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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 73, 22 December 1875, Page 2

Tin* return match, between the Wairoa and Carlyle Cricket Clubs, will bo played to-day in the U.M. Itoservc. In the iirst match Hie Wairoans Were, the victors, and it is by no means unlikely that they will repeal their victory to-day, as some of the best of flic Carlyle team arc necessarily absent. Nil desperandmn is however the motto of the latter, who will at least make a good tight, and will also, we hope, bo crowned with success.

E lection iirrangemoiita arwnow completed tor the Egmont distriot. The nomination will take place at New Plymouth on Friday next, the 2!l!i hist, and the polling day is fixed tor January dal. It is rumoured that a Well known knight of the hammer, from Wanganui way intends to join in (ho fray, but wo doubt (lie, correctness of the report, and it is not at present probable that any other candidates than Major Atkinson and Mr Ivess will offer themselves. Major Atkinson hold a meeting atManutahi on -Monday last, and leceivod n vote ot confidence. Itc held another at Ilawcra lasi, night, the result of which was the same. Wc have received a letter signed “ Elector,” in reference lo a recent requisition Imt hold it over for consideration. A very serious accident happened in Stevenson’s gravel quarry, Waihi, on 'Monday morning last, whereby four men very nearly lost their lives. It scorns that they wore taking down a block, though not, working apparently in any danger, when the mass came down most unexpectedly, burying one completely and partially covering the others. Dr Walker was telegraphed for and proceeded to the scene of the accident without delay. Hu found one of the sufferers, J.Butlor, suffering from fracture and dislocation of the small bone of one leg. The fracture was set and the dislocation reduced, but it will be a long time before Butler will be able to use the limb, the injury being of a very troublesome nature. Another, Courtenay, the one that was covered up, was, strange to say, the least hurt,getting off with some rather serious bruises and a shock to the system. J. S. G-rigg was badly hurt in the spine and severely bruised on the right thigh. The fourth, a Maori named Cotton, received a nasty incised wound on the forehead. About a year or so ago two men were killed in the same pit and surely after this warning greater care will be exercised. -Mr Stevenson, Dr Walker informs ns, has given orders that the sufferers are to have every comfort and attention possible and all arc progressing favorably Mr Carrington will not have a walkover for Grey and Bell, as was anticipated. Mr Council lias signified bis intention of contcs.ting the seat and his friends are sair guine as to the result. At the same time the supporters of Mr Carrington regard his e-election as assured.-

Wo remind our readers that Major Atkinson will address the doctors of Carlyle this evening - at the Court House. It is hardly necessary to say that he will he listened to with great interest, and will, without doubt, obtain the fair and impartial hearing that every one, situat ed as he is, lias a right to expect and invariably secures at the hands of a British audience. We have to call tin 1 attention of our readers to an auction sale that will take p'ace on Friday next, at Mr W. Dale’s auction room, Carlyle.' Among the lots to he offered there is a quarter-acre of lamb situated near the Masonic Hotel, with a three-roomed house creeled thereon, which shon'd readily liml a purchaser ; also the lease for 12 months of (wo paddocks containing d an 1 <S a - ;res each, both well situated to suit, townspeople wanting the like, a small crop of growing oats and a lot of sundries. The sale will take place at one o’clock.

The Patea Literary Institute has received the new hooks, including nearly a hundred extra volumes for subscribers to choose from now. Amongst them may be found literature to suit every taste, light or substantial reading, by the best authors. The committee deserve, all credit for their management, and have resolved to expend every farthing received in subscript ions to extending the library. Surely with tins inducement lagging subscribers should come forward freely, for the institution really deserves the warmest and most earnest support. Mr Dyer is about (o form Latin and French classes, and will organise them after the new year, should pupils, sulli cieiit to justify him in devoting die necessary time, be collected. There are no doubt many parents who will gladly avail t leansdves of the opportunity, and youths who will repair a neglected education by those nr-ano. As will be seen by a telegram elsewhere, the first of the Ministers, the lion. Mr Iteynolds, has been defeated by the Provincial party in Dunedin. We regret the grounds on which he has been beaten ; it may he ominous of the Colonial Treasurer meeting with equal ill-fortune at the hands of the Egmont constituency, on the dial of next month. The following paragraph appears in the Canterbury Press of a late date : “ Wo understand that it is in cuntempla lion to endeavor to got up a champion twomile race of 1000 sovs. for next Metropolitan meeting. The details are not yet settled, but from (he approval the suggestion has met with from sportsmen and the outside public, we have no doubt that if energetically taken in band (he movement will have a successful i>siu\

