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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 124, 10 September 1895, Page 2

A telephoue office has been opened at Waitekauri, in the Thames postal district.

An impounding notice appears from the Opunake poundkeeper. Mr Newton King sells stock at Stony River to-morrow.

Tbe Waimale Road Board call for applica tions for the position of foreman of works.

Tenders close on Thursday for felling 20 acres of bush on the Opua Road. Messsrs Nolan, Tonks and Co notify entries for their Opunake stock sale which takes place on Tuesday next. We hear that a Wcsleyan clergyman is about to take up bin residence at Rahotu in Mr E, O'Sullivau's late lesidence.

The Manawatu Railway Company now light their carriages by means of the electric light.

The House agreed to lix C2OO as the amount which a candidate may expend in contesting an election for tbe House.

Tho-animal general meeting of the Opunake Racing Club will be held at Kennedy's Hotel on Saturday evening, when important business will be dealt will).

The attention of the public is directed to a special cheap salo of salvage stock from the late lire at Hawera of drapery, clothing and boots now offering in the Foresters' Hall, Opunake. Tbose who want bargains would do well to visit Lho hall.

Captain Edwin wired at 12'5 to-day : "North to west and south-west gale with heavy sea soon and high tides ; glass fall, indications for strong ebb tides in straits." It has been noticed in the back country (says the North Otago Times) that land that was covered by snow for a considerable time now carries a good sole of young grass. Whether this will be a'good or bad thing far the hungry stock time will jtell.

A man named Daniel Mcßride, 63, manufacturer of sausage skins, was found drowned in the Heathcote, Christchurch, with his hands and feet tied to a flat-iron hung round his neck. His wife received a letter stating where the body would be found.

We have received from Messrs H. I. Jones and Son, of Wanganui, a couple of sample photographic Christmas cards. These cards are descriptive of New Zealand scenery and beauty spots, and will be a welcome souvenir to friends at a distance. They are for sale by Mr W. Pettigrew, Opunake. The dance given by the String Band on Friday night passed off well. The wet night spoiled the attendance but those who braved the weather spent an enjoyable evening. The floor was in capital order and the music was generally voted first-class. At midnight refreshments were provided, to which full justice was done.

We are informed that boys are in the habit of interfering with fences and other property in the cemetery, much to the annoyance of the relatives of those buried there. We give this notice as a warning, as these young vandals may not be aware that if they are caught they will most likely be Bent to New Plymouth gaol for two or three months.

Mr Knott gave his limelight lantern exhibition on Saturday evening in the Town Hall to a fairly full house. He recited Lord Tennyson's poem," Enoch Arden, : ' and did full justice to it. The pictures illustrating it were remarkably good. The audience were well pleased with the entertainment, and loudly applauded the performers at the conclusion. On Sunday evening the hall was packed, when he gave a gospel service, and then exhibited the views illustrating the life of Christ.

A return presented to the House at the instance of Mr Lawry shows.that out of 4465 convictions for drunkenness last year only 421, 9*43 per cent were of persons New Zea-land-born. Yet the proportion of young New Zealanders over 15 years of age and of European descent in the colony at the census of 1891 was 39-98—a percentage which will have increased materially by now. In 1891 the proportion of convicts of New Zealandborn Europeans was 6-6 per cent. The return also shows that or the 565 prisoners in the gaols of the colony on 30th June last only 135, or 24 per cent, were New Zealandborn.

At the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, Edward Carroll, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, wa3 charged with having kept his premises open after hours, also with having a barmaid employed after hours. The first charge was dismissed, the Magistrate holding that he could not convict in face of the decision of Judge Ward that to establish a case the outer door must be open ; but on the second charge defendant was fined £2 and costs. H. W. Candwell, licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, St Albans, was charged with selling liquor on Sunday to other than a bona fide traveller. The evidence showed that the man called at the hotel on business, and was invited by the landlord to have a drink, which proved to be soda-water. The case was dismissed.

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