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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 211, 18 April 1877, Page 2

At Wairoka, on Friday, (he 20th instant, air F. P. Jackson will oilier for sale about 2,000 sheep, 1,000 lambs, and a few useful horses. Forty-three persons have registered claims to have their names inserted on the electoral roll. The list may be seen at the Court House door. The Taranaid News says : —The good news respecting the harbour has produced a favourable change in business. Closefisted money-lenders’ are relaxing their iron grasp of the needful, and tradesmen arc beginning to wear a chce-ful countenance. We hear that One tradesman who contemplated selling some property in the centre oli the town, can now get throe limes more for it than he asked a week ago.

The Provisional Session of the Presbytery of Wellington, appointed at meeting held in Wellington on 21st February, to arrange the boundaries and other matters connected with the Waverlcy and Ilawcra charges, arrived at llawera on Tuesday evening, the 10th instant, consisting of the liov Mr Treadwell (Moderator), from Paugilikei, the Rev J. Poss, from Tnrakina ; the Rev P. J. Allsworth, from Waverlcy ; Mr David Btradian, elder from Wanganui; and Mr McFariane, elder from Waverlcy. Service was conducted in the Presbyterian Church on Tuesday evening, by the Rev Messrs Treadwell and AUswort.h. After service was over adherents of the Church gave in their names, and the congregation was formed, as aiso a temporary committee. On Wednesday, a meeting of the Provisional Passion and the Church Committee was hdd am! Lin 1 position of the Church and Committee being fully explained, it was decide,! that the Committee should continue to act until the next general meeting' to be held in May, when they would retire in a body' and then he legally elected. Up to the evening of Friday, the 4th of May, persons desiring to join the congregation, may do so by' handing in their names to the Rev P. J. Allswortli. The gentlemen forming the Provisional Session left llawera again on Wednesday, about noon. Some short time ago it was customary' for the Clerk of the Carlyle Resident Magistrate's Court to make weekly visits to llawera for the convenience of persons desiring to enter cases or seek information prior to the regular monthly sitting of the Resident Magistrate. Considerable inconvenience has lately' been occasioned to storekeepers and others desiring to enter cases or consult Court records through the weekly visits of the Court clerk having ceased. It is said that at present all business connected with the sitting of the llawera Resident Magistrate’s Court has to be rushed through on the day of sitting, and in a building most inconvenient and unsuitable for the purpose. No Court books are kept at llawera. A tradesman desiring to refer back to any judgment obtained at the llawera Resident Magistrates’s Court, under present arrangements, would require to pay a visit to Carlyle before the information desiied could be obtained. There are other minor grievances connected with Court proceedings which will have to be put up with until more suitable promises are provided. It is, however, urgently desired that the Clerk should visit Hawcra, as formerly, at least once a-week, with Court records and material to enable preliminary business to be transacted. The Court records should be available for reference at all times during office hours, unless Court happens to he sitting. Representations on this matter will probably be made to Major Atkinson, who is shortly expected in the district. At the same time a request for a more suitable meeting place will be made. The Block-house, in which the Court is at present held, encroaches some twenty or thirty feet on the street. Should tho Town Board decide to bring that street to proper level, the approaches to tho building will be cut away, and there will be no help for it but to appoint Court meetings elsewhere.

A combined Australasian Cricketing Team played a second match against the English Eleven, with the following results: —Combined team scored in first innings 122 : second innings, 259. AllEngland Eleven : first innings, 2GI ; second innings 122, with tour wickets to go do'.vn. The Patea County Council seal has arrived. {Specimen impressions may he seen at several places in town. It is a boomer —24 inches in diameter, mystically warlike in design, with charioteers, prancing steeds, mangled human corpses, and so on. On top of (lie central design is the motto “Suciatis Laborihus at bottom “ Omnia Forlite'r Vlncimus.” The following players have been selected for a football match —Town v. Country—which will commence on the Carlyle ground on (Saturday next, at b o’clock, when it is hoped all the players will roll up sharp : —Town : Baggett, Hargreaves, Badileley. Harris, Haywood, McMahon, McCarty, Powell, Sergeant, W. Williams, Tennont, S. Taplin, and D. Williams. Country : J. Bourke, Corrigan, Chadwick, Contis, B. Uasent, C. Uascnt, Hutchinson, McGregor, Byrnes, {Skinner, Williamson, Turner, and Thurston.

