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Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 96, 4 June 1895, Page 2

Mr Newton King sells stock at Rahotu to‘ morrow.

The Opunake poundkeeper has an impounding notice iii this issue. Tenders for works for the Waimate Road Board close on Friday next at Manaia.

Mr VV. D. Scott notifies entries for his Awatuna sale, which takes place on Monday next.

The meeting of the Band of Hope will be held to-morrow evening in the Foresters’ Hall.

Messrs Nolan, Tonkn and Co notify that their sale, which should have been held on Tuesday next, is postponed.

Nominations are called by the Parihaka Road Board for the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr T. Rotbery.

Mr Pelham gives notice that he has relinquished the bakery adjoining Mr Harvey’s store at Rahotu, and requests that all accounts bo paid by the 80th June.

A concert, for which a first-class programme has been prepared, will be given in the Otakeho School on Friday evening next, in aid of the Anglican Church funds.

A general meeting of the Opunake Jockey Club js convened for next Saturday at 8 p.m., when the question of obtaining a permanent course will bo considered.

A reward of 10s is offored for recovery of two lost horses.

We give a reminder of Mr W. D. Scott’s Opunake sale, which takes place on Friday next.

Mr Guinness, says he believes it is the intention of the Government to merge all boroughs under 4000 population into the county jurisdiction. In th'e Supreme Court, Wellington, on Wednesday, W. R. McKinstrey was awarded £l2O damages from the Union Steamship Company, whose steamer, the Orawaiti, ran him down whilst he was fishing off one of the points in the Wellington Harbor.

Word was received by Sergeant Stagpoole (from Constable Salmon) on Friday that James Meikle, a resident of Kaponga, died that morning, and that as he had not received medical attendance it was necessary for an inquest to be held.—Star. The name of Greytown South (Otago) has been officially changed to Allanton, and the name of Oxford (Auckland) to Tirau. Tfco County Council of Wairarapa North is required to find a new name for Hawera in the Forty Mile Bush. A man named James Brown committed suicide by hanging himself in a house in Dunedin. He appears to have made fast a line over the door and strangled himself. Deceased, who was 56 years of age, was -a laborer, but Fad been out of work for some years. Ho was a married man, with a grown-up iamily. The North Otago Daily Times says Over 6000 bales of wool were carted into Oamaru this season. This, we believe, is the largest number of bales carted in any season. Large quantities of grain were also carted in. All this means that the ratepayers of the colony have to maintain both roads and railways, while one should be able to do all the heavy work.

Robert Atkinson was taken from Lyell to Esefton Hospital on Monday last and died the next night. The funeral, announced for Thursday, was postponed, as a complication arose necessitating an enquiry. A post mortem showed congestion of the lungs, and the liver and heart were diseased enough to account for death, but it was also found that the skull was fractured, the cause of the latter being unknown.

Speaking at Marton the. other evening, Bishop Wallis said:-At present the question upon which he felt most interested was the obtaining of some form of religious training in our daily schools. This was a most important question, and one which he hoped at no distant date to see realised. It was in the hands of the church people to accomplish this, and he hoped they would endeavor to see it successfully carried.

At a meeting of the ten senior priests of the Diocese of Dunedin, at which Archbishop Redwood presided, it was decided to submit the following three names for consideration of the Holy See in the matter of the vacant Bishopric:—Rev Wm. Burke, Queenstown, Dignissus ; Very Rev P. O’Leary, Lawrence, Dignior ; and Rev M. Walsh, Riverton, Dignus. The Archbishop has confirmed the appointment of the Very Rev Fathers Lynch, of Dunedin, and Mackay, of Oamaru, as joint administrators. Bishop Morau, by his will, left everything, save a few trifling bequests, to his successor.

The Napier Telegraph says:—“ln one paper published in Auckland three racing sweeps are now being advertised, although the Gaming and Lotteries Act expressly forbids that to be done. The penalty for a breach of the law may be as high as £SO, but if we are to judge by results the police must be instructed not to interfere in certain cases. If the administration of justice by the Government is not to be regarded as a ghastly farce, and if their supporters are not allowed to break the law in order to add to their profits, the Minister for Justice will do well to order his subordinates to move in the matter.”

A very serious accident happened on Wednesday to a young man named Pinfold, 17 years of age, who was frightfully gored by a bull, reports the Palmerston Standard. Pinfold and his brother-in-law, Mr C. Voss, of Kairanga, were out on the farm endeavoring to separate a cow from her calf, when the animal rushed at Pinfold and buried her horn in his neck, tearing the windpipe and gullet, and then trampling on the unfortunate young fellow’s body, inflicting several bruises of a painful nature. One of the cow’s horns was snapped off in the encounter. Although the injuries received are of a painful nature, hopes are entertained of Pinfold’s recovery.

Wc (News) learn that in consequence of the extraordinary developments in the bore at Moturoa, Mr Fair will postpone his departure for another week. Not only is the pump bringing up a quantity of pure oil each day, but on Thursday the pressure of gas was so strong as to throw the oil to the top of the derrick. The proprietors are re-con-sidering their former intentions, and will probably form a company of much larger capital. Mr Fair intends to at once peg out sites for several new bores. We learn that he will on Monday (yesterday) afternoon have a trial pumping, and that he will be pleased to see as many of the public present ns the space will accommodate; but he would specially warn all persons to abstain from smoking on the premises, as the gas is so plentiful that an explosion would be the inevitable result.