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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 148, 3 December 1895, Page 2

Tenders are called for the re-erection ol the Opunake jetty.

Ten shillings reward is offered for the recovery of two ponies, lost from Pihama.

Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co notify entries for their next Opunake stock sale.

Mrs Ballard notices prices and bargains being offered at her half-yearly clearing sale, to which we direct our readers’ attention.

Over 1000 have signed the petition in the New Plymouth district for the release from prison of Wallath, the erstwhile highwayman.

Mr W. D. Scott notifies a clearing sale on behalf of Mr J. R. Noonan, who is leaving the district. The sale, for the convenience of the public, will be held in Mr Scott’s yards at Opunake.

Mr F. Parish was getting on a horse on Sunday when the horse reared and struck him in the face with its head. The result would reflect credit on J. L. Sullivan or any other champion boxer.

We were shown a milk cooler and aerator combined, manufactured by Mr Hodgson at the Opunake Plumbing Works. It is simplicity itself and only costs 7s 6d, so that dairymen who are not already supplied with these necessary articles would do well to inspect his stock.

Mr Henry McLean, eldest son of Mr Geo. McLean, of Hawera, died on Monday. His early death, resulting from a football accident, will bo deeply regretted by a large circle of friends, and his family will have the sympathy of every one in the district in their sad bereavement.

A meeting of ladies and gentlemen will be held in the Catholic Church to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock, to take into consideration the advisability of getting up a fancy fair early in the New Year, to raise funds for furnishing the church. A full attendance is requested.

Yesterday we saw a load of bricks being carted to Rahotu from Mr W. Pearce’s kiln, at Pihama. Mr Chas. Wiley is the maker of them, and they show that they must have struck a good seam of clay. Several who are judges of such articles consider that they are of better quality than the bricks made further down the coast.

The School Committees’ Association discussed the subject of manual instruction in schools. There was considerable diversity of opinion as to the benefit likely to be derived, some speakers holding that boys wou ld have to unlearn all they were taught when they became apprentices. Eventually it was decided to await developments by the Board.

Several complaints have been made to us about the constant and indiscriminate practice indulged in by the youths of the town during the past week in letting off fireworks. In one case a shed was found to be on fire, and but for timely discovery would have resulted in serious damage to a portion of the town. If parents do not see to it, they will likely find themselves mulct in a remembrancer by the S.M.

A sensational "bolt” says the Hawera Star, occurred on Saturday. A horse attached to a cart owned by Mr Barraclough took fright at something, clearing off at a great force up Regent-street. The remarkable part of the affair was, as we are told by some one who saw it, that the horse jumped a perambulator with a child in it, and the wheels of the vehicle on either side carried the cart free from contact and left the perambulator and child unharmed.

A man named Joseph Allwood, a cab proprietor living at St. Kilda, Dunedin, committed suicide on Thursday evening. He returned from town early in the evening, and going to a loose box of his stable, gashed his head from ear to ear, almost severing his head from his body. The police were called in but the man was dead. In his pocket was found a paper giving his name and the name of his father, with a memo. " This is to my wife.” No reason is known for the act.

The drink question seems to have engaged the attention of the Lincoln Council in 1553 and to have been settled by the limitation principle, if we may judge from this entry taken from their official records : 1553, 18 March. By reason that there are very many tipplers within the city, and there is not only much idleness and evil rule maintained within such tippling-houses, but also much bribery and petit larceny used and maintained, it is agreed that there shall be only thirty tipplers in the whole city and suburbs, which shall be admitted by the mayor, justices of peace, and alderman.

The Pahiatua Herald says:—Mr Dtmcan Puckle has offered to supply an interesting item for the next Swimming Club carnival. He has oflered to play and land anj- swimmer in the club in 20 minutes, and will use his ordinary fishing tackle, The swimmer must be in deep water with the line fastened round his waist. To most people this may seem a large contract for Mr Puckle to carry out, but if it were betting men he would lay a " bit to nothing” that Mr Puckle lands bis man within the stated time. ‘ Ho is the most expert angler in the district, and should any of our swimmers feel ambitious his offer is now open.

In the Arbitration Court, Wdllington the solicitor for the Midland Railway Conipauj’ filed amended particulars of claim under which the Company claims to recover the sum of £1,813,900, together with interest at 5 per cent per annum on £845,030 debenture capital from 1 4th January, 1895, till the date of award. The increased sum claimed by the Company is hi consequence of the seizure intercepting the right of the Company to cortain land grants. Sir R. Stout notified that he would object to the introduction in the claim of anything arising subsequent to the seizure. The two arbitrators could not agree on Ilia question of jurisdiction and therefore withdrew. Mr Blake, the umpire, is theietore acting above. He ruled that the power of arbitration hold notwithstanding !he seizure of the line.

Sunday, April 6th 1896, is the day on which the census will be taken.

The Defence Minister is about to reclassify the Police Force, and some radical changes may be expected.

The stakes for the Monte Carlo Hack Meeting, which lakes place on Boxing Day, at Opua, appear in this issue.

