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Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 132, 8 October 1895, Page 2

Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co notify entries for their Opunake stock sale on Tuesday next.

Mr Robert Lewis William Read of the South road, New Plymouth, a very early settler, died on Friday, 4th October. Tenders for bushfelling and clearing roads on the Arawhata and Opua Roads close on Saturday next. Mrs Kennedy desires to acknowledge receipt of 10s from Mrs Horgan, of Pihama, towards the purchase of the organ for the Catholic Church. In transferring the names to the ollicial list by an oversight her name was missed out.

Mails for the United Kingdom and Europe via Melbourne, will close on Saturday, October sth, due in London on November 20th. The next mail via Melbourne will close on Thursday, October 10th, due in London on November 20th.

The s.s. Kanieri arrived on Sunday, 6th October, Imports: J. Stitt, 42pkgs; A. O’Brien, Ipkg; Twomey, Ipkg; Wagstail Bros, 3pkgs; Swinnorton, 28pkgs ; Ringwood, 3pkgs; W. Pettigrew, 53pkgs; D. Wilkie (Otakeho), 3pkgs; Dudley, 2pkgs ; Christie and Co, 26pkgs; W. Harvey (Rahotu), CSpkgs; Quickendeu, Bpkgs; F. West (Rahotu), 59pkgs ; Colmer and Bradley, 32pkgs; J. Kennedy, Bpkgs;-F. Simeon, 21pkgs; Calgher, Ipkgs; C. F. McGregor, 3pkgs; T. Knowles, lOpkgs ; A. 11, Moore, 22pkgs v ; J. Runby, spkgs ; Mrs Rogers, 3pkgs ; Rutherford and Son, Ipkg; J. Feaver, 7pkgs; Orunakb Times, Ipkg; G. W. Rogers, Ipkg ; Newman Bros, 7pkgs; Mrs Newmin, 2pkgs, Exports : G. W. Rogers, 65 hides, 10 bundles skins, 1 sack wool; S. A. Breach, I bundles skins; J. Harding. Mason, llpkgs.

Mr Newton King sells stock_at Stony River to-morrow; also furniture, &c, on behalf of Mr T. 0. Stoke, who has left thadistrict. The name of Campbelltown (Manawatn) has been changed to Rangotea, and Hawera (Forty Mile Bush) to Hamua. A meeting of ladies interested in the bazaar, which is to be held shortly in aid of the Anglican Church funds, will be held at Mrs Twomey’s residence, on Thursday, at 2.30 p.m., to make final arrangements.

Mr T. T. Watt, of Marton, has disposed of the whole of his business, including the freehold, to Messrs Davenport Brothers, Otakeho and the new firm enter into possession on Ist November next.

In order to explain to the country the provisions of the Local Government Bill the Premier will move the second reading of the measure, and it will then be dropped until next session.

Acting upon a hint given by the recent case in the Palmerston North district, the Levels County Council will make a claim under the Public Works Act, 1894, against the user of a traction engine for about £3O for repairing a. piece of road.

The drink bill at most London hospitals is much less than it used to be. At Guy’s for instance, the sum yearly expended on alcoholic liquors for the patients is at the rate of nine shillings a bed. In 1862 it was no less than £3 9s.

Mr 0. Cummins has a replace in this Issue in which he directs attention to clearing prices of the salvage stock from the Hawera fire. The greater portion of them have been given to him by the Alliance Insurance Company. He also announces the first shipment of New spring and summer goods, which are now opened.

The Postmaster, Opunake, has been advised that the running of the Hawera-Opunake coaches will continue as at present, except that the coach will leave Hawera every day at 2 p.m. For the convenience of those who wish to obtain letters, arriving by coach from Hawera in the evening, the post office will open for a quarter af an hour after the mails arrive.

The Post, commenting on the tariff discussion, remarks:—No reliance whatever is to be placed on the consciences of members, and no indication of how they will vote is ever td be gathered from their speeches. We know of no more contemptible animal than the dog which is always barking, growling, or snarling, but is too cowardly ever to bite.

The “ Hawke’s Bay ” Herald says : “ A visitor to Parihaka describes the state of things amongst the natives there as horrible. The settlement reeks with diseases of most loathsome types, owing to the lack of sanitary provisions, and as the filth-seasoned and epidemic immune Te Whiti has ukassed that all natives who are attended by European medicos are to be heavily fined the death rate is appalling.

A sample of table vinegar, sold at Wellington, was analysed last week by the Government Analyst, who found it to be a mixture of acetic aeidf burnt sugar, sulphuric acid in combination, ash and water. The burnt sugar was used for coloring purposes. The mixture, however, was just as wholesome as malt vinegar, though it did not possess the same nutritious properties, The stuff produced was largely sold as vinegar, as it was cheaper to manufacture than malt vinegar.

A sensational discovery is reported near Niagara, Perth. Two Prospectors examining some ironstone slopes, discovered specks of gold. Further on from an opening 20ft long, 3ft wide, and only one foot deep, they took two hondred ozs. The formation is ironstone quartz, and the Schistose experts express surprise at the richness of the specimens found in this peculiar formation. The discoverers state there is any quantity of the same formation in the vicinity.

