The Opunake Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1896.

Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 181, 27 March 1896, Page 2

The Opunake Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1896.

A dairy farm near to factory is advertised to let.

Dr Harrison visits Opunake to-morrow and may be consulted at Mr Feaver’s. We give a reminder of Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Go’s sale, which takes place at Opunake on Tuesday.

The concert and dance in connection with the Rahotu Rifle Club takes place at Rahotu this evening. Mr P. B. Atkinson, solicitor, may be consulted at Mr Knowles’ Hotel all day Saturday, March 28th. It has been decided to continue the Fancy Fair ou Monday next, as the weather since the opening has interfered so much with the business. The takings up to last night exceeded £7O, which should be considered very satisfactory under the circumstances. A social in connection with the Wesleyan Church will be held at Oaonui on next Tuesday evening for which a good programme has been prepared, as well as a plentiful supply of good things for the refreshment department. A social will also be held at Pihama on Thursday following.

A cable has been received in Wellington, reporting the sale at Adelaide of the Globe Timber Mills. They were bought by a local man for slightly over £50,000. This was one of the New Zealand Estates Go’s properties and the sale is considered a very good one.

At a meeting of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society, a letter from the Hawera Society was read recommending a close season. The Society, however, decided to open the season on Ist May. The Taranaki Society have also decided to have an open season this year.

A deputation of the Wellington unemployed a&ked the Minister of Public Works not to subsidise the thousand pounds voted by the City Council unless a living wage was guaranteed or the co-operative principle adopted. The -Minister pointed out that the Government was quite unable to make any such stipulation, and simply bad to pay the subsidy.

A London correspondent writes :—New Zealand flax is looking up, and 211 bales were sold at sales. Prices ranged as follows : Fine Auckland, £l7; fair Wellington, £ls 10s : good Lyttelton, £l6—common, £ls. Messrs W. Wedded and Co tell me that the present stock of flax in London amounts only to 2050 tons. Last year at this time the stock was larger by 25 per cent. At Palmerston North on Tuesday morning John Newton, aged about 23, unmarried, was found in his house with a double-barrelled gun between his knees and the whole of the upper part of his skull blown away. Deceased has an aunt and cousin in Auckland, and had only been in the colony about two years. He was very reserved and melancholy. It is supposed to be a case of suicide. Deceased had breakfast with a neighbor an hour before he was discovered, and appeared in usual health.

The Buteshire, which left Wellington for London via Ins Palmas on the sth March, put into Auckland on Wednesday, anchoring off the North Head at 1 p.m. It appears that when the vessel was 1183 miles on h’or voyage, two propeller blades snapped, and she returned to Auckland dock for repairs. The Buteshire’s cargo from Wellington was as follows: —3185 bales wool and skins, 1 dump wool, 35 packets do, 7899 carcases meat, 3290 do lamb, 8889 legs mutton, 48 quarters beef. 2466 cases preserved meats, 3 cases basils, 493 casks tallow, 205 sacks grass seed, 59 packages sundries, 4 boxes, 13 kegs casings. The Deputy Commissioner of Taxes recently laid an information against several well-known citizens of Auckland for having failed to make returns of income in accordance with the Land and Income Assessment Act. Mr Northcroft gave judgment, and in each case a fine of £5 was inflicted. This also carries with it the imposition of treble the amount of the tax, in addition to the ordinary annual amount which the individual has evaded payment. Mr Campbell explained in Court that the Department was making careful investigations, and if it were found that there were others who had neglected to send in their annual returns, probably prosecutions would follow in other parts of the colony.

Mr Spencer, Inspector of Schools in the Taranaki district, and formerly assistant to Mr Bindon, had an unpleasant experience (says the Wanganui Herald) in Parihaka on Thursday. He took a snapshot camera with him and was anxious to take the “shadows ” of Te Whiti and Tohu away with him. Tha former was vciy indignant at the proposed outrage, and point blank refused to appear outside his house while Mr Spencer was about. An endeavor was made to get Tohn to submit to the operation, but he was indignant at the bare suggestion, replying that Government had been trying for years to get his photograph, and he was determined to checkmate them. Mr Spencer’s ambition had therefore to remain unsatisfied.