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Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 218, 6 October 1896, Page 2

*„* Our accounts for the past quarter have now been issued and an early response will be duly appreciated.

Mr John Stitt shipped 30 pkgs of fungus io Auckland by the last trip of the Glenelg,

At the Narnu Hack meeting to bo held on Boxing Day, tlie programme will consist of six races with £ll 10s added money.

The School Committee will hold its meetings at 8 p.m., during the summer months instead of 7 p.m.

Messrs Ambury Bros have a replace advertisement in this issue, to which we call the attention of our readers.

The poll in connection with the South Watiuo Road loan will be taken on Tuesday, October 13th, at the Punehu Dairy Factory.

Mr 0. Cummins has a replace advertisement in this issue, notifying a great olearing sale for 14 days, commencing tomorrow.

Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co notify entries for their Opuuake stock sale on Tuesday next.

The Parihaka Road Board gives notice of its intention to strike a general rate of £d in the £ on all ratable property in the district.

Mr W. D. Scott reports the sale of Section SG, Punehu Township, containing 10 acres, from Mr J. R. Stewart, Manaia, to Mr Patrick Keley, Kaponga.

A letter from Mr W. J. Wells, on the West Coast Leag le, arrived too late for insertion in this issue, but will appear in next Friday's issue.

The draught stallion Bonnie Breast Knot was submitted to auction at Mr W. D. Scott's horse fair on last Saturday, and passed in at 90 guineas.

Mr A. G. Bennett, solicitor, has taken the office next the Bank of New Zealand, and intends visiting Opunake every Tuesday. He will also be in attendance on Mr Scott's sale days, and on Court days.

Mr John Clare, who has carried on the business of general carrier between Opunake and Hawera for the past sixteen years, has decided on retiring and engaging in farming pursuits, and offers his plant for sale.

At a meeting of the Banking Committee, the Premier moved that severul other members and himself be appointed to draft a report. Mr Geo. Hutchison quietly suggested that the proposed sub-committee was too large, and that it should consist of the Premier only.

The next English and European mail, via Briudisi, will close at Opunake on Thursday, Bth October, at 7 a.m. Registered letters 5 p.m., and money orders 4 p.m., Wednesday, 7th, due in London, November 24. A " parcels mail " will be despatched per " Aotea," leaving Wellington 17th Oct, due in London December Ist. Mail closes at Opunake Thursday, 15th Oct, at 5 p.m.

The Parihaka Road Board calls for tenders for works on the Namu, Opua, and Kina Roads, eight contracts in all.

A hurricane swept the Atlantic States, occasioning considerable loss of life, especially in theiown of Savannah.-

The average attendance at the school for the past quarter was 85 ; the greatest attendance on any one day 107 ; and the number on the roll 121.

The Variety Theatre at Aberdeen has been burned. A panic arose in the audience, and in the rush to escape three were killed and forty injured.

Lieut. Heyman and six men belonging to the cruiser Satellite were drowned off the coast of Alaska, while attempting to rescue two sailors who were dinging to a capsizei boat.

The 15th inst is set apart as a day of humiliation and prayer, in Capetown, owing to the rinderpest. The natives engaged in the Rand have quietly acquiesced to a reduction in wages.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands notifies that ten small grazing runs are open for application in the Upper Waitotara district on and after to-morrow. On the 14th instant 25 sections will be open for selection in the Taumatamahoe Block.

A boy named Edward Dalton, son of Mr Dalton, pork butcher, Wellington, and who was employed as messenger at the Government Priuting Office, while sliding down a banister in the Treasury Buildings fell, and dropped to the basement, a distance of 30 feet, and died from the effeot of the injuries.

A Pungarehu correspondent writes : —The weather of the Sunday when the friends were to have held their Sunday School anniversary (20th ult), was such that it was impossible to have it on that date. Nothing daunted the children have continued th«ir singing practice and on Sabbath next, 11th inst, intend holding two services at 2.30 and 7.30, and we hope the clerk of the weather will reward their perseverance with favorable weather. Doubtless the friends of the Sunday School will see that the institution does not suffer by the unavoidable postponement. Again the Rahotu friends kindly relinquish their coming service and surrender their preaoher the Rev. John H. White.

At the adjourned inquest on the human remains found at Okoha on September 14, held at Kaiapoi, the evidence of Drs Parsons and Squires showed that there were four distinct fractures of the skull and traces of blood found in the hair and on deceased's ■hirt. The remains were found in a goose hedge, on Mr J. S. White's land. There is a hut about 200 yards away, which for several years had been used by swaggers. The police theory is that deceased, while staying in this hut with other swaggers, was murdered and his body placed where it was found. No definite evidence as to identification was forthcoming. It had been ascertained that a life insurance policy, a renewal notice in respeot of which was found on the body was issued to a man named Ohlsen. Ohlsen's father lives in Sydney, and has received no news of his son for some considerable time, but whereas Ohlsens is 29 years of age the police are of opinion the man whose body has been found was about forty years old., The jury, after a brief retirement, returned a verdict" That the deceased unknown had been murdered by a person, or persons unknown, and that the body had afterwards been placed where found" The jury also suggested that the contents of the swag should be carefully washed and preserved for identification, and that the Government should offer a substantial reward for the conviction of the murderers.

Messrs Berry 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.—Advt.

Dr W. B. Rush, Oakland, Fla, writes :—" I employ Sander and Sons Pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract as a local application in chronic inflammations and rheumatic pains: intarnally in nephritic as well as in pulmonary, gastric, and vesical catarrh. It is sometimes difficult to obtain tbe genuine article. I employed different other preparations, they had no therapeutic value and no effects. In one case the effects were similar to the oil camphora, the objectionable action of which is well-known." —This is certainly a most striking evidence of the superiority of this excellent preparation over any other. —lnsist getting Sander and Sons Eucalypti extract, or else you will be supplied with worthless oils.