The Patea Mail. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1875.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 51, 6 October 1875, Page 2

The Patea Mail. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1875.

The Wairoa Highway Board has just made an - application through Captain Wray, to the General Government, for the Whole of the pfodoeds received front the lute land sale in-the Okotuku block, Wellington province, for the purpose of enabling that body to construct roads to assist buyers settling upon their holdings. The Board-'is to be -commended for its .early t attention,, to , road-making, .-wlilelpis unquestionably the lever to the t cttlcmcnt and develo’pemcnt of the country,, butgye fear it is making an .unreasonably demand, as it must, be; borne in mind lliat .the...cost of the survey, and other expenses,, form a first charge on live receipts, but we think that the Board has,strong claims upon the Government for a sufficient sum to construct the necessary roads, and we have but little, doubt that Captain 'Wray will place the application in a favourable light before thy Government. -

Apropos of- sport,: the lovers of the trigger -will be glad to learn ,that <; gam.Cj is getting very iunuerous in Hie' ■vicinity' ‘of Whcnnakiira. A day or two since in accompanying. Mr; Baynton over bis run we “ tiinicd' >up ” several .jiheayants .'and ■rabbits ; added to this a quantity ,of native gairie, which is abundant. Guf apqrtsihcn have every reason It oil 65k forivai-cL to. a good season'next year. ■’ ' 1 ’ ■

Owing to the Native Land Court sitting, fixed to be held at-Carlyle; on Thursday, the 4th November, it has been deemed necessary to alter the date of the usual sitting of the E.M. Court to be held in that month. The Court will sit on Monday, the Ist of November, instead of Tlmrsdaj” the 4tli November., The,, Hawera Court will be holden a week 'calfior tlirn nsual, and will sit on Saturday, the 30tli of October, instead'of Saturday, the Gtb November! 1

We beg to remind those' gentlemen' interested in the-.forthcoming races to be held at - Wairoa, that The nominations' for the Jockey Club Handicap of 75' sovs., close on Saturday next, the Dtb' ilisf. Tlic fcnbries to be sent to the Secretary, Mr G. ; F. Sherwood. Th : e weights 'will' bo pubiisbed on the IGth, and the' acceptances to be out on the 28th inst.

The usual montbly meeting of the Patea Education Board .was rpostpuycab .jfijoni 1 Monday last till Saturday next, in order to be in possession of Mi‘• Inspector Lee’s half-yearly report of thpschqois.established ' district, as it is probable that th® Board HvoiibL ]iove i; to' deal 'iwns'ediately

The Carlyle Town Hoard made application to the Deputy Superintendent ior grant-m-nidSof 7100,' ijiqi'l-aicaliyfprof this*:TT at 4b e 4 ask so ->sl(uj -<i f the P i;oviiitnaL a’iTd/vftH j con imlll d a hie 0i 1 > era Iby llie application was jeesjMu!,j,iai.se( qjfing the jomiltnncb of The gTaiit^’A'’Return' inajp enable the Hoard to commoncc its nseiillness immediately.

. JVs sport by m i Vml v erl i sbm en t in-, 'anofhet column* 4uf 'friends cbliteniplafe’Tfbfdiitg WAaziiar at ‘llawera istmas ■yrqeEjfiji a.idyof ji'iuidij ior the erection ol : a’church in that town, and l-.a (ommittefeihf ladies invile-'COliUibulions, in mo icy or goods in aid oP.samej' The lender'bf Sir' iSarllneP Blade, at 12s per chain, has been accejitcd for cutting .main drains: fin,’ the swamp,, pppdsjlo |tlvctpwn of, Cariy.bp.Tbci of.Tlib work will amount to £BO. This sum it .will bcAaeny k jn v exeess *o|- thc.Mujipunt ' origriutiiy premised for •■tlS'c ■WoVkf but ...(through the recommendation of Cajitain Wiul lii (A .Go nd it. was induced to sanction the increase, and the work is now of •. ■

■'Mf'TiTs! motor Lee is expected to a r'vo in‘(huiyle,this morning. -dLy, will inspect the'school dnringfhe da}f arid hold lin*in.spactibji >at, Ilawera school to-morrow. The,teachers of .butlp schools will be sub. mitted io an "exanimation', ’the former oil Saturday, a lid tlio latter bn FHday. ,; -

Tiic Town Clerk lias just completed a ■ listvof) 1 , allwpropartlefildiabhs/ to.*»be -rated wnthid'itiiCrtbwii boundary of Carlyle. .The Board wiU incyt on the Ist Xoyeinher, IhtCSj fc-rjock, |>oj| |he fj)iir|inse htf ■ howr-ijig Vny‘objections tlnif may Tie lodged by'perSon.s having a valid reason why prujmrtieS included in the ratepayers roll should not dm '' p /, K f ,

The Palca Good Tcmjflars will hold an th ete s Sr< racks, 10-moraow night. A good jirogramme hvs been arranged, . , - ,

An instance occurred during Hu; voyage of the dValiotilale frqvib .Luii(lou;:,{says the

