained the news of the assassination of the Emperor Alexander I, of Russia, also announced the loss of the Union Company’s Tararua, with 112 lives. Thirteen years afterwards the same papers which announced the death of Alexander 11. also had the news of the loss of the Union Company’s Wairarapa, with 127 lives. The Bulletin says : —The dreadful Redfern railway accident has started the fish and gun liars on another track. To hold everybody who claims 'to have been a passenger the unfortunate train mast have reached from Sydney to Parramatta ; and at least 17,000 passengers besides were going to travel by it, and' turned back to get their pipes or kiss the baby. Human nature is a fearful and wonderful thing. Thirty-three seccions in Block XVI, Egmont Survey District, situated at the back of Midhirst, adjoining the Egmont Forest Reserve, were opened for selection in the Land Office on Thursday morning. There was a large attendance of applicants. There were 3GB applications for 31 sections ; 15 sections were selected on the occupation with right of purchase tenure, and 16 on the lease in perpetuity system. Mr John Strauchon, Commissioner of Crown Lands, presided at the ballot.

The New Zealand Times says :—The Government have resolved to appoint a Royal Commission for the purpose of dealing with the question of tariff reform, with a view to the promotion of local industry. The evidence of experts in commerce, agriculture, and the various industries will be taken, so that Parliament may be enabled next session to proceed to legislation in the matter. We understand that the Commissioners will be four or five members of Parliament who have given special attention to this matter.

The British Government in India have gone into the dairy business to the extent of establishing dairy farms in places where troops are stationed, for their exclusive benefit. Frequent outbreaks of enteric fever having been traced to polluted milk supply, the dairy farms were established with manifest gain in the health of the troops. The farms have generally proved self-sustaining, and that at Allahabad shows a profit. Dr Paterson, of Bridge of Allan, recently sent the following report of a curious egg to to a newspaper:—l had brought to me the other day one of the largest hen’s eggs I have ever seen. It weighed 5.10 z, and measured iu length 4| inches, and in circumference 7jr inches. Within the egg was another perfect egg, like an ordinary hen’s egg. I have seen only one other example of a freak of nature like this, and would like to know if this is a common occurrence.

The s.B. Kanieri arrived in port on Friday evening. She remained that night, and completed discharging and taking in cargo on Saturday, and then sailed for Waitara. Imports : Stitt, lopkgo ; Tuke, Spkgs ; Kennedy, Spkgs ; Knowles, 7pkgs ; Pettigrew, 19pkgs ; Newman Bros, 4pkgs; Coxhead, 13pkgs; Wagstaff Bros, 3pkgs; Stvinnerton, Ipkg; Colmer and Bradley, Gpkgs ; Harvey, Eahotu, 2pkgs; Christie and Co, 13pkgs; McLeod, 7pkgs ; Corry, Otakeho, Gpkgs ; D. McGregor, s:ipkgs : Macßeyuolds, 57pkgs; C. F. McGregor, 2pkgs; Moore, Spkgs; Claris, lOpkga ; Campbell, 3pkgs; D. Simson, -Ipkgs; Orchard, Dpkgs. Exports: G. W. Rogers, 03 hides, 5 bundles sheepskins, 2 bundles pelts. Medical science has called electricity to its assistance in many ways. Various surgical instruments are heated by it, and the use of very small incandescent lamps, which give out practically no heat, permit more extended examination of external parts than is posposible in any other way. The use of the microphone has revealed sounds in the heart, lungs, and other organs which have hitherto escaped the most sensitive ear using the ordinary instruments. In Russia a lady was saved from premature burial by means of a microphone placed over her heart, which enabled a medical man to detect a faint beat, which had escaped the ordinary tests.— Chambers’ Journal.

It has been repeatedly stated that English butchers and dealers are in the habit of selling Australian beef and mutton as English, and receiving for it the price usually commanded by the best quality of home-grown meat. This, at all events, cannot be said of Messrs Holland, Barrett, and Layng, of Newmarket, England. In the Newmarket Journal the firm announce : —“ Don’t forget the New Zealand beef and mutton. Splendid beef (all prime joints), 7d per lb; other joints, 4Ad, s£d, and CAd ; shoulders of the choicest mutton, 6d; legs and loin of the choicest mutton, Old; other joints, 4d and sld. Try a joint and convince yourself of its superior quality.” The following is a fact (says the Charlton Tribune), and only goes to show that the gold fever has got a pretty tight hold of Western Australian people. It occurred at Coolgardie, and the occasion was a prayer meeting. One brother was holding forth and he spoke thusly:—Lord bless this meeting. Bless all the brethren who are present. Bless ail the young people. Bless this town and—Hcre one of the worshippers interjected. “ What about the cyanide process?” “ Aye,” went on the prayerful person who probably had an interest in some gold claims in the vicinity, “Lord bless the cyanide process,” To this there came as a response a unanimous “ Amen ” and the speaker got up and brushed the dust from off his knees.

