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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 144, 19 November 1895, Page 2

Mr Newton King sells stock at Ilahotu tomorrow. Wc give a reminder of Mr W. 1). Scott’s Opunake stock sale, which takes place on Friday. Tenders for erection of grandstand and fencing, on the course at Pihatna, close tomorrow. A meeting of ratepayers interested in the proposed Ngarikj Road loan will be held on Friday.

An impounding notice from the poundkeeper at Rahotu appears in this issue. Tenders are invited for painting Middleton’s Hotel. Mr W. D. Scott reports leasing the Tariki Road Hotel from Mrs Kennedy to Mr D. Lilly, of Wanganui. A meeting of ratepayers interested in the proposed Opua, Road loan will be held on Friday. It is rumoured that Mr Arkwright, of Marton, is shortly to be called to the Upper House. Mr Wilson has bought Carnage at an advance on 1850 guineas. He intends to ship the horse to England for stud purposes. Bailey, lighthouse keeper at Jervis Bay, Sydney, was washed off the rocks while fishing, and devoured by sharks in sight of his two little boys. A machine to record the start, the time and photograph the winner on the post is one of the latest inventions of a Hastings artist. The Marlborough Express says that it is reported that there will be a general removal of officers in the Postal Department at the beginning of next year. Inspector Pardy, with a strong body of police, raided all the old hotels and sly grog shops at Tapanui in the Clutha district, on Thursday, getting liquor in all the old hotels. James A. Sinclair, ex-public school teacher took a fit on the road returning from a meeting at Otahuhu, Auckland. He was found on the road at 6 in the morning, but expired. Mr W. D. Scott reports the sale of Section 5, Block X, Opunake Survey District, of 88 acres, from Mr D. Herlihy to Mr J. M. Hickey. Mr W. D. Scott reports having held a very successful sale on behalf of Mr J. F. McGregor, Watino Road, when every line was cleared at a satisfactory price. The dairy cows averaged well over £6. The Timaru Harbor Board is in doubt as to the prospects of the harbor being blocked by shingle, which is on the eve of going round, and have decided to obtain the opinion and advice of Mr Napier Bell. We have the authority of Mr Robbins for saying that he will contest the Egmont seat against all coiners, and we also hear that Mr Major is a candidate for the Patea seat.—Hawera Post. The body of Robert Bredin at Marton was recovered to-day ten feet back from the water’s edge and four feet below the surface of the edge of the slip. The body was under a large tree, a portion of which had to be removed to get the body out. The Dunedin Star says that Mr J. G. Ballard, Chief postmaster at Blenheim, will succeed Mr Lubecki as Officer-in-charge of Telegraphs at Dunedin, and that the senior assistant in charge there is to be appointed Officer-in-charge at Wanganui. A minority report presented by two members of the Banking Commission condemns the proposal for a State Bank, at Melbourne, holding that farmers can be assisted under the present system. They also oppose the Government monopolising the note issue. A visitor to Auckland says : —Every other man is a mining export, a company promoter, or a legal manager, and tiny are all liars. There are, however, degrees of fabricators, and they are placed in this order. The common liar, the awful liar and the mining expert. Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.R., has been notified that the New Zealand Shipping Company have agreed to place a second saloon passage to London at his disposal. It is stated to be his intention to make a trip to the United Kingdom in December for the purpose of endeavoring to raise capital to develop the ironsand industry.—Herald. On Thursday next Mr Newton King will hold a sale, on behalf of Mr J. Dew, who is selling his bush farm, of over 300 head of cattle. The sale will take place at Mr Dew’s homestead, near Pungarehu. Two hundred heifers, nearing profit, will be submitted, most of which have been bred by himself from ch oice dairy cows by purebred bulls, and should elicit keen competition.

Mr W. D. Scott notifies that he has been appointed sole agent for the Opuuake district for Simpson’s calf meal, and has a shipment of 40 cases to arrive per first steamer. This article has come into very general use in the Noiili Taranaki District, where dairymen speak very highly of its qualities as a calf diet when fed with skim milk, supplying as it does the valuable properties taken out of the milk by the separator. It is very easy to prepare for feeding which is also a great consideration.

A ratepayer writes from Waitoika Road, complaining that the Parihaka Road Board does not take any steps to stop the heavy traffic on that road, which is resulting in the destruction of drains and culverts, and making it totally impassable for ordinary traffic. The settlers, he says, cannot even ride up and down, and any of those with traps have to leave their traps at the Eltham Road and walk up and down it up to their knees in mud. They are thus prevented from supplying the dairy factory, and have thoir means of living cut off.