New ik'aland Time. s) which may bo regarded as throwing some light upon the 'qticiif loss of ships'"at sea b}* lire. About (V inoillli. of ,tbe, i douluic-ucenveut, of ' the , voyage; a herdsman in charge of the live sloclv on board found ajucifcr match box ~in'.tbe,jiiiddle of a'truss of’ jmesscVl hay. The inau is jiropared to make allidavit that from the. position of ijic ’box if.unist have been in the hay at tlic time of shijnuent, but liow' it came there is only to be accounted for by the jvre.sumjdioii that it was accidentally dtojiped by the persons < ngig<‘d iii jm-ssirig■•the'hay' in England. It caniiot bo supjmsed that there was any wil-fn-1- intention, yet the discovery suggests a-culpable '.want- of’carfe, and the thought arises, how many of tbestf hlrehdful calamities, bringing death to hundreds ,qf Tupuvau : beings, and constcniation to their leiiotv'rficn, are to be attributed to the negligence of the shippers or their servants. ' . . . .

A' slightly. .mutilated bank-iidte was taken to one ’of the banks in Melbourne,, but in consequence of the way in which it was torn, the teller demurred to changing it. The note was taken to,thq oflice of-a. tradesumn near,the bank ill; question; and,, learning the circumstances, The latter at : once displayed it ip. his,.window, with theintimation.beneath that the, bank had refused to cash it., - It is.almost mmec'cssaily to add that, the . value, of tbok n.ote was almost immediately forthcoming'.. .. 1

The Auckland Siar observes I The Hon., Alexander Mackenzie, Premier and Minister of Public Works for the Dominion of Canada (which lias a revenue of 4,027,71 m and a population of 3,788,018) receives ,£1,200 a-ycar ; the Colonial. Secretary of South Australia received £1,300, and of Queensland £BOO, while Mr Vogel received ordinarily a sahmygof !£1;700 besides the immense allowances,’oil a s cal'e'wlucb finds no parallel in any other British Colony, i

The following statement has reached the -New Zealand'-TvAcs of -SeptdnfUOT’tho 7th,.-, ; from : Auok 1 and—“ EiVd i-ecenF immigrantej, single girls, liavc beeiTcoirfncdl ‘ -'ThdlaH one came by the Aliimbng'b, and wasu delivered,of thp father of whom is a man in England-, who procured her a free passage to hered’ ' ■ t * Fjlth'er Paid, a ’Homan Catholic jniest residing at Onchunga; has had his furniture • seized for the satisfaction of the education rate! ■ ■ ■■ ■* The spelling mania in Boston is terriblo. Yon arc stopped upon Hie stlcet and invited tOj spell jiedlor,. Pr jiedlar,, or peddler, or some r.aber-word. - Your wife ,wakqs ~ you up in tlic middle of the night to spell “'sarcophagus';” your children hasten to the breakfast-table’ to ask you to spell “corymb,” and devote all their, ~ spare ■ time to the dictibnaiy'; your eldest, boy comes home late at .night in a weeping .niqod anT ,explains ;it.,t]ius “ I went to see Mary, (ips f this, evening she met me at the door with/ Spell erysipelas, Tom ?’ I spelt with t\vd- “i’si and . am * ykand.-she said, I Sir, onr engagement • is r at an-end yliiiuaniiot, love ,mQ!rei,a;;bfid spoiler.'’"* Tlei'ufather,roil being, appealed to, says, 1 Give Tom one more Trial. ! Spell: consatlgiiinebus,; sir/'- : I" spelled- it_ with four ‘ids’ and-two - ‘ i’s,’ find'lie",bade' me. 'ifave'thc bodk.Wpa „..vf-r V-. be hi • -

. TATE A EDUCATION BOAKD. j T.O,THE--l£BrrOTl OF THE PATEA MAIL. V in your last issue tliat you that the above board had yetijießlKa,*Mr Lee, the inspector of tlufiftHstrict to nominate a teacher . schools that are to be esand Kakaramca on the half time'feystem, and I was glad to find that you are pot a supporter of the nominee system. ’lnfmst say I was rather surprised to. find jlhrvt fiie should Ijayo|rre4 rpie|ite(i' tppifn'iiijatefa tpachei| Jt thought that they had already seen the ■folly of the -nohiincer'KysfpnrtfveifTii'this ,-smallr district.. Not for a moment do I ■ih’q t >p’osd tfirftAlr Lee would nominate any but a lit person, yet it is open to this '•n'in6ng**®6tli l bt' l ylij'6ctiArft,'"'that 1 a^person 1 ’ having iiouTmattnlAatMiichVr for a school would bo likely to look over the- faults of that person, >yb'. n -inspecting the school, in order )&utatioa shouh! not acrafnateil an unqualified potion i ow tUfc^p o|iSjoTUj'Yf wail”, that (hf*y \s 11T mrTen v T\ n -^ o”*fLs is t m carrying on jtluj the Board in a dif e eiit style To' the way it has been i-illicr.o done, m v v \ ..... ,1 am. ,sc., ~. , .„. ; ’• vy :