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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 125, 13 September 1895, Page 2

Tenders are called for erecting twenty chains of fencing at Opua. Tenders for felling 40 acres of bush for Mr Walford close on Monday next at Rahotu. Mr E. R. Morgan, land agent, Rahotu has been appointed local agent for the Royal Fire Insurance Company, Tenders close on Tuesday, 17th Inst, for felling GO acres of bush on the Kino Road, foiMr J. Fleming, Pungarehu. Mr 0. Oliver, New Plymouth, has purchased the Clydesdale stallion, Ploughboy, from Mr T. Morrow, for £IOO. The body of Michael Larsen, drowned from the cutter Eleanor, at Tauranga, has been found floating in the Tauranga Harbor. Tenders for fulling (50 acres of bush for Mrs M. Higgins, on the Ihaia Road, close tomorrow, Mr Andrew Young, of Wellington, who has been ill for a long time past, has had a serious relapse.— N.Z. Times 1 The body of a woman, Mrs Luisette, who lived at Meiivale, Christchurch, was found in the Avon River, at the rear of Christ’s College grounds, on Monday morning. The proprietors of the Evening Post have accepted a tender of £7OOO for the erection of their new building in Willis-strcet, Wellington. Tho Redfern (N.S.W.) railway accident cases are now all settled. The total amount claimed by the sufferers was £107,500, and the awards paid in settlement £31,300. We give a reminder of the annual general meeting of the Opunake Jockey Club, which takes place at Kennedy’s Hotel to-morrow evening, >vhen a full attendance of members is requested.

The Wellington Post states that arrangements are now being completed for the purchase of the Colonial Bank by the Bank of New Zealand, and it is expected that the matter will be settled next week.

The Manawatu-Taranaki match, which was to have been played to-day, bad to be abandoned, as Manawatu could not get a team together. The Taranaki men are naturally wrath, as they had altered other fixtures to suit the convenience of visitors.

C. H. Manning, photographer, Christchurch, was found dead on a couch in his studio on Wednesday. An empty bottle, which had contained nitrate of silver, was on the table. No reason is assigned for the deed, but pieces of cardboard, on which memos, were written, indicate that he was not in his right mind.

A 14-roomed dwelling house, belonging to the Patea Harbor Board formerly known as the Patea Hotel, and now occupied by Mr Dempsey, was burnt to the ground on Tuesday night. The origin is a mystery. The building was insured in the Norwich Union for £2OO. The furniture was uninsured. Nothing was saved.

Mr McGuire is to ask the Colonial Treasurer if he will state the result of his recommendation to his colleagues that the claims of the New Plpmouth bondholders as to the 200,000 acres given back to the natives out of the lands in the Taranaki Land District should be referred to arbitration ?

On September 19th there will be a partial eclipse or the sun, w’hen about three-fourths of the sun’s surface will be covered. It will be seen more favorably in New Zealand than in any of the Australian colonies, and will commence about 6.40 a.m. and be over about 8.00 a.m.

Mr Langton notifies that the services of the thoroughbred Clydesdale stallion, Glasgow Geordie, will be placed at the disposal of breeders in the district between Opunake and Oakura again this season. Glasgow Geordie is so well and favorably known amongst breeders that there is sure to be a big demand for his services. His stock have been very successful whenever shown in the ring against all comers, and are remarkable for being quiet and staunch. On Monday next Mr W. D. Scott will hold a clearing sale on behalf of Mr T. O’Connor, on the farm, at Opua. Dairymen should not miss this opportunity of recruiting their herds, as such an extensive choice of wellbred and well-selected dairy cows is seldom offered in this district. Now that the butter market shows signs of revival dairy stock are sure to be in demand, and before many months are over there is every probability of a substantial increase in value. There are also many other useful lines in young stock, besides several well-bred horses to be offered.

