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Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 57, 18 January 1895, Page 2

A telephone office has been opened at Sandy Mount, Dunedin postal district. We give a reminder of Mr W. D. Scott’s Awatuna sale which takes place on Monday next.

Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co notify entries for their usual stock sale, which takes place on Tuesday next.

Notice is given by the Town Board that Mr Chas. Goosey has been appointed Registrar of Doge for the town district. Mr C. T. Mills, secretary of the Taranaki County Council, was busily engaged all Monday receiving whceEtax. - .

A Chinaman named Ah Wong committed suicide at Marton, on-' Monday. He is said to have been in trouble about money matters. The estimated population of the colony on December 31st was 686,100, against 672,265 twelve months before. Thomas E. Bowman and John Robertson were drowned on Sunday night while attempting to board the dredge Dunkeld in the Clutha River.

The dead body of Luke Husshorf was found dead in the Tutaekari River, near Puketapu, on Saturday. At the inquest an open verdict was returned.

Mr W. F. Robinson, surveyor, has taken up his residence in Opu ike, and is taking charge of Mr J. E. Stewart’s office here. Mr Robinson is a competent surveyor, and any work placed in his hands may be relied on being satisfactorily done. Fred Hedge, an elderly man, well-known years ago as a cross-country rider and trainer, was found drowned in the Timavu Harbor on Sunday. It is supposed to be suicide, as he bad been hard up and despondent for some time past. George Henderson, Dnnedin, who was before the Court last week on a charge of theft' from his employer, and remanded for the report of the probation officer, attempted suicide on Sunday by catting an artery in his wrist with a penknife. The injuries are not very serious.

Mrs Renalls, wife of a publican, at Ngahauranga, Wellington, was found dead in bed at 4 a.m. on Monday. She had spoken to her husband two hours before, complaining of a headache, but refused to have a doctor, thinking it merely indisposition.

We have been informed that the intention of placing a toll on the Taungatara was not so much for the sake of the revenue anticipated from it, but as a means of collecting the wheel tax from Waimate residents who would be coming to Opunake, and who will consequently escape the next collector at the Heimama bridge. It is probable that the police, acting on instructions from head quarters, will withdraw the informations laid against the solicitors and auctioneers, New Plymouth, under the Shop and Shop -Assistants Act. It would be rather risky going for the solicitors, as the Government might find there were so many holes in the Act that there might be no halfholiday at all. i Captain Graham, of Fitzgerald’s circus, had a large tumor removed from his breast last week, and 18 stitches put in. He disdained the use of chloroform. Dr Willis operated. In the evening the captain entered the lions’ den as usual, and subsequently walked to Reefton. Captain Graham is not by any means a delicate subject. Westport Times. The following telegraph offices now remain open to the public between the hours of 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., instead of closing as hitherto: —New Plymouth, Auckland, Bluff, Christchurch, Dunedin, Gisborne, Greymoutb, Invercargill, Lyttelton, Napier, Nelson, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Thames, Tim&ru, Wakapuaka, Wanganui, Wellington, and Westport. Messages of all codes will be received and sent at the usual rates.

An English cattle dealer visiting Sydney, and who is engaged in the live cattle trade, has purchased 220 head for shipment to England. He strongly condemns the practice of the local butchers In handling meat, which he asserts should rest for 21 hours before being killed, and then hung 48 hours in a chilling chamber before being offered to the public. He also strongly urges the value of chilling beef instead of freezing for English markets. He believes chilled meat would stand the voyage all right, and would realise more than the frozen article.

Word was received in Hawera on Tuesday night that a young woman named Messer, aged 19, daughter of Mr Arthur Messer, of Keteonetea, had been drowned that afternoon in a dam at Ngaire. Particulars are very meagre, but it is believed that deceased was bathing in the dam, and in diving struck her head on a stump, the blow rendering her unconscious. The body had not been found that evening, but dragging operations were in progress. Much sympathy is felt for Mr Messer and family in their sad bereavement. —Star.

Successful experiments were made in Wellington on Tuesday morning, in the presence of several stewards of the Wellington Racing Club, with the new starting machine, which has been invented by Mr Jas, Crawford, ol the Imperial Hotel. The general principle ol the machine is much the samo as those which have already been tried, but it appears to exceed in simplicity, and at the same time possesses one or. two important improvements. The local club having decided to use Grey’s machine for certain races at the Cup meeting, Mr Crawford offers to erect two of his machines, so that the capabilities of both may be judged. The Wellington Post states that His Excellency the Governor demurred to being served personally with the Midland Railway Company’s notice of arbitration. He contended that, as Her Majesty’s representative, he could not be served. He, however, exercised the power given under the contract to nominate a substitute to receive service, and he nominated Hon R. J. Seddon, Minister of Public Works, as his substitute. Notice of arbitration has therefore been personally served on Mr Seddon, together with a further notice warning the Government not to alienate any of the land included in Map 81, attached to the contract, and over which the company claims lieu. The claim for damages to be preferred by the company against the colony on points on which arbitration is demanded will, it is said, amount to about £1,500,000.

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Tenders are called for scrubbing twenty acres on the Waiteika Road. Blackberries and rhubarb lor jam or wine making are notified for sale. Messrs Newman Bros notify that they have a large consignment of old feed oats to arrive.

Captain Edwin wired at 1.15 p.m. to-day : Strong north-west to west and south winds, and glass rise.

Mr W. D. Scott notifies a sale of sundries and furniture on behalf of Mrs Take. Several choice dairy cows will be offered. Mr Gray, secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, will accompany the Post-master-General to the Postal Conference at Hobart.

Katherine Rogers, an Auckland dressmaker, was fined 30s and costs, £2 13s, for breaches of the Factories Aot. Several other informations were withdrawn. A woman named Theresa Head was found dead in a bouse in Cook Street, Auckland. The jury brought in a verdict of death from habitual drunkenness.

We learn that Mr T. A. Bushe Bailey, solicitor, intends starting in Opunake, and expects to be here on Monday next. Mr Baillie has been settled for some time past at Inglewood, but upon visiting Opunake during the Christmas holidays was satisfied there was a prosperous future before this place, and has lost no time in deciding to avail himself of the opening which it offers.

We regret to learn (Says the Wanganui Herald) that, owing to illhealtb consequent upon overwork Judge Kettle advised by his medical attendant, Dr Saunders, to apply for three moutns’ leave of absence. We trust His Honor will return to his duties at the expiry of his leave in restored health, as the district could ill afford to lose so capable and painstaking a judge.

The Taranaki Education Board must have a new standard for arithmetic as they forwarded a circular to the school committee calling for the nominations to fill three vacancies. One of the retiring members is Miss Heywood and we suppose the secretary must have a slight Biblical training by which he was led to believe that where a man and woman usually joi .i together in business they only count one. Messrs Berry and McAllister have opened their photographic studio in the Foresters’ Hall and will positively close on Thursday □ext, so that hose wishing to get an arlistic photograph trkei wf do well to make an early call. They make a specialty of children’s groups. One enlarged photograph is presented with each dozen cabinets during the week.