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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 155, 27 December 1895, Page 2

A meeting of the committee of the racing club will be held to-morrow evening. Business urgent. We-have received from the Department of Agricultural a tastefully got up end showing a view of Mount Egmont. At Groymoulh a man named Maloney met with an accident. While felling a tree he cut his leg with an axe, and when going homo to have the cut attended to, he full and broke his leg. Thomas Gent, the night groom in Patterson and Go's stables, Auckland, was found dead in the stables on Tuesday night, The cause of death is believed lobe heart disease, lie bad been refused a life insurance policy. lie leaves a widow and two children. The L'olonc (Wellington) Coolgardie syndicate has been offered U 3300 for ono of its mines. The offer is to b». accepted, conditionally on the syndicate being allowed to take up an interest equal to 8500 in the company. The postmaster, Opunake, has been notified that from and after Ist January, 1806, the interest allotted to depositors in the Post Office Savings Bank will be reduced to 3.J percent on sums under £2OO, and 3 per cent on sums over £2OO and under £">00. No interest will bo allowed on deposits in excess of Cso').

The Anglican Church bazaar was concluded last night when every thing was disposed of. A full report is held over till next issue owing to the pressure on our space.

Information has reached the police authorities from Martinborough that a shearer named James Davison was drowned- while bathing in the Pahaua River, at Bush (rully on Sunday. The body lias been discovered Deceased, who was a single man, had been about two years in the Colony.

A lire broke out at Coromondel on Tuesday night, in Steber's hotel, and swept the street up and down", thirteen places being burnt down. Two men were badly injured through jumping out of a house ; one man, unknown, was burned to death, and two others are missing. Many lost everything.

During a violent thunderstorm in Tasmania recently, Harry Nelson, of Brighton Lodge, was struck dead by lightning while adjusting covers on a hay rick to preserve it from impending rain, the flash that ki'led him firing the stack. A strange fact connected with the fatality is that there was found vividly impriuted on the skin a picture of a tree which stood near.

Crick has issued a writ against Mr Wan', Attorney-General, claiming £SOOO damages. The ground of action is alleged to be in Want's speech in the Council. Crick says he wants to give him a show of taking a stand in the supreme Court. Meagher, in a letter to the press, characterises Want's statement that he offered to tnrn Qneen's evidence as an abominable fabrication, and challenges him to publicly corroborate it.

A sad case of suicide occurred at Brisbane on Sunday, the Bth December, when Neill McMaster, aged 33, son. of Mr McMaster, M.L.A.., drowned himself. He returned home "a little earlier than usual, and went to his bedroom to put on his pyjamas, and some time later was seen to jump over the cliffs at Gowen-terrace, a distance of 40ft. He then got up and staggered into the water, where the body was found with the face frightfully smashed. For some time past he nan been drinking heavily, and behaved in a singular mauner. He was a musician, and exceedingly popular. Certainly the best 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, inflammation of the lungs, swellings, Ac. ; diarrhoea, 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.

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