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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 117, 24 May 1876, Page 2

To-day iicr Majesty Queen Victoria enters on her 57th year, having heon born in 1810. and throughout every British possession in the world her natal 'lay is duly celebrated. She ascended the throne on June 10, 1857, and therefore on the 19th id! next month will have occupied it thirty-nine years. Never was it more worthily filled, the pure and virtuous reign of her Majesty shining out in happy and brilliant contrast to those of previous monarclis, when vice of the grossest description was the rule of Court, and virtue the exception. Throughout her vast Empire this day millions will drink her health with all their hearts, and, if the wishes of her subjects could give her long life and happiness, she would have both to overflowing. Singularly enough, there is no demonstration whatever in Carlyle,— not so much as an amateur concert, or amusement of any kind whatever. As to any military .disphiy that, with our half dozen constabulary, would he a farce, and our local army firing a feu de joie would savor somewhat of the ridiculous. It is a pity that something to celebrate the holiday was not thought-of sooner, either sports or an entertainment of some kind, and that the day is .allowed to pass over in solemn silence as it were. Truly it shows that Carlyle is not a very lively place and that the residents are somewhat slow. It is not owing, we arc sure, tc any lack of loyalty • the Rip Van Winkle element that pervades Patca society is alone responsible lor it. All will join ns wo, arc sure, in heartily wishing the Sovereign of the British realms many and happy returns of the day, and in echoing the cry that will be heard this day in many lands, Oort Save The Queen 7 .

Mr Clapeott, Government Insurance lecturer, gave his promised lecture at llawera on Monday evening, in the Blockhouse, and a large audience assembled to hear him, including a number of the fair sex. After the lecture he gave some readings admirably, and pleased those present greatly. V r o hear that many people present wore so convinced by ids elucidation of insurance, that several policies are likely to be taken out in the district. Tlicrc were a lot of drunken Maoris in town yesterday, who created considerable disturbance, a pitched battle taking place near the Albion Hotel between two dusky combatants. After tin's a number of them proceeded on horseback to the Kakaramea Hotel, -where they made a great r„w, assaulted Mr Marchant and others, and in fact took possession of the house. The facts arc these. A man, formerly a tinsmith and plumber in this town, was going into the hotel, when, without the least provocation, the Maoris set on him, knocked him down, and knocked throe of his teeth out. Wlirta down they commenced to kick and use him brutally, and Mr March ant, who came up at the time, at once went to the man’s assistance, hut shared a like fate, and was equally 511treatccL Mr Jackson, who has lately received lus discharge from the constabulary, went to the aid of the two, and was immediately set on, and fared worse than the others, probably because he was recognised. Ho was thrown down, and dragged into the middle of the road, when all the mob commenced kicking and striking him, and the probability is that ho would have been murdered had not Mr Dixon, armed with a stout club, cornc to his assistance and felled the most active of his assailants, and then cleared the others from him.' Ho was taken into the house and the .doors wore closed. The Maoris broke the windows, and intimated their

