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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 138, 29 October 1895, Page 2

Reward offered for the return of a lost gold brooch.

We give a reminder of the concert which takes place to-morrow evening at Awatuna. After the concert a dance will follow.

The Watino Road special loan of £4OO was duly polled on Saturday, five voting for the proposal and two against.

On and from Friday, Ist November, the Post and Telegraph Office at Opunake will be closed daily from 1 p.m. to 1.30 p. m. (lun cheon hour). Messrs Ambury Bros, of New Plymouth and Mauaia, notify the arrival of spring goods, containing all the latest novelties in millinery and dress goods. We direct the attention of our readers to their advertisement.

Messrs White and Carter notify the arrival of spring goods at their Opunake branch, where they are now showing a very choice assortment of the latest styles in millinery and goods.

The Timaru Herald considers that in dealing with the Liquor Bill the Legislative Council has more faithfully represented the opinion of the majority of the people of the colony than the House of Representatives did.

Mr C. Humphries’ trap came to grief opposite the Post Office when he was returning from the dairy factory yesterday morning, the wheel collapsing completely. Fortunately the horse was quiet, so that no further damage was done.

The lightning on last Friday morning did a considerable amount of damage to the telegraph line in the district. It split two telegraph posts and shattered a third at Oaonui, and also singed a track in the fern along the side of the road. It also destroyed the telephones at Pungarehu and Pihama, and one of the instruments at Opunake.

The Taranaki Freezing Company have (the Herald reports) accepted the tender of Messrs Fraser and Merely, of Wellington, for the erection of works at Moturoa. As the works have to be completed in three months, the contractors will start forthwith.

Henry Palmer, the Wairarapa fireman who swam ashore when that ill-fated steamer was wrecked at the Great Barrier last year, lost his life while working on Mr R. Finlay’s dredge at Alexander lately. Palmer was caught in the machinery, and so severely crashed that he died after his leg was amputated. At the general meeting of shareholders in the. Cardiff Dairy Company, a resolution in favor of the immediate procural of a butter plant was carried by 18 to 15 ; but the directors at a meeting held afterwards, decided that the division of opinion being so close, they would abandon the proposal for this season.

Mr M. Fennell had the misfortune on Friday last to get his shoulder dislocated by being thrown from his horse. He was assisting a neighbor to drive some cattle, and the girths being loose the saddle went forward when pulling up short, thus pulling him out of his seat. Dr Pairman reduced the dislocation, and we are pleased to hear chat he is progressing favorably. A temperance advocate was urging on a friend, who had not an antipathy to spiritous liquors, the desirability of the latter going to hear a famous prohibitionist who was to lecture in the town. The disciple of a glass in moderation said from his experience he found that there was a great deal of sociability about a glass of whisky, and asked the temperance man if he was not aware of many social parties being formed round a whiskey bottle. The temperance advocate, though sesserting it was mistaken sociability, admitted that he had. “ Well,” said his friend “did you ever hear tell of a social party gathering round a pump?” They still go different roads.

Mr Guy has shown us a model of a cream elevator which he has designed, which should prove a boon to a great number of factories which are so situated that a gravitation scheme cannot be conveniently devised. At present it appears that the cream has to be carried by hand up to the aerators and cooling vat, whereas his design provides a means of automatically dipping the cream out of the receiving cans, elevating it to the height required and then tipping into the cooler, whence it runs into the cream vat before being let into the churn. By a simple contrivance of a ratchet automatically worked although the driving wheel keeps continuously in the same direction, the back and forward motion is secured necessary to hoist the bucket when full, and return it again when emptied for refilling. The adoption of it would save a deal of labor, and in construction it is simplicity itself, and can be erected at a very trilling cost, An amusing mistake was made by a compositor on the Timaru Herald recently at the expense of a clerical gentleman, Rev C. E. Beccroft. The latter sent a somewhat indignant letter to our contemporary referring to some strictures which had been made in reference to an address presented to General Booth. The erratic comp, leavened this with a lino or two from a stirring account of a bull fight. Our confrere explains : “ . . The account of the boll fight suffered by the absence of the two linos of type attributed to Mr Beecroft. The bottom of the column left a horse and its rider in the air, where the exertions of a bull of pure Spanish blood had just placed them, and there they still remain for anything which the article as published by us says to the contrary. The fact is that those who wish fully to understand tne bull fight must read Mr Beecroft’s letter, and those .vho wish to understand Mr Boccroft's letter will be in a better position to do E» after they have studied the bull light.”