Complaints are frequently made as to the number of dogs kept running about in Carlyle. Some have gone so lar as to liken it in that respect to a Maori sett lenient. There is no doubt they are plentiful enough to be voted a nuisance. On Sunday last, an elderly lady was leaving church on horseback, when, as is commonly the case, a dog rushed yelping after the lior.se, and set it going unexpectedly. The lady was jolted up and nearly thrown off ; as it was, in attempts to regain her seat, the saddle turned partly round, and the lady was fortunate enough to have been enabled to disengage her foot from the stirrup,Jand so, instead of being thrown violently to the ground, ns appeared likely, alighted on her feet. It is time the dog nuisance was abated.

Messrs Inman & Co., of Ilawera, have issued catalogue of their proposed first auction sale, which is announced for Thursday, the 2Gth instant. The sale will commence at eleven o’clock. Luncheon will he provided, A connnodioas auction mart with large double shop windows has been erected, which is entered from the main street by a broad central passage, on either side of which are the auctioneers and clerk’s offices, the door at end of passage opening into the auction room, in a commanding position of which will he located the auctioneer's rostrum. Behind the building ground has been fenced off for stock, conveyances, and farm implements. Mr Charles Brown will ho the auctioneering part of the firm, a gentleman who though young in years, has lord varied business experience, and has travelled, and being glib of tongue, should therefore be well qualified for the “ hammer and tongue ’’ business.

Referring to the appointment of Bishop Selwyn, the “ Home A r e/w,” says : —“lt will be no easy task, especially for a man of only* thirty-two years of age, to take the place of Bishop Pattoson. That prelate falsified, both by his life and death, a rash and foolish saying of a man otherwise just and temperate. We refer to the late Sir James Stephen, who once stated that the Reformed Cl lurch of England could not produce saints. Pattcson deserted all his prospects of fame in England, though he might, had he chosen, have indulged in a refined and distinguished academical life until the end of his days. Fellows of Oxford colleges have strange and divergent destinies. Manning and Pattoson were both Merton men. The former has attained the Roman purple, the latter endured a baptism of blood at Santa Cruz.”

One of a party lately in search -of gold in Taranaki writes as follows on Maori Dogs: “The natives as you are doubtless aware arc very fond of having a number of dogs around them, and one would imagine out of all proportion to their requirements. For instance —at the Pukemahoe settlement the number of men is four, women four, and children three, whilst the dogs total twelve. I must say this much, the animals are well kept—that is, they are plump and fat, and there are four or five passably bred ones amongst them, quite respectable gentlemanly dogs. But at the solitary house where the man and girl reside, they were poor mangy halfstarved looking curs. There were four of them and they were something to study, if only for the sake of seeing how far an animal can be reduced to skill and bone and still live. As for barking, that was impossible. I could not help looking pityingly at the effort one made on the approach of one of my mates. The poor dog tried all ho could to g - et out a bark : his sides worked like a bellow's, his wirylooking tail stood out, and his eyes protruded almost from their sockets, and with body stretched to the utmost extent it tried to get a “ bow-wow ” out ; but it was no go, tbc poor animal could not do it, the strength wasnot in him, and at last it lav down with utter prostration, and 1 suppose gave it up for a bad job.” We sec by an exchange that Maoris Wanganui wav have begun to introduce sheep into their settlements. It is to be hoped the new pets will prove profitable and help to clear out the dogs.