Some carcases of mutton marked with indelible brands are being shown at Wellington. The marking (the N. Z. Times says) was performed at the Gear Company’s works at Petone, and its object is to show that meat may be successfully branded before being exported to England. The apparatus employed is a framework, in which knives are arranged so as to formAhe letter or other design of the brand, and the secret of success is that the marks be made immediately after the killing of the animal.

In a letter to the Law Society, the Chief Justice says :—“ It is unquestionable that at least half the Judicial work here must be left undone while the vacancy remains unfilled.” In forwarding Chief Justice Pr«ndergast’s letter to the Premier, the President of the Society points out that there are 88 cases of all kinds awaiting hearing here* while the Chief Justice has during the next ten weeks to visit Napier, Wanganui, Nelson, and Blenheim, besides attending the Court of Appeal. Even in the late Judge Richmond’s lifetime it required close application to keep pace with the work, and it is apparent the business must fall dreadfully in arrear unless another Judge is immediately appointed. Advices received from Wellington state that the “ throw forward ” dispute in the late Wellington-Taranaki match has been referred to the English Union. A press wire received later gives the following particulars ; —At a meeting of the Management Committee, Mr Firth, referee in the Taranaki v. Wellington and Auckland v. Canterbury matches, reported Laing and Ronayue, under circumstances already narrated. The Taranaki Union also raised the question as to whether the referee was justified, under the present rules in ordering a player off the field for a deliberate throw forward. It was decided that as the matter did not affect any further matches this season, to submit the matter direct to the English Union, with a view to securing a ruling and an alteration of the law. The case of Eonayne was referred to the Aucklann Union to be dealt with.

When Mr 11. Newman was in New Plymouth recently, ho ascertained that the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society was getting a supply of brown trout ova from the Masterton hatchery, and requested his brother, Mr Win. Newman, to try and obtain some foxstocking the streams near Opunake. In answer to the request three thousand were received by coach from New Plymouth on Wednesday. Mr Newman placed one thousand each in the Heimama, Mangahume, and Waiteika Rivers. He had some food prepared and placed ia the cans, and on arrival at the stream gradually replaced the water with river water, and then placed the can in the stream, when the young fish swam out and gradually settled down round the prepared food, which they attacked very vigorously. We hope the attempt to stock these rivers will prove successful, and that in the near future the devotees of the rod and line will be able to get some good sport. The Taranaki Society and New Plymouth friends are deserving of our warmest thanks for their kindness.

“ Perhaps you would think so, but a very large proportion of diseases in New York comos from carelessness about catching cold,” says Dr Syrns Edson. It is such a simple thing and so common that very lew 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 lheir origin in this neglect of the simplest precaution of every day life. The most sensible advice is, when you have oue 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,

Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co notify additional entries for their Opunake sale on Tuesday next. Mr M. F. Baird has entered upon his work as buj-er on this coast for the Wellington Meat Export Company.—Star.

The Government have decided to at once rebuild the Court House and Post Office at Hawera and probably the buildings will bo put up in brick.

Notice is given by the Domain Board that the lease of a number of sections in what is known as the Government paddock will be offered by Mr W, D. Scott by public auction.

Hawera dairy factoi-y opened on Monday, and a very good season is anticipated. A splendid separator has been put in, and butter will be made during the early part of the season.—Star.

In addition to the mills recently started, in Auckland district the Kauri Timber Company are starting both in Tairua and Whangapoua mills in full time to fulfil orders arising from the increasing demand of the export trade. Contracts are to be let to cut from thirty to forty million feet, and labor is being largely absorbed.

The Colonial Treasurer, at a largely-at-tended meeting held in Invercargill on Saturday last, stated that the Local Government Bill was not likely to be passed this session. With regard to the increase of the public debt, he said that if there was not an increase the country must stagnate. A great deal of the recent increase had gone to local bodies for work which must benefit the country by opening it up.

