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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 66, 27 November 1875, Page 2

The firs I, public meet in# to protest against tiio action of the Education Hoar! n leasing reserves, by tender, instead of auction, will be held on Monday evening U 'XI, at .the Court House. Another will he held at Mann laid on Wednesday, and an-aug.-ments aiv, being made for similar gal herings at Ilawcra and Keteniarae.

There are an} - number of meetings on hand in Carlyle .shortly, notice of which wo- have previously given. In order however to refresh 111-" memories of our readers we again brieliy recapitulate them. Today there will be a meeting’ of the Patea Past oral and Agricultural Society at 2 p.m j there will be another to take steps for the format ion of a H arbor Board at T p.m ; and tli tc. will be a. Cricket Club meeting' at 8 p.m. in the Court House. On Monday a mooting- of the Palea Jockey Club will be held at the Albion Hotel at 7 o’elo k in t ie evening; and on Wednesday evening next a meeting will take place to make arrangements for Christmas sports. Altogether Carlyle is not; doing amiss in meetings ; it, is on!\' to be hoped that good fruit will come of (h.-ui. A con - spomlent writes to complain of the posh ion in which the Kelemarae school is to be built. He com plains that the site is in an out of the way place, and Hi. t, what with the bad road and other difficulties. children will not be able to reach it. Our correspondent further suggests that a site should be begged or purchased from Captain Plakc in the new Xormanhy township, as that is the most central and most accessible spot. Wo publish the contents of the letter for the-consideration of (he education Hoard, at the same lime not Vicing able to offer an opinion on the .subject, llining!i want of local geographical knowledge. A definite reply lias been received from Mr Blandish, Ca ing distinctly Unit on various grounds he declines to oilier himself as a candidate for Egmont at Hie next election. There is still, however, the dark local candidate in icw-rve, to whom we. have on former occasions referred, and a still more dangerous competitor is likely to come from a distance.

Wo 11 : iii (, ■ rs! ai ul that Mr Qnls >] I a> i Fg-mont Hotel at Hawcra is to he sold fly lender, the i!l-bea!ih of the proprietor compelling him to relinquish Inisines:!. This is one of the best houses ill the district, and will no doubt fetch a good price. Some limn lately and most usefully employed hchveeii Oeo and Opnnako in repairing; the road and keeping it passable, have lately been knocked off, for what reason does not appear. The consequences of even this temporary needed are serious, the road becoming rapidly cut up by the traffic during- the laic bad weather. Jt is to be hoped that the stitch in time stylewill be yet maintained, so that by trilling continuous outlay, the road will be kept good and not allowed to fall into such a condition as to render a largo sum necessary in a short time. Major Atkinson only made a flyingvisit to this district, raid preserved the silence foi which he has rendered him famous on his transit through Patea. He left on Wednesday forenoon for Wanganui, and, as far as we can b-arn, will not, s. oak til! the Opposition, in the per-on of Sir George. Grew, lias declared its poliev. The Cross reckons 11 ie weekly expenditure in wages in Auckland in the boot and shoe maim factories to he .C2d(», expenditure in new materia! -I*3oo. production 3,000 pairs boots and shoos. The total annual amount spent in wages at present rates is set down at Tld.OUb, the expenditure in material T ltd U*.b annually manufactured 60.P00 pairs of limits and shoes. Auckland grown lemons arc- being; exported in quantity to San Francisco.

A woman named Purr, in Auckland, has recovered i\ Imndrcd pomids damages £l*olll a cm ter named John Wallace, who drove on the wrong 1 , side of the road, causing her horse to throw her, by which she sustained severe injuries.

The Macrcwhenna correspondent of the Bruce Herald annnnees that the Hon. lb Campbell lias commenced a wholesale butchery business at Otekaiko. We wonder whether he sticks the magic word

Cllon,” on hissignh urd or not. We find that another tilled gentleman is in trade as a dealer in paving stones. Mr Wales, M.11.1t., for Dunedin, has sent samples of flagstones of superior quality with prices, to the Wellington liorongh Council.

