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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 232, 30 June 1877, Page 2

The Carlyle Town Hall Company have decided to call for fresh tenders for carpenter’s work, and for paperhanging separate tenders. Next week a lot of meetings will be held in Carlyle—Education Board, Town Board, Hoad Board, Agricultural Society, Steam Threshing Company, County Council, Patea Kilwinning Lodge, &c. The Ringarooma arrived at the Bluff on Thursday morning, at eight o’clock, with the Suez mail. Returns of traffic on the Wanganui to Marton Railway, for the four weeks ending 4th June, show—Passengers (227) £29 17a Gd ; goods, £2 12s sd. Total, £32 9s lid. The ketch ‘Jane Elkin,’ with a cargo of timber, arrived in the Patea River at eleven o’clock on Wednesday morning last, having left Havelock at five o’clock the previous (Tuesday) evening. She left again yesterday. The Whcnuakura School will be opened on Monday next. Messrs Inman and Co.’s monthly sale of stock and merchandise is advertised to take place at Hawera next Wednesday. Mr D. M. Hogg, of the Waverloy Store, notifies that goods arc delivered by him in the district at Wanganui prices. Mr William Dale will sell at his Mart, at one o’clock to-day, without reserve, a quantity of household furniture and general mcrcliandi sn. The letter from Hawera “ Scrutator ” is too directly personal for admission unless under the name of the writer. In any case the letter ■would be better not published. As the agitators have gained their point they may flatter themselves upon having obtained solid satisfaction, and •should be more contented. “Scrutator" concludes “ I hope Messrs Baker and Kingwill not be disheartened, but continue their agitation until their resolutions become the law of the Company. Wo [shareholders] arc sick of their do-nothing policy.”

C. *D. Whitcombc, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands in the Taranaki provincial district, announces sale of land, on deferred payments, on Saturday, 14th July, and by auction for cash, on Saturday, the 21st July. The land is situated between the Manganui and Patea Rivers, and abutting on the eastern side of tbe Mountain Road, and near to the site of the proposed township at junction of the Patea River and the Mountain Road. The sales will lake place in the Council Chamber of the Institute, New Plymouth. On Thursday night a meeting of Provisional Directors of the Patea County Building Society was held, when it was decided that Permanent Directors should bo elected on the 9th July, About 500 shares have already been taken up, and further applications are being made. It lias been decided to start as early as practicable, A sub-committee was appointed to draw up rules.

To-night, at the Odd Fellows’ Hall, Carlyle, the Star Combination Company intend giving their first drawing-room entertainment. We understand that music, songs, acrobatic andajrial feats, with farces and burlesques, are to form the order of the programme. Miss F. Wilton has been extremely well received in the large New Zealand and Australian towns, and no doubt her singing will be appreciated hereMr F. Wilton is noted for comic songs and dances, whilst Walter and Frank are reported as acrobats of renown. It is probable the Company will visit Hawera on Tuesday evening.

The Chronicle says a consignment of porch reached Wanganui by the Manawatu on Wednesday. We learn that 60 dozen left Melbourne ; they had been there some time to get acclimatised to the water, a supply of which was brought on boardOn arrival they were distributed by the Secretary as follows : —2O dozen in Kaitoke Lake and stream running into it; 10 dozen iu Wcstmerc ; about 7 dozen in Pickwick ; 3 dozen in the Virginia Lake ; and 5 dozin the Wanganui River above Aramolio, the balance -being kept to be distributed elsewhere. All were in good condition. The Hon. W. Fox has written a letter to the Eangitikei Advocate, with a view to showing tnat the proposed new R alive Lands Act, does not offer special advantages to speculators.

Tenders for tlie extension of the railway froin Turakina to Marton have been called for.

Mr W. Williams, of Carlyle, has just imported a number of single and doublefurrow ploughs, which are now on view. One of the double ploughs, of Sellars and Sons’ make, is said to possess many advantages over any previously introduced into this district, and is attracting the attention of farming men.

The Lyttelton Times says of the new Native Lands Bill: —This looks like playing into the hands of the capitalists After all tire talk about acquiring a great landed estate for the North Island, this is but poor performance. It has been long a favorite theory that, before many years, a large land fund would he enjoyed by the North when the .South would have ceased to draw revenue from territorial sources. Those who held tlse theory were fond of expatiating on the superior fertility and climate of the North. They always maintained that its future prosperity would eclipse anything that ever will be seen in the South. But if there is to be no land revenue at all, it is difficult to see how these sanguine expectations can ever be realized. If the capitalist is to have unlimited sway, the country, where practicable, will be converted into sbeep and cattle pastures, and population will be represented by a few boundary riders going a perpetual round of melancholy duty with binoculars, which will not enable them to see one another. In these days, when a rapid increase of taxpayers is of such vital importance, the new Bill is a mistake, the more so as it neglects to provide the best remedy for the not by any means extinct Native difficulty, namely, an increasing preponderance of a Europcan population. A Wellington paper says:—“ During the recent voyage of the N.Z.S.S. Company’s ship Piako from London to Lyttelton, two newspapers were carried on. One of those, the Saturday Review, has been sent to us for perusal. It is exceedingly well-written and compiled, and must have been found a groat relief to the unavoidable tedium of a long voyage. It was ; ably edited by Mr J. W. McNeale, who was formerly one of the masters at the Nelson College, and who returned to New Zealand by the Piako. Another pleasant incident of the voyage was a regatta, held while the ship was becalmed in the tropics, the ship’s boats being got out, and some excellent races took place, while there was a goodly sprinkling of the fair sex among the spectators.”

The Auckland Football Club have modified rule 57 of the Rugby rules as follows :—No hacking or hacking over, tripping up, slinging, rabbiting, or hutting shall fie allowed under any circumstance whatever.

The Wanganui Tlerald says ; —We should litre to know who have stood as sponsors for the Native Lands Bill of 1877. It would form an interesting art study to see this measure, this alleged charter of. the rights of colonisation, at the font, with its godfathers and friends standing round. There would bo seen one or two great land rings, and a number of smaller ones circling round about them. Prominent in the foreground there would stand three or four monstrous arid huge land-sharks, and behind them and in the background ones also of very respectable dimensions in tire full vigour of growth ; while the inevitable pilot-fish would be scudding hither and thither. In the picture there would not bo found a friend of bona-fide settlement except probably some demented person who bad been charmed by the glowing representations of the very public-spirited landsbark. We believe this sketch to represent the real state of the case. Tire land rings of Hawkes Bay and Auckland have asked for the Bill, and it has been granted at their request.