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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 159, 18 October 1876, Page 2

Wo understand that a challenge has been received by the Patea Cricket Club to play a match (on their own ground) on 1 lie 4tli of November, with the HaweraWaihi Chib. -Mr E. Lyttelton, formerly a resident of ■Carlyle, but who has lately been, to Wellington, returned on Sunday last, and we believe it is his intention to start a livery and bait ,stables at ITawern.

In. Iho R.'M, ’ Court yesterday, John Bedding was brought up under clause 225 of the “'Resident Magistrate’s Act, 18G7,” for rescuing a horse seized under distress warrant. The evidence not being sufficient, lie was remanded till to-day.

From a corrcsspondent wo learn .that Hum Pihama and throe of his men narrowly escaped drowning on the 10th instant. It appears that they went out fishing in a canoe, and on returning a sea struck the frail bark and upset it. Tloni, being a good swimmer and a plucky man, swam to the shore, a distance of over a mile ; but the others had to scramble on to the bottom of the canoe, and wait patiently till it floated ashore, having managed to save one paddle to guide it. The accident occurred about 9 o’clock at night, and had not the Maoris on shore kept large fires burning, we doubt very much if they would not all have been drowned, it being very dark. Wo arc sorry to record that Mr Mason met with an accident when coming from Wairoa to attend the Masonic Ball on Friday night last. He was driving in a spring trap with Mrs Mason, when the trap capsized, and Mrs Mason got a severe bruise on the arm, which deprived her of taking part in the dancing.

Brigham Young, the property of Mr D. Carrol], hay, we hear, astohished the people of Ilawora lately, by taking a flying leap of 133 feet from jump to drop, over a single fence, five feet high. This without training, is a splendid jump.

Again wc have to chronicle another accident. Mr T. R. Procter, jeweller, from Christchurch, when at Opunakc, had a fall from his horse, and severely dislocated his shoulder. Dr. Walker was telegraphed for, and reduced the dislocation, so that the sufferer will be able to continue his journey to our township.

Messrs Morton and Lupton, of Wavcr]ey', have just received the two prize medals awarded them at the Agricultural Show iu 1875, held at Kakaramea. They are both first-class prizes—one being for the entire horse Young Wellington (advertised in another column to stand this season), and the other for the best colonial bred mare. The medals were manufactured by Mr G. Goates, of Christchurch, and arc very neatly got up, Mount Egmont being a very prominent feature. Messrs Morton and Lupton seem to have gained a good reputation for the quality of their stock.

A meeting of the ratepayers oE K». 20 (or Patoa West) Road District was hold in the Court House, Carlyle, on Saturday evening last, for the purpose of urging upon the Superintendent the necessity of calling the ratepayers together to elect a new Road Board, and strike a rate for the present year. Mr W. Dale was in the chair, and commenced the proceedings by reading the advertisement calling the meeting, and explaining the present position of affairs. Mr E. R. Morgan proposed, seconded by Air A. Hunter, and carried unanimously, “That in the opinion of this meeting, it is highly necessary that a new Road Board for Ao. 25 Road District should be elected as soon as possible, and that the Superintendent be requested to take immediate steps for that purpose. It was also resolved that the chairman forward a copy of the above resolution to the Superintendent. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the meeting.

Mr T. Lloyd, who recently had the Whenuakura Hotel, is having Mr Muir’s late store renovated, for the purpose as scon as possible of opening it as a public house. Hawera will then be supplied with throe places of accommodation.

