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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 152, 23 September 1876, Page 2

At the request of Air James Hirst, we hasten to remove any wrong impression relative to the meeting of the Patea West Hoad Board. The party alluded to as having received money for the Taranahi Herald in July, 1875, and not having forwarded same, does not apply to him in any way. He, as advertised agent for the Taranahi 'Herald, knows nothing of .the transaction. We are sorry tiiat such a misconception has arisen, but no doubt this explanation will satisfy Mr Hirst and his friends who have been misled thereby. The Manutahi settlers are exceedingly anxious to have a telegraph station in their township, and are perfectly justified in preferring a request to that effect. Not only is there a large population round, but it is rapidly increasing, and an office Avould at least pay its expenses. The cost of establishing it would bo trifling, and the residents have already intimated their willingness to subscribe quite sufficient to make up any deficiency in that respect should such occur. Under all the circumstances, there should certainly be no difficulty in the matter.

Sir William Cowern will hold a sale this day of a quantity of timber and articles saved from the wreck of the Egmont. Tho timber is of first-class quality (kauri). There arc also a large number of useful articles in addition to be offered, which ought to secure a good attendance. The sale takes place on- tho land adjoining Mr Potto’s shop. There seems to bo a. special fatality about railway’bridges now in course of construction, and it may occasion some alarm, to remember that the “ accidents” have taken place before any strain whatever has been applied’to them. If they are unable to bear their , own weight, when put up, how can they stand tiie test : of heas'y traffic when in use ? Fortunately, so far their weakness has been made apparent in good time, but had the Brunner bridge had a train passing when it fell, what:,a different and saddening tale there would hare been :do -tell. The ;-latest sensation in this respect is the collapse of a portion of the-railway bridge at Wanganui, ’ which took place on -Tuesday last, and occasioned great damage. There is comfort in almost everything, and it Is some to reflect that railway bridges in the Patea district, -dangerous or otherwise, are only very dim probabilities of an exceedingly distant future.

.Now that the Otoia—Opakn block'is aclverti'sod for sale there are an 3' number of purchasers desirous of inspecting it* This however cannot be well aclncvo/1 whore they are ignorant of its boundaries) but a most valuable guide Mr. H. I. Davis, who has-been engaged on the serve}’, offers his services as such, and the information that "ho can give cannot fail to be most valuable. • f .

We -remind .our- ■-Wesleyan and other readers at Wavcrly that the Rev. R. Bavin will lecture there on the “Martyr Church of Madagascar” on Tuesday.evening next. The lecture is sure to’be most interesti.ng, and'the very moderate price of admission should secure a full hall. ■< ;

A most attractive show of newly arrived goods is on view at Mr. S. Taplin’s includ-

ing a "(|naTitity 1 of newly’ arrived fancy goods, toys &c., that have secured a veiy large number of juvenile admirers already In addition to these, in order to provide for the requirements of the approaching season, Air. Taplin lias procured some of the best cricketing appliances that have ever readied Carlyle, including bats of the best makers, wickets, balls, pads, gloves and all the paraphernalia of the cricket field. The club here has already largely availed themselves- of the opporunity of purchase, ..and other dubs in the district will no doubt follow suit. A soiree in aid; of the Wesleyan .Church, Carlyle, will be given on Wednesday next in the Town Hall, at which,'after;the usual tea, a novelty in this township in the shape of asorvicedf song will bogiven. Addresses will also bo delivered by the Revd.ißBavin and others, and altogether a most pleasant evening’s amusement is promised, which will no doubt-be largely’ patronised. There will be a scratch cricket match played to-day on the usual ground, if the weather be at-all favorable. Wickets will be pitched at 2 o’clock.

As . will be seen announcement in another column, Messrs Mcßae and Nicholson Avill in future jointly carry on the bnsiness of the Carlyle Meat Bazaar, lately in the hands of Mr. Mcßae alone. MrHarris is specially authorised to receive the latter’s accounts, in order to commence the new business fairly. - The perfect little model pony, Lord Nelson, is announced as at the service of breeders or miniature horse flesh this season, and will stand at Wondsido. Ponies of his stamp are. both, valuable and scarce, and his owners will no doubt have many applicants for his services.