Mr W. J. Wells, who was appointed one of the West Coast Lessees’ delegates to Wellington, and who is still at his post in the Empire City, expects to be in Opunake on Thursday on his way home, as the committee has reported and the matter left in the hands of the Government to deal with, Mr Wells will be very pleased to meet any of the lessees’ on Thursday evening after the coach arrives and give an account of the proceedings. He is hopeful that the Act .will be amended in certain material points for the benefit of the lessees.

A laborer asked Mr Hayden Oorser at the Thames (England) .Police Court recently what he was to do with his wife—she was a perfect terror. Often when he came home from work she locked him out, and stood at the window daring him to come in. She was in the habit of going out and coming in early in the morning drunk, and if he had not got supper on the table for her, she swore at him in a fearful fashion. ' The other morning she threw a stone at him as big as a cocoanut, and had used fearful threats to him. Mr Corser—Are you afraid of her ? Applicant—l am. (Laughter.) Mr Corser —Take a summons for threats.

Cookery by electricity was an accomplished fact at the Christchurch Industrial Exhibition; Mr James Freeman, says the Star, made a practical test, in the concert hall, of the electric cooking utensils exhibited by C. A. Searger, agent for Mr R. T. Turnbull, of Wellington. A temporary buffet was prepared and connected with the main current of the dynamo. The utensils used were a stewpan and kettle of stamped steel, nickelplated, each heated by a platinum resistance coil contained in a false bottom, and a copper coffee pot with a concave bottom fitting over a 50-candle power incandescent lamp. By the aid of these appliances Mr Freeman made soup, poached eggs, boiled milk, and prepared tea and coffee, all of which were distributed among the bystanders and pronounced excellent.

Mr J. Henniker Heaton tells an interesting sequel to the most famous Australian ghost story which came to his knowledge as one of the proprietors of the town and Country Journal. One of the most cruel murders in Australia was discovered by the ghost of the murdered man sitting on the rail of a dam (Australian for horsepond) into which his body had been thrown. Numberless people saw it, and the crime was duly brought home. Years after a dying man making his confession said that he had invented the ghost. He witnessed the crime, but was threatened with death if he divulged it as he wished to, and the only way he saw out of the difficulty was to affect to see the ghost where the body would be found. As soon as lie started the story, such is the power of nervousness that numerous other people began to see it until its fume reached such dimensions that a search was made and the body found and the murderers brought to justice.

! Inspector Pender has resumed charge of the Wellington district and Inspector Thompson, of New Plymouth, who has been in charge during Inspector Pender’s absence is about to take a brief holiday.

Mr J. E. Wilson, of the People’s Furniture Warehouse, Hawera, has a replace-advertise-ment in this issue, to which we call the attention of our readers. He holds a very large stock of Bamboo furniture, which is now so fashionable. Since enlarging his premises he holds far and away the largest stock of ready made furniture on the coast.

State interference with private affairs ia carried in Germany to considerable lengths For instance, the Chief of Police in Berlin takes upon himself the responsibility of hav - ing patent medicines analysed, and of advertising the formula of their composition, and the cost of the drugs that are in them. By this means the public are enlightened, if they chose to be, regarding the actual quality pf the stuffs they are elsewhere induced to purchase on faith alone, backed up by wonderfully and fearfully-compiled testimonials. One.of the recently-issued Berlin notices refers to a specific for drunkenness. The “ mixture ” which the ingenious discoverer was selling at 5s per bottle, is declared to be made with powdered gentian, and to be worth just 6d.

A remarkable notice of motion was given by Mr Reay (Foxton) last week at the meeting of the Diocesan Synod. The first clause was, “ That this Synod declares that the Church of New Zealand is a Protestant Church.” The second clause was, “ That this Synod further declares that the Church of New Zealand rejects all the Romish doctrines rejected by the Church of England at the Reformation of the 16th .century.” The motion then continued to state that the Synod deplored the presence in the Established Church of England of clergy and laity who teach many Romish doctrines contrary to the authorised doctrines of the Church of New Zealand, and that many societies (which he named) promoted by the clergy of the Established Church of England maintain and encourage the teachings of such doctrines. Finally the motion declared that no clergyman of the Church of England who maintains or has been engaged in the teaching of any of such Romish doctrines, shall hereafter be appointed a minister of the Church of New Zealand. On the motion of Archdeacon Fancourt, however, the Synod decided not to allow the motion to appear on the Order Paper, by an overwhelming majority, only two clergy and two laity voting in its favor. Mr Reay was also defeated on a motion that the division be recorded at length in the minutes of the Synod. Those who never read the advertisements in their newspapers miss more than they presume. Jonathan Kenison, of Bolan, Worth Co., lowa, who had been troubled with rheumatism in his back, arms and shoulders, read an item in his paper about how a prominent German citizen of Ft. Madison had been cured. He procured the same medicine, and to use his own words: “It cured me right up.” He also says : A neighbor and his wife were both sick in bed with rheumatism. Their boy was over to my house and said they were so bad that he had to do the cooking. I told him of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and how it cured me, he procured a bottle of it and it cured them up in a week. For sale by Newman Bros.