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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 236, 14 July 1877, Page 2

We are indebted to tiro Reverend Father Fertuis for the following telegram, which speaks for itself:— “ Hawera, July 13. “A brilliant young comet is now in sight. Tail expected daily. Ptolemaicus E. Pertuis.” The ketch Wild Duck, arrived at Manakati yesterday, from Patea. The ‘ Tararua ’ arrived at the Bluff yesterday, with Melbourne nows to the sth instant. Judging by the land which has already been ploughed, and the preparations for ploughing to he seen around Carlyle, Kakaramea, and district, it looks as if landowners were intending to give wheat growing a fair test this season. A gentleman who has particularly good opportunity for knowing what is being done in that line, calculates that fully 400 acres of land will be sown in wheat in the immediate neighbourhood of the places named. Very little laud will be devoted to oats. Wo have been requested to inform members of the Patea County Football Team, that there will be no meeting for practice on the Patea ground to-day (Saturday) as previously arranged, in consequence of the Chairman of the Committee having received a note from the Wanganui Football Club stating theninability to send a team to Patea this season.

The Nufiaka natives (Hawke’s Bay) reported to be about to act Gove rnrnent to survey a block of 00,000 acres, 1,800 acres of which is to bo cut up into small farms of from 50 to 100 acres, and sold by auction. The Seventy-mile Bush natives are also intending to sell 10,000 acres of land lying between Takapau and Kopuai as small farms. Two townships will be la’d out at each end of the block.

A most important sale of valuable building sites will be held to-day, by Mr William Dale, at bis mart, Carlyle. Such an opportunity of securing convenient building sites, at moderate prices, may not again occur for a long time. A cargo of timber will also be offered for sale, as welj as Hour, fencing wire, and general merchandise. The steamer City of Sydney, from San Francisco, with the English mail on board, is due in Auckland to-day. Should she arrive to lime it is just possible the Palea portion of the mail may arrive by coach from Now Plymouth on Tuesday morning. The Hon. Secretary of the Taranaki Football Club (.Mr G. Fitzgerald) has written to the Secretary of the Carlyle Club regretting that the idea of playing a return match at Patea has had to be abandoned for the reason, that, out of eighteen or twenty players, only six or eight have been found willing to make the journey. The Customs’ returns for Wellington, for the year ending 30th June, 1877) amounts to .£107,855, being an increase or. the year 1870, which amounted to £102,305. A letter has been received by Mr 11. W. Fsreman, of Maimtahi, from Dr. Lemon (General Manager Telegraph Department)) acknowledging receipt of petition respecting site of telegraph office, in which it is stated, that, should the business transacted at the Telegraph Office, Maumahi, show a return sufficient to justify a larger building) the matter will then receive due consideration. It is pointed out that the building now being used as an office, being situated immediately opposite the site purchased) cannot be more inconvenient.” Mr George Beetham has been returned M.11.P. for the Wairarapa District, without a contest, the other candidates having retired from the field. A Mr Tuck is cutting up about 2,700 acres of land owned hy him in the Wairarapa district, into 5.) and 100 acre farms. A numerously signed notice, convening a meeting of shccpowners of this district at Carlyle for the 21st instant, will he found in advertising columns. The appointment of Mr [lately, as chief sheep inspector, will bo the subject for consideration. On Tuesday next, the 17th instant, lit F. 11. Jackson will sell, at Mrs Harper’s Wairon, sheep, cattle, horses, fanning implements, household furniture, Are. dale at 11 o’clock. A public meeting will he held at this evening, to consider the question of petitioning Government to erect a Courthouse. Major Fiimimorc after a lengthened European tour, lias returned to Wanganui. The general annual meeting of members of St. George’s Church, Carlyle, will be held in the Court House on Monday evening. Three hares from the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society are shortly expected to arrive at I’atea, to be turned out at Kakaramea. The amount of Dog Tax collected in Patea County up to yesterday, amounts to £2B Is.

A case of distress was reported to us yesterday, which should secure sympathy and prompt attention on the part of residents in Carlyle. Mrs Fish, the mother of four children, all under six years of age, and herself far gone with consumption, has been within the last few days on the verge of starvation. Her husband, as is well known, lately made himself amenable to the law, and the wife ami children being left unprovided for, relief was sought from the County Council. Part ration for herself and family, which was at first granted, has been stopped. Being herself unable to earn subsistence, partly from her own illness and jrartly from the fact of having four small childreii to look after, there seemed to he no help for it but to starve. A lady hearing of the circumstances, immediately rendered aid and secured help from two or three other benevolently inclined ladies, who showed themselves willing fo do what lay in their power. The case stands thus —Two or three cannot afford all the assistance needed. Help is wanted. For others who are disposed to aid, the simple mention of the circumstances will be sufficient to bring them forward. A committee might be formed, and so relief would be properly administered. If on further enquiry the case proves really deserving, the Cotnty Council should be compelled to take charge.

The Canterbury Times in an article urging on fanners the importance of every year devoting a little money and a few days’ labour to tree planting, says:— n There can he no doubt that when the country comes to be intersected with hedgerows and dotted with copses, the

fanner will sow with a much better chance of reaping than he lias at present. There will not be so many anxious looks cast towards the mountains when they are capped with those heavy, lurid clouds, which, in the present treeless condition of tiie country, tell the farmer that the nor’westcr is about to snatch a portion, if not the whole, of the results of the year’s labour from his hands. And he will have less reason to fear for his stock when the bitter south-west storms drive over his fields. Ills sleep will he none the less sweet from the consciousness of his yeaning ewes being in snag quarters.”