The Patea Mail. Published Wednesday and saturdays WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1876.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 111, 3 May 1876, Page 2

The Patea Mail. Published Wednesday and saturdays WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1876.

Wo arc pleased to loam that Major Iv. - !# has been Siic-oussful iu peaceably arranging tlic .satisfactory settlement of the 0,.-position advanced by the natives to the construction of the telegraph behind the mountain, and that the work is imw being vigorously pushed forward, and is confidently expected to bo completed before Parliament meet in June next. A I'urero was lipid on Monday last, between Major Brown and the natives, when it was r-solved by the obstructionists to submit Ihe matter in dispute to the friendly arbitration of Kir Donald McLean, raid to abstain from all further resistance. We congod ulatc Major Brown on the success vvaicii lias attended his interview with the refractory natives. The inhabitants of Patea have experienced quite a famine during the past few days, owing to the supply of Hour •raving run out. Hotelkeepers and private families have been submitted to great irdts to provide a substitute for the iif of life." Fortunately, yesterday •, iVnioon a limited supply of Hour was . la.'lined from Wairoa, winch is considered efiieent to tide over picseut wants till the ,-:t■;;ne.‘i-’s arrival. AVe learn that the 1 hack wall has a cargo of flour for Mr ■ • ’.j.!ln, wliieh, on arrival, should pro v e a >-!-• -iii s-1.10 importation to him. Tbe Patea East Road Board have decided - / e:\ii lor lenders for the formation of t mad through the swamp land facing the ’ bridge. The road, when completed, . ; U prove of great public utility, as it will ; h>; d easy communication with the Heads ! will also facilitate settlement in that . I 'r. Tiio want of such a road was plainly manifest on the occasion of . Egmotit 1 * late mishap, as eques- ... m; I others #orc compelled io make ,i :.. 11 f of several miles before reaching ’ ~ovue of the disaster. The usual monthly sitting of the Reai--ii Magistrate's Court will be held at , 1 M !'■!■*. m-morrow. at 11 a.m. There arc number of .civil cases sot down for hoarA? will ho seen by an advertisement in another column, a meeting of the committee ; i.pointed by the Patea Agricultural -w,.--...elation to carry out the programme for the furthcoming annua! ploughing •,• is annuimccd to he held at Mr Z rof- oid.ro next Saturday, at G pan.

Tim tea meeting he.d at Uaw.'lM hi-u evening, in aid of the funds of the NS esb van \ iniirii Bnmlay Be'mo!, jt;i-st od very Micecssfuky. A Tull report, ol the proceedings will app'ar in mir it"Xi issue, A meiling of llm Paten Kilwinning will I>i • b -Id at the ('ariyie T«>wn Hull to is evening, at beK-pad sewn o'clock. Sir William C -\v t;i will submit lli" ’o ,SC of i lie ToWll l!.i;U‘d reserves to piddle i; imp dit ion at Ins mart next Latin day, at ! J nee,!!. Timre are no less (nan Mi lots Jo lie of)' ■!■<•,!, liil.l as many posses.; good building iVonl.ig -s b, the Taranaki Una k sjn, ii.-.i eoic,pet iti> m is aiiiieipate-1. V; e timbeeeme.! I'm! tlm Hoard meet on i'ndiy (Vs'eiiing n x! to fix a reserve price upon each Ini, and we trust Unit tii -y wiil no! he tno {.‘Xaeling In their ileman.'s, ollu rwi ;e they may iiml their estale a drug in lm> market. A meeting of persons Interest ml in tieformation of a Miracai Society, will 1m held al Ihe Kakaramea Hole! this evening; at 7 o'clock. V\V !ieg to direct attention to Air Dale s sale of new and second hand Jnrmtiire, groceries, horses, Ac., to he held at his malt next Satin day, after th-T sale ol the I own Board reserves. We understand that a survey was held upon the htiil of Ihes.s. Kguumt yesleniay on hehall. 01. Mr Ihilhie, and it was iesolved to recommend an attempt to relaunch her next tide.

