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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 122, 3 September 1895, Page 2

In the match Wellington v. Auckland, the former won by five points. An impounding notice appears in this issue from the Opunake pound keeper.

The prospectus of a new morning paper, in Sydney, with a capital of £IOO,OOO, has been issued. The chief plank in its policy is the federal union of the colonies.

At the inquest on Mrs Willis, at Adelaide, a verdict of murder, probably by her husband, who has shown signs of insanity for the past two years was returned. We give a reminder of the meeting of the Parliamentary Union which takes place on Wednesday evening, when the subject for discussion will be Freetrade v. Protection.

Mr Elwin, who has returned from Wellington, informs us that the Public Trustee agreed to waive the insurance clause iu West Coast leases.

Mr J. Caddy notifies that the thoroughbred stallion Fantastic will be placed at the services of breeders in this district again this season. For full particulars see advertisement.

Mr A. Young notifies that he will run special fares—return tickets at single fares—on Thursday next for the Taranaki-Auckland football match, which lakes place at New Plymouth on Thursday. As a wind up to the series of promenade concerts given by the String Band, a dance will be given on Friday evening in the Town Hall, Refreshments will be provided, and a full dance programme will be gone through. Captain Edwin wired at 12.50 p.m. to-day : —North-west to west and south gale with rain and heavy sea and tides high; strong ebb tides in Straits ; weather colder ; glass rise.

Mr W. D. Scott notifies a clearing sale of dairy stock on account of Mr Pownall, Pihama. For the convenience oi buyers the sale will be held in his Opunake yards on next Tuesday. The stock includes 21 choice dairy cows.

We have to thank Mr McGuire, M.HB., for a copy of the new Fencing Bill, which has passed the lower House. By it the Public Trustee and natives are put on the same footing as Europeans with regard to division fences, after Ist January next.

Mrs Manson informs us that the piano she has just received from the .Dresden Co,, of Wellington, through their local agent, Mrs Orchard, has had a very narrow escape, from the late fire in Hawera. The instrument was on Mr Clare’s waggon, covered with a tarpaulin, in Mr Flynn’s stable yard on Friday night, when all the buildings around were destroyed, but owing to the instrument being well packed and covered, and the efforts of the Fire Brigade, the instrument arrived at its destination iu perfect condition. Mrs Manson is very much pleased with the tone, touch, appearance, and finish of the piano.

A. sensational story of bushranging and murder has been reported to the police at Kalgoorlie. Two prospectors, names unknown, were camped near Mount Margaret, when fom mounted man suddenly rode into the camp, and shot both dead. Then, turning on a group of blacks close by, they shot down a large number in cold blood. The occurrence was reported by a black hoy employed at tho Success Mine, Kumalpie. He states he was in tho camp at the time the murders were committed, but managed to get away. He thinks there are no other survivors. The police are making up a strong party to proceed to the locality.

Messrs Christie and Co were the successful tenderers for the erection of a porch to th e teacher’s residence, Opunake. It is estimated that out of 530,000 sheep shorn last season in the country in which Timaru is interested, the aggregate loss by the recent snowstorms is 293,000 sheep. The new Fencing Act provides that the Public Trustee is to fence as a landlord, and that after Ist January any native leaseholder can require Maoris to fence as though they were Europeans. The Agent-General of Victoria and New South Wales desire Colonial Government assurances that all frozen meat be inspected and certified as fit for human food before export, otherwise there will be great danger of injury to the trade. Mr W. D. Scott notifies a clearing sale on behalf of Mr T. O’Connor, Opua. The whole of his splendid herd of dairy cows, numbering one hundred and twenty, will be offered without reserve. He has been dairying for seven years, and during that time has been carefully selecting milkers, until it is now one of the choicest herds on the coast. : Now that the season is just commencing, this should prove an excellent opportunity for dairymen to secure full profit on their purchases.

“ Perhaps you would think so, but a very large proportion of diseases in New York comes from carelessness about catching cold,” says Dr Syrns Edson. It is such a simple thing and so common that very few people, unless it is a case of pneumonia, pay any attention to a cold. New York is one of the healthiest places on the Atlantic Coast and yet there are a great many of catarrh and consumption which have their origin in this neglect of the simplest precaution of every day life. The most sensible advice is, when you have one get rid of it as soon as possible. By all means do not neglect it.” Dr Edson does not tell you how to cure a cold but we will. Take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It will relieve the lungs, aid expectoration, open the secretions and soon effect a permanent cure. For sale by Newman Bros.