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Opunake Times, Volume VI, Issue 261, 9 March 1897, Page 2

Mr J. Brunette, watchmaker, will pay his usual visit on next Friday.

We give a reminder of Mr W. D. Scott's stock Rale which takes place on Friday.

Mr Newton King sells stock at Rahotu to morrow.

An apprentice to the dressmaking is ad yertised for by Taylor and Williams.

Acceptances for the Rahotu Race Meeting are due to-morrow.

Mr W. D. Scctt notifies entries for his Awatuna sale on Mouday next.

The " Economic " drapery establishment has a replace advertisement in this ia.sue, to which we call the attention of our readers.

Mr Bond, surgeon dentist, will visit Opunako, on next Friday, when he may be consulted at Middleton's hotel.

The programme for the Okato Hack Race Meeting, which is to be held on the 15 April, appears in this issue. dEiiO of added money is to be given, the top prize bsing 17£ sovs. Six more pile 3 for the jetty were landed from the Glenelg on last Friday. In a couple more trips the whole of the timber will be landed ready to proceed with the work.

Wellington shippers of cargo by the Manaia, wrecked on the Tifranaki coast, are goiug to bring an action against the owners for loss of goods. Mr W. E. Spcneer, M.A., B.Sc, has been appointed examiner in geography for the December examination of the New Zealand University.

The total quantity of butter exported from the breakwater for a period of four weeks onded February 2Slh was 43 ( J tons 17cwts 3qrs 20lbs.

By 492 votes to 12 the ratepapers of Palmerston North have decided to bring into force the Ratiug on Unimproved Value Act of last session. Thirty-four voters beyond the statutory number voted.

Information has been laid by the Factory Inspector at Napier against the manager of the Bank of New Zealand for keeping employees at work after hours and obstructing the entrance of the Inspector,

Mr G. Davies, watchmaker and jeweller, has taken tho premises lately occupied by Mr Flynn, and has commenced business in Opunake. Mr Davies brings good credentials as a competent and trustworthy workman, and is prepared to execute with despatch all orders entrusted to him, and guarantees Bitisfaction.

The following passes at the examination held in January are gazetted :—Class E.— Margaret Irvine, Clara Annie King, Laura Mvnott, Laura Reed. Class D (partial pass). —Violet Emily Gayne, Florence Anthony Ronald Tjrer. Class E (partial pass).—Alice May Andrews, Kate Elizabeth Smith. Special Mention—Class D: Geography, F. A. Tyrer. Class : Domestic Economy and the Laws of Health, A. M. Andrews; School Manage* meut, L. E. Mynott.

The chief actor in the celebrated " Enitnett case," Mr M. Cunningham, passed away at his residence, New Plymouth, on Wednesday. The Wanganui Jockey Club had a notice of motion set down for decision on Saturday evening, praying that the disqualification imposed on the deceased should be removed, as it was argued he had already been punished quite sufficiently. As he has passed beyond the limited jurisdiction of Jockey Clubs, the motion will now lapse.

A lost beast is advertised for. On Monday morning a bolt occurred, Mr Birch's horse being startled by a bell ringing whilst the owner left him unattended to close to his gate. An attempt was made to stop him at Middleton's corner, but turning sharply round the corner he upset the trap and damaged it considerably.

An enterprising British farmer recently purchased a mountain of beef in the shape of an enormous bullock, the price being £35. Since then Jumbo 11. has made hundreds of pounds for its owner, who shows the animal. Some 300,000 people have paid to see Jumbo 11. The animal was bred and fed by the late Mr Hugh Aylmer, of West Dereham, Norfolk. He now stands 6ft 3in high at the chine, and 6ft 4in high at hips. He is nearly five years old, and when last weighed was 1 ton 8 cwt. He measures from nose to tip of tail 15ft Gin, and is 10ft 6in round the girth. We do not unfrequently see paragraphs referring to Argentina as an ideal country for the production of cheap mutton, beef, and wheat, but judging from information supplied by the Rural Insurance Company in regard to the ravages of locusts, farmers have very serious drawbacks in that country. In four provinces, which have a total area of 5,096,300 acres under cultivation this season, no less than 3,354,300 acres have been seriously damaged by locusts. Wheat is the principal crop, and in some districts it was eaten up completely, though efforts were made by the destruction of the egg 3 of the insects in bushels to prevent them being hatched.

A photographer, desirous of collecting a doubtful account, fell upon a facetious expedient. Selecting one of the photos for which a dilatory sitter had never troubled himself to call, although notified of their readiness, the artist pasted six slips of white paper across the front of it, entirely obscuring both face and figure. On the slips he wrote the days of the week, beginning with Monday, which covered the feet, and ending with Saturday, which hid the face. The photo, thus disguised, he placed in the show case outside, adding the intimation that the individual depicted owed him 14s, and would be given a week wherein to make payment. Nobody realised the joke at first, not even the debtor. But when, by the gradual removal of the slips, the feet were bared on Monday night, the knees on Tuesday, the entire legs on Wednesday, and the waist on Thursday, keen interest began to centre on the card, and speculation ran bo high that crowds daily gathered in front of the case. Many guesses were made as to the owner of the photo, and Saturday's revelation of the face was eagerly awaited. But the exposure was averted. The debtor's brother, by a promise to pay, saved the credit of his house on Friday night, and next day the card was removed. The photographer has since had several belated accounts settled.