The Patea Mail. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1877.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 259, 3 October 1877, Page 2

The Patea Mail. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1877.

A general meeting of all cricketers will be bold at the Albion Hotel, Carlyle, on Friday evening. The attention of owners of dogs is called to notice by Sergeant Whelan. Patea East Road Board met on Monday. The report is unavoidably held over. Patea Kil wining Masonic Lodge meets this evening. Mi Samuel Tapi in has decided to accept the Agency of the Union Insurance Company lately started at Christchurch. Particulars appear in advertisement. Tenders for various road contracts have lately been sent in informally. Tenders for work on Petch Road will be received by Mr Dale till noon of Monday nest. It is absolutely necessary that deposit of 10 per cent, should accompany tenders. Flockowncrs in Patea County, for the most part, report good increase this season. •Some have lost after lambing, but taken all round, the result is very favourable* Mr F. Richards has tailed on the Paranui Run, 3,197 lambs from 2,539 ewes, being an increase of nearly 1.26 per cent. A correspondent in tho Wanganui Herald mentions that first class lime has been discovered within a mile and a-half of the Kai Iwi Hotel. Specimens have been analysed, and reported on by Dr Hector, ns good. The Public Petitions Committee have reported to the Assembly, that on account of promises made by Government to Colonel McDonnell, in regard to particular services rendered to the country in time of war, that that gentleman is entitled to favorable consideration at the hands of Government.

Mr Oakes, the well known contractor, who has failed in Wellington, declares his liabilities at£lO,GG4 ; assets, =£3ls.

Messrs Grcig and Co will hold a sale of merchandise at Hawera on Saturday next.

The following is copy of letter forwarded to the Town Board by Mr M illiam Dale, on which resolution was passed at the meeting held on Monday evening—“ Patea, October Ist, 1877.—The Chairman and Members Carlyle Town Board. —Gentlemciij—l have received a rate notice from your collector for the sum of £2 2s 9d, but being of opinion that the rate is not legally struck, I decline to pay the same, and shall be willing to defend an action in the K.M. Court at once to test the cpicstion, so that should I prove that the rate is not legally struck, the Board will ho able to remedy the error. My reason for considering the rate not legally struck is that a notice appeared in the Patea Mail signed by the Secretary to the Board stating that on the 24th August last, the Board would strike a rate of 9d in the £ on the rateable property within the town, and I am informed that no meeting of the Board took place on that date, therefore I contend no rate can be legal unless the Board met on the day appointed, and struck the same. — I remain, yours truly, W. Dale.” The Patea Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s Show will take place at Waverley, on the 15th November next. Arrangements have been made for holding the show in Messrs Morton and Lnpton’s paddock, which is situated conveniently near to the township. Programme and rules will bo found in advertising columns. This district is beginning to attract considerable outside attention. The coming show will bo a kind of test of its capabilities from a farming point of view. It behoves all interested in the district to take part in this annual show, and not to hang heck either witli stock or produce for fear they may not be prize-takers. Wo hope to see thorough heartiness shown in this matter.

A correspondent asks in sarcastic fashion something regarding tweed and capitation allowance said to be duo to members of Carlyle Rifle Volunteers. If such amatte r remains unsettled, the best plan would bo for someone acting on behalf of the company to interview the chief officer. The Wanganui Chronicle gives particulars of threatened seizure by Kaiwhaiki Natives of land and stock the property of Upokongora settlers. Notices were stucic up on a number of buildings that the property would be taken possession of and residents were warned to leave their houses at once. Several families were at once removed to Wanganui for safety. A deputation of settlers consisting of Mr Owen and others interviewed Tarnati, (son • in-law of the chief Takorangi), at Kaiwhaiki, and ascertained from him that his intention was not to have recourse to deeds of personal violence, but merely to assert Takorangi’s claim by some such act of aggression as would necessarily bring the matter to an issue. It was explained that (Government had failed to carry out promises in regard to the original purchase of the land—that Takorangi’s assent had not been obtained, and that as land promised as compensation had not been handed over Takorangi had determined to seize the lot. His son-in-law, Tarnati, who acts under Takorangi’s instructions in the matter, says that all that is desired is that the matter should be investigated by the Supreme Court. A telegram from Taupo mentions that a proclamation of the Maori King is being promulgated, setting forth that the end of the world and the Pakeha will come to pass in eighteen months from 10th October next. The King’s messengers are conveying this intelligence to his subjects throughout the Island.

The Taranaki Herald says:—Mr A. Colson, Curator of the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society, has received a telegram from Mr Robinson, of Auckland, concerning fourteen pair of yellow hammers, purchased for the Society. The birds are to be liberated almost immediately on their arrival in New Plymouth. The same gentleman who is a brother of Mr Colson, of Carlyle, has a large aviary containing about twenty fall-grown canaries, and about forty young birds in different stages of growth. A short time ago he let loose a large number of goldfinches. Ho is now confining his attention almost exclusively to the rearing of canaries.