Wo arc indebted to Captain Gibbons, of the steamer Clyde, for a copy of the Wanganui Herald of Monday last, from which we take the following “Mr J. W. Robinson, of the Victoria Hotel, met with a nasty accident about 11 o’clock this (Monday) morning. ■ A chimney in the Roman Catholic presbytery, had taken lire, and Mr' Robinson ran over from bis hotel with a loaded pistol in his hand which ho intended firing up the burning chimney. On reaching the back entrance to the presbytery the pistol exploded, and his left hand covering the muzzle was badly shattered. Mr Robinson fainted, and was carried over to bis hotel, where he was attended to by Drs Tripe, Marshall, and Earle. The sufferer was immediately placed under chloroform, and two of his fingers were amputated. The following is an extract from a leader in the N. Z. Times But as Mr Travers has sent a copy of . his letter to the Evening Post , and some blackguard, acting apparently on bis behalf, has alleged •that we have suppressed his letter, he can go to Hongkong so far as we are concerned, and will certainly not see his effusion in this morning’s issue.” On the Sunday previous to the race for the Lincolnshire Handicap, in which Lord Rosseberry’s horse Controversy was entered, the Bishop of Lincoln preached a sermon, taking for his text “Beware of Controversy,” little imagining the use to which a portion of his congregation, struck by the appropriateness of his text, would apply it. The Bishop is unsparing in his attacks upon,racing and racing men . hence the triteness of the, text .or the occasion referred ,{o.. . - - . . . ■:

Tlio Wellington Argus lias- tho following :—“ Sonic people of the; present clay, especially those who have travelled through the' Australian colonies, see as many ups and downs, and - are: placed in as great a.variety of straits in a few years as the whole stock, lock, and barrel of their ancestors. put together experienced before them. A gentleman well known throughout tliis colony went Home for a holiday some little time ago, and had occasion to visit the Lakes of Killarney. While at a public demonstration he was accosted by a person with a basket on his arm, who, mentioning the visitor’s name, asked him “ how he was getting on, and where did he spring from ; who would ever have expected to see him in that part of the world?” and so on. Tho visitor asked this person, whoso dress resembled something of that of an old-fashioned Irishman and a New Zealand digger, how he recognised him and where he had seen him. The man with the basket told him that he had seen him on the West Coast of New Zealand. Surprised at the answer, and wishing to know if the man really knew anything about the West Coast, he asked him the distance between certain places, and was satisfactorily answered. Then tho man briefly told his story. He had come to the Coast diggings at its breaking out, made a “ pile,” started as a publican, lost most of his cash at that game, and with the balance he went home to see his friends. There he knocked down the remainder of his money, and as a last resource took to selling bog-oak pipes, which he said, using a colonial expression, just barely turned him in bread and butter*. If he could make a small “ rise,” ho intended to go back to New Zealand and try his luck once more. This New Zealand Irishman evidently saw the advantage of being “ mine host ” of even a non-paying “ pub,” with plenty of beef and beer at command, to soiling bog-oak pipes on the Lakes of Killarney for mere “ bread and butter.”

The Wellington Argus says ;—That one can sometimes have too much of a good thing was forcibly illustrated yesterday. A lady got the water laid on to her bouse a few days ago, and to make everything comfortable she had the tap brought into her kitchen. This she thought was a “ thing of beauty and joy for ever/’ But the said part of the tale has to come. Yesterday morning she went to the tap sad, “ and those nasty waterworks people” had stopped supplies. She" turned the tap on to its fullest extent, but to no purpose, so she gave it «■ L<»J joL left w. cliogiwt. Tlion olio wont, nut to apetld the day. Shortly after she had gone a rushing sound was heard by the neighbors, and water was seen oozing through the lioor, but the doors and windows were fastened, and so they determined to “ let it gush.” About 7.30 in the evening the lady of the house came homo in company with her lord and master, and imagine their horror on entering their yard to find it six inches deep in water. But if the yard was bad the scene inside theiion.se was considerably worse. The three ground Hour rooms were deluged, caipets submerged, and small pieces of iirevood pleasantly sailing along, while a couple of unfortunate kittens of a tender age had met with an unexpected and prmiature death. The landlady had forgoten to screw back the tap in the morning, and hence the result. There is not sufficiait water in the house now to lloat firewooi, but the carpets still hang on the fence to dry. Since the occurrence, the tap has been removed from the kitchen to tdistance of 100 yards from the house, anc the occupants have unanimously arrive! at the conclusion that they may bo it times blessed with “too much of a god thing” to be altogether comfortable.