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Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 240, 22 December 1896, Page 2

Next Friday being Christmas Day there will bo no issue of the Times on that day. Mr Kaliukura notifies that he has commenced business at Opua as native agent. An extraordinary Gazette issued on Thursday further adjourns Parliament to February 18th. Mrs Ballard notifies that she will have the usual Christmas tree and bran pic at the Ladies' Emporium ou Thursday evening. Evening service will be held at St. Barnabas' Church on Christmas Day, when the Rev. Mr Compton will officiate. New passes on the railways have been issued to members of Parliament. The old passes cau bo retained on payment of £l, but will only be of value as souvenirs. The Egmont Racing Club are getting two starting machines of the Saywell and James' pattern, a successful trial of which was given on the course by the patentees some few weeks back. It is intended to erect one for the use of trainers to practise with, Information has been laid against Stephen Bosher, now in gaol, for the murder of the Joneses at Petone. Owing to the weak health of his second wife, whom he bigamously married, and who will be the principal witness against him, the case will not come on till January 10th. Some low scoundrel deliberately made several cuts in a sack containing oats which was fastened on the back of the New Plymouth coach on Friday night, thereby letting a considerable portion of the oats run out on the groand. Such wanton misehief wants putting down very badly, and if the offender can be discovered we hope he may get his deserts.

Mails for Australian Colonies (due in Sydney oh y Ist December), Tasmania, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Strait Settlements, Mauritius, and South Africa, also Continent of Europo and United Kingdom, via Naples due in London on 10th February, 1897, close at Wellington per Tarawera on Saturday, 2Gth instant, at 9 a.m., and at Opunake on Thursday, 24th instant, at 8.30 p.m. Money orders 4 p.m., registered letters 5 p.m.

It is stated that four new Legislative Councillors are to be called. Considering that Taranaki has only one solitary representative in that House we hope our claims will not be overlooked, and that Mr E. M. Smith's services to the Liberal Party will be remembered by his being one of the called, A true Liberal with six years' good service as a member, and only beaten through the standing of a Liberal Prohibitionist, few men have a stronger claim on the consideration of the Government.—Settler.

A trespass notice appears in this issue.

The. Colonial Treasurer has granted the loan of £ISOO for the Opua Road.

Mr W. D. Scott advertises the goodwill of a leasehold of 200 aores for sale. The Government has decided.to take steps to prevent the introduction of the bubonic plague prevalent in India and the East, and instructions will be issued to boards of health and customs officers by way of precaution.

The Government intend to erect a light on Rocky Point, near Cape Palliser, at the eastern entrance to Cook Strait. The lighthouse, which is now in course of erection, will be ready about June next. The light will be 258 ft above the level of the sea at high water, and will be a dioptric revolving white light of the second order, flashing twice every half minute, with iutervals of three seconds between the flashes. It will be visible to seaward over an area of 214 degrees of the horizon for a distance of about 25 statute miles from the deck of a vessel of ordinary height.

Mr Allsworth's house at Stratford narrowly escaped destruction by fire on Wednesday afternoon. People have been taking advantage of the spell of dry weather to burn up old timber on their clearings, and a northerly wind arose which carried the fire very quickly down towards Mr Allsworth's place. The Stratford Fire Brigade, under Captain Kivell, was promptly on the scene, and with volunteers' assistance soon averted all danger. The Post speaks highly of the conduct of the men, some of whose clothes were damaged by fire, and considers that but for their timely intervention Mr Allsworth's house would have suffered destruction.

The result of the enquiry demanded by Mr S track, head teacher of the Hawera School, has been conveyed by Mr Robbins, the Chairman, to the Education Board, as follows:—" I have to convey to you the following finding of my committee, which is as follows :—• That the Committee having gone fully into the charges preferred against Mr Strack, are of opinion that the charges are not substantiated, but we consider Mr Strack has shown indiscretion by having on several occasions kissed some of the teachers. The Committee also find that owing to the charges having been preferred considerable friction does now exist amongst the teachers. Therefore it will be necessary for a change to be made in the staff at an early date.' "

A Pangarehu correspondent writes :—The Coast anniversaries iu connection with the New Plymouth Wesleyan Circuit have been most successfully held. Preceded by three sermons from Rev. C. H. Garland on the Sunday, the annual meetings were held at Tataraimaka, Okato, Warea, Pungarehn, and Warea. Mr Garland's lectures on •' Woman and Women " and '• Character," that have already won colonial reputation, were sterling in value and oharmed and delighted all. A master in the art of recitation, he gave some of Tennyson's choicest poems, which, in his sympathetic and cultured hand, gained in delivery. Mrs Shomey's splendid singing was a rare treat and generously given, the singer leaving New Plymouth for a whole week to help in the aeries of meetings held:' Capital and clever recitations and songs gave much local pleasure, and showed wealth and brilliancy of local talent. At each place the friends had hospitably and generously provided refreshments. Mr John White gave a cheering report, and spoke in the highest terms of the kind feeling and attitude of members of different churches towards each other, their hospitality in their houses, their attendance at the services held, and their generously accorded support. He had paid nearly 800 visits, and preached approaching 200 sermons during the year.. Okato headed the amount of annual church contributions, Rahotu coming a close second. Pungarehu was distinguished for liberality, and both Warea and Tataraimaka had proved nobly generous. The result of the year had been such as to exceed the best expectation of all.

