The Opunake Times. FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1905.

Opunake Times, Volume XXI, Issue 750, 23 June 1905, Page 2

The Opunake Times. FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1905.

The total number of Chinese employed in the Rand mines is 34,315.

Messrs J. R. Stewart and Co. will sell stock, at Opunake, on Monday next,

Mr F. M. B. Fisher, M.H.R., has been appointed a Justice of the Peace.

Tenders are called for labor only of two four-roomed houses and two cowsheds.

During May last 3182 tons of hemp, valued at £79,824 was exported from New Zealand.

Prohibition orders made in the Colony last year numbered 1426, including 116 against women.

The Wanganui Education Board has decided to give twelve months' notice of an alteration in school books.

During the month of May 392 unemployed persons were assisted by the Department of Labour, 258 being Bingle and 134 married.

Mr George Tindle will hold a sale at the mart, tomorrow, of boxthorn plants, hams, watches, furniture, drapery, and millinery.

For being found on licensed premises a prohibited person was fined £5 and costs, in default thirty days' imprisonment. The case occurred at Gisborne.

Mr T. O'Connor (through Mr George Tindle) has disposed of his interest in the Opunake hotel, to a well-known dairyman, who takes possession in a few weeks,

Messrs J. R. Stewart and Co. will hold an unreserved clearing sale on the farm, Oeo river, Skeet-road, on account of Mr W. T. Hooper, on Tuesday next.

" I know places in the North Island where women on the land have been three years without seeing another womaD," said Mr J. G. Wilson in giving evidence before the Land Commission.

Heavy weather 1 Captain Edwin wired at 11.30 a.m. today : Heavy gale from between north and west and south-west soon ; glass fall Tast, tides very high, sea very heavy, rain very heavy, river flooded heavily after 12 hours.

Mr Robert Spence, solicitor, of Stratfcrd, has been admitted to practice as a barrister of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The application was granted on the motion of Mr O. Samuel, before His Honor, Mr Justice Edwards.

The Stratford Post is informed that the freight concessions on the carriage of butter means a saving to the Stratford factory of between £4OO and £SOO per annum. The reduction only applies to the members of the National Dairy Association.

Piano business is being vigorously pushed by the Dresden Piano Coy. this month, owing to its annual balance, which takes place on June 30th. Very special terms are being offered. The company stock pianos by praotically every leading maker in the world. A special consignment of pianos has just been opened up,

At the Land Board meeting, held at New Plymouth, on Tuesday, the Commissioner brought up the question of the unseleoted sections in Spotswood Settlement. No applications had been made for them after being grouped in larger holdings. The attention of the Government is to be drawn to the fuct that more than half the area of the settlement, about 181 acres, is at present unoccupied, In the opinion of the Board it is a question for consideration whether a reduction should not bo made in the capital value of the land.

A poll cf Wellington ratepayers was taken on Tuesday on the proposal to borrow £50,000 to meet extra expenditure on certain works. Only 476 people voted, the proposal being cairied by a majority of 220.

Mr T. Taylor, M.H.R., addressed the largest meeting ever held at Greymouth. He said the coming session would be one of the stormiest in the history of the oolony, and prophesied that prohibition would be carried in a number of electorates.

The Waitara Mail is the authority for saying that Mr T. Hutchinson, S.M., does not believe it possible that a farmer can make anything out of land when paying £2O or more for it per acre. In giving these prices, says his Worship, the people are making rods for their own backs.

J. B. Burke, of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, experimenting with radium and sterilised bouillon placed together in a test tube, developed cultures presenting the appearance of life, such as growth and subdivision. Mr Burke considers the cultures fit exactly with the late Herbert Spencer's definition of life.

Six hundred students representing 26 colleges, revolted at Tientsin, and issued leaflets in support of the boycott of American goods, Two hundred members of the commercial guilds in connection with 17 provinoes signed an agreement with the same object. The trouble is owing to American antiChinese legislation.

The Hons. A. Lee Smith (Dunedin) and J. M. Twomey (Temuka) ceased to be members of the Legislative Counoil on Saturday. They were appointed on June 18,1898, for a period of seven years. The Premier, at Masterton, said that no further appointments to the Upper House are contemplated at present.

Mr George Holland, who died at Foxhill, Nelson, last week, was one of the earliest settlers of the province. He arrived in the ship Bolton, landing in 1842. Being at that time only a lad, he joined the " boys' gang " of the New Zealand Company, and was employed at Richmond. He farmed consecutively at Wakefield, Ranzau and Foxhill. Mr Holland was twice married, and leaves a large family, Mr Seddon saya he is going to reduce the duty on tobacco. This proposal has not much to commend in it. Smoking is a useless, not over cleanly habit, and we see no reason for extending muoh encouragement to it. The whiskey drinkers have quite as much claim for consideration, If Mr Seddon were to take the duty off sugar the benefit would be appreciated by all classes instead of only a section of the community, —Eltham Argus.

