The Opunake Times. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1896.

Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 225, 30 October 1896, Page 2

The Opunake Times. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1896.

The Stratford Licensing Committee has refused to grant a conditional license for the Strathmore Sports on November 19.

Mr A. Wallis intimates that he has removed his boot shop to Seccombe's buildings.

A local sport sends us the following tip for the Melbourne Cup which is to be decided on Monday nest: Hopsootch, Skipper, and Resolute.

Mr Saunders, M.H.R., say 3 the session of 1896 was the most useless and expensive ever held, an 1 all because the Government had an overplus of followers.

Mr J. H. Flynn has a replace advertisement in this issue, notifying a great reduction in the price of boots made to order, and repairs.

A lad nimed Frank Battersby, 11 years of age, was found dead by tho side of the road in Foxton on Thursday morning. It is oonjectured that while driving the cows to the paddock, his horse stumbled and threw him.

Some 15 head of cattle, stolen from natives at Manaia. were recovered in Toko, having been sold at the Union Sale at Stratford on Friday last. A native named Hawe has been arrested in Manaia by Constable Salmon charged with the theft.

Owing to the accident which befel Mr C. Dransfield, who wai in charge of the stallion GoMon King, the owner, Mr Faber, has been compelled to cancel Golden Kings's travelling engagements for the season. He regrets the disappointment to those who had promised support.

Our popular tailor, Mr A.. Clarks, hat a ■very choice lot of tweeds and coatings to choose from for the summer season. We strongly advise those who wis>h to avoid disappointment to place their Christmas orders with him without dnlay, n 3 his list is rapidly filling up.

During 1895-6, the total value ot butter and cheese shipped from New Plymouth stood the highest of any port in the c010ny—£126,181.. In the previous year the export of dairy produce from the same port stood at £Ol, 976, then third on the list of New Zealand ports.

" Little Dixie," a coloured kettle-drum player, well-known to New Zsaland playgoers, .and a member of the Godfrey Company, was found dead on the floor of his bedroom, at Napier on Sundav. The cause of death was peritonitis and rupture of an artery.

In another column Mr Gallichan calls attention to his preparations Bee Ointment,. A.C. Corn Cure, and Vegetables Pills. These lines are really worth a trial.. During the last three years Mr Gallichan has received some very flattering testimonials from prominent settlers in the Tannaki district. Mr Stitt, Opnnake, stocks those lines.

The verger of the Pahiatua Anglican Church (3ays the Mail) is a man of resource. Last Sunday evening he was pushed to extremes in finding seats for the congregation. Going out into the church yard he found several empty kerosene tins which had been u«ed at a marriage festivity some time ago. Without delay he 'gathered them in ' placed them in position and the standing worshippers, wore accomodated.

The rtew wom-in is having an innings at Aifutiki, in the Cook Islands. The Native women watch every vessel that arrives and seize all the liquor landed on the beach in order to prevent the men getting drunk. Acting on tho advice of the Bricish Resident at Earatonga, thoy intend to destroy such liquor in future when they seize it. As the landing is illegal no one can claim compensation.

We hrrve to acknowledge receipt of the Cricketers' Annual for 189 G, from the pubUshers, Messrs Abel, Dykes, and Co, Auckland. It gives full particulars of all Association matches played in New Zealand during the past season, together with the batting and bowling averages for each club. It is a very handy publication and should be in the hands of every cricketer and lover of the the game. It is published at the very moderate price of 1/- postage 2d.

That very old and well-known phrase, " What are the Wild Waves Saying," is we believe to be re-introduced and sat to music on the tuue of Try Gallichnn's A.C. Corn Cure, only Is, everywhere. Blow me, tho editor should be shot for playing such tricks as this. Never mind, I know now what to get for my corns at John Stitt's. —Advt.

Dr. 11. B. Drake, Portland, Oregon, says : —I USO Sander and Sons Pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract principally for diseases of the nasal cavity, throat and iarnyx, and have found it very eilicacious as a iocal npplica- ' tion as well as an internal remedy. Since I became acquainted with this preparation I used no other form of Eucalyptus, as I think it by far the best. A canvass among the druggists of this place reveals the fact that Chamberlain's are the most popular proprietary medicines sold. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, especially, is regarded as in the lead of all throat trouble remedies, and as such, is freely prescribed by physicians. As a croup medicine, it i 3 also unexcelled, and most famines With young children keep a bottle always hanJy for instant use. The editor of the Graphic has repeatedly known Chamberlain's Cough llemedy to do the work after all other medicines had failed.—The Kimball S.D. Graphic. For sale by Newman Bros.

An impounding notice appears in this issue.

The Secretary of the North Island Dairy Association has been informed that the shipping oompanies have reduced the freight on cheese to nine-sixteenths of a penny per lb all the year round.

The following are the latest mail advices : The Anglican from Auckland, 2nd November, and Tarawera from Bluff, 3rd November, connect with mail via Naples from Melbourne, 10th November, due in London 26th December. The Talune from Bluff, 9th November, Rotomahana from Auckland, 10th November, and Mararoa from Wellington, 12th November, connect with mail via Brindisi from Melbourne, 17th November, due iu London 22ud December. The Ruahin* from Wellington 4th November, due in London 17th December.

A man named Nicol Miller was found dead in bed on Sunday, at Invercargill in a small house in which he lived alone. He had poisoned himself with strychnine, some crystals of which were found in a cup. Beside him a scrap of paper bore the words ; "If I do not awake, I have taken poison." Ou another scrap was:—" I hope no one will be able to refuse me work again." Miller was about 55 years of age, and for some time had been doing odd jobs, but had not been well employed. He was not destitute, as both food and money were found in the house. His wife and family are in Riverton. Iu his case—as in that of the man Charman who poisoned himself a few-weeks back—a newspaper containing an account of a suicide was found in the room.

Mr Hall-Jones' speech in the hall was like a lady's letter—the pith in the postscript. It was only after an hour's beating about the bush (full of lawyers and second-growth, by the way) of fiaauce, bank legislation, land settlement, old age pensions and the like, that the speaker spoke what he had oome to speak. In a grandmotherly sort of way he warned us against the independent candidate giving us to understand that there was no place in New Zealand politics for the man who does his own thinking ard votes honestly according to his lights. It appears that the pattern of legislator bearing the hall-mark of the Government is a machine resembling a barrel-organ. The case may be of local manufacture, but the works must be supplied and the tunes, from time to time, readjusted at the central fitting shop in Wellington. It may be remembered that the Government candidate for Egmont seat had his pipes adjusted to the standard pattern a little while baok.—Stratford Correspondent, Ifrirald.