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Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 40, 16 November 1894, Page 2

The total estimated population of New Zealand on the 30th September last was 722,590. We are informed that a butchering estabishment is to be established at Bahotu. Messrs Newman Bros have just received a large consignment of seasonable drapery, which will repay inspection. Tenders are invited for carting cheese from the Awatuna Factory to the Eltham Railway Station. Mr W. D. Scott notifies entries for his next Opunake sale which takes place on this day week.

The South Australian eleven made 383 Giffen, 64; Darling, 117; Jarvis, 35; Dyer, 23 ; Hill, 20 ; liliman, not out, 19 Jones, 0. The jockey Cockroft, convicted of the murder of his step-sister, was hanged at Ballarat (Victoria) on Monday last. The execution passed off quietly. Mr Pettigrew has obtained a Babcock tester from Christchurch, and is at present engaged testing the different cows on his farm.

Mr J. Flynn has imported a largo stock of boots and shoes suitable for the summer season, which he is quitting at prices to suit the times.

A French physician claims to have discovered a substance, which ho has named “ Baakerine,” by which he alleges to be able to cure tuberculosis in cattle.

We give a reminder of the auction sale of Messrs Brightwell and Son’s stock, which takes place on Tuesday next and following days until all the stock is disposed of. A rifle match took place'on Wednesday at New Plymouth between the Rahotu and New Plymouth Rifle Clubs. The lacter proved the victors by seven points.

Mr E. C. Eaikes has removed his office to Mr Pettigrew’s buildings, where he has secured an office, and will in future conduct his land and commission agency business Captain Edwin wired 12.20 p.m. to-day : “ East to north and north-west gale with heavy rain after 16- hours from now; glass fall soon.”

An American has patented a bed for the servant’s bfedroom. At a certain hour in the morning the bed pitches the servant out, dresses her, carries her downstairs, and shows her how to start the fire. News has reached Hokitika that the schooner Heroine, bound from Napier to Greymouth in ballast, is ashore at the north of Arahura. She came ashore at 1 o’clock, and the crew were landed safely. The Opunake Cemetery Trustees received two tenders for grazing the reserve—J. Stewart (accepted), £5 10*; W. Mann, £5, For the office of caretaker and sexton, there were two tenders, but both were informal. Messrs Budge and Good notify entries for an unreserved clearing sa'e on behalf of Mr W.A. Limbrick at Awatuna on Thursday next. He has a very choice selection of dairy cows, which should find ready purchasers at satisfactory prices. The full programme for the Maori race meeting which takes plare on the 18th Dec at Pungarehu appears in our advertising columns. A good day’s sport is sure to eventuate as the Maoris enter with great spirit into all sporting matters. The Union Steamship Company has replaced the Wairarapa by the Monowai, which will be withdrawn from the San Francisco service, being replaced therein by the Arawa. She takes up the running on the 26th inst. The Monowai, which leaves Sydney on the 17th instant, alternates with the Mararoa in the Sydney-Auckland services. The other day a journal, hitherto without a spot on its character, inquired with wellfeigned innocence : “ How could five persons divide five eggs so that each man will receive one and still one remain in the dish ?” After several hundred persons were two-thirds distracted in the mazes of this proposition, the journal meanly says, One takes the dish with the egg. Lord Rosebery said that the rumors that Now Zealand desired to administer the affairs of Samoa wore too ridiculous for official contradiction, but such statements appearing in newspapers aroused suspicion, which it was impossible for any diplomatic assurances to remove. The Premier’s earnest avowal that he was convinced of the necessity of upholding external and internal interests of the Empire was warmly applauded. The Postmaster, Opunake, has received the following from the Head Office :—Out of the 117 bags shipped by the Wairarapa at Sydney, 109 have been recovered. It is believed that all letters have been recovered and delivered. Many of the newspapers and other packets are much damaged and without addresses, and are now in Auckland. Applications for missing packets will be duly attended to.

Wo have to acknowledge receipt of the Waimate plains Anglican church circular for November, As usual it is replete with interesting matter, principally pertaining to the district. A special offertory is to be taken throughout (ho diocese on Sunday, Nov 2oth, to liquidate a debt on the General Church Fund account of £29*2 9s 2d, sons to present a clear balance sheet to the incoming Bishop.

A serious depreciation by wild natives is reported from Perth. They attacked Leonard Station, where the police party were outnumbered, and constable Richardson and two stockmen were killed. The native contingent of the police force deserted to the aboriginals who have captured 1001 rounds of ammunition and a large quantity of stores. The Government has decided to despatch a punitive exje lition.

SayE an exchange:—“ Omitting the names of exhibitors at fairs is all right as far as judging goes, but rather rough on the public, who like to know whose produce they are looking at.”

A gentleman was seen standing before a gravestone in a cemetry as if much engrossed. Another man approached and asked him what it was that so interested him at that particular spot. Hp replied: ‘‘ I was attracted by the peculiarit y of this inscription.” The second man bent down and read : “ Here lies the body of a lawyer and a honest man.” “ Well,” said he, “ what is there strange about that?” “I was just wondering how they came to bury two men in the same grave.” Mr Heke reckons up the Government land buying much to the disadvantage of the Native Minister—whoever he is, whether Mr Carroll or Mr Seddon. Heke quotes a case where the Government offered only 6s an acre where private persons would have given 30s or £l5O versus £750. He says the Government could only deduct costs for survey £4l 13s 4d, stamp duty at 10 per cent., interpreters’ fees 5 guineas, 10 per cent, to the agent, £SO solicitors’ fees, and miscellaneous expenses £SO. Mr Heke shows that £296 18s 4d goes in a sort of vanishing trick for costs. The Wellington Post says that Mr A. A. Thornton, buyer for Stead and Co., produce and butter merchants, Christchurch, has been appointed butter grader for the port of Wellington under the Dairies Act. Mr H. E. McWilliams, a butter factory owner of Taranaki, who has had experience in the Glasgow butter trade, will be the Christchurch grader, and Mr T. J. Lang, one of the present dairy exports in Auckland, will be stationed at Dunedin as grader. Arrangements have been made for cold storage and grading rooms with the Wellington Meat Export Company. The following appears in a Palmerston North contemporary Sir, —Of late years the New Zealand newspapers have greatly honoured my little fatherland, Switzerland, by constantly quoting her advanced laws and institutions. Unfortunately, often the statements are positively wrong. I refer to your extract from Mr Purser’s letter on vaccination, stating that it is illegal to vaccinate’in Switzerland. To avoid as much as possible inocculating diseases into the young generation, the Swiss Government has bought a farm (Lanoy, near Geneva) where every beast is carefully examined before and after being killed by resident medical men. When recognised to be good, the lymph is sent free of charge to all Swiss medical men who apply for it. It is considered a great advantage to obtain perfectly fresh lymph. Further, every child is compelled to be vaccinated, receiving from the surgeon a certificate, and any person during a scare or epidemic may be called upon to vaccinate again. It is also customary to revaccinate every recruit when joining the army at the age of twenty.—l am, *c., J.H.