The Opunake Times. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1897.

Opunake Times, Volume VI, Issue 267, 30 March 1897, Page 2

The Opunake Times. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1897.

We give a reminder of the meeting of ratepayers at Elthara Road School this evening,

Mr W. D. Scott notifies a large entry of stock for his next Opunake sale.

At Wellington, William Glenn, while un dergoing an operation on the eye at the hospital, died under chloroform.

The Registrar of dogs gives notice that owners who have not registered their dogs on, or before Ist April, will be proceeded against.

Mr J. Feaver, photographic artist, has taken a very beautiful view of the Gape Egmont lighthouse and surrounding country, copies of which are now on sale.

Nominations for the two vacancies on the Parihaka Road Board should be in the hands of the Returning Officer by noon tomorrow (Wednesday). The Government's new steamer Tutanekai, arrived in the bay yesterday, for the purpose of putting a buoy on a rock, but owing to the rough weather was unable to do so.

Owing to the extremely inclement state of the weather on Friday evening the farewell social to the Rev. Mr Canrell could not be held; The Rev. gentleman started on his trip Home on Monday morning.

A skeleton has been found at Taupaki, with a bullet hole in the skull. A spade, billy, and blankets were alongside. The remains are believed to be those of a gum.digger.

The wife of Donald McPherson, a settler o£ West Waiau, when taking home the cows on Thursday evening, was attacked by a bull and gored to death before assistance arrived. The unfortunate woman was frightfully cut about the head and neck.

The s.s. Glenelg arrived from South on 23rd inst. Imports : Middleton, 5 pkgs ; Pettigrew, 48 pkgs; West, 11 pkgs ; O'Rorke, 14 pkgs; Bang Chong, 37 pkgs; Stitt and Miller, 108 pkgs ; McCarthy, 3 pkgs. Exports : Stitt and Miller, 9 bales fungus.

On account of a clerical error in the Stamp Department, Wellington, being discovered, which somewhat mitigates the seriousness of the oase against Monteith, a Reefton brewer, the Government has remitted the forfeiture of the stock and plant on payment of a fine of £SO and costs.

The general meeting of the Opunake Racing Club, convened for next Saturday evening, is postponed until the following Monday at the same time and place. The change in the date of meeting is made owing to it not being convenient for several members living at a distance to attend on Saturday evening, and a fall meeting is desired.

Mr D. H. Robertson, manager of the Milton branch of the Bank of New Zealand, died on Friday morning from the effects of injuries received on the 10th instant. He was coasting down a hill on his bicycle when the machine swerved, and he wa3 carried to the bottom, striking the bank with his head. He sustained concussion of the brain.

Now that the big egg, big cabbage, big apple season is over, newspaper men are turning their attention to finding out the age of the youngest visitor to the summit of Mount Egraont. We saw in an exchange a few days since that a girl aged 12 held the distinction, but Master Ernest Cathcart, son of the assistant lighthouse-keeper at Cape Egmont, can go one better, as he asceuded the highest peak of the mountain when he was 7 days under 8 years of age.

The arbitrators appointed to decide whether Mr Charles Wilson, oditor of the New Zealand Mail, or Mr R. C. Kirk, Mayor of Petone, should contest the Wellington Suburbs seat, for which Mr T. M. Wilford, solicitor, was didqualified, have given their decision in favor of Mr Wilson. Mr Kirk denies the rumor that he is likely to visit England with the rifle team, as he sees but little prospect of leaving his business at present.

Information has been received by Mr De Costa, Secretary of the New Zealand Rugby Union, from Mr Roland Hill, Secretary of the Engliih Rugby Union, with reference to the laws of the game for continued breaches of the laws for which no penalties now exist. He writes that it has been decided to add the following penalty clauses to Law 11: "If any player or team wilfully und systematically break any law or laws for which the penalty is only a scrimmage," or " wilfully and systematically cause an unnecessary loss of time." These are to become the law of the International Board at once. The additions have been made at the request of the New Zealand Union.