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Opunake Times, Volume VI, Issue 255, 16 February 1897, Page 2

A combined washing and wringing machine (almost new) is advertised for sale. The good will of a nice dairy farm is advertised for sale.

Sergiant Kelly, who has been acting in ex-Seigeaut Gamble's place in the Auckland police station, returns to street duty there.

The steamers Oieti and Storrabird were aground on the flats in the Wanganui River on Thursday and Friday.

The Egmont Post says:—Mr McGuire, is to be civ artained at a banquet on Tuesday (this evening) by a number of his old supporters at Stony Paver.

The Colonial Treasurer cannot see his way to set aside the decision of the Racing Conference and grant a totulisator license for the hack race meeting at El (ham. They should have applied before the election.

According to Sergeant Kiely, of Mastertou, the numerous prohibited poisons in the district have formed a mysterious organisation, known as “ The Society,” the main object of which is to procure liquor to be consumed by steal in the park.

Mr W. D. Scott notifies the sale by public auction of S. ction 5, Block 4-1, Gisborne Terrace, Opunake Town, which lakes place oh Saturday next at his mail. It is a very desirable section fronting the site for the proposed railway terminus, and adjoining Mr J. Stewart’s aerated water factory.

The first six to tarn piles from Hokianga were landed from the Glenelg on Sunday List, and towed ashore without any difficulty. The whole of the timber will be here in the course of a few weeks, so that tenders may be at once called for the labor and a start made with the work.

Owing to the weather on last Saturday being so inclement, the entertainment which was to be held in the Eahotu Public Hall building fund was postponed until next Friday evening. The Eahotu school picnic is to take place on Friday and the concert will prove a pleasant wind up to the days amusement. After the concert a dance will be held, for which good music is provided.'

The many friends of Mr Henry Barton, of the Kiri Eoad, will hear with regret of his death, which took place at his brother’s homestead, at Ballanco, in the Woodville district. Mr Barton had been ill for some time past, and passed away on last Tuesday, and was buried at Mangatainoko on Thursday. Ho was a general favorite in this district, where he resided for a number of years on bis farm. His genial aud gentlemanly manner, combined with sterling honesty and a generous nature, had won him the esteem and respect of his neighbors.

Bate notices have been issued for the Eltham Eoad loan, but the Council has made a very glaring error in tire amount claimed. The interest on the loan is £IOO a year, and as the rate cannot be applied to any other purpose than paying interest, it is not legal to levy more than will be sullicient to pay interest for the year. The rate levied is ii l-3d, which, if our information as to the total valuation of area is correct, would produce £250, or more than double what is required. It will therefore be apparent that the rate claimed must be reduced by more than oue-half.

It is talked of in London just now that a ymng nobleman, a leader of English “ smart ” society, holding a place in the present Government, and generally supposed to have not only a large income but great accumulated wealth, has been called upon to repay a Joan of £150,000 which, during his minority, he obtained from the late Baron Hirsch. As a result of this, ho has been obliged to close his great country mansion and enter upon a course of rigid retrenchment of all his expenses for years to come. Easy terms were olTered by the Baron’s executors? but he mortgaged his income to pay oil the debt immediately.

Patea Harbor Board shows a profit of £651 upon last year’s working. Mr W. D. Scott’s Opunake sale takes place next Friday, having been postponed last week on account of the weather.

A writer in a southern contemporary thinks there are worse places than New Zealand, and not many better.

It is alleged that £33,235 is the value of the lolly-pop factories of Maorilaud, and they make 463 tons of chewing gum and peppermints.

Every telegraph pole in the remote districts of Norway has to be continually watched on account of the bears, which have a mania for climbing the poles and sitting on the cross-beams, swaying backward and forward until the pole finally falls. The billiard-room erected by Mr O'Donnell, of the Rahotu Hotel, is now almost completed, and was opened yesterday. It is a fine spacious room, being 30 feet by 20 feet, and provides ample accommodation for the comfort and convenience of the ” Knights of the green cloth.”

A young man named Faulknor, son of a Napier coachbuilder, was run over by a timber truck at Piripiri sawmill, Danevirke, a wheel going across his stomach. He died from the effects, leaving a wife and three children.

Weasels are doing a great deal of damage amongst sheep in the Waikato, and are spreading rapidly over the country. Last week Mr Morgan, of Hautapu, near Hamilton, had three sheep killed by weasels, and several cases had also been reported from Lichfield,

In Australia they have a regulation that when cows are taken to the bails just immediately after a shower they should be scraped over with a piece of hoop iron, so that all the filthy water on their backs—sometimes covered with manure and scabs—may not fiud its way into the milk cans.

The market value of a cough was the question submitted to the Birmingham County Council a few weeks ago. A barrister sued a railway company for £SO for discomfort suffered by smoking being allowed in a waiting room at a station and in non-smoking carriages. The smoking aggravated the barrister’s cough and he was awarded £lO.

Mr O’Mera, member for Pahiatua, whilst riding a bicycle through the Manawatu Gorge, went over a bank 30 feet into jagged rocks. He was hauled up insensible by a rope, badly cut about the scalp, mouth, and nose, and bruised all over. It will be weeks before he will be able to be about again. A banquet at Mangatainoko in- his honor had to be put off in consequence.

Michael Kelly, lately fireman on board the steamer Indraghiri, has been sentenced to six month’s imprisonment at Auckland with hard labor for embezzling cargo. The accused has been charged with a similar olience when the Indraghiri was in Sydney and Melbourne. A charge against the accused of having uncustomed goods in his possession was withdrawn.

Rabbits in the Marlborough districts are so much reduced in numbers that the runholders not only have them well under, but expect in the course of another year to have them practically extinct. A station in Marlborough that two years ago was paying rabbiters over £3OO a week has had its wool clip increased since that time from 101 to 300 bales, simply owing to the better feed that has resulted from the diminishing of the pest.

For the last four years an experiment has been in progress in Ottawa, wherein 40 acres of land are set apart for the purpose of growing cereals and green forage crops, all of which are used in feeding cows. The object is to show how many cows can be fed per annum for such an area of arable land. The cultivation is only of the kind within the scope of the ordinary farmer, and it is sought to direct attention to the practicability of keeping cattle in larger numbers than is usually the care on the moderate and small sized farms in Canada. Thirty cows per annum have been fed on the crops from the 40 acres, a little wheat, bran, and oilcake being allowed in addition. The total quantity of milk yielded in the second half of the year was 59,9861 b, equivalent :o about 15001 b per acre. The total quantity of blitter fat was 23061 b, equivalent to about 601 b per acre. The yield of butter has been at the rate of 1151 b for every 100. b of butter fat in the milk. If the whole of the milk had been made into butter the 40 acres would have yielded 26021b—0r GGIb per acre —in the half year July to December.