A man named Walter Willoughby, a carpenter, attempted to cross the line in front of the train from Dancvirko, on Wednesday, and was knocked down and died a few hours after admission to the hospital. Deceased, who came fronUfrahiatua some weeks ago, had been out of work, and his family were in receipt of charitable aid. The evidence showed that notwithstanding this, he somewhere got enough liquor to make him drunk, but it was not clear whether he fell in a drunken sleep on the line, or deliberately lay down and courted death. A verdict to that effect was returned. The driver of the train was exonerated from all blame.

Sir P. Buckley, the Colonial Secretary, has made complaint that in addition to the abuse which had been heaped upon the Council by certain ‘ rags of papers,’ on a recent occasion when leaving the Chamber, he had had his ears polluted by abusive language showered upon himself aud the Council by a wellknown Prohibitionist who had been listening to the discussions in the Council on the Liquor Rill. The language lie had overheard was of such a character that ho could not repeat it there. There are evidently other forms of intemperance besides that connected with the liquor traffic.

A lady nt Tobleys La., was very sick with bilious colic when M. C. Tislor, a promiiiteut merchant of the town gave her a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says she was well in forty minutes after, taking (he first dose. For sale by Newman Bros.

Mr W. D. Scott notifies entries for his next Awatuna stock sale. Tetahi hoiho e noho ana kei roto i te pauna i Eahotu. Ko te alma whero to ahua o taua hoiho. Telephone offices have been opened at Makakahi, Newman, and Tutaekara in the Wellington postal district. Mr W. D. Scott will hold a clearing sale on behalf of Mr E. C. Middleton of his dairy herd. The cows are a very superior lot and should elicit keen competition. The Course Committe of the Opunake Jockey Club meet to-morrow evening at Kennedy’s Hotel to deal with tenders for grandstand and fencing. I te huihuinga o te Rori Poari i tu nei ki Eahotu i te Manei, ka whakataua e taua Poari ka whakawatia ki nga tangata ona te whenua, mehemea kaua ia e paraketu i nga paai (furze) e tupu ana ki to huarahi c tata mai ana ki nga taiepa o to whenua o ana tangata pakeha Maori ranei. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as census enumerators for the following counties: —Mr Wm, C. Nation, Horowhenua and Manawatu ; Mr Robert N. Keling, Oroua, Kiwitea and Pohangina; Mr Ernest Barns, Wanganui, Raugitikei and Waitotara; Mr Sidney PI. James, Hawera, Pateaj and Stratford ; Mr John H. M. Good, Taranaki and Clifton. A memo was read at the Education Board meeting on Wednesday, from Mr W. J. Habens, in reply to a letter sent by Mr Spencer, the Inspector, stating that the Minister did not see his way to approve of any new regulations that do not recognise the principle of equal pay for equal servicos. The letter referred to above has reference to the scale of pay to pupil teachers. According to the regulations which the Board submitted, male pupil teachers receive £5 more then teachers of the opposite sex. This, however, does not meet with the approval of the Minister, who considers that both should be placed on an equal footing in the matter of salary. We were shown a very handsome Canterbury roadster gig, built by Mr F. West, of Eahotu, to the order of Mr W. Mills. The gig is very light, yet strong, the body being of kauri, with a splendid pair of ash shafts as supple as fishing rods. The grain of the wood is showm to advantage, as it is finished in varnish without any paint. Messrs Colmer and Bradley were entrusted with the ironwork, and have turned it out in a highly creditable manner, showing them to be thorough masters of this branch of their trade. All the fittings are of excellent workmanship and quality. We saw a similar gig which took first prize at the Egmont show, and think it a pity that Mr West did not put his gig into competition, as we feel satisfied he would have made a close run for first honors, A correspondent writing to the Taranaki Herald says : —Thera’s a screw loose, I think, somewhere in respect to our much boasted free education system. Why, in the name of common sense, is it that there are as many different sets of books in our national schools as there are different district. It has been an expense to me for providing four of my chilchildreu with the required lesson books of fully two pounds sterling. I imagined in coming from the Thames about eight months ago that what I had provided there would also be suitable all over the colony ; but, much to my disgust, when I got to New Plymouth the expense of furnishing new sets of books had to be repeated! Since then I have sent one of the children to Hawera, and the same class of books that had been but recently provided for the New Plymouth schools were rejected there, I have tried over and over again to get some explanation for this extraordinary arrangement, but so far none have been able to solve the puzzle.

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