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Opunake Times, Volume XXI, Issue 752, 30 June 1905, Page 2

Arbor Day falls on the 12th July. At the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, the secretary of a defunct cricket club was held responsible to pay for material which be had ordered. Messrs Prosser Bros., watchmakers and jewellers, notify that they have in stock various articles suitable for birthday Rifts, and anything not in stoek'will he procured. At Nelson, two old ngr ners, busband and wife, were made <o • •tv £Bl, the whole of their pensions for f 'or years, for failing to disclose the fee 'hat property had been transferred by the < n band. In the Governor’s Speech mention is made of telephones to be made to the back blocks. Possibly the Opunake-Te Kiri telephone line will come unner that heading, More people will be served by that connection than a great many back blocks put together. The people of this colony are large consumers of meat, and opinions differ as to the quality of it, especially beef. Some is tender and palatable, whilst some is strong in flavor and coarse in the grain. The difference in flavor is caused by pasturage; the meat grown in the open being fine grained and tender, while that grown in the bush has not the same qualities. The meat supplied at the Opunake Meat Bazaar by Walter C, Dudley is grown in the open, and is consequently tender and palatable, as those who have tried it can testify.—Adyx;

A new post-office is to be built at Waito tara.

There is seething industrial discontent in Russia.

An advertiser wants from 60 to 70 cows to milk on shares.

. Mr George Tindle will sell stock at Opunake on Monday next,

The half-yearly meeting of the Brass Band will be held this evening.

A horse, saddle, and bridle, taken charge of on Monday, await an owner.

Tenders are called for the erection of 20 chains of post and wire fencing;

Meeting of Caledonian committee on Monday evening—grandstand business. Applications are called for the position of working foreman for the Road Board.

The new English Church, at Mokoia, was opened and consecrated on Sunday last.

At a meeting of the proposed Eltham county, Mangatoki decided against the project.

Mr Hunt, of Manaia, is about to leave that town, he having had an offer for his drapery business.

Mr J. Miller’s farm, at Taungatara, is for sale, or lease, on a purchasing clause. There are 436 acres, to be let in two farms.

The Bowling Club ball resulted in a profit of a little over £lB, a very creditable result considering the terrific weather.

News has been received from German New Guinea of the murder by natives of Mr McConviile, the well-known trader.

The monthly meeting of . the Farmers’ Union will be held to-morrow, when the business will be “ Mutual Fire Insurance,” &c.

As a result of the departmental inquiry two more members of the police force have been discharged in connection with the recent scandal.

The executive of the Captain Seddon presentation fund hope to bring the matter to a conclusion in a fortnight. The movement ia said to have been an entire success.

Mr Barsby, of Taihape (formerly of Opunake( met with an accident last week, through which he burst a blood vessel, resulting in severe hemorrhage of the lungs.

Mrs Owens notifies that she has a corn* fortable house in King street, Opunake, for ladies during accouchement. Mrs Owens has had experience as a trained nurse, and has credential from various doctors.

Mr Edison believes that he invented the call “ Hello I” for the telephone by accident. He has a habit of saying “ Hello I” to everybody, and so naturally shouted it into the telephone when he experimented with it. Mr Lewis, M.H.R. (says the Lyttelton Times), has drafted a Bill for presentation to Parliament rendering compulsory the registration of motor cars throughout the colony. The Bill will be on the same lines as the English one.

A copy of New Zealand Truth, a new weekly paper started in Wellington on Saturday last, is to hand. The journal, which is conducted by Mr John Norton, contains a quantity of keenly political matter relative to people and things New Zealand.

The firebell was rang on Wednesday evening, the trouble being another defective chimney. A number of people are now taking steps to get their chimneys cleaned, as persons with fires on the top of the chimney are liable to be brought before the Court,

The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Telegraph announces that China has decided to follow the advice of Japan in the formation at Pekin of constitutional Government, which will bo established in 12 years. Preliminary reforms wiil be realised by China in the interval.

On Tuesday evening, as the sun went down and all nature seemed hushed with the closing except for a solitary black bird perched high on a pinus insigniua, that whistled a mournful note and looked sideways down on a cart and horse that emerged through a gate on to the roadway. It was a bachelor party shifting quarters, and as the dough-tin looked black at the kettle, a short—very short handled-pot vibrated dismally, the trinity chairs (three-legged ones) kept prodding the sides of a box-table as bachelordom was followed by a hungry dog and a house-oat. The cart slowly rounded a corner and was lost to view.' and the roaring of the sea sounded forth more plaintively.