determination to enter the house. They weie, so engaged when a young man managed to escape niiperceivcd by them, borrowed a horse from a neighbour) and came into town to give information to the police, lie saw Major Turner, who, as We are informed, but can hardly believe it) told him that he (Major Turner) had no one to send out, and so the Maoris last night had it all to themselves. During the skirmish the whites managed to collar one, Maori prisoner who they locked up in nr stable, and the Major promised that if the captors could keep him till morning he would send out for him. This detention is in the highest degree improbable as his comrades will rescue him long before that. We hope that the story as thus told is incorrect in man}' details ; it entirely true it is a disgraceful otic. A meeting of the clergymen of the various denominations was held a few days ago, at Mr Sherwood’s office, for the purpose of arranging a now burial ground in the Cemetery reserve. The Presbyterian Church was represented by Messrs 0. N. Campbell and W. Aitcbson. A plan of the ground, between 5 and G acres in extent, Was submitted, and each denomination selected a portion. The whole of the ground will be fenced in, cleared, planted with trees, and tastefully laid out with walks, &c. The old burial ground will be substantially fenced in and planted with trees, but it is not intended for future burials, unless in ease of those having friends buried therein wishing* to use it. The remaining portion of the groilnd, about ;?;5 acres, will be leased for a period of fourteen years, and the rents accruing from it will be devoted to the purposes above specified. The cemetery will thus be self-supporting. The plan submitted bv Mr Flnncrty to the Town Board on Wednesday last, was prepared in accordance with the views of the above meeting. As far as religious services went, Carlyle was well oil; on Sunday evening last, there being no less than four denominations reprrs mted. In the episcopalian Church, the Rev. MrDascnt officiated; in the Roman Catholic, Father Portids had service, the Rov. Mr Daw in the Wesleyan Church» and the Rev. Mr Alls worth, Presbyterian minister, preached m the Town Hall. It speaks Well for Patca when we can say that all were well attended. When the Cemetery reserve Is offered for lease, wo have reason to believe that the competition will bo keen, and that a very good rental will be obtained. According to a resolution passed at a late meeting of the Town Board, the reserve was to bo advertised four times during the month, and then sold, but this cannot bo be carried out, as the survey is not yet completed, and it is not therefore known what the true extent of the area to be leased is. As little delay as possible will, however, take place in offering the land.

In another column Mr W. Dale intimates his Avillingncss to place his services at the command of the Carlyle ratepayers at the coning Town Board election. Mr Taplin too has come to the Core, and seeks reelection, an honor that ho well deserves for his straightforward conduct during the present expiring term. A case heard at the R.M. Court last Friday, of no interest in itself, the amount in dispute being only a few shillings, gave rise to a legal point, which may be of interest to suitors in future. A dispute arose between Mr McGuire and Mr O’Sullivan as to the delivery of a hundred of flour, the latter not remembering its receipt. Mr McGuire therefore summoned him, hut the day before the hearing, defendant paid the amount into Court. In the meantime plaintiff' had taken out two summonses, and paid 5s each for them. The question at issue was whether, as the amount had been paid into Court, plaintiff was entitled to be recouped these as cost, with the othey costs, or, not. After a rather stormy discussion, the Magistrate postponed the case for a week before deciding the point. The Presbyterians of this district will he glad to hear that there is every probability of a successor to the Rev. Mr MeCallum, as minister in this district. The Rev. Mr Allswnrth is,the minister in question, and he commenced his labors on Sunday night last by holding service in the Town Hall. The reverend gentleman officiated formerly at Turakina, hut left for Victoria, whore he has resided some time. He has now returned, and we hope that arrangements will bo completed, whereby the district will secure his continued ministration.

The Good Templars in this district are increasing rapidly in numbers, there being now nearly a hundred adult members in the Carlyle lodge and some forty juveniles, Eveay week there arc accessions to their ranks, and the lodge promises to become one of the most largest in this part of the colony, if recruits continue to come forward at the rate tho3’’ have done for the last month or two. At the mooting to-morrow night, we hear that several have intimated their intention of joining, and many others are likely to do so shortly.

The Rev. Mr Allsworth, Prcsbyteiian minister, held service at Hawera on Sunday morning last, and created a most favorable impression amongst the Presbyterians of that town. ■

We have received a letter from the Chairman pf the Town Board, .enclosing a* letter sent to the Superintendent. They will appear in our next. Mr CL D. Ilammerton, barrister and solicitor, of Taranaki, in another column announces his intention of attending the Dis* trict Court to be held on the Oth and 7th of June next. ITis Ilonor the Superintendent has proclaimed the HaWera footpaths, as public footpaths within the meaning of the Footpath Ordinance. Notification to that direct appeal's in our advertising columns. TTisTTonor Judge Kenny has most kindly consented to give a lecture here, on Wednesday the Utli of June next, in aid of the Carlyle Literary Institute. There will no doubt be a full house to listen to a gentleman of such acknowlcged ability. Our lawyer townsman, Mr Adams, has been paragraphed on the Weftt Coast of the Middle Island, and Ids settlement in Carlyle has a (forded a “ local” to at least two papers, the Westport 'Times and the huaujulnta JJerald. The following paragraph has appeared in both ; — ,l Mr Edward Adams, son of Mr Acton Adams, of Nelson, is about to practice bis profession of barrister and solicitor at Carlyle.” Considering that Mr Acton Adams is only about 30 years of age we think our readers will agree with us in thinking the probabilities arc against the correctness of the above paragraph. For the information of our contemporaries, we may state that the gentleman referred to is the son of Mr Henry Adams, Crown Prosecutor‘in Nelson.

