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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 149, 6 December 1895, Page 2

A general servant is advertised for. Tenders are called for felling light bush. A girl to milk and make herself useful is wanted. The Tarihaka Road Board call for tenders for works on various roads. Tenders are called for metalling by the Taranaki County Council. The poll for the Ngariki Road Loan, which was taken yesterday, proved a failure. Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co. notify additional entries for their stock sale on Tuesday next.

We remind those who have horses in hand for the Monte Carlo Hack meeting that entries close to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock.

On Tuesday night Messrs Dixon and Co, who are at work on the Kina Road, had the misfortune of having their whare burnt down. They are considerable losers by the lire.

The schools in the Taranaki district will close for the Christmas holidays on "Friday, December 20th, and re-open on January 27th, 1396. ®

Asbestos towels are among the latest novelties. When dirty it is only necessary to throw them into a red-hot fire, and after a few minutes draw them out fresh and clean.

The people of Eltham intend to borrow £2OOO for roads and footpaths in the township, and to put a substantial concrete culvert in place of the present awkwardly-situ-ated bridge in the centre of the township.

“ I wouldn’t swear like that,,’ said the kindlooking old lady, mildly. “ Bless your soul, ma’am, you couldn’t. It takes years o’ cab drivin’ to come anywheres near it,” responded the cabby, whose horse was refusing to go.

The Grand Hotel at Rotorua, which is now approaching completion, will cost, with the furnishings and decorations, about £16,000; It contains eighty rooms, and is built in the form of a hollow square with a flower garden in the centre.

From a replace in this issue it will be noticed that Mr O. Cummins intends finishing up his drapery sale in the Foresters’ Hall this month. Attention is directed to the great inducement offered to buyers of goods daring this month. Special inducements are offered to gentlemen purchasing their Xmas suits and favorable terms are also offered to the ladies.

The Waitara Freezing Works (the Taranaki News says) are now in full swing, most of the hands having been re-engaged. Slaughtering was commenced about ten days ago, and it is expected a cargo of frozen meat will be ready for shipment by the 10th instant, when either the Tekoa or the Kaikoura is expected to call at Waitara. Owing to the backward season for shearing there will be very little mutton ready for shipment. The first cargo sent away will consist mainly of beef.

On Wednesday evening a meeting was held in the Catholic Church to devise ways and means to pay off the debt on the organ and seats and to provide a fund for furnishing the church. About twenty ladies and gentlemen attended, and it was resolved to organise a fancy fair, to be held in the month of March. The following ladies were elected a committee with power to add to their number: — Mesdames Christie, O’Brien, Brennan, Twomey, Fowler, Flynn, J. Higgins, J. M. Hickey, M. Hickey, Stevenson, and Stewart, Miss Tait and MissTuohey. The commit tee is to meet again on next Wednesday evening in the church at 8 o'clock to organise sewing bees and other necessary matters in connection with the project.

The nominations for the Racing Club’s Annual Meeting on New Year’s Day were received on Saturday night, and total 79, against 49 received for the same number last year. The result must be very gratifying to the executive, and particularly to the hon secretary, proving, as was contended all along, that the change of course would meet with the approval of horseowners, and be conducive to better nominations than heretofore. The privileges were sold by auction on Saturday last, and realised £ll4 15s, as against £79 10s last year. The course has been well laid down, grandstand and necessary fencing, &e., is being erected, and it is to be hoped that the club will have a successful meeting, as considerable expense has been entailed in securing a permanent course and in the erection of permanent racing accessories.

James Humphrey, a youth of 18, appeared, on remand, at New Plymouth on Tuesday, charged that he did, on Sunday, November 24, at Okato, shoot a Maori named Ike, with intent to do him grevious bodily harm. The accused was before the Court on Tuesday last, when ho was remanded' for a week, bail being allowed, in order to allow of the recovery of the Maori, and further enquiries being made. Inspector Thompson informed His Worship that since the remand though enquiries had been made into the affair, which showed that the shooting was accidental, the accused’s statement being that he had mistaken the Maori’s head for a duck, as it appeared above the river bauk. The Maori and his friends were also of the opinion that the affair was an accident, and ho would therefore ask that the case should bo withdrawn on the accused paying the costs and expenses of the Maori. The accused’s father agreed to pay costs and expenses. The youth was then discharged. While in Topeka last March, E. T. Barber, a prominent newspaper man of La Cygnc, Kan., was taken with cholera morbus very severly. The night clerk at the hotel where he was stopping happened to have a bottle of Chamhorlaius’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhma Remedy and gave him three doses which relieved him and Lo 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 bo the means of saving much suffering and perhaps the life of some member of the family. For sale by Newman Bros,