We (says the Rang ill kei Advocatc)loarn that a new garden post has nuulc its appearance at Bulls, in the shape of a small green insert of tlio beetle tribe. They settle on the fruit trees in thousands, and with annoying perseverance they keep eating away at the leaves until the trees are entirely denuded. Their depredations up lathe present time have been eonlined to the almond, but no doubt when this fails them, they will attack its congener, the peach. Grasshoppers;, to, abound in numbers that leave hut faint hopes of vegetables being saved from their ravages. A good supply of insectivorous birds would prove a great boon to the district. It was stated in the Rail Mall Gazelle the other day that at a recent sale which took place at Halifax the auctioneer blushed. This is the first known instance of such a phenomenon. The circumstances wore, however, considered sufficient to account for it. The man was selling few goods in (i traiut for the Vicar’s rate. A settler from the North has gone to Coromandel to recover some gold which he buried there more than 40 years ago. The Cross hopes the search will not ho in vain. The Sheep Inspector for Tasmania reports— l! It is no exaggeration to say that at this very time rabbits are consuming food which would support 250,000 sheep, which, at a moderate calculation, is a direct annua! loss to the colony of £02,500. A very large and fine looking palace is now being built in Wellington close to the Cathedral, for Bishop Redwood, and a roaiclonco for the Christian brothers, who arc expected to arrive shortly, to assume the direction of the Catholic schools of the city, is also being built. A new-clmm received what must have been rather a painful surprise a few days ago (says the Bruce Herald .) His flowing locks had never been touched by the scissors for many a month, and he gazed into the window of the barber’s shop a long time before he mustered up courage enough to enter. At last ho went in wiped his boots carefully on the mat, im-' covered his head, bowed to the company, and sat upon the edge of the chair until his turn came In due course his superfluous hair was removed, and after he had surveyed himself critically with the aid of a looking glass, the important question of payment arose. The hairdresser broached the subject gently, and almost apologising for what might appear to be an excessive charge, informed the new arrival the’nsual fee was one shilling. “ A shillin’! ” exclaimed the man ; “ hut I never paid more nor a penny in Glasgow. ” He paid the money, however, and left with the idea that having one’s hair cut is an expensive luxury in New Zealand.

By the steamer ‘ Macgregor,’ from San Francisco, a number of Mormon ciders from Salt Lake were to take passage for New Zealand and the Australian Colonies. Mr C. Moody, the Working-man Candidate at Wellington, expressed himself as follows on the Education question —“Solomon said, ‘ Train np a child in the way ho should go, and when ho is old he will not depart from it..’ That may have been perfectly true in Solomon’s time, and of worshipping the Creator in oneway and nmlcr one priesthood. But in the present day, when the Christian Church is split np into some fifty or sixty denominations, there is no other, plan which so much commends itself to thinking men as that of secular education by the State, leaving religious instructions to he imparted hy the clergy or teachers of that particular Church to which the parents of the children belong. But, geutlcur'i), while 1 am an advocate for secular instruction alone, if paid tor hy the Slate, 1 say that great care .should be exorcised in the choice of the class-hooks used in the Board schools, more especially in the choice of historical subjects. History, we know, is written hy historians, with a leaning’ to or a bias in favor of that particular denomination of the Christian Church to which they happen to belong ; and such being the case [ can conceive no greater insult that that the children of Roman Catholics, for instance, should he compelled to read portions of an historical work' in w.iich the spo iaiion of the Catholic Church (the Church of their Fathers) in the reign of Henry VIII., is described as a glorious reformation. Gentlemen, were I a Roman Catholic, no child of mine should enter a Board school whore such historical readings are as a part of the secular instruction imparled. Not one penny of the State s money should be expended in proselytising for one sect to the detriment of another.” A Californian paper says The milkmen of S.m Francisco have formed a mutual aid association. One holds the can while another pumps.”