The alteration of the boundaries of the Woodside (Auckland) school district, led to a remarkable development." The chairman having ruled that only the householders of the old boundaries were entitled to vote, C. H. Lupton invited those who would vote under the new boundaries to follow him, and they proceeded into another room. Tho chairman called a policeman to remove them but he declined to interfere unless a breach of the peace were committed. Two committees were elected.

The average general reader of the news pertaining to the internal affairs of Russia believes that it is the aristocracy of Russia that have held the iron rule over suffering humanity. It is the bureauoracy. The best families in Russia have had many of their sons sent and kept in Siberia for trying to awaken their countrymen to threatened danger that now has overtaken them. The bureauoracy of Russia is opportunism of the worst type as the main object was the attainment of wealth without any degree of equity.

General astonishment is expressed at the very severe sentence passed by Judge Edwards upon the Maori burglar who recently performed in Eltham. Four years' impriaonment sounds like a ferooious sentence when it is remembered that Jefford and Munro, the safe breakerg at Okaiawa, were only sentenced to two years by the same Judge at the previous sitting of the Court. One of these criminals was one of the most expert safe breakers in Australia, and well known to the police—and yet he got only two years. The poor devil of a Maori was only a pettifogging amateur and got four years. We are sorry for him.—Eltham Arguß.

Mr H. Okey, Chairman of the Taranaki County Council, has been in Wellington on County matters. He left on Wednesday, and on Thursday morning waited on Mr Haywood, Secretary to the Treasury, with reference to the loan and subsidy money withheld from the Council. Later in the day, with Mr Heywood, Mr Okey waited on Mr Seddon,.Colonial Treasurer,, with the result that it was arranged for the Treasury to pay into the County's account £2OOO on account of bridge loan, and £B9O of subsidy, less an amount due for interest on the Eltham Boad loan. With regard to the latter the Treasury was perfectly satisfied with the Taranaki County's position, and it was arranged, with Mr Seddon's concurrence, to give the Egmont County Council, in whose district the Eltham Road now is, an opportunity to pay the outstanding interest. In the event of their not doing so a receiver will be appointed, Mr Okey also obtained a virtual consent from Mr Seddon to the expenditure of a portion of the bridge loan upon plaoing a large culvert, instead of a new bridge, at the Tapuae, and cutting down the hills on either side. Altogether, Mr Okey's mission was most satisfactory.—Taranaki Herald.

At the meeting of the High Sohool Board on Wednesday, the Chairman (Mr N. K. Mac Diarmid) reported that the informal welcome accorded to Professor Rutherford on his recent trip to New Plymouth had been most successful, although the dietinguished visitor would entertain no proposals of a public welcome. Mr Mao Diarmid, after referring to the special interest taken by this district in the brilliant New Zealander, moved the following resolution : —" The Board of Governors of the New Plymouth High School desires to tender to Dr Ernest Rutherford a hearty welcome on his return to the land of his birth, nnd congratulates him upon the brilliancy of his career and the high position he has achieved in the scientific world." Mr M. Praser, in seconding, remarked that the professor was practically a New Plymouth boy, and the citizens were justly pleased at his success. The resolutiou was carried unanimously. It is interesting to relate that on December 6th, 1893, as a young man, Professor itutherford was appointed a maßter of the Now Plymouth High School, but sent a telegram a week or two later declining the position, as in the meantime he had secured the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, which paved the way to Cambridge and future distinction.

Most Politicians need a box To drown their ravings in. The Poet wants a few hard knocks, The " Dead-beat " wants some " tin. " The Pillman makes a bold display The public to allure. But the man who sneezes night and day Wants Woods' Gbeax Peppermint Core,

The educational system of New Zealand is one of the most unbusinesslike things on the, face of the earth.—Mr W. Gray, Chief Inspector of Schools at the Wanganui Education Board;

A sixteen year old boy named Charles Goldup, Toko, while climbing a tree for a pigeon he had shot in the bush at Whangamomona, was killed by the accidental discbarge of his gun, which he left leaning against the tree, with the muzzle pointing upward.

Colonel Porter has resigned and severed his connection with the defence forces of the colony. He has taken a position as president of the Eawati Maori Council, and will be stationed on the East Coast in this capacity. He will be able to influence large areas of native lands being thrown open for settlement.

In consequenoe of the invalidation of the election of the Stratford School Committee a fresh election took place. There was a large number of candidates and two ladies were returned at the head of the poll. The voting for the successful ones was as follows:—Mrs Monkhouse 145, Mrs Mackay 130, P. F. Balfe 116, C. A. B. Watson 113, J. D. Morison 100, C. D. Sole 99, J. W. Curtis 81, A. W. Beid 79, B. H, Cameron 72.

William Powers was charged at the police court, Christchurch, that on June 10, he did carnally know a girl under ten years of age. The police asked for and obtained a remand for one week. Bail was in the first instance refused, sub-inspector Dwyer stating that the case was susrounded by ciroumstanoes which made it by far the worst case in his whole experience in the police department. The ohild was now lying in the hospital in a very bad state. Counsel later again applied for bail, pointing out that accused was a married man with a family, and in business, and not likely to abscond. The Bench agreed to allow bail, accused in £2OO and two sureties of £IOO each.

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