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Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 211, 11 September 1896, Page 2

Mr P. B Atkinson will be in Opunake on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (Court day) of next wook. The full programme for the Brass Band concert appears in this issue, at glance at v.hxh will show that a capital entertainment ia provided. For the dance which is to follow good music will be arranged and abundance of refreshments provided, so that visitors may rely on receiving hospitable entertainment. Those who intend taking part in the danco can procure tickets from the hon. Sec. Mr J. Stewart, or at the door on the night of the entertainment.

Tenders for bushfalling close tomorrow.

Tenders for works for the Town Board close on Monday next at 7 a.m. Tenders for leasing town lands close this evening at 7 o'clock.

We give a reminder of Mr W. D. Scott's sale of furniture on behalf of Mr Donald, which takes place at the mart to-morrow.

Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co will hold their usual fortnightly stock sale on Tuesday next at Opunake. They have a large entry.

Large crowds attended at Waterloo station (England) to bid farewell to the Australian cricketers.

The football match, Wellington v. Wanganui, resulted in a win for the former by 20 points to 10.

At the District Court, Haweia, the application for a new trial was refused in the case McEae v. Hunter, in which £250 damages were awarded Mr Mcßae for the loss of the entire Morpheus.

Mr A. Morrison's clearing sale of dairy stock by Mr Newton King will take place on the farm near Eahotu, and not in the Eahotu sale yards. The herd to be submitted is above the average and should be keenly competed for.

Whiie the Rev John Bowie, of Stratford, was cutting his ' .rse loose, the animal reared and with okj of its f.to feet struck him in the face, breaking some of his teeth and inflicting a gash i the jaw that had to be sown with five sti.jhes.

Messrs B .rry and McAllister will, for one week, commencing September 29th, open a photographic studio in the Foresters' Hall, Opunake. Their work is now well and favorably known throughout the district and patrons can depend on getting thoroughly satisfactory photographs. Cabinets, 15s per dozen.—Advx.

A man supposed to be Eugene Sullivan, who came from Napier, was drowned in the river at Gisborne, late on Friday night. The watchman at the freezing works heard cries for help. A rescue party went out in a boat, but found no trace of the man. A very strong current was flowing out of the river, and it is supposed the body was carried to sea.

The Women's Political Leagues are in troubled waters. The President of the Wellington League (Mrs Seddon, wife of the Premier) announced a few weeks ago that two writs had been served upon her. At Auckland there were lively scenes at the Women's Liberal League there. Nineteen members resigned, they stated, as a protest against the tactics at elections of their officers. Recriminative charges were bandied about.

Permission of the Wellington corporation having been granted, two graves in Sydney Strept Cemetery were opened to the extent of a couple of feet to see whather there was any foundation for Hareford's statement that the knife and gun with which he committed the Kaiwarra murder some years ago were buried there. Nothing whatever was discovered in the graves. The police adhere to the opinion that there is nothing in Hareford's confession.

Telegrams received in Wellington state that the most severe floods for twenty years are being experienced in Blenheim. A heavy southerly rain caused the Taylor River to flood, and the town has been under water since, and is likely to remain so for some days. Telegraphic communication is greatly interrupted and the railway embankment has been broken through in one or two places, and the water has flooded the surrounding country. The extent of the damage is not known.

We are pleased to see there is some intere3t being taken in the forthcoming Town Board election, and understand that there are likely to be a number of candidates out. All the members of the present Board, excepting Mr O'Brien, we hear, intend seeking re-election, and there are several other aspirants to the honor. The present Board have made a number of improvements during their term, notably—the introduction of street lamps, which are a very decided improvement on the old state of affairs.

Mr E. M. Smith informed a representative of the Hawera Morning Post, who recently visited Wellington, that he might have to start for London in the course of a few weeks, to push on the flotation of the New Zealand Steel and Iron Company, the printed prospectus of which he had just received by the mail. Those interested in the Mokau Jones' enterprise and the Parapara ironwork* were trying to " euchre " the company, and he had fully made up his mind to go back again, even if he had to leave his election in the hands of his constituents.

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