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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 123, 14 June 1876, Page 2

The Patou Football Club is likely to prosper exceedingly, a large number of members having joined alrertdy, and others intending to do so. A general meeting is called for Saturday evening next, at the Albion Hotel. "Wednesday and Saturday afternoons are (ixed for practice days. Mr Tapliu requests us to state that, ou the occasion of the Good Templar, open lodge meeting; he did not volunteer to sing, but was asked to do so, by a prominent member of the Order.

A female teacher is wanted for the Mann laid school, and, as will bo soon in our advertising columns, applications for the post are called for. The salary is £BO a year, and the duties arc light, so there is likely to bo considerable competition for the appointment. Applications arc to be sent to the secretary of the Education Board before the 3rd of Ju'y next. In our notice of the Good Templars Open Lodge on Thursday last, we omitted to do justice to two gentlemen, who very materially assisted in the enjoyment of the evening. We refer to Messrs Lett and Jacomb, the former of whom sang “ Hearts and Homes ” exceedingly well, whilst Mr Jacomb gave a reading from ‘‘The Merchant of Venice ” and, On being encored, another Shakespearian extract, from Richard the Third, admirably. We hope both will come forward on the next occasion.

Owing to there being no less than tbreo other meetings on Saturday evening last, the Star Ministrels could not muster in force, so an adjournment was agreed on till Saturday next, when better fortune is hoped for. The letter of the now notorious Scotia ml io the long time notorious J. G. S. Grant, lias crcfltcd no little stir throughout the colony. At Taranaki, an indignation meeting, convened by some of the most respectable residents, was held, for the purpose of protesting against the letter, but w ; e have not heard any details of what was done; A storm of resentment lias been excited against this “honorable” libeller, not to use another word of four letters beginning with 1, and surely, if a member of; the Upper House is not out of the reach of punishment, the Governor should take the matter up. The letter will bo found in another column. An all-comers’ rifle match was fired at the Manntahi range on Thursday last, when, notwithstanding the gale of: bitterly cold wind that was blowing, seventeen competitors put in an appearance, four or five of whom hailed from Kakaramea. The ranges were 300, 400, and 500 yards, 5 shots at each range. First prize, £2 ; second, £1 ; and three range prizes of £1 each. The following is the result ; Diston Ginger, 45 points, Ist prize ; H. Wright, 40 points,. 2ml prize. Range prize, at 300 yards —H. Wright, Hi ; 400 yards, 1). Ginger, 19 ; 500 yards, J. Christie, 10. U. Ginger, tied for the 300 and 500 yards, but lost in both eases on firing off. Although the weather was anything hut enjoyable, every one seemed well satisfied wtih the day’s sport. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, HaWcra, on Saturday last, three natives named Ngahnnga, Kuru, and Kuril Kuril, were charged with creating a breach of the peace, but as proper informations had not been filed, the hearing was adjourned till the 21st inst. In a judgment summons for £lB 2s 3d, Furlong v. Dunne, defendant was ordered to pay £4 at once; and £1 per month. Broadbent and Siggs v. Edgecombe, judgment claim for £7 G ; ordered to pay £2 in a week, and balance by instalments. Same v. John Trewcek ; verdict for £IG, In Beamish v. Cameron, £G 13s, and Quinlivan au Komaku 12s 6, verdicts were given for amounts claimed. The next sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Coxtrt, llawera, will bo on Tuesday, June 21st.

A brutal and inhuman outrage was committed on Monday night last, by some person at present unknown, but, who it is to be hoped will be discovered, and duly rewarded for his barbarity. A cow belonging to Major Turner was found yesterday morning with a small two-pronged hay fork, with which she had been severely stabbed, sticking in her. As it happened the wound was not mortal, the points of the fork having apparently glanced off some bone of the ribs or shoulder, and become embedded in the muscles and skin. How long the injury had been effected is not known, but the poor animal was found at her usual milking'place with the fork in her body as above described. The police arc on the alert, and it is very probable that the weapon used, and so strangely retained, as it were in evidence, will bo a clue to discover the perpetrator. A reward of £lO is offered for such testimony as will convict the offender, and wo hope it will be earned. For the benefit of such people wo may quote the 40th clause of the “Malicious Injuries to Property Act, 1867," which runs as follows : “ Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously kill, maim, or wound any cattle, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen, and not less than three yearsi or to beimprisoned for any term not exceeding 2 years, with or without hard labor, and with or without solitary confinement.” Major Turner is peculiarly unfortunate with his stock. On mustering his sheep lately on his back station lie found that between forty and fifty were missing, and. as the ownership of the dog caught Jtugrante delicto in sheep killing could not be proved, be has no' remedy or satisfaction beyond the barren one of killing' the captured canine culprit. Dr. Redwood, Roman Catholic Bishop of Wellington, has boon preaching in Dunedin to a crowded congregation on the subject of “The Infallibility of the 1 Church."

