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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 130, 1 October 1895, Page 2

The s s. Earned leaves Onohunga for Opu nakc and Wanganui on Thursday.

Applications for position of foreman of works for the Waimate Road Board clqse tomorrow at noon.

Mr T. W. Fisher, of Waitotara, is to succeed Mr Rennell as West Coast Settlement Reserves Agent.

Tenders are called by the Public Trustee for felling and clearing about two and a half miles of the Arawhata Road, and about five miles of the Opua Road.

A meeting of the committee of the Opunake Racing Club takes place on Friday evening, when a full attendance is requested of members of the Committee.

Messrs Nolan, Tonks, and Co have received instructions from Mr D. C. Simson, who is about to leave the district, to hold an unreserved clearing sale on the farm, on Saturday next, of all his live and dead stock consisting of 40 young cows all of Jersey strains, and excellent milkers, besides other young stock of mixed sexes.

Mr Newton King notifies a clearing sale on behalf of Mr Wm. Duggan, Tataraimaka. The whole of the dairy cows, seventy in number, have been bred by Mr Duggan from purebred shorthorn stock, and the factory tests for March, April and May show an average of 4-4 per cent. There is also a quantity of young stock to bo offered.

Manaia contemplates going in for a water supply, to be drawn from the Kaupokonui and brought down the Manaia road. The suggestion is to have pipes made of galvanized sheet iron, which would reduce the expense very considerably. If this scheme is carried out, and will hold water, it will go a good way towards revolutionising engineering notions.

A boy up Wairau Valley, is credited with having made a record shot with a gun the other day. He was sent to shoot a cat which was doing some mischief in the locality of his good people’s residence, and catching the feline among the poultry, he fired, and brought down all in a heap, the cat, six turkeys, a hen, and a dozen chickens. It is needless to say that it was a shot gun.

The total earthquake shocks reported as felt in this district during the last eight days amount to fifteen, made up as follows September 24th, two ; 25th, one; 27th, one ; 28th, four; 29th, four; 30th, one; October Ist, two—the first at 4.30 a.m., sharp shock, direction, south-east to north-west, accompanied by rumbling and tremor, and the second was felt about 30 minutes after.

A singular fatality took place lately during the passage of the steamer Bellinger to Melbourne from Tasmania. The weather experienced was very severe. The chief officer (Mr Graham) was on the bridge in charge of the vessel, and orders were given to set the trysail. Whilst this was being done, the flapping of the sail caused the ropes on one side to break, and the clip hooks on the cringle of the clew straightened out. The cringle was forced forward, and struck the chief officer on the temple killing him almost instantaneously. The Course Committee of the Racing Club visited the proposed site for the new course ou Monday. After full inspection of the ground it was decided to make the straight along the side bounded by the Puketapu stream. The course, as roughly pegged out by Mr W. F. Robinson, was seventy-two chains, but this will probably be slightly altered when some of the curves are flattened. A very nice sight was obtained for grand stand, offices, and saddling paddock on # the bank of the stream. Although heavy rain had fallen during the past few days there was not a sign of dampness to be found on any part of the course. The sports who were present prophecy that it will prove to bo a very fast course.

The Hukalere murder case concluded on Thursday night after a two days’ sitting. The Maori jury, after five hours’ deliberation, returned a verdict of manslaughter. In sentencing the accused (Wiri Kaahu Koroai) His Honor the Chief Justice spoke very strongly, and said that in his opinion the jury made a grave mistake and returned a verdict contrary to the evidence. It was to be assumed, he said, that they believed the accused’s evidence and disbelieved six other people. The act of the accused, although the jury said it had been committed under provocation, was an act of a fiend and not of a human being. Accused was sentenced to ten years’ hard labor.

At a meeting of flaxmillers and those interested, hold at Foxton last week Mr T. P. Williams said that if the flaxmillers approached the Government re bonus, he thought the industry would be second to none in showing quick returns. The number of hands employed iu the year 1890 were 21G9 men and 1029 boys, and the total number of hands employed was 3198 ; the amount of wages paid was £116,168, and bringing into the colony the sum of £234,266 per annum, with an expenditure of only £6066 for machinery, &o. The flax industry has paid away one pound per ton in wages for every ton of green flax brought to the miller. The collieries of New Zealanl only employed 1655 hands, and paid in wages £173,533 with a value of £279,777, but very little of this was foreign capital. He quoted numerous other industries but contended that none compared with the flax.

