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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 349, 21 August 1878, Page 2

The adjourned annual meeting of the County of Patea Land, Building, and Investment Society will be held at the Society’s Office at 7 p.m. to-morrow. The subject for debate at the Patea Improvement Class to-morrow evening is “ That Countries are better Governed by a Republic than by a Constitutional Monarchy.” Mr Trcgear affirmative, Mr William Coworn negative. Wc understand that Mr W. Dale, auctioneer, has sold by private contract 300 acres of land, part bush, near Woodvillc, the property of E. R. Morgan, Esq., to Mr Alfred Wood, at the rate of £lO per acre. Mr Dale lias also found purchasers for suburban sections 145, 150, and 151, Woodville, a!! bush, at £G to £7 per acre. At a special meeting of the Carlyle School Committee, held on 13th August, Hie resignations of Messrs Holtham and F. Cowern wore accepted, and Messrs D. M. Harris and T. North appointed in their stead. Mr D. M. Harris was also elected Secretary and Treasurer to the committee. A special meeting of the Carlyle School Committee was held at the office of the Secretary (Mr D. M. Harris) on Friday evening last. Present : Messrs Aitchison (chairman), H. 1. Davis. J. Lett, J, Paterson, T. North, and D. M. Harris.—Minutes were confirmed and correspondence read. —Tiie Secretary was instructed to write to the Board at. Wanganui asking if any funds lord 'arum voh>d for imnrovcutf.nis to Carlyle school. —Ordinary monthly meetings to be h;kl on third Tuesday in eacii month. —On account of the increase iu scholars, mid the consequent strain on present lady teacher, it was resolved to ask the Board for assistance in the girls school.—Action was taken in regard to school cleaning.— Messrs Lett and North were appointed visiting members of school for ensuing month.—The school-master to be asked to supply information as to children of school age to aid in canying out the compulsory clauses of Education Act.—Cost of drilling school children to be ascertained.— Request to be sent to Board’s Secretary, Wanganui, for necessary school requisites.—Secretary to bo asked to prepare rules and standing orders for conduct of business, to bo submitted next meeting.—Accounts passed for payment: J. Duthie, £1 4s ; W. Aitchison, £5 Is 7d ; Taylor & Watt, £4 Is.— Meet in g al l joun ie d.

Forty-six Ha worn town sections and other properties will be offered for sale by Messrs Thomson and McGuire to-morrow at two o’clock. We cal! attention to Auctioneers note in advertisement. Mr W. Cowern will hold land sale comprising excellently situated town sections nt Carlyle and Norman by, the property of the late James Soutliby, Esq., ami i'reeho'd and leasehold country properties. Sale at 2 p.m. ibis day. Messrs McLean and Broadbent will bold their usual stock sale at llawcra to-day. Owing to the inclemency - of die weather* Mr F. 11. Jackson’s sale at Waverley* announced for Friday, has been postponedMr F. W. Nelson, manager of the late Minstrel Entertainment at Wavorley, takes exception to the brief criticism of our own correspondent, and concludes— <! Alluding to my curtain speech, I am glad he does me the justice of saying that I came before the curtain to rebuke the inevitable larrikins. I did so. Ho says I offended the whole audience. If so, I am very sorry, and offer them my apology. My intentions were, not to offend our audience, but show six or seven follows bow small they were making themselves. Any reasonable person will allow that it was veryprovoking to see stupid fellows* after each event, offer no word of encouragement, but impudent and vulgar remarks. I should like to see “our own correspondent ” play his part in a well-arranged programme, and then get insulted for liis trouble: he would then appreciate my speech While lam condemned, the socalled larrikins are merely - said to be ‘ inevitable.’ ”

In the Assembly - on Thursday last, the Hon Mr Fox asked the Government— Whether they have received any letters from Rewi Maniopoto commenting on the debates in this House ; and if so, whether they will lay - them before the House ? The Hon Mr Sheehan, in replying, said on this occasion the newspaper reports were perfectly - true. The horn gentleman then read the following extract from a lengthy telegram from Dr O’Garroll, the medical adviser of Rewi Maniopoto :—“ Rewi wishes me to say to you he is now nearly well He got very excited on Mr Will dnsoa interpreting the Hon MiBox’s speech. ‘ Why,’ said he, ‘ did not Sheehan tell him I represented all the Waikato chiefs. M‘Lean and Pollen could never have got me to come in. I mistrusted. And if Sir George Grey’s Government goes out —I am glad to see,’ he continued, ‘by the papers, they arc likely to continue in office—l will return to Waikato.’” The telegram was laid ou ihe table of the House.

