A CORRECTION.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 291, 30 January 1878, Page 2

A CORRECTION.

{To the Editor of the Patka Mail.) Sin, —In a leading article published b your last issue re subsidy from Pate; County Council to Hawera Town Board you state : — ;t We may point out that tlr Hawera people, or rather Mr Halo, judgin' by the statement made, has a tall opiuioi of the amount contributed by HaWen Town to tbo County funds. He montionec that nearly £4OO had been obtained fron licenses and rates. From enquiries made we have been given to understand that tin total contribution from the town oJ Hawera, amounts to about £277.” Having stated that the County funds would benefit this year to the extent ol about £4OO from Town of Hawera, I repeat the statement, and I think the following items will prove it:-—Publican’s licenses, £9O j auctioneers, £l2O ■, wholesale and brewers, £ls transfers, £5 ; dog tax, £G ; rates £Bl ; subsidy from Government, £Bl. Total £398. 1 am, &c., W. DALE. [Hots' —The repetition of the statement will not increase the amount actually received during the year, which remains as stated in article referred to, £277. Subsidy has not yet been received, nor is it likely to be received until detail returns have been furnished to General Government.— Ed.]

The deaths in Wellington in December numbered sixty-three. In the same month last year the number was thirty-four.

FROM THE EAST COAST TO TUB WEST. Under the above heading the special reporter to the Hawke’s Bay JJerald gives useful information'as to townships south of Wanganui, and enters pretty fully into particulars regarding Wanganui, its public institutions and prospects. The writer considers “ The outlook for Wanganui in the immediate future is good—in the more, distant, future, not altogether, unclouded.” Alter enumerating some advantages which Wanganui possesses, possible detracting influences are also referred to, in which Carlyle comes in fur a share of attention, and the former owner of the Patea Mail, for special and particular attention, as will be seen from the. following extract :—“ On the other h*nd, Wanganui has a good many formidable rivals. It has much more to dread from the rivaliy of Wellington than we have, being situated so much nearer to it. The project for connecting Wellington with Eoxlon by rail, does not appear to meet with enthusiastic favour from (he inhabitants. The town lias also a rival to the smith in Fusion itself, which has its harbour endowment and its harbour works either in progress or in contemplation, and to tlm north, in Carlyle, the metropolis of the Patea district, a very promising place. It icjoicos in a bi-weekly newspaper, the Patea Mail, planted in the teeth of the Wanganui newspapers by a fiend in human form, who makes a business of that sort of thing, starting newspapers in country townships, and then selling or leasing them. Ho recently got bitten, I heard, with thanks unfeigned,.in some speculation of the kind in the Middle Island. Let us hope it may turn him from the errors of his ways. He had a look at Hawke’s Bay not long ago, I believe, but saw no scope for bis enterprise there. The ground was too well occupied. Patea has its harbor works projects also, and has obtained the services of an engineer, who is said to bo a rising man. The people in that part of the country are in high feather about the prospects of their port. They nope shortly to leave Wanganui itself in the shade.”

The N. Z. Sun says : —“ The Government, we perceive, are about to alter the boundaries of Licensing Districts in various paits of the Colony, and especially in the Otago country districts. Their intentions arc to assimilate the boundaries of the districts proclaimed under the Licensing Act, to those of the Hoad Boards, so as to permit of a more uniform list of ratepayers being looked through by (he Licensing Pencil, when objections to new applications for licenses ere made. The Licensing' districts would thus be identical with the Load Board districts, ami I he change would certainly be calculated to render the Licensing Act more pen-missive in its operation than it is at the present moment. We sec no objection to the course suggested.”

The Canterbury Time* says—The Timmi Harbour Board has taken prompt ami decided action. As soon as the report of the Commission was presented, the Board thanked the Commissioners, determined to petition tin; Government to sanction a scheme for the immediate construction of a solid breakwater of from 20.) to ;>UO feeL instructed its engineer to give hi.sumii vided at ten cion to his duties, t > commence a scries of borings, to make specifications of the break water proposed, ami lo call for' tenders, pointed out lo tins Government, that the work would, with the assistance of the reclaim'd ions made possible by the break water, he within their moans, and bought a thousand tons of cement. Lieutcnauls Buckcr and Toney’whcn in pursuit of renegade Indians struck the camp at Old Mexico, killed seventeen Indians, captured stock, and route I the remainder. Th.-se Indians p undered and murdered a stage huily.Stran.u*i*r.s hiul eoinii ry .settlors coming to Carlyle, are very often at a loss to know which is the. best ami cheapest General Drapery and Clothing Establishment in the district. 11. A. Adams’ Cardigan House, offers special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the district. He keeps the largest and best assorted stock of every description of drapery goods, imported 'direct l —and from the best colonial houses ; which, being bought on the most advantageous terms, and having thorough knowledge of the business, enables hint to offer goods of sterling quality at pi ices that cannot bo improved on by any other house in New ALalan 1. Every article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced people arc as well served as the host judges, the terms being net cash, without rebate or abatement of any kind. Note the address —]!. A. Adams ; Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town Hall, Carlyle.— advt . llollmrxifs Ointment and Pills.— At present rime much watchfulness must, lie exercised, and the earliest evidences of il'health immediately checked, or a slight ilhiess may result in a serious malady.Relaxed and sore throat, diphtheria,qninsey. coughs, chronic cough, bronchitis, and most other pulmonary affections will be greatly relieved by rubbing this cooling Ointment into the skin as nearly as practicable to the seat of mischief. This treatment, at once simple and effective, is admirably adapted far the removal of such diseases during infancy and youth. Old asthmatic invalids will derive marvellous ease from the use of Holloway's remedies, which have brought round many such sufferers, and re-established health after every other means had signally failed.