The Victorian Assembly has passed the Abolition of Plural Voting, and the Women’s Franchise Bill through all its stages.

A colored man in America has a certificate from a former master, setting forth that he was born 130 years ago.

Mr W. *E. Spencer, M.A., Inspector of Schools, commenced the examination of the Opunake school yesterday. He expects to complete the examination to-day.

The Gazette notifies that the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th December next and the Ist and 2nd January next will be observed as holidays in the public offices of New Zealand.

Alfred Williams, settler, of Clive, Napier, was drowned while attempting to cross a creek swollen by flood. The body is not yet recovered.

Sir Patrick Buckley having accepted a Judgeship, has retired from the legal firm he was so long associated with, and the partnership dissolved. Instead of Bnckley, Stafford, and Treadwell it will now be Stafford, Treadwell, and Field.

We hear that a well-known runholder has disposed of the whole of this season’s clip of wool at BJd per lb. The buyer was Mr Kettlewfell, acting on behalf of the Bradford firm of topmen, John Eeddihough and Co.—Waipawa Mail.

At the Auckland Supreme Court Robert Darrah, charged with the murder of a Maori at the Thames, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to two years’ hard labor. The case excited great interest. The jury strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy.

The privileges in connection with the Opunake Racing Club’s New Year Meeting were submitted by Mr W, D. Scott to auction on Saturday and realised the following prices : —Gates, £49: publican’s booth, £ls 10s; saddling paddock, £32; horse paddock, £4 6s; refreshment booth, £5 ; cards, £8 15s.

In a case under the School Attendance Act heard the other day it was given as one reason for irregular attendance that the children had been without boots. This, the Bench remarked, was no excuse ; thousands of the best men in the world had gone to school without boots.

A mild outbreak of swine fever has taken place at Prebbleton, Christchurch, where three or four pigs have already died, and one which was killed and examined by the Stock Inspector was found to be infected. The Agricultural Department is being communicated with as to the advisability of destroying the remaining animals. A preacher, raising his eyes from his desk in the midst of his sermon, was paralysed with amazement to see his rude boy in the gallery pelting the hearers in the pews below with horse-chestnuts. But, while the good man was preparing a frown of reproof, the young hopeful cried out: “ You ’tend to your preaching, daddy; I’ll keep ’em awake.”

A curate, aged 33, advertises his desire for a living in The Field. His qualifications for the cure of souls are that he stands Gft, “ in full health and strength,” has taken some sort of honors as 11 old ’Varsity blue,” a “ good shot and fisherman,” and“ thoroughly understands country life and sport in all its branches.” 51

Tam: ‘‘Saa ye’ve gotten back, Sanders.” Sanders : "Deed, aye ; I’ve just gotten back.” Jamie: “ An’ hoo nid ’e like London?” Sanders : “ Oh, its an outlandish place, yon 1 They tell’t me they couldna understand ma awccent!” John; “ Awccent! I never heard tell that Fife folk had ony awccent 1” —Punch.

Mr Ward, in replying to a deputation in Dunedin, respecting the matter of delayed telegrams, said the cause of the departure was the increase of the work in certain parts of the colony, the result of the boom in the mining industry. With this and the necessity for overtaking prcsswork, there had been a block in several parts of the colony. It was necessary to have one system for the whole colony ; therefore, he could not promise to revert to the old system in places where the block had not occurred, but he promised to review the whole system of telegraphing, and said he hoped shortly to be able to introduce cheaper telegrams altogether—sixpenny telegrams, with, perhaps, a reduced number of words. He was now making enquiries, and hoped to be able to announce the result shortly.

A correspondent writes as follows to the O.D. Times :—“I live in a farming district where a good many, including myself, sought to avail themselves of the cheap money borrowed for us by the Colonial Treasurer in London. In my case, although according to the local valuation of my property I should havo had no difficulty in obtaining the amount I applied for, I was informed that the Board declined to grant any loan upon it. At the present time 1 have a mortgage for a larger amount than I applied to the Government for, and the mortgagee is quite satisfied with his security, so I fail to see upon what principle this office does its business. Several of my neighbors who were at first refused the loans asked for have recently had them granted, and the means employed to accomplish this end I am aware of, but cannot avail myself of, from causes of creed and nationality which are beyond my control, I am waiting further developments, when I will let your readers know more about this matter. At present I can only say that Lho administration of this department is like most of the other departments under the control of our present Liberal Government, made a channel of favoritism, and not conducted in an impartial manner, by treating all applicants alike regardless of creed or political color.”

While in Topeka last March, E. T. Barber, a prominent newspaper man of La Cygno, Kan., was taken with cholera morbus very soverly.. The night clerk at the hotel where he was stopping happened to have a bottle of Chamberlains’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and gave him three doses which relieved him and he thinks 'saved his life. Every family should keep this remedy in their homes at all times. No one can tell how soon- they may be needed. It costs but a trifle and may be the means of saving much suffering and perhaps the life of some member of the family. For sale by Newman Bros.