An exchange, stales tint Messrs Fraser and Til me, of Auckland, arc; constructing a wire Iranuvay Cor Tairu fur tin conveyance of quarlz. It Is hall! a milciu length, and falls in the distance over 200 ft to this fall it is self-acting, as the full buckets bring back the empty ones. It is calculated to convey quartz at Is per ton. One of the features of this tramway is the use of a new patent clip, which will hold the buckets stiffly to the rope on a gradient of one inch in two, and yet disengages itself when required automiiically. Tiic.se wire tramways are coming largely into use in Enghni 1 , whore (hoy have been built lour miles in length. The Auckland papers notice a novelty in the shape of a copying-ink pencil, which is to be used in precisely the suns way as copying ink. On trial, when the wotted paper is applies Ito I,lie writing,. the pencilling:? turn a pinkish violet color, and on being pressed in the let'er-buok a complete and clear copy is obtained > having this particular advantage, that unlike copying ink it is not liabb to blur or spread in the transf.-r, The Illustrated Ne/rs. of tiie Ibid October says “ The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company is rapidly performing its task of making the submarine, cable to ha laid down between Sydney, New South Wales, and Nelson, New Zealand, a distance of nearly twelve hundred miles. This line, its construction, and its future working, was undertaken live months ago by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, making an agreement for that purposewith Sir Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of Now Zealand, jointly with a representative of the New South Wales Government, which latter province bears one-third of the guaranteed yearly interest upon the whole cost. Sir Julius Vogel, accompanied by several other gentlemen, visited the work of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company at East Greenwich, on Wednesday afternoon. He was received by Admiral Richards, ' a director of that company, Mr Clifford, engineer in charge of the works, Mr Shuter, and others. He minutely inspected every process of the manufacture, which is in a most satisfactory state. The steamships Edinburgh and Hibernia, belonging to the compan3 r , are to bo employed in carrying out and laying the cable, under the command of Cajotains Manning and Pato. The Edinburgh, now lying off the company’s wharf at East Greenwich, has received her load, consisting mostly of the heavy shore ends, and will probabably leave the Thames on Monday next. The Hibernia, of 3,000 tons burthen, will convey a thousand miles’ length of the deep sea cable, which is of slighter make than the shore endsIt is hoped that both vessels will reach Australia early in December ; and that in January or February, the best summer months of that region, the telegraph will be successfully completed. There is already a complete system of land telegraphs all over both the principal islands of New Zealand.” The sons of old settlers in Auckland are going to meet for the purpose of taking steps to secure grants of land on similar terms to those accorded the Katikati settlers. Fielding, Manawain, is suffering from typhoid fever.

The Tasmanians who can appreciate youthful cleverness, also know limy it) encourage the young ideas At the recent examination for the scholarship exhibition, a lad named Charles Pike gained •h'ilfi marks against .‘5,-17 obtained hy Doran, the successful competitor. The creditable, position attained hy Pyko deservedly gained him a large share of public sympathy, cspcially when it was known that he was disqualified hy ago from competing again. The matter was brought before Parliament, and it was resolved to grant Pike T4PO, payable in animal instalments, to enable him to prosecute h.s studies in England. The Crow says —“ It is sad fac ory to h-arn that the young salmon in the. ponds in the Auckland Domain are very healthy, and appear to be thriving admirably. Tenders have been called for the erection of a Primitive Methodist Chapel at Foxtoji; Manawat n. Mr Patrick Cmnhskey (says the Tlh;,s7porf Timw) has ret ired from the contest; for one of the (drey Valley scats, and was a piss mger northward I>y t ie Charles Edward. Mr Newtons elect ion at the hj eld of the poll is consider id s ife, but. there is some dilliciilly in naming (ho s >cond man. Mr Woolco ;k‘s cliancc is considered good.