The 'Tunpelt! Times says : —‘■Some Idea of the extent to which coaching t rallie has developed under the new mode of locomotion provided by the railway, may be gathered from the fact that no lower than thirty-six (roaches arrive at and depart from Lawrence during each week, and thirty running in conjunction with the (rain and six going to and from the intcriorhi connection with the through line to the I hmstan and Wakatipn. The drivers, wiio are close-timed, are provided with bugles, with which they announce their approach ; and by (bat means everything is got. in readiness tor their arrival, and no mmecessai v delay is incurred. On

( in- night coaches t !mso inim-ical ojicrat ions are parfienbudy lively, the effect bringing

to mind (dd times wlicu mail coaclnrs and their reil-coatsnl guards were institutions of the (lav.

A children’s spelling hue has been successful !v tried in Christchurch.

At a sale of pure-hred cattle, sheep, and draught horses, at Christchurch, Messrs A. Cockbum. of Wellington, C m. Peacock, of Napier, and 11. Peacock, of Patou, were largo purchsser.s at high lignro.s. A case of rclined cruelty is reported hy the Waitangi Tribune. A litllo dog, belonging to a resident of (he plain’, was taken from its home, and after being kept for a few days was returned in n wretched state. It could scarcely crawl, having had its hind-quarters completely roasted, and it is supposed that some inhuman wretch must have, hung it up hy the imck while he or she made a lire under the little animal. The dog enisled in great pain until the day after reaching its humc, when it died.

A witness in an assault case at the Dunedin Police Court lately informed (lie lawyer cross-examining him, that, he would gel his character analysed, and if there was a blemish in it, he won’d m-V’T have confidence! in himself again. The Wellington Tribune is rcspondM" for the following ; —We hear that ih • I"ni<’it Steamship Co., in th” way of giving addi!ional comlort to their passengers, will on Urn new boats have iatlirT as well as gen(!cm’■ 11 ’s runn/iin;/ -runnin. T'iiv daughter of a Scotch earl who got into trouble and was divorced from her husband, has been rc-married to him, and (hey are about to proceed to New Zealand.

it appears that o,tsoi> single girls have arrived since the immgnration of.the immigration scheme, and yet. the class of servants to which they arc .supposed to belong is as badly represented as ever. It is reported that, Mr G. M. Reed, the present editor of the Auckland Star, will go to Dunedin to conduct a new evening journal, which is intended to advocate the separation policy of the Opposition.

The Mayor of Greymordli lia.s received a telegram from Dr. Pollen in rcferenec to tlio proposal lo elect (he e.x-Preiuicr (bribe Grey Valley. 'l'lie telegram reads ; —Sir Julius Vogel will be much gratb lied by the compliment proposed lo bpaid !o him by your Worship and Ihe electors of the Drey Valley, bid as it appears lobe, certain that be will be elected at Wanganui, and that also we. bis colleagues, being unable to give any assurance that be would sit for Grey Valley, we must leave ibe (-lectors to cxcrcis ■ their own discretion ou Ibis matter."’ Blessedly baptism! arc the peacemakers s >m'dimes as is shown by tbo following extract from a recent Auckland Hint provesOur contemporary says;—On Saturday afternoon two little boys, dl) and -b) inches long respectively, were seen to engage in pugiiislie combat outside iho doors of a house in "Wyndham-streot. A iimnhrr of indivi Inals standing near, instea 1 of separating the juvenile combatants, urged them on to continue ’punching each other. Inside the. doors there ware two gc.ni lem-ai. cue!i of whom saw, with regret ut hear!, the fight that Was raging, and went with characterisiic promptness their dii-r.-rent ways to stop il. One ran fur a buclo-t of cold water to dash over the hot little heads, while the other, bar dug kind I y

ovlt i,h ( * ok>vs. (-T-;]>'>.si ii!;ilt‘<3 on i micovnlect, and was, with apparent snec.-ss. whisp'-nny words of moral sue-aon tr. i'Jtoir ears as ihey loytlvr, when in yrent liaslo up fame thy flof hy.iojparhy. who s.-c-iny tli-'* hody of ono <>i the.'.-.- h'ili sii’nyyhiiy’ iad.s round tli* 1 eorner of thy doorway, Ho Jet liy the phi of wat« r wil l l an ayynraey widen w-mM havo don credit to a fireman, and most eiTefimiily df.n.iv-l, not only j!i<- hiyldyrs' hut the poison of their peacemaker, who in sliakiny th- water from his laee, admitted the cuolhiy effect of the remedy.

NOTIC'D TO COiIUEspOA'DjCXTS. [Wo arc at all fi;:x ready to give express;.-u to every shade o: opinion, bat in no e.-wc do we hold our elves responsible for the sentiment) of our con'c-p.’adorns.]