Reward offered for return of a lady’s cape lost. Tenders are called for felling 30 acres of bush on Opna Road. Mr Newton King notifies a clearing sale on behalf of Mr J. Dew, Pungarehu, who is disposing of his bush farm. A thief, who was tried on a charge of having stolen eight Bibles valued at 25s had the impudence to tell the magistrate that he stole the books “ to start a Sunday school.” A record for the world has been put up at the Berry Central Factory, 11791bs of butter or a little over half a ton, having been made in one churning. This remarkable result was obtained in 35 minutes. We regret to have to chronicle the death of the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs A. H. Moore, which took place on Monday, from bronchitis. Their many friends will sympathise will them in their sad bereavement. The Hon Dr Grace (in reference to his estate at Wanganui and the Rating on unimproved Value Bill) “It is the delight and pleasure of the country to rake me fore and aft for my improvements, take the money I have spent, and with it build their roads to God knows where ! ” There is a growing opinion amongst experts that the wreckage found at the Auckland Isles belongs to the French barque Marie Alice, which left Sydney for Antwerp with wool in February. The underwriters want the New Zealand Government to make further search in order to establish identification. Poultry fanciers and others may be interested to learn that in Castlemaine, Victoria, there is a duck that lays black (not white) eggs. Those who have seen the eggs are puzzled to account for the curiously, for such it is. The owner of the curio producer intends to send one or more of the eggs to the museum at the School of Mines. The skinnning of dead sheep has been a considerable industry in the Mackenzie country lately. The Timaru Herald states that on one station 13,000 skins have been got, and there are more sheep still encased in the hard snow. Sheep that are exposed are now too far gone to skin, and the hands are plucking the wool off them at so much per pound. Taranaki Education Board has decided that in future the Inspector’s reports be sent direct to the teachers, and by the head teachers forwarded to the chairmen of committees ; after being considered by the committees the reports shall be returned to the teachers, who shall be responsible for their safe keeping. At the last meeting of the Land Board, pursuant to notice of motion the question of Section 49, Pihama Villiage, being set apart for a cemetery site, was brought forward. It was decided that in consequence of the receipt of a telegram from the Trustees of the Pihama Cemetery, objecting to the proposed site, no further action be taken at present. A curious sentence has been passed on a girl at Melbourne who attempted suicide. The Judge held that the law regarded suicide in a similar light to murder, and he therefore formally sentenced her to death, leaving it open for the Executive to grant a free pardon. Subsequently the Judge, after consulting the authorities, released the girl on sureties, to come up for sentence when called upon. The wineborry which grows wild in the New Zealand bush could, in the opinion of Mr T. Kirk, F.L.S., President of the Wellington, Philosophical Society, be made a very profitable source of income to settlers. At a meeting of the Society, he pointed out that France imports large quantities of a similar plant found in Chili, for coloring wines, and he considered our mako-mako, or wineberry, better suited for this purpose than the Chilian plant. A sensational drowning aecide ntis reported from Freemantlo. A young man, whose name is unknown, stole a pair of boots from a navvy’s tent, near the river, and chase was given, the thief being captured and bound hand and foot. One of his captors went for the police, and during his absence the prisoner managed to get hold of a knife and cut the cords, making off in the direction of the river. He was followed, when he attempted to swim across, but sank in mid stream. Count Tolstoi, in a letter to the Times charges the Russian Government with the persecution of certain religious seats which have been officially characterised as fanatical. He declares they have sent over twenty thousand spiritual combatants as exiles to Caucasus, expelled four hundred and fifty families, and imprisoned hundreds of women for adhering to their faith, many of whom have been violated. The only excuse given is that they are religious fanatics, and had therefore lost their civil rights-

A good story is told of an Australirn priest who was not lacking in “faith,” but who also had a keen sense of humour. On the occasion of a severe drought prevailing, some of his up country flock besought him one Sunday morning to pray for rain. “ Oh, it is rain ye want ?” asks the reverend father. Then he takes a gaze round at the brassy heavens; not a sign of rain nor even a cloud as big as a man’s hand, “ Faith me boys,” says he, with a twinkle in his eye, “ just look at that sky ! Bedad, I don’t think we’ll pray for rain the day !”

We are informed on realiable authority that two gentlemen, a few days ago, picked up on the beach north of Henui, a piece of what is supposed to be ambergris, of the estimated value of £BOOO. We understand it has been deposited in one of the local banks and samples have been forwarded to Wellington and Auckland for analysis. We have heard that the lucky tinders are already forming schemes for spending the result of this record find, one of the parties having decided to go on an extended tour on the continent, provided it turns out the real McKay.” It is stated that a number of persons have been searching in the hopes of obtaining further supplies of this supposed precious article but so far they have not been attended by good fortune.—News.

Our better halves say they could not keep house without Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It is used in more than half the homes in Leeds, Sims Bros., Leeds, lowa. This shows the esteem in which that remedy is held where it has been sold for years and is well known. Mothers have learned that there is nothing so good for colds, croup, and whooping cough, that it cures these ailments quickly and permanently, and that it is pleasant and safe for children to take. For sale by Newman Bros.