On Saturday last a football match was played at Carlyle, in the paddock of Mr H. I, Davis, between Hawera and Waverley Teams, resulting - in a tic. There was, however, a dispute about oaa half point claimed by Waverley, and which it was agreed should be referred to thi-* sporting editor of the Australasian for his decision. Both teams played well, and it is no small credit to the Waverieys that they proved such tough customers in a match against a team which ia acknowledged to be the best on the coast. It proved as very “ halm ” to some of the Carlyle fellows to see Waverley making such a good show against their formidable opponents. Messrs D. Ball am and Co , of Waverley, announce their intention of travelling the celebrated Gladiator in this district duringthe coining season. Readers are referred to advertisement for pedigree. A telegram dated Westport, 17th instant, says—Captain Bascaud, of the Luna, reports the loss of Messrs Humphries and bona’ schooner Merlin, from New Plymouth to Greymouth, on the 9th or 15th instant, on the south side of Stevens Island. The crew were saved.

A Press Agency telegram dated Auckland, August 19, says;—‘‘The steamer Go-ahead,bound to the Waitara,encountered a terrilic gale, in which her propeller and screw fans broke, and the, lines were broken olf cylinders. One of (he horses on board died during the gale. Off Mokau, on Thursday morning, the small screw steamer Hannah Mokau was seen coming out; three guns were lired as signals of: distress, but the people on board the Hannah Mokau did not reply. The Go-ahead came back to Manakau under sail.

The Wellington Chronicle says —Mr Hutchison on the I,sth instant sent to (he Minister of Justice a petition signed by 1,138 persons, praying for further inquiry into the case of O’Connor. The Working Men’s Club in Wellington, initiated some thirt'-ei! months ago, now numbers between 300 and 400 members. The opening of new premises was celebrated on the 15th instant. Fowls have mysteriously disappeared from their loosts at two places in Carlyle, during the past week. Six from one place, two from another. Whether the thieves are of the human or canine species remains a mystery at present. A largo meeting held in the Melbourne Town lia 11 at the end of last month, passed the following resolution, to be transmitted to England—“ Through.; the energy, the judgment, the resolution, and the still strong power manifested by Lord Boaconsfield, we have secured for ourselves the blessings of peace, and that we have secured those blessings without any imputation upon the honour of England.” The Hawke’s Bay Harold, referring to Mr Curtis’ proposal that the members of both Houses should sit together on disnntes arising, points out that the Lower House largely outnumbering the Upper House would in that case become the ruling power, and says—“ Proceeding from one encroachment to another—each in its turn duly decided in accordance with the system Mr Curtis proposes —the. Lower House would attain a position in flic State that would exactly coincide with the views of Mr Graham Berry and his henchmen. The ultimate result would ho that the Council would become so insignificant a part of the body-politic, that its abolition would follow as a matter of course. Such a consummation is not, we feel sure, what any well-wisher of good government would desire.”

There is a railway mania in Victoria as well as in New Zealand, The Melbourne correspondent of the Wellington Chronicle says—The list of “ railways applied for” now numbers fifty-three, the united length of which would at a rough approximation be nearly 2,000 miles. A representative of the Wellington Chronicle has been wandering about counting up the buildings now in course of erection. Over eighty were fetched the first day, thirty more the second trip, others to follow as further ground is walked. The amount subscribed towards a new residence for Bishop Had field, Wellington, already amounts to £7OO. Archdeacon lies, speaking at Lichfield, England, on the death of Bishop Selwyn, said £50,000 would be required to begin the proposed Selwjm Memorial College at Cambridge, and the first month’s subscriptions amounted to £IO,OOO. u.'.a-j, , The Rev Father Hennebory opened his mission at the 'Roman Catholic Church, Timarn, on 4th August, to a crowded congregation. At the commencement of the address ho referred to himself and what ho had been reported to have said, to the effect that marriages between Catholics and non-Catholics were no marriages at all, not even if married by priests. Ho emphatically denied he had said so. If he had, no priest would sanction his preaching in their churches, and the Bishop would suspend him. Ho had no doubt a conspiracy was at work to frustrate the. good of his mission. If in future his hearers read such reports in newspapers, or sent in any way through means of the Press telegraph throughout New' Zealand, they should not believe them. He likened such newspaper men and editors to a curse, and said he should treat them as such. He never saw such a Press as there was in New Zealand. Regarding- the writ against him for libel, he said there was not a shadow of a case ; not all the witnesses in the world, nor packed juries, could make a lie the truth. It had been said he had made money by the mission, and that he took £I3OO from Reef ton. He was sorry that this was not true. lie was in debt, ami stood before them in debt. The mission lasts one week. There are services in the church twice a day.

The Neio Zealander of the 10th inslant, says—While the Land Claims Final Settlement Bill was in Committee last night, the Hon Mr Stout remarked that most of the claims likely to come before the Commissioners for investigation, were of a •‘bogus” nature, .and that it was desirable to have such claims set finally at rest. The Grey River Argus, referring to promise made to a deputation by the Government that harbor works should bo resumed, says nothing has yet been done, and workmen who have been waiting about for weeks expecting a recommencement are now compelled to leave the place or starve*

The Auckland Star announces the death on 10th August, of Mr James Watkin Preece, Native Land Purchase Agent,who for some years past has been engaged in completing native land purchases at the Thames begun by Mr James Maekay, and who was in a fair way of getting the cases settled Mr Preece was forty years of age and leaves a widow and three children, fie was a son of Mr James Preece, a very early colonist, and catechist of the Church Missionary Society. A gentleman at Napier has offered to give £100 towards the building of a Church of England Sunday School, in connection with the church in St. John’s Parish, provided £SOO in all was raised. A vigorous canvas has commenced. 3 The New Zealand Presbyterian Church News for August, gives a long notice of the proceedings of the English Presbyterian Synod, in which it is shewn that the contributions of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, during the year that the disestablishment of the Church in that country took place, amounted to £91,000, but during 1877 they were £142,700, shewing an increase of £52,000 per annum.