A young man in this town, who is particular about his washing, I lie other day wrote a nolo to his washerwoman, rm.l one to his girl, and by a strange fatality put die wrong address on each envelope, and sold limn oil'. The Washerwoman was well pleased at an invitation to take a ride the next day, but when] the young lady read —“ if yon muss up my shirt bosom, and inb the bullous oh the co.lar any more, as you did the last time, I will go somewhere else,' sm* cried ail tne evening) ami declares that she will never speak to him again. In the ease of the Kev. Henry Kent, a Wesleyan minister, who was ret used permission by the. viear of a parish in Lincolnshire to erect a tombstone to his daughter in the churchyard, on the ground that he was described on it as ‘"Lovciornl —the Judicial Committee ol: the Privy Council, reversing the judgment of the 01 laneel lor or thy Arches Coma, ha l , e decided that the refusal was illegal. “‘Without a moment’s hesitation,” says the l imes of January '22, “Lord Chancellor delivered the judgment of the committee in favour ol' Mr Kent. It was evident upon theleast inquiry that there was no authority, in oi- usage, tor restricting the designation ‘ reverend ’ to clergymen of the Church of England. It iias been used in former times in addressing persons who wore not clergy at all, and even towards woman ; and in the present dav i! is a matter of common parlance to employ it in addressing ministers Nonconformist denominations. If it were a formal title, the miUiorify .for its use must be deiived from the Crown, and no such authority has ever been given. It is a mere ‘laudatory- epithet,’ accoided as a matter of social courtesy-.

A railway to the North Pole is one of the latest projects. The following plan is suggested by a correspondent of the Scientific A -id rricon :—“ I propose to reach the North Pole by’ the construction of an over-grmnid tubular railroad, under the auspices of several governments, which should pay sufficient money to construct suitable shops for the making of a wooden tube, oft to 6ft in diameter, to be made in light sections for transportation. After some suitable lauding place has been chosen, the road could he commenced at flic dock. The section of the tube could be placed on a car which would run inside of the tube and be propelled by hand, and furnished with a light, strong, convenient dummy engine, and boiler to ho used when required. Theoretically, this idea has many points of great benefit to the explorers. A car can be made and furnished with nearly all the comforts of a home ; and the tube, getting covered with snow in the winter, would he quite warm. AVith properly constructed stoves, plenty of provisions and fuel, a scientific party could par>B a winter iu the tubes quite comfortably. I have no doubt but that there arc plenty of civil engineers who would jump at the chance of constructing a road of this nature if solid Government support was guaranteed. If tin's idea proved feasible, and the harrier of 120 miles that is supposed to exist could be overcome, and the unexplored supposed open sea found, this road could he male the means of carrying material for the construction of fishing vessels. If the open sea does exist, there is no doubt that whales arc to ho found there in immense numbers, so as to make the road profitable, and furnish oil for the people when the products of the oil region commence to give out. Shelter in nearly all emergencies would ho found in a road of this description. Who can tell of the benefits that might come to the nations if the mysteries of the vast unknown region could be brought to light? The outlay on a road of this character would bo a mere bagatelle to the results that would accrue from it.”

Tim identical wooden press at widen Drank;'m worked is to lie shown at. tin Demenniai idxlulul mu by 1 tie side oi a Hoe lightning cylinder press. A U,-liter’s telegram from New Yoik stsl-'s that Captain ib.ynion swam disnme" of t wenty-iive miles in the M:ssissipi Kiv.-r on damiary 2Vb Mn the dibit March, al Chrisleltiireli. a .Mrs .John lawvi h waite gave bit (h to two sms and a daughter. Tim umthcr dieii s.mriiv ailerwanis. but the children lire reported as alive and doing well. liming the eight months ended December. tin; New Zealand Insurance Company received in Smt Francisco NAOMI in premiums. their loss for the same period, amounting to less than TlUt). New Zealand has two mmuds named Uaugitolo, one in N\ estlami and tie; other in Auckland ; the consequence is, the recent discovery 01. the rich silver mine in Westland is mentioned in the Melbourne as being si; initial in Auckland, while the tfyo'itri/ j/onmnj J!rrohl locales it in Wellington. Tim Resilient, Magistrate at Weil.ingl on has given instructions that in all eases in which it is intended counsel slim! be cm. ployed, (he professional fees and costs shall bo notified upon the summons.

