The Patea Mail. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1877.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 212, 21 April 1877, Page 2

The Patea Mail. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1877.

The steamer with the English Mail via San Francisco has arrived at Auckland. St. George’s Day, on Monday next. The Banks at Carlyle and Ilawera will be closed. Mr Spurdle is the successful tenderer for the now premises about to be erected at Waverlcy, for the Bank of New Zealand. The s.s. ‘ Hero,’ arrived at Auckland on the 17th instant, having left Sj'dney on the 11th. The tender of Mr J. Robinson, Upper Ilntt, has been accepted for laying the permanent way of Mungaroa contract, of the Wellington-.Masterton Railway. The price was £2,663, Mr William Dale, of Carlyle, who was in Now PJj-inontli at tbfc beginning of the week, learned from the Hon Major Atkinson that he was intending to visit this district at the end of next week. There is pretty good authority for stating that the election of new Road Commissioners for the various Road Districts in Patea County will bo arranged to take place next month. A telegram received in Carlyle, yesterterday, from C. E. Rawson, Esq., Registrar of the Supremo Court at New Plymouth, states that the Supreme Court will be adjourned to Monday, the 7th May. The probable income of the Dunedin City Corporation for the ensuing year is £73,900; £3,000 being the unexpended portion of the loan of £10.540, Government subside.

On Monday, the 16th instant, a fire occurred in Bridge Street, Nelson, whereby two small shops (bootmaker and saddler) wore totally destroyed. Part of the Coacli and llo'.scs Hotel was also burnt.

Pnoloy and Bramhall, of the English Cricketers, who were 1 r night from Melbourne to Christchurch to answer charges of assault and damaging property, were dismissed. On again leaving Christchurch the two cricketers were presented with a a purse of fifty guineas. A massive gold ring was also presented to Pooley. From extract from a Marlborough paper which will he found in another column, it will be scon that another likely to ho good settler may shortly be expected at llawcraMr Adams and family wore passengers from Wellington to Wanganui in the steamer ‘ Manawatn,’ which left Wellington at S p.m. on Thursday morning.

Mr Henry, who, for the past two years has bei'ii driving the coach between Wanganui and Ifawera, has transferred himself and family to New Plymouth, and will in future drive between New Plymouth and Hawera. Mr Henry, from bis courtesy and general readiness to oblige, lias added considerably to his stock of friends while on the Wanganui to Hawera line. Mr Haigh, the celebrated “Ike,” known in the infant days of the Colonics as a crack whip, is for the present on the line between Wanganui and Hawera.

Musical folks in Carlyle have been looking forward with some degree of pleasure to Tuesday evening, the 24th instant, when the Concert in aid of the Building Fund of St. George’s Church, is announced to take place. On Tuesday next it is expected there will ho a large gathering in the Carlyle Town Hall. Tickets have been selling fairly well. Ladies and gentlemen who have kindly consented to aid on the occasion, are likely to acquit themselves creditably. A full rehearsal was arranged for last evening-. Willi the advantage of a moonlight night, there should be a goodly number of visitors in from the country.

There was a great raid on wandering horse-flesh on Wednesday morning. As feed has been pretty well cleared from unfenced properties in and around the town, the grass on the cricket ground has proved too tempting for hungry horses to resist, and forcible entry has been made on that sweet pasture. Spiteful people say that the owners of certain animals have made access easy by helping to damage the fence for the sake of enabling their horses to enter on the cricket ground to get good feed on the cheap. On Wednesday morning, there was a fine opening for the horse impounder, as a number of horses were trespassing on the said ground. Two indignant cricketers made hurried search for a man to impound them ; hut in the meantime, owners of the animals became aware of the raid about to be made, and managed to clear the paddock before the man arrived to take charge. It has been hinted that the Mail charger had been lead away by the regular chcap-fecd-hunting horses. It is to be regretted that the news charger should have fallen into such disgraceful companionship, as he is always well oated.

At one o’clock to-day, Mr W. Dale will offer for sale, at Carlyle, a large quantity of kauri timber and merchandise. The Presbyterian Church evening service has been altered to the usual winter hour, half-past six. The attention of Cricketers and Kickists around Ilawera and Waihi is called to notice convening - a meeting for Thursday afternoon next. After cricketing business has been disposed of, an endeavour will be made to establish a Football Club.

Mr Clement Lee, the newly-appointed sehoolmastcr for Manutalii, arrived per coach on Monday last. In noticing the above gentleman’s departure from Akaroa, the Mail says :—“ During his brief stay in this district Mr Lee has made many friends, and we wish him every success in his now sphere of labour.” The Grey River Argus is now publishing a series of articles on the “ Resources and Industries of the Grey.” In the issue of the 13th April is contained a special report on the Coal Pit Heath Company’s Mine, which company lately purchased the p.s. ‘ Luna,’ with the intention of running coals by her to Wellington.

The Chronicle says that the deer which arrived at Wanganui by the ‘ Manawatu ’ on Tuesday last, were distributed as follows :—Two does and a buck up the Wangaebu River, a buck and two does at the Featbcrston station, and the remaining two docs were sent to Dr Mussen’s to join the red deer which have been seen in that locality. An Exchange says—Not a few of our young lady readers may feel a personal interest in the following paragraph, taken from an English paper “ Engagement rings arc now made like brooches, to close round the linger with a clasp. They arc no longer made plain, but embody various neat and chaste designs. About the most chaste and appropriate is one that simulates a rat trap.” The Wanganui Herald of Monday last sa3 r s, —We are informed that the actual mnrdcre 1 ’ of Cahill, Squires, and Smith, is at present stationed at the Waimate Plains side of the Waingongoro River, and in receipt of Government pay to the extent of £6O per year. His ostensible duty is to prevent settlor’s cattle crossing the river on to the confiscated land.

The Wanganui Herald has been requested to state that Inspector Thompson, of Auckland, who lately passed through this district, has not been appointed Police Superintendent for Taranaki and Patea? but that he was merely under orders to furnish a report on the Police requirements of the same—from Waitara to Wanganui —for the information of the Government.

At Nonnanby, on Thursday, there was n great Native gathering, representatives being present from all quarters, including some from the Waimate Plains. About midday it was a novel sight to see the Maoris making their way in groups from the lower end of Normanby to the chief Pepo’s place. Major Brown was there. The talking was expected to begin between one and two o’clock.

Reference was made in this journal some few weeks ago ns to a proposed important native meeting at Waitolara, to be held at the end of the present month, for the purpose of amicably settling boundary disputes. The Wanganui Herald says the meeting will be held at Kaipo, Waitotara, on the 27th instant, and that the initiative in the matter was taken by Kemp, who forwarded circulars to the Ngatimaru tribes at the Waitara, the Ngaruanui, and all the tribes in this district, asking them to meet for a conference. The native land affected by the tribal disputes is between the Waitara and Wanganui Rivers, and it is the desire of the chiefs to come to an understanding before the meeting of the next Land Court.