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Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 44, 30 November 1894, Page 3

The jettlers of the Tutaekara-district, Wellington, complain of heavy losses through sheep being stolen. One settler lost 600 and several others 300. A vigilance committee is to be formed, and a private detective is to be employed. On Tuesday a married man named George Elliot, alaborer, residing in Ebor-street, Wellington, was found hanging dead in a washhouse. He had been working recently at Levin on his own section, and it was not known that he had returned to town until the body was found. He left a note in his pocket book declaring that Lis back was so bad that he could not endure suffering any longer. The report of the London expert on the petrolem oil obtained from the New Plymouth syndicate, as got from a 900 feet bore at Moturoa, has just been received. Professor Boverton Eedwood says the oil is undoubtedly valuable, and that the discovery of such oil is of great commercial importance. Mr Samuel leaves for Sydney, to arrange for sinking to a g eater depth..

MANAIA HACK TROTTING CLUB, ALTERATION OF PROGRAMME. No. 6 to Read— Maiden harness trot, of 10 sovs; for horses that have not started iu an advertised Trot. Distance, 2 miles. Entrance, 10s. To start at 3.15. Entrances close 18th December. By order of Committee. J. MATHESON, Hon. Sec.

PAEIHAKA EGAD BOAED. NOTICE is hereby given that this Board proposes : (1.) To form and metal the Ngariki Eoad from the termination of present metal, fronting Section 103, Block I, Opunake Survey District, to a point 5 chains east of the intersection of the Okahu Eoad with the Ngariki Eoad, and to drain, grade and form the said road from the termination of metal to a point about 75 chains eastward, terminating opposite Section 18, Block 3. (2.) To borrow for such purpose the sum of £1350 under “ The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 188 G,” to pay out of such loan the cost of raising it. (3.) To strike as security a Special Eate of in the £ on all rateable property within the district hereinafter described. (L) To constitute the Ngariki Special Eating District, and to comprize the following lands, viz.:—Section 103, Block 1, Sections 4,5, 6,7, 8, 9,10,11,12,13, and Subsections 1,2, 3of Section 42, Block 2, and Sections 1, 16, 17, 18, 19, Blocks, and Section 3, Block 4, and all the unoccupied lands fronting the Ngariki Eoad between the South Eoad and the Forest Eeserve, all in the Opunake Survey District. The said rate to bo an annually recurring rate for 26 years. E, MAXWELL, Chairman. FOR SALE. OHO ROMNEY maesh ewes with about 100 per cent of lambs well grown. Apply to D. a SIMSON, . Taungatara.