A man named Macknnc, who was formerly a zealous lecturer in the cause of Good Templarisnt, but for some reason or other lias tinned upon his former friends. The Taranaki Herald says :—Brother Macknnc has applied to the Auckland Victualler’s Association to be supplied with funds so that he can travel over New Zealand and denounce the Good TemplarsHe appears to be a nice gentleman this,” A correspondent of the Otago Daily Times writing from Auckland says—- “ Dipthcria has been very fatal to some families here. In one case three fine girls wore carried off in ton days—the last two the day after each other. The season altogether has been unusually sickly, and among adults there has been bronchial inllamstion —fatal in some cases and painful in all. Dr Pollen is still, lam sorry to say, ill, and report says more seriously ill than was at hrst thought. Mr W. G Wilson, proprietor of the New Zealand Herald , has been ill for some time, and is still confined to his house.

A bankrupt, according to the N.Z. Times , related in a Wellington court lately how he provided endowments for his family. To his wife was allowed, as a wedding present, a cow and calf, and on the advent of each new pledge of affection a heifer was set aside. Tho family grew and multiplied, and so did the docks and lienls, and more than this, the children easily learned to buy and sell and get gain, so that in a few years the endowment assumed respectable proportions. Taking care while solvent to legalise these arrangements) they wore recognised, and though the husband is a bankrupt, the family is growing rich. In sheep, New South Wales stands first with twenty-two million eight hundred and scvcnty-tWo thousand eight hundred and eighty-two ; New Zealand following with eleven million six hundred and seventy-four thousand eight liundi'ed and sixty-three, and Victoria close behind with eleven million two hundred and twentyone thousand and thirty-six.

The queerest arrangement of art old boiler is to bo seen in Auckland. The immense boiler taken out of the s.s. Wellington when her new one was made and successfully shipped by the Messrs Yeoman of Albert-street, has been placed in the yard and is fitted up as offices.

A man named Ebdeu was arrested at Palmerston a day or two ago for having travelled on the Foxton and Palmerston Railway without a ticket, and refusing to pay las fare. -When the guard asked him for the money, ho began to strip, and said, - l Oh yes, I’ll pay you !” lie was fined ;£1 and costs, and ordered to pay the amount of his faro. The peculiarity of the case is that though the man refused to pay his fare, he had on his person when arrested a bank draft for .£350 and £4O in notes.

On dll that: Mr Curtis, the 'Superintendent of Nelson, will accept the vacant portfolio in Sir Julius Vogel’s Ministry, Mr Curtis is a good ■ departmental man, a fair speaker, but not an over brilliant politician. He lias.administered the affairs of Nelson for some considerable timcj apparently to the satisfaction of the people of his province. Mr Curtis has always consistently supported Centralists principles. The Jewish Times says ;—“The first Masonic Lodge of Jerusalem is a beautiful: illustration of the cosmopolitan nature of the principles of brotherly love in practical} operation. The Master is an American,: the Past Master an Englishman, the Senior Warden a German, the Junior Warden a native, the Treasurer a Turk, the Secretary a Frenchman, the Senior Deacon a Persian, and the Junior Deacon a Turk. There are Christians, Mahoramcdans, and Jews in the Lodge.

Tlic Melbourne Herald says The story goes that soon after marriage Madame de Murska received from England or America (writes the Melbourne correspondent of the Hamilton Spectator') a draft for £IOOO in terms of engagement she had undertaken to fulfil ; that Air Anderson opened the letter, and placed the draft to his oavii account with one of the banka;-that Madame do Mnrska resented this action ! and that it was to secure herself that immediately on her husband’s death the court was appealed to on her behalf lor letters of administration to her husband’s estate.”

