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Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 214, 22 September 1896, Page 2

Town Board tenders close on Thursday. A sewing machine in perfect order is advertised for sale. Cheap. Tenders are called for falling 20 acres of bush, Waiteika Road.

Mr VV. D. Scott will hold his usual stock sale at Awatuna on Monday next, entries for which appear in this issue. Notice is given that the Bank of New Zealand will be open on Monday next instead of Tuesday the usual day.

Mr W. D. Scott notifies entries for his Opunake stock sale, which takes place on Friday next. Mr T. Scott-Smith, barrister and solicitor, notifies his intention of visiting Opunake regularly every month, when he may be consulted.

Diphtheria has broken out amongst the residents at Kapuni, near Manaia. There has been a death in the family of Mr E. Davison, oae of the children having died on Thursday. Mr Bryce Stoddart, Mrs Cassidy and a daughter are all receiving medical attention for the same disease.

The Premier, replying to Mr Duthie, said he had cabled to the Agent-General that the .Bank of New Zealand was financially impregnable, and he now again said that it was the strongest bank south of the equator. This had been borne out by the evidence given before the Banking Committee.

Mr McGuire gave notice to ask the Minister of Lands if he will introduce legislation this session with the object of placing leaseholders of educational and other reserves, many of whom are suffering great injustice, in the same position as leaseholders of Crown lands, thereby causing uniformity in the land laws of the colony.

The Postal Department calls for alternate tenders for a daily mail service between Opunake and Eltham and a daily service between Opunake and Kaponga. We are pleased to see the Government thus recognising the importance of the district through which the Eltham Road runs. It is very thickly populated and is certainly well entitled to greater consideration in the matter of mail conveniences than is the case at present, when it takes nearly a week to get a letter to a settler and receive a reply from him. The Rev. Mr Isitt, in his lecture at Hawera, said:—One great effort on the part of the Prohibitionists, was the reformation of the polio force, and in order to do so the Premier had to be reformed first. He wanted everyone to know he was a Liberal, but he was not weak-kneed enough to wink at a man who cloaked iniquity by saying he was a Liberal. Mr Seddon had not done anything for the Temperance party until he was compelled to, and would need to be forced to reform the polioe." And yet the Prohibitionists of Hawera bring out a second opposition candidate to ensure the return of a Seddon nominee to the House to continue him in power.

Mr T. A. B. Bailey, solicitor, took his departure this morning by the New Plymouth coach on his way to the Northern capital. Mr Bailey is severing his connection with Opunake, and intends, we understand, throwing in his lot with the Northern goldfield district, where everything is booming just at present. During his stay in Opunake he made a host of friends, who very sincerely regret his departure, as he was most obliging and always ready to assist in any social or public movement for the enj>ymont of the public, or the advancement of the place. In his business relations, his strict integrity had gained him the good-will of all clients with ■whom he had to deal. We wish him every prosperity wherever he may cast his lot.

Mr Newton King sella stock at Rahotu tomorrow. Tenders for felling 70 acres of bush will olose next Friday.

To-morrow the town ratepayers will be called on to elect a new Town Board for the ensuing two years. They have eight candidates to chose from, all of whom are well known to the electors, and they should be able to select a good working Board from the number.

We give a reminder of the Brass Band's concert and dance, which is to take place in the Town Hall on next Friday evening. All those taking part are busily engaged practising up their various items, and a good entertainment may be looked for. We trust the public will generously support such a worthy object. New South Wales has held the cake for disgraceful conduct in Parliament up to the present, but our Parliameut will soon run it to close head. On Friday night during an attack on Mr McGuire by the Premier the latter made a most disgraceful exhibition of himself in tearing up a past and gone incident between Mr McGuire and the Parish Priest during the election campaign of 1890, for which he had to be called to order by the Acting-Speaker. The Minister of Lands also fell foul of Mr G. Hutchison and pulled off his;coat|in the House to resortt o fistecuffs, but was held back by some of his supporters. The Ministerial challenge for the future will be " Vote for' this measure, or come out on the lovely grass." Certainly the best medicine known is Sandeb and Son's Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza; the relief is instantaneous. In serious oases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swellingno inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swellings, &c.; diarrhoea, dysentry, diseases of the kidneys, and urinary organs. la 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.