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Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 195, 15 May 1896, Page 2

The newly-formed Brass Hand, under Bandmaster Ebbett, will ihcct for practice on Tuesday and Friday evenings ia the Foresters’ Hull.

Miss McKenna is to be appointed to the Awatuna School after the next pupil teachers’ examination. The Wanganui Board of Education has also decided to grant £ for £ up to £7 for the erection of a shelter shed at Awatuna. ,

In a recent divorce case in England the wife complained that besides various kinds of illtruatmeut accorded her, her husband would persist in supplying the house with New Zealand mutton, which she. said was not tit to be oaten.

The ball which is to take place on Queen’s Birthday (Monday, 25th instant), under the auspices of the Football Club, promises to be a very successful affair. A good supper will be provide l , and that combined with good music should lend to a very pleasant evening’s enjoyment.

The s.s. Aorerc arrived from South on May 13th. Imports: Newman Bros, 319 pkgs; Stirling, 3 pkgs ; Christie and Co, 13 pkgs; Cummins, 2 pkgs; Stitt, 35 pkgs; Trotter, G pkgs ; A. Lusk, 1 pkg ; Wagstnff Bros, 71 pkgs; Middleton, 7 pkgs; Knowles, 9 pkgs; Cox, 7 pkgs ; Clarice, 1G pkgs ; Pettigrew, 15 pkgs ; Bang Chong, 1 pkg. Exports : Newman Bros, 11 pkgs; Rutherford and Son, 21 bales hemp.

Mr H. J. Barrett, teacher of the Batanui School, has resigned.

The Eltham Road School-will be examined in standards on Monday next.

It costa £3 a minute to fire the Maxim gun at the rate of 700 shots a minute.

The Registrar-General estimates the increase of the private wealth of the Colony during the last five years at £11,000,000.

Mr W. E, Spencer, M.A., Inspector of Schools, is paying a visit to the Opunake School to-day.

There will be no Communion Service at the Anglican Church on Sunday, as stated according to plan. .

Applications for Ardgowan lands, Dunedin, have been received from 1635 persons, equal to over 7000 individual applications.

A child, William Curtis, aged 19 months, son of P. J. L. Curtis, settler in Nainai Valley, Lower Hutt, was found drowned on Tuesday morning in a tub of water on his parents' property.

The new photography has got into the law courts. An actress’s foot was injured through, it was alleged, a faulty staircase. Photographs of the foot taken by the Rontgen rays were produced, showing that the bone had been displaced, and the actress got a substantial verdict.

A large bridge over the Glenelg River, at Casterton, Victoria, caved in owing to some heavy traffic passing over it, and on examination the principal cause was found to be that white ants had eaten into the beams and supports in a most extraordinary manner.

There are some Nimrods about Hastings. Three sportsmen went out recently, says a correspondent of a Napier paper, and at length started a pukaka. After firing only thirty rounds of ammunition they wounded the bird, which they ultimately vanquished with sticks.

At the Amateur, Athletic Sports held at Napier on Saturday, Holder, of Wanganui, beat the world’s amateur xecord in the 440 yards, covering the distance in 60 sec. He also won the 100 yards. St. Hill, a novice, won the mile, 440 yards handicap, and maide □.

The election for the return of three mem. bers for the Waimate Road Board took place on Thursday last with the following result : R. Palmer 190, F. W. Wilkie 152, W. Blennorhassett 118, J. Stevenson 111, W. Borne 92. Messrs Palmer, Wilkie, and Bleunerhassett were therefore elected.

The following will represent the Opunake Football Club in the match against Pihama to-morrow, at Pihama :—N. McLeod, F. Guy, A. Guy, W. Duffill, W. Humphries, Webb, J. Hickey, B. Peacock, 0. Humphries, T. Carter, T. Humphries, F. Carter, Johns, Ogle, W. McLeod, Dowson, O'Hanlon, and F. Martin.

In a replace in this issue from Mr O. Cummins, of the Melbourne Cash House, he directs the attention of cash buyers of drapery to his very low prices this month. Having added the boot branch to his business he is quoting prices that ought to meet the wants of all econimioal beyers. He has opened a varietp of evening gqods for ladies and gentleman wear.

Duncan B. Howard was convicted of two charges of sly grog-selling at Karioi, inland from Wanganui, ,on February 10th. On the first charge he was fined £25, and sentenced to three months’ on the second. Mr Kettle, the Magistrate, remarked that the Court was determined to put down the traffic. On the application of counsel the Magistrate agreed to reconsider his decision in the second case, the probation officer and police to report on the character of accused.

As the sum of over £6OOO subscribed by the public some years ago for the use of Sir Henry Parkes will be divided among the children by the first marriage, Lady Parkes has practically been left unprovided for, as well ar the five children by the second wife. “ I shall have to face the world alone with five young children," said Lady Parkes, with tears in her eyes, to a reporter, “ They are all very young.” she added “ the eldest being 12 au-i the youngest three rears and eight months, and it will be many years before they will bo able to earn their own living,”

The Government Printing Office Commission’s report has been received by the Government from the Governor. It is not yet available for publication. The result is that the services of three of the permanent staff of the l printing office who brought the charges against the Government Printer have been dispensed with as from Monday next. Those discharged are—J. Carson, G. McNamara, and /C. M. Jeqkins. Carson has been connected with the Government Printing Office for a period of 25 yearn ; McNamara for 23 years; and Jenkins for 12 or 14 years.

A correspondent writes The Rav C, H. Garland, the Ifewly-appointed Wesleyan Minister to the New Plymouth circuit, has; with characteristic energy, announced that he will devote a week to the visitation of tho recently-funned Coast Mission, comprising Ngariki Road, Rahotu, Pungarehu, Warea, Puniho, Ok-ito, and Tataraimaka, for tho purpose of holding five central meetings, and becoming acquainted with the settlors and their families in the outlying part of his new circuit, I am sure this is a wise step and will do much to establish cordial and happy relations between preacher and people. His fame as a fearless expositor of the truth and preacher of the Kingdom of Righteousness has preceded him, and that the dwellers in the scattered district should be so privileged is cause for congratulation, I do not know the programme for these meetings, which will, no doubt, be decided by those on the spot, but I may be pardoned the suggestion that those responsible should give Mr Garlaud ample room for a full utterance, and not allow his address to be pinched into a small or tight corner, Mr John H. White will also be present at the meetings, and the district is in for a good time.

Croup is a terror to young mothers. To post them concerning the first symptoms, and treatment is the object of this item. The first indication of croup is hoarseness. In a child who is subject to croup it may bo taken as a sure sign of the approach of an attack. Following the hoarseness is a peculiar, rough cough. If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given as soon as the child becomes hoarse or even after the rough cough has appeared it will prevent the attack. It has never, been known to fail. For sale by Newman Bros.,