We call the attention of our readers to a replace advertisement in this issue from the Dresden Piano Co, Wellington. They have been appointed sole agents for the famous Lipp and Sohne’s unrivalled pianos and those wanting an instrument would do well to make enquiries and obtain all particulars before purchasing elsewhere. Their time payment system is a convenient and easy method of procuring an instrument. Mrs Orchard is the local agent. Photographs and all particulars as to terms may be obtained from her.

The Premier has received the following telegram from Mr G, T. Wilkinson, Government Native land purchase officer at Otorohanga :—“ A half-caste named Holden, living in the Ranturau East B Block, about 10 miles from Otorohanga, reports that he and his companions have discovered a complete skeleton of a large moa in a cave about two miles from Waitomo caves. It is reported to be Oft high, and every bone in the skeleton is complete excepting oue of the claws. It is intended to offer it for sale to the Auckland, or some other museum.”

The Dunstan Times says the Chinese diggers have *• struck it rich ” in the river Molyneux, nearly opposite the Halfway House, by damming back the river and working the ground by paddocking. They have shepherded it by keeping a man working for more than a year; and are now employing 15 hands. John, however, does not publish his returns. If he did, mining notes would be much more interesting, Working 12 hours it is estimaled they obtain 40ozs a day—say, £lO a man. All the prelinamary work of damming, &0., was done in two weeks. So, be an easy calculation, it will be found that there is fair margin of profit in this spec.

Can sheep be kept healthy without wholesale drenching ? According to a corresponnent of the Hawke’s Bay Herald they can. He says:—l have been sheepfarming where I am now for the last seventeen years, and have never carried less than five sheep and sometimes seven, to the acre, and my loss has never been ten per cent, and this year it is less than one. The only way to keep Lincoln sheep healthy is to keep the plough going, and wean your lambs on rape, and winter them on turnips, and give a little oaten chaff or hay. Some sheepfarmers will say they cannot grow rape or turnips, and others that it will not pay. To the first then I say you cannot grow Lincoln sheep, and to the second I say it will pay if it is gone about the right way. But it is nonuse to try to carry Lincolns on poor soil. The first thing for a man to do is to put sheep on to suit the the country. As regards drenching, the best time (should they need it at all) is when you wean your lambs, and I believe oil and turps is as good as anything. The conduct of the justices of the peace at Ballan in discharging John Henry Walsh, clerk of the Petty Sessions Court at that place, although he had pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny, was brought before the Chief Justice in chambers on August 16, when the Attor-ney-General moved the rule absolute for an order directing the magistrate to rehear the case. From an affidavit which was filed in support of the motion by Inspector Duncan it appeared that Walsh was charged at the Ballan Police Court with having embezzled various sums of money amounting in all to £22 10s. Walsh pleaded guilty, and asked the magistrates, Messrs O’Meara, P. M., and Day and Cantwell, justices of the peace, to deal with him in a summary manner. In order to enable them to deal with him in that way the charge was altered to one of larceny, and Messrs Day and Cantwell then discharged him, on the grounds that his action only amounted to carelessness and not to a crime, and that he had been forced to plead guilty to a lie. The police magistrate dissented from the decision. The application for the order to rehear the case was made on the ground that the magistrates had no right to discharge Walsh under the circumstances. The Chief Justice made the rule absolute ordering the magistrates to rehear the case, stating that the man pleaded guilty, but the magistrates appeared to consider they knew better than he did.—Argus.

Certainly the b st medicine known is Sander and Son’s Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza ; the relief is instantaneous. In serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they_ wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling —no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, nflammation of the lungs, swellings, Ac.; diarrhtea, dysentry, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medical and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others.

For seven years or more Mrs W. D, Louder, of Quincy, Ky., was subject to severe attacks of cramp colic. Mr S. R. Morse, a druggist of that place, recommended Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which has affected a permanent cure, saving her much suffering besides the trouble and expense of sending for a doctor, which was often necessary. For sale by Newman Bros.