The Opunake Times. TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1897.

Opunake Times, Volume VI, Issue 283, 25 May 1897, Page 2

The Opunake Times. TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1897.

A trespass notice appears elsewhere. A notice is given by the Harbor Board re recovery of unpaid rates. Tenders are invited for purchase of Section 4, Block 2, Ngariki Road. Mr W. D. Scott notifies a large entry for his next Opunake stock sale.

J. B. P. Carey, charged with arson at Otakeho, has been committed for trial. Oscar Wilde, who in May, 1895 was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in London has been released from prison.

The Hon. Sectretary of the Opunake Football Club desires to acknowledge donations from Mr A. O'Donnell, Kahotu, £l, and from Mr W. D. Scott of £l, towards the club's funds.

Mother Mary Joseph Aubert paid a visit to Opunake on Saturday. Her name in connection with her herbal remedies is now a household one in New Zealand. She is visiting the district, appointing agents for the sale of her remedies.

In connection with the recent shooting mystery at Balclutha, Detective Cox on Wednesday night at Wellington, arrested James Reid, a young man, on a charge of attempting to kill John Nicol, the man who wai shot through the jaw on the 11th instant.

The barque Coromandel, which sank at the railway wharf over a year ago, was pretty well pumped out on Friday night and was so far afloat that preparations were made to berth her when the tackle gave way. The mizzen mast went over the side and she plumped to the bottom again with some force. The task of lifting her will now be worse than ever.

- Yesterday— Queen's Birthday—passed off very quietly in Opunake. The weather waß lovely for an outing, and numbers availed themselves of the opportunity. The harbormaster, Mr Des Forges, had all the available buuting displayed on the flagstaff, but apart from that there was no other demonstration. In the evening a social dance was held in the Town Hall, at which a number of the young folks thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Friday night was one of the coldest felt iu Wellington for a long time past, the thermometer in the museum recording a temperature of 24 deg. (8 deg. below freezing point) in the open air, and 35 deg. in the shade. These readings are lower than any of lust year's, except those in August, when the minimum was 21 deg. in the open, and 34 in the shade. Since Easter the weather has been exceptionally fine.

Another poll is to be taken on the question of water and drainage for Hawera. The new proposal is to pump the water from a well to a tower in the town, whence it will be distributed. This is admittedly only a temporary supply, and that eventually a gravitation scheme will have to be adopted. It seems a pity for the ratepayers not to go in for a permanent scheme when they are about it.

The following is the result of the bread and butter ball, given by the ladies' committee in aid of the Hawke's Bay floods relief fund : —Tickets sold at door, £5 15s; tickets sold by Mrs Brennan, £4 17s 6d; by Mrs O'Brien, £3 2s 6d ; by Mrs W. W. Middleton, £1 17s 6d ; by Mrs Ballard, £1 10s ; by Messrs Parkes and Brooker, os ; subscriptions—Mrs T. Knowles, £1 ; Messrs Tweedie Bros, 10s; Mr J. J. Ross, 10s 6d; A Friend, 2s; total, £l9 10s. Expenses, 6s 6d; leaving a net balance, of €l9 Hs 6d, whiitt which !i t.s been duly for«n.rd«»il i>y Mr W. D. >Sci>u, lion secretary. ■ The Qk&io tUciii}.! Cliu; liso« decided un iioiaiiig thuir ne.vt meeting earlier in the year, about November or December. They have male arrangements for a new course, about live minutes' walk from Okato, and adjoining the main road. They are going to plough the course and lay it down straight away, so that it should be in good trim by the time the races come round. They also anticipate haviqg a stand erected for the convenience of the public. Although having had bad luck with their inaugural meeting they are still undaunted. Mr A. Park, M.R.C.V.S., the Government bacteriologist, who arrived at New Plymouth from the north on Tuesday and left again for Wellington ou Friday morning, has been engaged in the interval in oculating some thirty of Mr Connett's cows (says the Tarunaki Herald) with Dr Koch's tuberculin test. The developements and results of the inoculation will be watched and reported upon by Mr Orbell, Stock Inspector, whose intention it is, in conjunction with Mr Reakes, to inoculate several herds in this district with the same test. Since Mr Park has been in new Zealand he ha*, we understand, inoculated some COO or 700 cows, of which number between twenty and thirty per cent proved to be affected with tuberculosis.

On Saturday evening a meeting of the Opunake Football Club was held to arrange for a ball to augment the funds of the club. The following committee was appointed to carry out the ball:—Messrs A. Clarke (chairman), \V. McLeod. W. Humphries, A, Guy, F. Guy, W. Lambie, H. Langman, W. Dufnll, J. Stevenson, E. O'Hanlon, and F. E. Dob son, hon. sec. It was decided to hold the ball on Wednesday, June 23rd. They had intended holding it on the Queen's Birthday, but so as not to clash with the bread and butter ball in aid of the Hawke's Bay floods relief fund they postponed it for a month. A strong committee has been formed from Opunake, Pihama, and Rahotu, and a firstclass turn-out should be the result. As a matter of fact money seems to bo fairly plentiful in circulation in Opunake ou visiting the Melbourne Cash House, it being found the shop actually packed with people, and piles of parcels goiug out to meet the demand, 0. Cummins has just opened sixteen cases and bales of fresh goods, and looking at the prices these too must meet a speedy out-door trip. Certainly the best medicine known is Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza—-the relief is instantaneous. In serious cases and accidents, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, is the safest remedy—no swelling, no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, &0., diarrhoea, dysentery, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical elides all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty, the King of Italy, and crowned with medals and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Insist getting Sander & Sons Eucalypti Extract, or else you will be supplied with worthless oils.