OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1918, Page 3

OPUNAKE.

(Prom Oar Own Correspondent) There was disappointment written on the faces of a number of persons who rolled up to the court on Thursday to bear the slander case, and only heard the solicitors apply for a discontinuance tf the hearing. The case C. A WooJford v. D. Holmes was continued before Magistrate Oooke on Thursday. Tko hearing of evidence occupied the greater part of the sitting. The claim is fcr £53 for damages and loss sustained through defendant's bull trespassing on plaintiff's" property and introducing, aa alleged by plaintiff, contagious abortion into his dairy herd. Mr. Nealc, MR.C.V.S. (and for 12 years with the New Zealand Government), was called as a witness, also Edwin Mason, veterinary surgeon from New Plymouth. K.b Worsiij- agreed to accept "written argument from counsel engaged (Messrs Marshall and O'Dea), and decision will not be given until next Court day. In the case Police v. A. C. Walshe, licensee of the Opunake Hotel), defend, ant was fined £1 and costs (£2 4s 9d) for selEng two bottles of beer to a party, for consumption off the premises, on Sunday, February U, Tho Egmont County Council obtained judgment by default against a number of Natives fo* everilu* rates.

Mr. C. Malcolm, a well-known Opanake settler, has sold his farm and dairy herd to a souther buyer. The price M considered a very satisfactory one. There is no diminution in the prices for farm land, despite the alleged shortage of labor. The same cannot be said of business firms since the ballot for the Second Division has commenced. The Egmont County's welcome home and reception to all returned soldiers, to be held in the Town Hall on Wednesday next, is going to be a big affair. It will be representative of Egmont County. Till* district has not the same opportunity as the towns on the railway line to meet returned soldiers. Many of them come and go from here without public recognition, and the representative affair on Wednesday next is to fill any past omissions by giving a big, hearty public welcome to all returned soldiers. A good deal of adverse comment has been made over the" Opunake Racing Club ]o3ing its racing fixture.