In the Now Zealand-Gazette of the l4th_ inst., the promised particulars as to the sections shortly to be offered for sale, in the Kakhramea township and tlie Otoia and Opaku blocks, appear. The number of allotments in the township for sale, run from section 25(1 to section 384, both inclusive, or one hundred and thirty in all. The rural sections are from 590 to G33 both also inclusive. The areas of the latter vary.from 41 acres as the smallest, to 397 acres the largest. The upset prices of the township allotments are from 415 to .£4O, and for the country lots generally, £1 per acre, though some of these are assessed at nearly double that amount The terms of sale are, one fourth the purchase money on the- fair of the hammer, and the balance within three months. The upset prices have already given great dissatisfaction, it being generally thought (hat the rate fixed is much too high, at least for a great portion of the lan 1. Whether it be worth while to make any protest before the sale, the public best know, but such a course has already been mooted.

The Masonic ball, about which so much has already' been anticipated, lias been finally arranged to take place early next month, between the Ist and 10th. A committee consisting of Dr Walker, Messrs Dale, Peacock, Adams, and Haywood, appointed at the Lodge meeting on Wednesday evening last, to carry out all the arrangements in connection with the gathering, and in their hands there can be no doubt of a successful termination to the festivity. There are many Masons in the district who do not belong to the Patea Lodge, but who it is to be hoped, will both attend on the occasion, and what is more, aid .all in their power to .make the affair as brilliant as wished. The committee trust that all brethren.'*will communicate with thorn as soon as possible, in order that arrangements may be facilitated thereby. Mr Weiss, the newly appointed master to the Ivctemarae school, arrived per coach on Wednesday last, and will enter on his duties without delay. It speaks well; for

the district to .find population increasing so far as to render a school necessary, and it is is especially lucky’for the' residents there to have one so welhqualified for;tho post as Mr Weiss selected for the instruction of their children. One of our local tradesmen, Mr Gordon, blacksmith, as already announced, has had to succumb to circumstances, and his first meeting of creditors is called for tho 27th inst. ; Mr Campbell, our highly respected Town Clerk and Librarian, has of 1 ate, we are sorry to say,- been seriously indisposed-, and hns'been compelled at times to delegate his library. duties'to other hands. We are glad to say, ho vever that he is now very much better, and Dr Walker’s care ) will, it is to be hoped, soon set him all right again. (

, The deferred opening; cricket. match bl ■ ihO’season,iriiwhich the Married will eh- , gage the Single members, will take place ■ on the first .Saturday in October. ■; ", J Tenders for clearing fifteen miles of a bridle Lack on the Kaharoa range' are called for, and will he received, as per announcement elsewhere, till the 30th prist. ( » -

An accident occurred yesterday at the Ivetemarae saw-mills,- whereby’ a man sustained a serious fracture of one leg. We have not heard particulars, but Mrßobson telegraphed for Ur .Walker, to come up without delay, and lie left at once. Lieutenant Colville, of the Grenadier Guards, a young man whose courage is only equalled by his modest}’, amused himself on Derby Day in a striking and original manner. Starting from Charing-' cross one night the other week by the Dover mail, with a light summer canoe—. one of the Maidenhead “ cockle-shells”—’ weighing about 60 pounds and measuring about 14ft in length, with a change of clothes and a bottle of cold tea, lie prepared himself for the task of paddling across the Channel. There was no mayor, no crowd,-no special correspondent sto see him 1 off,, his only confidant being a coasLguardsman, who Pad taken, a, ; rough forecast of the weather. At three o’clock—daybreak on Derh}’ morning—he started from Dover Harbor, and paddled himself into Calais Harbor by half-past nine, doing about;.3o miles zigzag across the Channel in six hours and a half. His reception on the French side was not enthusiastic. He wont ion hoard the mail steamer lying ready for her mid-da}’passage to Dover, and was fol. lowed by a French official, who demanded harbor-dues in that injured tone which a Frenchman-knows so well how to assume. He did not pay the dues, but clumped his clothes and had his breakfast on board the steamer, returning the same dny to Sondon. As an effort of pure courage his voyage heats both Webb’s and Boyton’s.

“ Send incj” a Queensland squatter telegraphed the other day to a Melbourne friend, “ five-and-tWenty greyoounds, 100 muskets, a ton of shot, and gunpowder in proportion.” The order (says “TEgles” in the Australasian ) was of so sanguinary a character that the recipient awaited further communication by letter. He then learned that some of the settlers in his correspondent's neighbourhood were threatened with utter ruin by an extraordinary incursion of kangaroos. The invaders had come out of the scrub, not., in hundreds, or thousands hut by tens'of thousands, and loft not a blade of grass" where' they passed over. There is’ nothing for it but 1 Avar to the knife. 'The issue was'the survival of the fittest—cither the extermination of the marsupial or the ruin of the settler.