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Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 59, 25 January 1895, Page 2

A young mau to work on a farm and milk is wanted. Mr W. D. Scott will sell furniture, &c, at Mrs Tuke's residence to-morrow. Tenders for cutting 20 acres of scrub close to-morrow evening with Mr W. D. Scott. We give a reminder of the bazaar to be held this evening at Oaonui in aid of the funds of the Wesleyan Church. We givo a reminder of the public meeting on New Plymouth Harbour Board matters, which takes place to-night in the Town Hall. Auctioneers are permitted to give their clerks a ha*f-holiday on the ordinary halfholiday observed in each town by shops instead of Saturday. Mr E. B. Morgan has sold Section 7, Block 2, Opunake Survey District, containing 120 acres, to Mr T. J. Billing at a satisfactory figure. To believers in lucky numbers, Thursday's Pungarehu races would be interesting, as in the Maiden, Flying, Cup, Selling Bace, and Bahotu Stakes No. 3 was returned the winner in each instance. The valuation of the Parihaka Biding, which has been made by Mr J. Pennington, shows an inerease of £37,000, being £333,000, as against £296,000 for the previous three years. The Seamen's Conference in Sydney is taking steps to bring pressure to bear on the Postal Conference to secure the rigid exclusion of coolies from vessels engaged in mail contracts. The following candidates are to be nominated for the Harbour Board :—Mr E. Maxwell, Parihaka ; Messrs W. Shearer and Geo. McLean, Waimate; Mr P. E. Ealfe, Stratford, and Mr Davis, Inglewood. We regret to hear that Mrs Tuke's little daughter met with an accident yesterday, by being thrown from a horse, resulting in a broken leg. She was conveyed to Hawera last night for medical attendance. Not a single tender was received for the leasing of tbe Ministerial residence in Wellington. As Ministers prefer to draw house allowance, and to live in " pubs " instead of the residence provided by the colony, perhaps it would be as well to turn the house into a refuge for the unemployed. There would be no trouble in getting inmates.—Exchange. The following rates are now in force on the Government railways for fresh New Zealand grown fruit, packed, for any distance :—Not exceeding oOlbs, 6d ; over 561bs, and not exceeding 1121bs, Is ; every additional SGlbs or fraction thereof, 6d. Larger quantities will be charged at rate per ton as heretofore. The above rates do not include delivery at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, or Invercargill. In the course of an interview with the Minister of Agriculture, a Melbourne deputation pointed out that recent experiments demonstrated that the very finest packing which could be obtained for apples was shreded titree bark. A quantity of this bark was imported into the colony recently at a cost of £ll per ton. The Minister pointed out that there was no necessity to import the bark from Queensland, as the titree grew abundantly in Victoria, and some sort of a machine to shred the bark wonld have to be obtained.

On Wednesday the Wesleyan Sunday School held their annual picnic, the site chosen being the Eltham Eoad, at the place where Mr Aiken was recently residing, which is very suitable for the purpose, as there is plenty of shelter convenient to the river. The children were driven up in brakes in the forenoon, and all enjoyed themselves thoroughly. Befreshments were provided on a very liberal scale, and throughout the day tho usual games and amusements incidental to picnics were fully indulged in. The weather wa3 beautiful for the occasion, and all returned thoroughly pleased with their day's outing.