A drunk and incapable was brought up at the Court-house on Monday, and after the ease had been heard was dismissed with a caution. The first truck of coal from the coal pit of the Heath Company was brought to Greymouth on Pith April. Two trucks crossed the Brunner bridge in safety, but the third truck came to grid, the curve on the bridge being too sharp. This will be repaired, when the bridge will be officially tested and declared open. The coal is of splendid quality.

The Taranaki Herald says Saturday the 7th April was the day for sending in applications for sections set apart for sale on deferred payments, according to the terms of the Taranaki Waste Lands Act. Out of .G4 allotments representing some 5,000 acres of land, only about 400 acres were applied for by five applicants. The Auckland Star, of the sth April, is very severe on the reported cases of scabby sheep having been sent from this district and offered for Sale in the Auckland market. Patea appears to bo getting blamed without due cause. It is a matter of fact that several weeks ago a large Hock of sheep somewhere from the South passed through Patea for Taranaki for convenience of shipment, to the Auckland market. Put they were not Patea sheep. We believe it was sheep from that particular Hock which have been declared doubtful. After all it will be scon by an extract from the Auckland Herald , which appears in to-day’s issue, that it is a case of doctor’s differing. Scab has made its appearance in this district, but Hockowners themselves have used most strenuous efforts to keep the disease within limits. In the particular case referred to, Patea is being unjustly blamed. At the meeting of the Taranaki Waste Lands Board, held on the 9th April, the following resolution, proposed by Mr Standish, was carried—“ That the Chief Commissioner ascertain when it will be convenient for the Premier to meet a deputation of the Board with the object of their bringing before him the importance and necessity of establishing some organized and definite system for constructing roads within the new block of forest land about to bo offered for sale, and to point out that the adoption of such a system will greatly enhance the value of the land to be sold, will give confidence to intending settlers, and be a sure moans of inducing them to settle upon their land ; and that unless some such course be pursued, the occupation and settlement of our forest lands are likely to be permanently injured and delayed ; and that a guarantee of this nature bo required to induce settlers to purchase and occupy our forest laud.”

The Auckland Herald says ; —There seems to he a war between the Slicep Inspectors. A cargo of one hundred and twenty-six sheep, per Dante, lauded on the 271 hj March, wore passed by the Taranaki Sheep Inspector, and again by the Onolnmga Inspector. Eighty-tlve of these sheep wore exhibited for sale in the market on Tuesday, when Inspector Lewis stated that one of the sheep was affected by scab. This sheep was subsequently examined by two Government Inspectors, who pronounced the spot to he a sunburn, and not scab, caused by the wool having by some means boon rubbed off on the passage. None of this lot was disposed of to the butcher, so that should this disputed spot on one sheep turn out to be scab, the public need be under no apprehension of getting diseased mutton. We believe the suspected sbeep is now in safe keeping, and doubtless more will be heard of it, and the others will have to undergo the usual ablution for being in suspicious company.

The Taranaki Herald of the 11th April says :—The negotiations for the Harbour Loan have resulted, we hear, in a highly satisfactory manner. What the exact terras are will, of course, remain a secret until Mr T. Kelly and Mr 11. Weston, who were authorised to go to Auckland to negotiate the loan,, have met the Harbour Board, and reported on their mission, and the proposals ratified. Messrs Kelly and Weston were to have arrived here on Saturday, but owing to the rough weather that prevailed, were carried on to Nelson, and cannot arrive till the 12th instant.' A private meeting of the members of the Harbour Board had been called for Monday last, wlicn, we believe, there was (with the exception of those gentlemen who were carried on) a full meeting. At it a brief telegram was read from Sir Kelly, stating that the proposed terms, in his opinion, were highly satisfactory, but that he could not go into further particulars until he returned. The information was not long in being circulated through the town, and the spirits of the people were considerably raised by the intelligence. Although nothing will be settled until the Harbour Board have ratified the action taken by Messrs Kelly and Weston ; still, there can be little doubt but that the Board will agree to the terms, and that the long-looked for commencement of the harbour will be at last achieved.