Then Opunake Times. FRIDAY JULY 12, 1895. WEST COAST LEASES.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 107, 12 July 1895, Page 2

Then Opunake Times. FRIDAY JULY 12, 1895. WEST COAST LEASES.

As will be seen by reference to our advertising columns, a meeting of lessees is called for next Wednesday evening in the Town Hall at Opunake. Meetings are also to be held at Waitara, Hawera, and Okato. The main object of such meetings is to form a properly constituted league to bring pressure to bear on the Government to convert the native reserves into Crown lands, and thereby convert the present lessees into Crown tenants. We have advocated this step for some time past, and are pleased to find that it is now taking definite shape. Under the present method of administration there is widespread dissatisfaction, which is a great drawback to prosperous settlement. We hope to see every leaseholder attend the meetings, and let the powers that be see that they are in earnest. The formation of a good healthy league* unitedly supported, is, in our opinion, the surest way to success. When the native lessees compare their tenure with that of adjoining Crown tenants the disadvantages they are under become very apparent, and unless they take firm and decided steps to help themselves they will have but a very poor chance of any redress. The West Coast Act in its administration is not carrying out the principles claimed for it when it was introduced, and to all intents and purposes tenants under it are simply outlawed. This in a British community is intolerable, and if their case is set before the Legislature in all its bearings we are convinced that it will see the urgency and advisability of amending the law in the direction desired by the lessees.

The s.s. Kanieri leaves Manakau for Opunake and Wellington, on Tuesday, 16th July. Mr H. Middleton gives notice that a mare running in his paddock, if not claimed, will be sold to defray expenses.

The following were elected a School Committee for Warea :—Messrs H. Corbett, J. J. Elwin, E. Aylward, J. Simpson. J. Burgess. Mr Corbett was elected chairman.

Cornelius Henderson, fanner, 62 years of age, was found dead in his bed at Waikaia Flat, Dunedin, on Monday. He had lived alone for many years. We call 'the attention of our readers to a replace advertisement in this issue of the Dresden Piano Company, Wellington. Their stock comprises instruments by all the best makers, and any instrument can be had on their favorable time payment system. Several instruments which they have supplied to residents in this district have given the utmost satisfaction, and those in want of one cannot do better than send for price lists and terms before completing a purchase.

We have received a prospectus of the “ Waitara Times and Clifton County Gazette,” a new tri-weekly paper, which is to be published at Waitara by the proprietor of the Egmont Settler. Owing to the rivalry existing between the ports of Waitara and New Plymouth, the Waitara people feel the want of an organ to advocate their interests, and are giving very generous support to the new venture. We wish the venture every success.

Pound sale at Rahotu on Monday. String Band promenade concert this evening. Tenders close for 50 acres'of bushfalling for Mr B. Malcolm to-morrow..

The Henry Brothers, rabbitera, supposed to have been lost in the snow at Naseby, Dunedin, have been found safe.

Mr M. J. Macßeynolds, of Pungarehu, calls for tenders for carting goods from New Plymouth for 12 months.

David, a prohibitionist, and a single man, was found dead on the road at Takapau, Napier, on Monday,

A youth named Rigley shot himself accidentally at Waikaremoana, near Nelson, on Saturday. The Tasmania brought 48 horses from Sydney to Auckland, eight of which were for Wellington. A laboring man picked up a bomb in Bublin, and it exploded almost immediately, the unfortunate man being killed.

A meeting of ratepayers in connection with the proposed irrigation works at Opua will be held at Mr R.'Pepperill's residence, on Saturday, July 20th. Mr Geo. W. Rogers notifies that a branch shop will be opened at Punehu three mornings a weeks, viz, Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

We give a reminder of the annual general meeting of the Rahotu Bifle Club, which is to be held in the Rahotu Hall, to-morrow evening, at 8 p.m.

A requisition is being signed requesting Eichard Monk and J. M. Shera to stand for Auckland City, vice Sir George Grey. Shepherd Allen has fully and absolutely refused to stand.

A monster pig of the Yorkshire breed weighing no less than 7771bs dressed has been causing a mild sensation at Mercer, in the Waikato district, the animal resembling a bullock more than a porker. An extraordinarily cheap sale of drapery and clothing will be opened in the Foresters’ Hall, Opunake, by the Melbourne Drapery Supply Company, commencing to-morrow, Saturday. See next issue for further particulars.—Anvx.

The following is the result of the Waimate Eoad Board election :—John Stevenson 181, William Blennerhassett, 180, William Borne 178, Philip McCarthy 158, A. W. Budge 156, W. B. V. Pearce 140, G. Watson 116, A. Proudlock 103, W. T. P. Wells 103. The first seven were duly elected. The Premier told the temperance deputation that the retrospective twist given to, clause 21 of the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act was due to an amendment pointed out by a member of the legal profession as necessary. The Government brought down measures in a correct form, but the lawyers of the House often put them wrong. At the Harbour Board meeting on Tuesday, it was decided to give the foreman six weeks’ notice, and the men one week that their services are no longer required; and that applications be invited for the position of foreman at £3 per week. This is in consequence of the alterations made by the Board in doing the protection work by contract.—News. The resumption of work at the Mokau coal mines is a matter of the near future, as Mr C, W. Govett, who is acting for the English syndicate who have taken the mines over, has received a cable that a member of the syndicate has left England for here, and on his arrival arrangements will at once be made to open and work the mines.—Herald.

Perious floods are reported in the Ellesmere (Christchurch) district. On Monday all the low-lying lands were covered with water, and the distress and loss among the settlers is considerable. The lake was higher than it has been known for 28 years. It is also feared that a missing boy has been drowned.

At a meeting of the Taranaki Freezing Works' Company, held on Saturday, the 6th instant, it was decided to substitute a two-and a-half ton ice-making plant for the one ton previously ordered; also, that the specifications and plans of the building be at once proceeded with, so that tenders may be called for the erection without delay.—News. The Auckland Chamber of Commerce presented an address to the Hon J. G. Ward which will be engrossed’, in which it states the steps he had taken to enlarge the trade of the colony, by effecting improvements in communication with the rest of the world, thus affording increasing facilities for trade, has been to the chamber especially gratifying. It had been arranged that questions should be asked the Colonial Treasurer, but the day being Sunday it was arranged to jpost them to Wellington.

His Honor District Judge Kettle stated in Court recently that a man in business was in the same position as the captain of a vessel who, in order to steer clear of the rocks, had to keep a chart so that he might refer to it and ascertain his vessel's position. A man in business had, in the same way, to keep proper books of accounts, and by referring to the same to see that his transactions would keep his business clear of the rocks of bankruptcy. A largely-attended meeting was held at Dunedin on Monday to consider a scheme by Mr A. Lorie to find work for the unemployed on the goldfields. The proposal is to equip men with tools, &c, find them food, each gang to have a practical man as ganger, and any gold got is to be given to the association, and one-half of it is to be paid to the men, the gangers getting a little more: The scheme was approved, and it was decided to form an association to carry it into effect. " Caller Ou " in the Napier Telegraph says that neither Langley the Devil or' Marechal Neil, favorites lor the Trial Steeplechase could foot it with Hopeful when it came to racing, and the latter was brought home an easy winner by Redmond. Hopeful's victory, after refusing the gorse fence in the big Steeplechase, came as a bit of a surprise. But this time he never made a mistake. Hopeful is likely to prove the best hurdler the Karamu stable has yet possessed. The son of Puriri—Frowning Beauty certainly was a cheap purchase.

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