Under (lie head of “Ministerial Sketches” appearing in the Auckland Herald , is one on the Hon John Sheehan, which concludes : —“ As Native Minister, ho aided Sir George Grey in accomplishing the work which has been done at Waitara and at Hikurangi, and while at those places, succeeded in establishing a most complete friendship with all the leading people of the King party. By his efforts, were obtained the rights to survey the Waitotara and Waimate Plains, the Sale of which, during the present jrnar, will bring about a million of money into the Colonial Treasury. He paciiied contending tribes at Maketu, and made them friends, securing at the same time the quiet progress of a Native Lands Court, which had there been stopped by like contentions before. All sides of the House look on Mr Sheehan as a politician of great promise, who may, if he will, achieve for himself a still higher position.”

■The Auckland News of the 10th instant, publishes a summary of Estimates laid before Parliament, which mentions that the Education vote of £217,370 includes £5,000 for Public Libraries. In the Native Department, Salaries and Contingencies are this year £16,887, against £20,322 last year ; Native Schools, £14,500, against £13,071 ; Native Land Frauds Prevention Act, £320, against £420 last year. Amongst services chargeable on Consolidated Fund, is mentioned one-fourth laud sales for Taranaki Harbor, £25,000.

The Auckland Herald, in an article on the new Sheep Act, says- that there is nothing in the summary of the Bill as published “to shew that the Maoris in the so-called ‘ native districts’ arc to he subject to the provisions of the new law. Euless they are compelled to dean their flocks, in vain will ISuropoaas try to dean, or keep (dean, theirs in the vicinity of Maori centres of infection. Considering iiow widclysuread scab is in the colon}', the success of the proposed measure to dean, and keep dean, our flocks may fairly be questioned. We believe, nothing less than a system of stamping it out by the complete destruction of infected (locks will accomplish the object sought by (ho present measure.” It says a yearly tax of Id or 2d per head on all sheep in the colony would soon provide a fund more than ample to meet the expenses which a system of stamping out would entail. Mention is made of the tinkering system adopted by the majority of the Australian colonics ns against tne stamping out system adopted by New Smith Wales, the result being that while New South Wales has been wholly free of scab for many years, the flocks of her neighbors have never been altogether free.

A Bill lias been introduced in the Legislative Assembly, entitled “ Saving’s Bank Profit',” which seeks to compel the investment of all pro fits made by Savings’ Banks abo\e £IOOO in the endowment of charitable institutions. The Lords, while themselves sharing- largely from the profits of Banks generally, says the Napier Telegraph, “ evolves a Bill for the confiscation of those poor profits by which the resources of the Banks must bo crippled to a very serious extent, at the expense of depositors who, for the most part, belong to the laboring classes,” The new School Inspector for Hawke’s Bay has passed all candidates eligible for employment as pupil teachers who obtained 40 per cent, of the marks attainable. lieporting to the Education Board he says—- “ Prom the results appended to this report it will he seen how very low I have been compelled to fix the standard of proficiency in order to establish a system upon which the future education of the district mainly depends.”

The N. Z. Times says—The Government. Electoral Bill, like the Government financial policy, is a compromise between public professions out of, and fixed principles in the Cabinet, and appears not to command full sympathy or complete approval, we will not say from the House, but from the Government party itself.

At meeting of the Taranaki Waste Land Board on the 12th, a letter was read from Captain Wray, District Land Officer, re the. sale of tire Resident Magistrate’s Reserve at Carlyle. It stated, “ The sections number 3, 4, 14, 15, and 16 are amongst the very best business sites in the town. Their sale at this period, when public attention is attracted by harbor works and other signs of progress in the township, is most opportune. For these reasons I would advocate the advertising of the sale in the leading; papers of the colony with a short notice calling attention to the situation of the sections in regard to the principal places of business—banks, court-house, telegraph and post-office, &c.”—lt was decided to offer the sections for sale, subject to the Governor’s approval.

The immigration returns for the year 1877-78, laid on the table of the House, shows that the number of ordinary immigrants for the year, commencing Ist July, 1877, and ending 30th June, 1878, was 4,599, and of nominated 1,029, making a total of 5.628, of which as large a number as 5,024 were statute adults. The total passage monej- amounted to £66,651, of which £1,720 only has been received in cash, or is recoverable on notes, bills, &c.