During the bush fires in Australia, the mail driver between Nellingen and Braidwood, in New South Wales, had a most sensational experience. While ho was coming up the Clyde mountains the scrub caught lire on either side of a narrow bush track, and as it was impossible for him to turn his horses he had to face the flames from blazing timber. Ho drove at breakneck speed down gullies and along the track. On several occasion the mail-bags and luggage became ignited, but he stifled the flames. When at last lie reached Braidwood the hair on the horses' backs was singed off and his clothes were scorched almost to a cinder. A house in the Hawksbury district, of which a young married lady with several small children and a girl friend were temporarily the only occupants, was threatened by an approaching bush fire. The young ladies, however, with admirable presence of mind, put into immediate practice a custom of the Red Indians when threatened by a prarie fire. They set lire to the grass close round the house, and the flames died out when they reached this blackened ring.

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An impounding notice appears in another column.

We give a reminder of the Band of Hope concert, which takes place to-morrow evening in the Town Hall.

A team of lady footballers are touring through Scotland, and attracting enormous gates.

A social is to be held on Friday evening in the Rahotu Public Hall for the purpose of welcoming Mr J. H. White as a missionary to the district.

A man named William Attridge, sentenced in Lyttleton to nine months’ imprisonment for obscene language, has been released after serving two months, the severity of the sentence having been brought under the notice of the Justice Department.

pleased to see Mr E. J. Dudley about again after the accident he met with at the Maugahume pit. He is not quite up to his old form, but is making rapid progress towards total recovery.

A'dvice has been received by the Postal Department that the R.M.S., Monowai left San Francisco on the 19th September timetable date, with London mails dated 7th September,

The Wellington Trades Council have been informed that a number of Chinese are on their way from Melbourne to New Zealand to start a coach-building factory, The Council has passed a resolution urging on the Government the necessity for hurrying on the passing of the Undesirable Imigrants Bill, and also calling the attention of the coachbuilders to the threatened influx.

A visitor to Auckland, says a Napier paper, gives a very glowing account of the briskness in mining matters in the northern city. He says that in addition to English money that is being largely invested, French and Belgian money is now coming in for investment. Our informant, adds the paper, does not take the view of others who have came from north lately—that “ the bottom will fall out of the boom very soon.” On the contrary, he says the boom has come to stay for a very long while, because the country has not yet been half opened up, which the foreign capital will permit being now.done.

The enquiry into the origin of the late fatal fire in Hawera was finished on Thursday, after five days’ sitting. Lengthy evidence v/as taken, and the following verdict was returned: —“ We find that the fire originated in or near the High Street window in Smith’s drapery shop, and the evidence is not sufficiently clear to show how it originated. Campbell was not prompt enough at the outbreak in trying to suppress the fire or give an alarm.” A rider was added “ that if A. Campbell had given his evidence more fully, we think the enquiry would have been finished earlier and more satisfactorily.”

This is how a Yankee writer describes the rational costume worn by the “ new woman ”; “ It is a pair of trousers very baggy at the knees, abnormally full at the pistol pockets, and considerably full where you strike a match. The garment is cut ‘decollette’ at the south end, and the bottoms tied around the ankles to keep the mice out. Yotf can’t put it over your head like you do a shirt, nor around you like a corset, but you must sit on the floor and pull it on just as -you do your stocking, one foot at a time in each compartment. You can easily tell the right side to have in front by the buttons on the neckband.”

The Committee of the Waverley and Waitotara Racing Club have placed on the programme for their November meeting a race entitled “ Morton Memorial Stakes,” the nominations and acceptances for which go to erect a stone and fence around their late vice-president’s grave. As the late Mr J. Morton was well known in all sporting circles throughout New Zealand, and his colors so often carried to the front on different racecourses, that the committee of the W.W.R.C. need have no fear that owners of hacks will nominate largely for this event, which is a most deserving one.—Wanganui Herald.

Animals on a ship and, especially aboard a man-o-war, are looked upon with affection and petted as if they were children, and a goat attached to H.M.S. Goldfinch is no exception. The other day, as the vessel was coming along the coast full steam ahead, the quadruped under notice while on a foraging expedition fell down a shoot into the sea. An alarm was at once raised, and when it was ascertained what had happened an order, promptly obeyed, was given for the lowering of a boat. The sailors set to with a will, and in a very short time the unlucky “ nanny,” which had in the meantime kept afloat by vigorous exertion, was recovered and taken aboard amidst universal rejoicings. We (H.B. Herald) venture to think that the rescue of a goat by the crew of a gunboat is an unprecedented occurrence.

At a meeting of creditors in the estate of Nepia te Rua, of Porotawhao, held recently at Wellington, there were three creditors present, and Mr Young represented the bankrupt. The liabilities amounted to £174. The bankrupt stated that 100 acres of land in the Manawatu district, in-which he had a one-third interest, were leased for 21 years at £6 a year. He had received ten years’ ren t in advance, and he had spent this in racing. There were restrictions ou other properties of three and ten acres, and also he believed on a section of 35 acres. None of these were let. He was married. His wife had land, but she was not getting anything for it. He could not make any offer to his creditors. Having been threatened with imprisonment he had decided to file. The meeting adjourned sine die, without pasting any resolution.

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