The Opunake Times. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1895.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 112, 30 July 1895, Page 2

The Opunake Times. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1895.

The wool market still continues firm, and late prices have been maintained. Tenders are called for 100 chains of fencing on the Waiteika Road. New Plymouth is to have a telephone exchange. Mr Newton King sells stock at Eahotu tomorrow. We understand another party of prospectors leave this week for the Kaitake range. We give a reminder of Mr W. D. Scott's Opunake stock sale, which takes place on Friday, for which large entries are advertised. The Colonial Treasurer will deliver the Financial Statement to the House this evening. A man named Wm. Hay, a blacksmith, was accidentally shot dead while rabbit shooting near Lawrence (Otago), on Friday. William O'Reilly, of Hawera, has been committed for trial for perjury in giving evidence in a bankruptcy case concerning John Farrell. Mr O. Cummins, of the Melbourne Drapery Supply Co, has a replace advertisement in this issue, to which we direct our readers' attention. Mr Pearce, a guard on the PalmerstonNapier line of railway, has just inherited a large sura of money, and has left for Auckland on his way to England to claim it.— Palmerston Times. In reply to a request from the Opunake School Committee that the Board of Education should have the School painted, a reply has been received that it will be attended to with other works in the Spring. The Treasurer says the New Plymouth bondholders were offered and refused par value for their bonds wben Mr McGuire was in London, but thought the security good enough to hold on. We give a reminder of the plain and fancy dress social, which takes place at Eahotu on Friday evening. A good programme of vocal items has been arranged, and every provision made for the comfort of the inner man. A large number of natives passed through Opunake yesterday on their way home from Parihaka. The Wanganui Maori Brass Band returned home. There is to be a large meeting held at Parihaka in September, when natives from all parts are expected to attend. Mr W. F. Eobinson, surveyor, notifies that he is prepared to give information to intending tenderers for the native lands at present being offered by the Public Trustee. As he has been over nearly the whole of the lands he should be able to give some valuable information to selectors.

Mr E. Lucena, when playing in the football match at Hawera, between the Eivals and Tukapas, received a blow on the throat which severed his wiDdpipe. He is unable to speak or to eat. ■ Jane Clements was charged at the S.M. Court, Hawera, on Friday, with having committed perjury in giving evidence concerning the death of Mary Maxwell, of Okaiawa. The case has been adjourned for a week. Mr Palmer, of Eltham Eoad, got his heel cut rather badly with a vertical saw on Friday last. The saw cut the tip on the heel of his boot clean through, and inflicted a nasty wound on his heel. He went to Manaia to get medical aid, and we hope to see him around in a week or two again. As an evidence of what sheep will do to maintain life, the North Otago Times mentions that some of .the Land Company's sheep were caught in the recent snowstorm on the Kakanui mountains. Before tliey were discovered 50 had died, and the remaining 100 had eaten every particle of wool off their bodies. The sheep could not have been shorn closer. The dairy conference at Wellington decided to register the association as a company with a nominal capital of £2OOO in £5 shares. A warm discussion took place on the question of removing the head-quarters to Wellington, but eventually it was decided to leave the matter open for the next general mooting, when the decision will be final. The provisional directors were appointed and the conference terminated. At the opening of the big Sydney annual sheep show, it was remarked by President Cox that to-day, out of tha world's 5'25,000, 000 sheap, Australasia owns 120,000,00, yielding a total clip of G75,000,0001b of wool, giving, even at the present abnormal low range of prices, a revenue of between £17,000,000 and £18,000,000 Out of the 120,000,000 sheep in Australasia, New South Wales owns 57,000,000, whose clip is valued at slightly over £8,000,000 sterling. The export of New South Wales wool during the season just closed amounts to 332,000,0001 b, an increase of nearly 100,000,0001 b in five years ; the gross income derived from the New South "Wales sheepfarming industry amounting to £11,000,000. The frozen meat export from the seven provinces of Australasia last year amounted to 2,900,000 carcases, valued at £1,800,000.

Billiard-room to let. Mr W. D. Scott notifies entries for his stock sale at Awatuna which takes place on Monday next. Every preparation has been made to make the bachelors' ball at Awatuna on Friday next a complete success. The catering has been placed in Mr Kappley.s hands, "which is sufficient guarantee that that department will be well looked after. We anticipate the ball will result in a handsome addition being made to the hall fund. The sub-committee of the Education Board, Messrs W. Ambury and G. A. Adlam, appointed to visit Ngariki Eoad and report on the petition of the settlers thereon for a school, have reported to the Board, recommending that an aided school be established in the spring in a building to be provided by the settlers. The reason of the delay in opening the school is on account of the bad state of the roads.—Herald. In summing up in a case before the Supreme Court in Nelson, Mr Justice Eichmond took occasion to make a remark, having palpable reference to Sir Patrick Buckley's illfated Judical Procedure Bill. He said the time might come when the " sovereign people" would sit on the Bench, and he would have to assist them by sitting down below at the solicitors' table and content himself with giving advice. He was thankful, however, that as yet his position as Judge was something more than a mere sham. A meeting of lessees is to be held on Saturday evening at Kennedy's Hotel for the purpose of getting ths petition for presentation to Parliament signed. The delegates appointed to proceed to Wellington intend leaving early the following week, so that it is absolutely necessary that'all signatures should be attached not later than Saturday. As it is advisable that the petition should be unanimous we hope every leaseholder in the district will make it his business to sign on or before that date. Mr Henry Hughes, patent agent, of Wellington, received word by the San Francisco mail of a new method of preserving meat by electricity. The inventor is Adel Barreto Pinto, civil engineer, Rio de Janiero, who claims that by his process, which consists of applying a current of electricity to the salting of meat, the salt is decomposed, evolving chlorine, which is a powerful antiseptic, and destroys the germs of the microbes of decomposition, and thus economises time, labor and salt, with a much better result than hitherto obtained.