The Opunake Times. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1894.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 48, 14 December 1894, Page 2

The Opunake Times. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1894.

The special order striking the rate for the Kahui Road loan has been gazetted.

Unreserved sale of drapery will be held by Mr W. D. Seott in his mart to-morrow.

Wesleyan Bazaar to-night. Great attraction.

An impounding notice re Rahotu pound appears in another column.

General meeting of the Opunake Cricket Club to-morrow evening at Mr Knowles'hotel. We remind ratepayers in the Parihaka Road District that all rates remaining unpaid after to-morrow will be sued for at once.

Applications for office of Registrar of Dogs for Opunake Town District must be in by 9 p.m. to-morrow. The Hawera Star 11. forfeit to Opunake 11. on Saturday, as they cannot get a team to travel.

Messrs Wiley and Tynan notify that they have reduced their prices for timber delivered in Opunake. Mr A. H. Moore reports having disposed of, on account of Mr A. Olough, lOlf acre 3 to Mr J. Hickey, and 80 acres to Mr Dobson. Mr Newton King notifies entries of stock for his Rahotu sale on Wednesday, the 19 th instant.

Mr W. W. Middleton returns thanks for the support accorded him in the past, and requests a continuance of the same for his successor, Mr J. Kennedy.

Mr W. D. Scott notifies an unreserved clearing sale of the balance of Messrs Brightwell and Son's stock, to take place on Saturday, 22nd instant. Mr W. D. Scott notifies entries for his Awatuna sale, which takes place on Monday, the 24th instant; also additional entries for his Opunake sale next Friday. A boy about two years of age, named Roderick McDonald, was run ovsr by a baker's cart at Levin, Wellington on Thursday afternoon and killed. The Wakatipu Hospital, Dunedin, was totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday. All the patients were were removed safely to Queenstown. Incendiarism is suspected. The building was insured for £I6OO.

Constable O'Donovan, of Wellington, a popular officer, who has held the position of Court Orderly there for some years past, has been transferred to Stratford, where he succeeds the late Constable Leahy. Mr and Mrs Middleton left to-day for Wellington. Mr Middleton intends visiting the races here on New Year's Day, and Mrs Middlton contemplates coming back in a few weeks' time to spend a few days in the district.

The Pungarehn Maori Bace Meeting to take place on next Tuesday promises to be a great success. A large number of hacks pure and simple are in training, and the events are bound to be run out to a finish. All those who wish to get a good days sport should attend. The committee have made every arrangement for the convenience of visitors.

The s.s. Kanieri arrived in port from Manukau on Thursday morning, and Bailed for Wellington the »ame evening. Imports— Colmer and Bradley (Rahotu), 32pkgs; MacReynolds (Pungarehu), lpkg; Christie and Co., lpkg ; Stirling, 2pkgs ; Knowles, 4pkgs; Ogden (Oeo), ISpkgs; Simeon (Rahotu), 7pkgs. Exports—T. Hickey, lpkg; Rutherford and Son, 55 bales flax. On Thursday morning the remains of the late Major Tuke, S.M., were removed from his late residence at 7 a.m., and taken to New Plymouth for interment. There were only a few friends present when leaving Opunake, as it was the desire of the relatives that it should be as private as possible. Otherwise, from the high respect and esteem in which the deceased was held, a great number would have been pleased to attend to pay their last mark of respect. At the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board Mr W. E. Spencer, Assistant Inspector to the Wanganui Education Board, wrote enclosing his resignation. It was resolved, "That tho resignation be accepted with regret, and that the chairman be instructed to write a letter expressing the board's approval of his services." It was also resolved, " That the board advertise for an Assistant Inspector at a Balary of £250 and £l5O travelling expenses, the applications to be before the the board on the Saturday prior to the February meeting. A special to the London "Times" from Capetown, October 23rd, states that Cecil Rhodes, the n diamond king" and Prime Minister at Cape Colony, at a meeting of the De Boers miners at Kimberley, said that the diamonds produced during the past year were valued at £2,800,000. Referring to the American duly on diamonds, he said he was for free trade' but also for reciprocity. If they should cut Brother Jonathan's products out of Cape Colony, they would, perhaps, bring him to his senses. He would not again ask the shareholders to vote £IO,OOO to exhibit their diamonds in America. The moral was that they should leave America alone. An interesting and instructive diagram in colors is being prepared by direction of the Agent-General, showing the progress and experience of New Zealand dairy produce in British markets. It presents to the eye at a single glance the fluctuations of prices during the past seasons of New Zealand butter and cheese, as compared with the various imports of those articles of food. The necesr.ary statistics have been compiled very carefully and well by Mr Samuel Lowe, who was London Produce Expert to the Now Zealand Government last season. A noteworthy feature in this diagram is the great superiority of price realised by Norman and Danish butter. The former (fresh) wont as high as 158 s per ewt and Danish 1365, while the highest point touched by New Zealand butter was 1245, from which ahiiudc ft steadily and rapidly descended until at last ;t v/ent below even 100 s; Danish at times went as low as 98s. One lesson taught by the diagram is the nepessity of getting the New Zealand butter ,early in the market. That 121 s fetched, by one lot of New Zealand butter was realised ill Nuymbuj', at ilk- beginning uf tho season.

We give a reminder of the unreserved sale which Mr W. D. Scott will hold on Tuesday next on account of Mrs Middleton of furniture and effects. All London was much interested for the week ending Sunday, October 28th, in a cannibalistic tragedy at the Zoo. A boa constrictor nine feet long swallowed its mate eight feet long. A pigeon had been given to each snake. The larger boa swallowed his first, and then seized the bird which was in the jaws of its mate. As the teeth of both reptiles were securely fixed in the pigeon, there was nothing for it but that one should swallow the other, and the smaller one suffered. The appearance of the survivor is sufficient proof of his guilt. He is swollen to nearly three times his normal girth. For the convenience of applicants under the Cheap Money Act, printed forms and envelopes are being distributed throughout the colony. Judging by the rush of applications at the head office, many of them received before the Act finally passed, the Board will have to sit night and day for the first month. Some five hundred, averaging £3OO each, have been already received, and the Superintendent anticipates that the £1,000,000 now at his disposal will be all lent in the first six months. The minimum amount allowed by the Act is £25 and the maximum £2,500. Upon Crown leaseholds the loan is restricted to half the lessee's interests; upon freehold to two-thirds value.