11l notin'; - tin* death of Colonel St. .Toim liu 1 „V< in Zealand 7 lines says—l lie deceased Inis 1 <os■ I! in (ho Colony a number of years, and played no nnl ni;>oi - ta!i 1 pari in the troublous events of (lie pus!. He was horn of a military ■family, am! alter is an: ilet iiu;' his studies, passed a most Katisl’aetorv examination at. Candhnrsi, am! then served in ihe Imperial army, being present at the C.iimea. Cpoii arriving in Xew Zealand, he immediately joined his old profession. He laid charge of one ol the divisions of ! lie militia during the war, and was always recognised as one oi the Very hast officers engaged in the service o{ (he Colony. Ever foremost in the iit'hh and always ready to encounter danger, as ho was, he was still more valuable as a leader, owing- to his prudence and care—qualities indispensable to good generalship. He ilever exposed his men to danger needless!',', and always made due provision for getting out of a diiUcnly if it could not be surmounted. In all respects lie was a thorough gentleman, ami there were few. if anv, of the men who were with him in his campaigns on the East and "West Coast who would have changed their olueor for any other in the force. Personally, lie never knew what danger was, and no doubt his late illness was the result of the fatigues and exposures he underwent during the wars. Latterly he had been engaged in the Native Department, and bad proved himself to be no less valuable in the ollice than he was in the field. P»y his death U,C Colony loses one of its most faithful servants. He leaves to mourn their loss a wife, throe sons, and Jive daughters. ’

A Western editor says that the six plagues of a small town are—a lawyer with great knowledge, great, sophistry, and no sense of justice ; an eminent physician, with little skill or manners ; a preacher without any conscience ; a fjniHTt'Ji'Oinc ttiiior j ft pwjiiiciHn principles ; and a man of letters who eternally dogmatises. In the course of a trial for bigamy, at the late silting of the Supremo Court in Christchurch, Judge Johnston remarked that it was an extreme!v improper thing for the police to interfere in eases whore no action was taken by the principal parlies concerned. If detectives and others went about trying to pick out offences of this or other a similar kind, when the parties themselves did not move in it, they ran a great chance of bringing the police force into deserved odium, in ibis part of the country there seemed to be some notions with regard to the duties of policemen which did not coincide with ids own. An alert, active, intelligent police was a great blessing to a country, but a meddling police was a great curse. A correspondent of the Otago Dai!;/ Times, signing himself “ A Colonist and Irishman,” writing of Air J. G. S. Grant, the libeller of the colony, suggesting that the mildest punishment suitable to his gross libels against the female immigrants would be that he should be “tied to the Cargill monument, thereto bo whipped by the females he has vilified, a stone then tied round his neck, and (hen he castoff the Rattray-street jetty into (ho sea.” The Times, however, says—“Wo do not counsel any resort to corporal chastisement, because that has been often tried and found wanting. To personal chastisement he lias become hardened by practice ; the more lie has been kicked the more he seems to like it. Neither do we think it would ho well to pay his passage money home, because he would bo back again before the year was out, whatever promises ho made Ho would starve very soon in a country where there wore fewer pigeons—poor innocent birds —to pluck. Perhaps the best way would he for our citizens to club together, and give him one hundred a year on condition he lived iu Patagonia or Central Africa, and never wrote or spoke about New Zealand again, payment to coa.se the first time ho opened his shameless mouth. We should bo happy to receive subscriptions for so laudable a purpose ; and we are sure that it would piy us all well to raise even a thousand a year for such an end.”