The history of the woman Nellie Duncan, who was latety burned to death at Timaru, Was a somewhat singular one. She was thcjlaughter of a respectable- hotelkeope l ' at Scarborough, and was a very pretty girl. She, however, went wrong at an enrly age, find for some time led a fast life at Plymouth. There she met a man named Swale, and the two emigrated to Canterbury as man and wife. They took passage by the slop Ivanhoo in 18G4, and on the Way out Mrs Swale behaved respectably. Fever broke out on board, 3G deaths oCcUrrcd, and many of the passengers were ill. Mrs Swale was exemplary in her attendance on tile sick and dying, proving a perfect ministering angeh Her conduct was most highly spoken of, and was more appreciated, as the captain and surgeon wore inattentive and dissolute, the former dying of delirium tremens a few days after arrival in Lyttelton. Swale and Nellie Duncan quarrelled soon after coming to Christchurch, and parted company, she again taking to fast life. Swale went into business as a grocer, in partnership with another man, whom he subsequently quarrelled with and murdered. Singularly enough the manner of the murder was by fire. He set fire to the house in which his partner was asleep, and the unfortunate man was burned to death. For this crime Swale was hanged. Since that Ids quondam wife has gone from bad t 0 worse. She lias been the ruin of many men. One ease with which her name was connected was that of Bain, the former clerk to the Bench at Christchurch. He was a married man, but became ensnared by this woman, took to drink, and finally embezzled certain Government money to enable them both to holt to Australia. Ho however was arrested in Dunedin. Nellie Duncan did go to Australia, but returned to Canterbury to meet her fate by being burned to death after a drunken orgie, in a miserable but at Timaru.

Rather an amusing joke is going the rounds of Auckland. Exactly opposite tho west gate of Government House, at corner of Princess-street and Waterloo Quadrant, a tailor has taken the shop. The name of tho tradesman, singularly enough, is the same as that of his Excellency, and the object which first catches the eye of any member of the viceregal establishment leaving the Government House grounds is a window with the inscription 1 Normanby,Tailorand Breeches Maker.” The Star says it is justified in contradicting the rumour that the tradesman is a relation of the Governor’s who has chosen this way of forcing himself upon the notice of his illustrious kinsman.

A compositor in the office of the Grey River Argus seems to have let in the editor of that journal for a good thing* Our contemporary writes : —“ A stupid typographical error occurred in a paragraph in oitr issue of yesterday. Sir Julius Vogel was made to have .returned from a projected visit to Patea by a sudden attack of Government. It should have read ‘from a sudden attack of gout,’ which' makes a wonderful difference.”

Not long ago Judge Ward dilated upon the moral effects of eating mutton from Leicester sheep, and now w“e find the Magistrate at Wellington expatiating upon the assatllt-provoking qualities of underdone meat. On a recent Court day Ids Worship said “ A case came before me yesterday in rVhicli Mrs M'Cartliy applied for a protection order, and I ad. jonrned it for a Week in the hope that the parties might come to terms and make it up. The case was, hi fact, a weak one. There appears certainly to have been some violence used on one occasion, and from the evidence before me it appears that the defendant originally received provocation from his wife, who like many other young wives, does not seem to know much about cooking. She seems to under-cook the meat. Now, under-cooking is apt to produce indigestion, and indigestion is apt to produce a hasty temper, and consequently M'Carthy may have been driven to drink, and hastiness of temper by the indigestion produced by his wife’s bad cooking. It strikes me. that if you were to advise your daughter to do the Cooking better, and pay a little more attention to, her husband, they might get on much better,”

A correspondent, writing from the Lake ; country to the. Bay of Plenty Times, says—“ To arrive at the medicinal qualities of the respective baths appears to bo a difficult matter judging from 'numerous' bottled samples taken for analysis from; time to time with no apparent reside Still our invalids, nothing daunted, strut quite innocently first into an arsenical, bath, and then perhaps into one impregnated with all the most subtle poisons under the sun, coming out all colors g, the rainbow.” .