The Post Office, by means of a conspicuous notice placed over every posting-box in the colony, cautions the public against sending money and valuable articles in unregistered letters. Notwithstanding this warning, money continues to be sent by post in unregistered letters, and frequently in the most careless manner. It will hardly be credited by people who are careful in such matters that it is a common thing to find in the Post Office letters crammed full with bank notes, very often in the flimsiest of covers. Frequently the contents protrude from the envelopes, or are found loose in the mail-bags, having burst their envelopes, and frequently letters filled with notes are carelessly thrown loose into railway-vans for the guard to deliver with the mails. Many other cases could be instanced of carelessness on the part of the public in sending money by post. It often happens that letters containing money are alleged to have been lost in the Post Offiee, and it has'frequently been proved beyond doubt that such letters were either not posted or were mislaid or lost after due delivery. When an unregistered money-letter, alleged- to have been sent by post, is reported missing, it may happen that suspicion is cast on every one concerned—viz., on the person supposed to have posted the letter, the officers of the Post Office through whoso hands the letter would pass, and the person who would in ordinary course receive the letter from the Post Office, either'from a street-door letterbox, a private letter-box, over the Post Office counter, or from the hands of a letter-carrier. No record is kept of unregistered letters, and persons who post such letters containing money expose to temptation every one through whose hands they may pass, and in the event of non-delivery, suspicion is cast on many innocent persons. The public are again earnestly requested to register all letters containing money or valuables intended to be sent by post.—W. Gray, Secretary.

Dr A. S. Roberts, La Cygne, Kansas, writes : " I use Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract in disorders of the respiratory tract, diphtheria, dysentery, dfeo. It is a favorite drug with me, and Sander and Sons' preparation is the desiratum long wished for, the other different preparations of the drug being anything but satisfactory."—lnsist on getting Sander and Sons' Euoalypti Extract, or else you will be supplied with worthless oils.

How to Treat a Wife. (From Pacific Health Journal.) First, get a wife ; second, be patient. You may have great rivals and perplexities in your business, but do not therefore, carry to your home a cloudy or contracted brow. Your wife may have trials, which, though of lessmagnitude, may be hard for her to bear. A kind word, a tender look, will do wonders in chasing from her brow all clouds of gloom. —To do this we would add always keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house. It is the best and is sure to be needed sooner or later. Your wife will then know that you really care for her and wish to protect her health. For sale by Newman Bros. ;■>'■

On Friday evening after Mr Scott's sale two steers between two and two and a half year old got mixed in a mob Mr J. R. Stewart bought at the sale. Any one missing them had better call on Mr Stewart at Manaia.

Following upon the formal disbanding of the Australian Eleven, Mr Cresswell, instructed by the Chairman of the Cricket Council, has written Mr Musgrove, requesting him to produce his account books in connection with the tour for the inspection of the Council.

The remains of Mr G. Dunton's son Henry, who was poisoned b/ eating bush berries, were interred in the Opunake Cemetery on Monday. A good number of townspeople and country settlers attended the funeral, thus showing their sympathy with the bereaved parents. The Rev. Mr Cannell officiated at the grave in a very impressive manner..

The s.s. Glenelg arrived from South on" 20th December. Imports : Christie and Co, 6 pkgs ; W. Pettigrew, 7 pkgs ; Bang Chong, 4pkgs; D. McGregor, 22 pkgs; A.Campbell, 4 pkgs; Mrs Ballard, 1 pkg; Macßeynolds, 22 pkgs: C. F. McGregor, 2 pkgs; Stewart Bros, 4 pkgs; Cummins, 1 pkg; Feaver, 2 pkgs ; Stitt, 18 pkgs ; Middleton, 3 pkgs; Knowles, 6 pkgs ; Taylor and Williams, 4 pkgs; Newman Bros, 33 pkgs; Brame, 1 pkg ; McCarthy (Manaia), 4 pkgs ; J. Stewart, 3 pkgs; O'Donnell, 13 pkgs, Exports : W. D. Scott, 2 bales wool; G. W. Rogers, 46 hides, 3 bundles skins, 2 sacks pelts; Rutherford and Son, 23 bales hemp. Passenger : Miss Goldie.

Three youths, named Oscar Freyberg, aged 16, Victor Welsh 17, and Morton Smith 18, who were anxious to see the Delmira wreck, left Wellington port at midnight on Saturday in a fourteen foot boat, and had rather an eventful experience. They reached Cape Palliser at noon on Sunday, when they met with a gale and attempted to return, but could not get back, and eventually were blown off the land. Fortunately the steamer Hesketh, which was coming to Wellington, sighted the frail craft, and took the Occupants on board. They were then ten miles off land, and in an exhausted condition, not having hal anything to eat or drink since Sunday forenoon, They said that in another hour or two they must have succumbed.