“ I have heard of the proceedings at a meeting of creditors being opened with prayer, and the wrath of the swindled ones who had suffered from the pious humbug’s*’ business transactions is not unknown to me,” says the Nelson correspondent of the Otago Da'dg Times. But it remained for a Warden of New Zealand to give mo a s ■nsation. He opened bis Court, situated in a mining district in tbc North or South Island —it doesn’t matter which—with a song. Report says it was the well-known duet 1 All’s"Well ;’ that the Warden sang bass, and the policeman tenor.” A practical dairyman sends the following about rendering winter churning easy : Strain the milk into pans and set them on a pot of boiling water on the stove. Heat the milk quite hot, but not so as to scald. Set away the pans, and in thirty-six hours thick cream will have formed. At each skimming stir the cream well together, and, when enough for churning has accumulated, take care, in cold weather, to have the chill taken off the cream. Then scald the churn, put in the cream and churn gently ; and if the butter docs not come in loss than ten minutes you may judge that } - onr cream is too cold. ‘ TEglos,’ in the Australasian , thus comments upon a complicated Customs case —“ Baffle imported 15 tons of telegraph wire, which came in free. Snaffle imported 20 tows,fencing wire—a similar article — and paid duty upon it. Baffle bought Baffle’s 15 tons, and sold it to Snaffle at a profit in the ordinary course of trade. Snafllo sold his 35 tons for use on a station in Riverina, and as it was leaving Victoria applied for, and obtained, from the Customs department the drawback on 35 tons. To this day ho docs not know that the 15 tons on which ho obtained drawback never paid any duty, and thus the State lias absolutely paid away what it never received.” The New Zealand Times has been shown by the agent of Messrs Bradbury, Wilkinson and Co., who is at present on a visit to the Colonies with the object of bringing the invention before bank managers, a number of notes printed by \bo firm. The most dangerous weapon in tbc hand of the forger is that of photo-lithography, and against this danger the efforts of Messrs Bradbury and Co. have been concentrated. We can only mention one or two things which appeared most, striking and remarkable. A note was shown to ns, and also a photographic copy of the same ; on flic latter appeared heads, and in large letters the words, “ Anti-photographic bank-note printing,” of which not the slightest trace appeared on the original, even if looked at with a powerful magnifying glass. This, however, was not all; the elaborate work which we had seen on (he original gave only the faintest result in the photograph, so that, in short, the photograph was something entirely different in character and design from the thing it was meant to copy, and wo can hardly imagine a better guarantee against photn-liihography, or any transferring process, than is afforded by this invisible printing.

The following, wliieh is no donbfc intended to refer to the Duke of Edinburgh is contained in the London letter of the Melbourne Leader ;—“ There is a dreadful piece of scandal abroad respecting a high personage, which is likely to bo all out in the shape of an action for divorce. This is alleged to bo the cause, in a double sense, of the distinguished personage having broken up his household, sent his wife away to her papa’s and gone himself into the active exercise of his profession.

Concerning Mr Creighton, the Thames Advertiser says:—“ The Government of New Zealand arc not always unmindful of their most zealous servants, especially the latter have done them good service through the Press for the time being under their control. The latest example of this is found in the appointment of Mr R. J. Creighton, ex M.11.R. for Eden, and editor of the New Zealand Times , as the representative of tliis colony in San Francisco. It was stated at the time of Mr Creighton’s departure that ho was simply favored with a passage as assistant mail agent on board the steamer ; but it now appears that he has received the appointment above mentioned. We shall probably hear something of the nature of bis duties in Ids new capacity when the Assembly is in session."

The following practical joke is related in the Napier Mercury : —“An alarm was created in the Clarendon Hotel on Friday, which blanched the checks of men who never before had known what fear was. It seems the servant went into the back parlor at an early hour of the morning to put tho room to rights, and discovered a person lying on the sofa covered with the table cloth. Not knowing whether the party was male or female, he put his baud under the covering and felt the cold body of a corpse. With an unearthly shriek he rushed to Mr Britten, and told him there was a dead body on the sofa. Mr Britten, full of thoughts of inquests and refreshments, proceeded in business-like manner to investigate the circumstances. Removing the covering, he discovered the dead body of a fine fat sheep, evidently stolen from Mr Hague’s butcher’s establishment. The sheep had been fitted with hat and boots, and made to look Otherwise as a human being. How are you off for mutton is not a safe question to ask at t’ae Clarendon Hotel just at present.”

At an auction which concluded the charitable carnival recently hold at Dunedin, some rather miscellaneous articles were contributed for disposal under the hammer. One lady from the Taicii sent a fine live calf and a pair of lady’s drawers.

The Herald states on information obtained from “ one of the parties present,” that Winiata, the Epsom murderer, was within a few miles of the place where the Defence Minister was staying during the whole course of the nogOeiations between Sir Donald McLean and the Maori King. The Government astronomer in Sydney notices the remarkable fact that simultaneously with the occurrence of the earthquake in New Zealand on February 27, the waterin' Sydney harbour suddenly rose five indies, at the same time the barometer fell rapidly, as shown by the self-registering instrument at the Observatory. In several other instances mentioned the same phenomena wore noted in Sydney upon the occurrence of earthquakes in New Zealand.

A youthful and gigantic policeman has been enrolled in the Auckland force. The Herald says :—“The rowdies and larrikins of Auckland will no doubt be disgusted to learn that a constable has recently arrived here, who is of the unusual height of Oft 4 inches barefoot, and proportionately well built. A well-known citizen has long been considered the tallest man in Auckland, but ho is put entirely in the shade by this ne\\ r gigantic constable. He is only 19 years of age at the present time, and if he continues to glow until he reaches his 21st year, ho will probably reach 6 feet 7 inches, and ought to be able to walk off with an ordinary-sized scamp under each arm. Group may he cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and w'atcr. The w’ay to accomplish the act is to take a knife or grater, and shave off in small particles about a teasiioonful of alum, then mix it with twice its quantity of sugar to make it palatable, and administer it as soon as possible. Almost instantaneous relief will follow'. Holding in the mouth a solution of bicarbonate of soda is said to he a cure for tooth-ache, and blanched celery, used as a salad, for nervousness. The follow'ing remedy lias been prescribed for scrofulous sores or runnings. Put three grains of corrosive sublimate in a pint bottle of w'hiskcy ; a rag dipped in this tw'iec or thrice a day, and laid on the sores, and continued till all the sores arc dried np, is all that is needed.