An authority on the subject states that the Babcock milk-tester will test to within a pound how much butter there is in 500 gallons of milk ; and samples can be t.-.ken every day, kept for a month, and be tested from a bulk sample with the same accuracy. About 25 samples can bo put through at once, and it takes less than ten minutes weekly to tell how much butter has been brought to the factory during the week by each supplier in his week’s supply of milk. When the Bab-, cock tester is used in a factory it will not pay to water the milk, because the machine takes no reeoid of water, only of the actual fatty matter in the milk. By this means the man who keeps good cows and feeds them well gets his full reward, and the m m who milks the pump gets very little but his trouble for his pains. Every factory manager should get a mi.k-tesler.

Mr W. D. Scott notifies an unreserved sale on behalf of Mrs Middleton, of sundry articles. In a vigorous sermon preached at Pahiatua on Sunday week on “ the use of tobacco,” the Rev Mr Griffin said our bodies were not given to us to make chimney stacks of, for the use of this vile drug. During the hearing of a cattle-stealing case in the Supreme Court, Blenheim, last week, Mr McNab was urging, as an extenuating circumstance, that his forefathers in the Highlands thought nothing of cattle-lifting, when Mr Justice Richmond quickly interjected, “ Well, Mr McNab, your name is very suggestive.” Mr McNab proceeded to connect the Crown Prosecutor’s ancestors with his own in these, apparently to him, praiseworthy depredations, and said he believed the McCallums were even more distinguished in the practice than his own, when Mr McCallum mildly protested that he would have to claim His Honor’s protection if his learned friend were going to continue his defence in that way. The Hobart Mercury of the sth November has the following On Friday last, in the picturesque little graveyard at New Norfolk, the remains of sturdy old Gabriel Read were laid in mother earth, all the aged man could return to the bounteous parent whose golden riches hare made his name famous wherever the mining tale is told. For Gabriel Read was the lucky discoverer of the first payable goldfield in the province of Otago, New Zealand ; after him Gabriel’s Gully, within the courses of the Waitahuna and Tuapeka Rivers was named ; and as he was no niggard with his knowledge, to him the world, and especially New Zealand, owes the wealth which made many others rich, and entirely changed for many years the character of a district which had been doomed to scanty agriculture, but through him became an Eldorado. Always a wanderer he continued a prospector, opening up fresh localities in the same province, for which he received two sums of £SOO as a tribute from the nation that had received so much from his enterprise and bounty. Gabriel Read’s life was, however, in the main a sad one. A native of this colony, a fall in the hunting field at an early age inflicted on him taumatio injuries from which he never recovered, and made him subject to fits of violence and eccentricity, which were a great source of trouble to himself and his friends. Of late years his wanderings ceased, but he had theffienefit of unremitting care and attention, and passed away quietly at a green old age to the land of riches immeasurable and without alloy. At the Marton S.M. Court on Tuesday a very important judgment was delivered by Mr Brabant, S.M., with reference to the liability of auctioneers. The facts upon which the action was based simply were that Messrs Gorton and Son sold a piano at Bulls, of which Mr Drury became the purchaser. It was subsequently found, however, that there was an unsatisfied bill of sale on the piano, in favor of Collier and Co, and in pursuance of their right, Collier and Company seized the piano at the Awahuri Hotel, and took it away. Mr Drury then sued Messrs Gorton and Son for the sum of £26, being £25 for the estimated value of the instrument, and £1 for the cost of removal to Awahuri. Mr Brabant, in giving judgment, quoted authorities to show that a sale of personal chattels implies an affirmation by the vendor that the chattel is his, and therefore ho warrants the title unless it be shown by the facts and circumstances of the sale that the vendor did not intend to assert ownership, but only to transfer such interest as he had in the chattel sold. That being the general rule it seemed clear that the auctioneer in this case did not intend to assert personal ownership of the piano. It had been further decided that on the sale of goods there is a warranty of title if the seller at the time of the sale either by words or conduct affirm the goods to be his. In this case he had come to the conclusion that neither by words or conduct did the defendant affirm the piano to be his, and that there was no implied undertaking that the plaintiff should have a good title to the piano. Plaintiff was nonsuited with costs.