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Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 97, 7 June 1895, Page 2

We have a sample of oil obtained from the Moturoa works on view at this office.

The appointment of Mr B. M. Stirling to be postmaster at Awatuna is gazetted. A supply of £5 postal notes has been d!s. tributed amongst the post offices for circulation.

The Chinese in Formosa are resisting the Japanese occupation. In a battle fought 300 Chinese were slain.

In the New South Wales Government the Land Tax was carried by 50 to 25 and the Income Tax by 54 to 23.

We give a reminder of Mr W. D. Scott's Awatuna stock sale, which takes place on Monday next.

The Hawera County Council notify that the Taungatara bridge will be closed for traffic from Saturday till Wednesday.

The month's yield of the Hauraki (Coromandel) mine was 2339 ounces, valued at £7520.

The jury brought in a verdict of incendiarism at the enquiry into the cause of the fire which destroyed the schoolmaster's house at Parkvale, in the Wairarapa district.

On Monday £3OOO in gold was sent from Eotorua to pay the wages and other expenses of the co-operative road parties in the Galatea district.

The Porte not having given satisfaction to the demands of the Powers, England, Eussia, and France, have agreed to take action to enforce their demands in connection with the Armenian atrocities.

Frederick Fohrman, Rudolp Lukoshoski, and Frank Lukoshoski were committed for trial on Wednesday, at Hawera, on a charge of stealing 250 sheep, the property of Mr J. G. Wilson, of Bull.

Public meetings are convened by the Opunake Wharf Company to consider the advisability of forming a harbor rating area. Tho places and dates are given in our advertising columns.

Messrs A. Chapman and W. C. Phillips, of Rahotu, notify that they will run an express from Rahotu to New Plymouth ence a week. The time table is given in our advertising columns.

The overdraft of tho Taranaki County Council on Monday was £3174 lis 3d, but with accounts (£504 5s 8d) passed at that day's meeting the total was brought up to £3678 19s lid.

The South Australian Register, in dealing with the advance in wheat, says numerous factors, apart from the capricious influence of the crop reports, are combining to bring about a better tone, and are generally suggestive of a rise—something more than a passing fluctuation of a sensitive market. A. wild story is being circulated (says the N.Z. Times) that Parliament is to be adjourned for a month immediately the Ad-dress-in-Eeply has been dealt with, and an Imprest Supply Bill passed. The supposition is that tills time is" to suit Mr Ward's convenience. The fact is that Mr Ward is expected here on July 7th at the latest, and there will be plenty of work to keep Parliament fully imployed until he arrives. There is not the f initest idea of asking for au adjournment.

Mr W. J. Dew is a candidate for the vacancy on the Parihaka Road Board, caused by the resignation of Mr J. Rothery.

It is reported that Oscar Wilde became insane when his head was shaved, and had to be confined in a padded room.

A peculiar fatality occurred at Foxton last Friday. A child named Bowes, two years old, was choked to death through eating a piece of carrot.

The Longburn freezing works were on Thursday taken possession of by the mortgagees, the National Mortgage and Agency Company. The amount of the mortgage is £13,500. —Manawatu Standard.

At the Magistrate's Court, Timarn, a woman was fined ten shillings and costs for assaulting a teacher in the Timaru School because he punished her son. She complained that he boxed the boy's ears when he was suffering from disease of the ears. of the discovery of gold in Taranaki comes from Te Roti, where, it is rumored, a setth r brought in from the back two nuggets, one weighing over an ounce, and a smaller one that he had found a few miles distant from the township. At the inquest on the child Eva Hornsby in connection with the Dean child murder cases, the medical evidence was to the effect that the appearances of the body were not inconsistent with suffocation by external means. The jury after half an hour's retirement returned a verdict that in their opinion the child was wilfully murdered.

A concert and social in aid of the Church of England funds will be held in the Awatuna Town Hall on Friday next. It was originally,intended to hold it on next Tuesday, but it was found inconvenient to get the performers to attend on that date, so that it had to be altered till Friday to suit their convenience. 'A first-class programme will be presented, and we anticipate a large audience will assemble on the occasion. The Premier met with an enthusiastic reception at Ross, and was presented with an address of welcome, in which the hope was expressed that the Premier would not sever his connection with the West Coast, In reply, Mr Seddon denied any intention to contest a North Island seat, and said so long as the West Coast would have him as their representative he would never desert them.

On Sunday next special services will be held in the Anglican Church. St. Barnabas' Day falls on the Tuesday following, and the church being called after that Saint, the services will be taken on the Sunday prior. The Eev Mr Kay, of Hawera, will visit here and will take the services in the forenoon ; the Eev Mr Chapman will conduct the evening service. There will be special music for the the occasion.

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