Too much energy, like a little knowledge, is a dangerous -thing when mia-applied. Three years ago the leading writers of the day were exemplifying the Russian Foreign Office as a department of push and energy and were ousting British influence everywhere, To-day the Russian Court is the least influential of any of the great powers, Too much energy brought on the conflict with Japan with the result already told. During the same period British expeditions to Thibet and Afghanistan have completely ousted Russian influence, whilst in Persia Russia’s decline has been Britain’s opportunity. In the Balkan States the predom. inant influence of Russia has been weakened judging by the massacres amongst the religious factions.

The sixtieth birthday of the Premier has elicited many complimentary references to his marvellous career. • The Wairarapa Times says: Prom an obscure position in a British workshop he has risen higher than any factory-hand known to fame, But if Mr Seddon, when a mechanic, had worked under his own beneficent labor laws, which discount future profits for immediate advantages, he might still have been a working man earning a wage of 50s a week, and looking forward to an Old Age Pension of ten shillings a week. It doesn’t do to make life too easy for any class of pe >ple. It is the discontented people who win honor, glory, and riches, The contented people don’t hustle and don’t make headway. They leave Mr Seddon to do the hustling for them, and this is a fatal mistake.

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The New Zealand estate of the late Sir Frederick Sargood has been finally certified for stamp duty at £200,838.

Dr Orpen, a well-known Auckland medical man, has been arrested ’on a charge of attempting to commit an illegal operation.

Two squadrons of Dragoons and Cuirassiers while manoeuvring at Valborne camp, near Lyons, collided. Two dragoon officers were killed, 20 dragoons were injured, and 20 horses were killed.

A Presbyterian Church service was held at the Te Kiri sawmill, on Tuesday evening, by Mr Knight. There was an attendance of about twenty, a stool being used for a desk, and sacks, &0., for seats.

From the proceedings of the Royal Society, September, 1904“ The guinea pig’s complement does not appear to possess hatoyaffinity corresponding to the oomplementophile affinity of the gastrolytio aboceptor. ” A bit of luck for guinea pig, as the Globe points out. Many animals are perfect martyrs to gastrolytio amboceptors. Mr R. J. McNeill, who has sold his nice homestead of 2000 acres of fine freehold land, situated near Reefton, to two Blenheimites, intends to farm at Pihama. 11 Bob ” was a well-known and popular personage on the West Coast, and being an up-to-date farmer, he will be a welcome addition to the district. Mr McNeill is brother-in-law to Mr Sam Campbell, of Pihama.

A debate was held at Kaponga, on Monday night, on the question “ Leasehold versus Freehold.” Members of the Stratford debating society supported the leasehold, Kaponga championing the freehold. Mr Harding, of Mahoe, was judge. A very interesting debate resulted in the judge deciding in favor of Kaponga and the freehold, the marks gained being 345 and 342 respectively.

At a public school in Wellington, where cookery is taught, a scheme of threepenny dinners has been inaugurated, and children who live a long way from the school are able to have soup, meat and vegetables, and pudding if they so desire, Fifty dinners were served one day recently. The children do the rough work of the cooking themselves > they scale and clean fish, clean vegetables and fruit, and so on.

At the Land Commission, at Wellington, Mr Campbell, Valuer-General, put in a return showing the Crown lands held under lease in perpetuity, small grazing run, perpetual lease, and occupation with right of purchase conditions. The estimated sum which Crown tenants would have to find to acquire their freeholds at the present values of the Valuation Department, which took no cognisance of tenants’ own improvements, would be £2,776,821, the original values having been £2,630,573.

Regarding the case of Mr B. G. Wright, electrical instructor at the Thames School of Mines, who received injuries to his hand while carrying out experiments with the X-rays, amputation was considered necessary and the left hand was removed at the wrist. Mr Wright is going Home for further medical treatment, but would have been physically unable to make the voyage without amputation, owing to the pain making such ravages into his constitution. The case is attracting considerable attention amongst the medical profession.

Captain Edwin wired at 12,30 p.tn. to-day: Moderate to strong easterly wind. Glass rise slowly. Tides low, sea moderate. Expect frost to-night.

At the egg-laying competition in Blenheim, the first pen of six hens (white leghorns) laved 168 eggs in seven weeks, an average of 28, the second hen averaged 26 5, and the third hen 20 3. During the same period, five silver wyendottes, belonging to Mr G. Maginness, of Opunake, went one better, having laved 145 eggs, an average of 29 each. From March 4 to June 25, the five hens have layed 211 eggs.