The Patea Mail. (Published Wednesdays and Saturdays.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1878.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 358, 21 September 1878, Page 2

The Patea Mail. (Published Wednesdays and Saturdays.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1878.

Leading article and several letters pressed out by the Native Minister’s statement. Tenders for building teachers residence, &c., for Kolii school committee will be received until 25th instant. Messrs 'McLean and Broadbcnt will hold sale at Hawora, to-day. Messrs Thomson and McGuire have postponed the sn'e of Hawora town sections which had been fixed for to-day. Tenders for work on Paterson Road will be received by the Secretary, Patea West Road Board, until noon to-day. It will be seen by advertisement that the owners are intending to travel the favoiito thorough-hired Si. Albans from Ilawera to Waverley.

The ordinary meeting of tlic Carlyle School Committee was held on the 17th instant. Present : Messrs Aitchison (chairman), North, Davis, and Harris. Correspondence included letter iron) Board, stating that £7O had been voted for Carlyle; School ; letter stating that the attendance would not justify any , increase in the teaching staif, and also that Board had no funds at present for drill instruction ; letlci from Board, enclosing extract trom memo from the Education Department, asking for more definite information as to the practicability of establishing a High School, stating that “ the .Minister will be glad to consider it, and, if possible, sanction under section 55, the conversion of Carlyle School into a District Grammar School”; report from visiting committee, reporting the general appearance of the Carlyle school and grounds as satisfactory, and mentioning.sundry wants.- —Proposed by Mr Aitchison, seconded by Mr Davis, and resolved, “'Hint re .Mr Dyer’s letter complaining of unfa : rne.ss in paying him with a sum £1.4 Is less for 81 scholars, than he would have received for 80 scholars —tins Committee would respectfully' ioquast the Boanl to consider the matter, as it scorns unwise to make a reduction by an additional number of one scholar, as in the case in question, am! considers that the way the scale is arranged, is calculated to induce teachers to falsify their Registers, by' occasionally' omitting to enter one, or two attendances, when, by so doing; a difference of £l4 Is a year can be effected in their favor.” —The visiting committee were requested to take an inventory of the school furniture.—Agreed to call for tenders for dividing-fence, saddle-shed, and digging we.ll, &c.—Secretary to proeme school requisites specified. — Resolved, “ That the Secretary write to the Chairmen of Committees of Manutahi, Kakaramca, Whemiaknra, and Waverlcy, re establishment of a High School in Carlyle, and request them to forward all the information they possibly can, as to what number of pupils, if any’, would ho likely’ to attcml : stating their ages, standards passed, and any other information they can supply on the subject.”—Secretary empowered to get circulars printed, to he sent to parents of irregular attending scholars, Accounts passed—ll. 11. Dyer, £1 ; J. Kcmvorthy, 8s G4; T. North, £1 Os 104; —Goodfellow, £1 ; D. M. Harris, 15s.

On the return to camp on Thursday afternoon of Mr D. 0. Fraser, and survey party, the cook, John McLean, not bniug :it liiu uanal was searched lor, and found in the Momahaki Stream, dead, having apparently slipped down the steep sides of the bank and on to a sharp stake, which entered the abdomen, and from which lie toppled over and got drowned. The party are engaged surveying the Momahaki block. Constable Burrow started from Waverley about live o’clock, and reached the survey camp about dusk, the dead man being then lying in one of the tents. Arrangements for conveying the body to Waverley have been made, and an inquest will be hold to-dav.

A telegram to the Wanganui Herald , dated Hawera, 17th instant, states that I lie surveyors report that live thousand acres of the Plains will bo surveyed in 50 to 80 acre sections, ready for lithographing in less than three weeks.

It has lately been reported that the dearth of timber at Patea was because saw-mills in the Sound wore so flush of orders that the supply could not meet (he demand, and that no further orders could he taken until about Chiistmas. We have, however, heard that for a couple of mouths or so, the opposite has been the case, and it is want of orders the saw-millers are suffering from. A visitor to Wanganui also reports that the former limber traders to that port are now partly idle, as the opening of the railway has spoiled the sea borne trade. Astonishing quantities of sawn timber and fencing material wore noticed at convenient places along the line, awaiting an opportunity for transferrenco to Wanganui—the limited rolling stock on the line being quite inadequate to requirements. A few weeks fine weather may lead to the arrival of an abundant supply of timber—now much needed.

Mr Theodore Fspagne, of Hawera, announces the service this season, of the thorough-bred Bourbaki, one of the celebrated Ravensworth stock.

Mr A. Broadhont has given further proof of his confidence in Hawera, and intention to settle down for good, by taking into partnership his son, bred to the business, wi.o will act as right hand man in the concern. We wish success to the new firm.

Mr Mcßae’s draught entire “President,” passed through Carlyle, for the first time this season, on Thursday, apparently in splendid condition, having much improved since last year.

Mr James Lett appears to have decided on a change of occupation, and announces die sale of his now thriving cordial business. We understand that ho lias no intention of leaving the district, but is intending to settle down in the fanning line.

Last week regulations were Gazetted for an inland pattern and parcel post, by which anything not positively dangerous can be forwarded by post. Tenders for clearing rushes in Norfolkstreet will be received by the Town Clerk until noon to-day.

A general meeting of the Patea Cricket Club for the election of officers will be held at the Albion Hotel at 7 p.m. this evening. The Hawera Cricket Club will meet at Lloyd’s Hotel at 7 p.m. for a similar purpose. The first number of a new and’ well got up paper —the Waipawa Mail —owned byMr Hugh Thomson, late editor of the Wellington Chronicle , is to hand, and has a healthy look. We have no doubt in Mr Thomson’s hands the paper will thrive and the district be benefited. A daily coach is about being run by Messrs Hall, Henry & Co., betweenWaverley and Wanganui, leaving Waverley at 6 a.m. arriving in Wanganui at 10.30 a.m., and starling on the return trip at 3 p.m., arriving at Waverley at 7 p.m. A parade of entires, under the auspices of the Agricultural bociety, is announced for Saturday, the sth October. Wanganui horses are expected to be present, which, with the additional new blood brought to the district, should make the show attractive.

A Taranaki correspondent writes as follows —“ Allow me to cal! your special attention to ‘ special telegrams’ in Taranaki Herald, of 14tli September, re ‘ Land Fund to Counties.’ Mr KellyA; remarks are at variance with the truth, and very hostile to Patea. .It is well Patea should know its friends.— A Neigucouu with NEiGtißommv FEEUlstl.”

The sale is announced by’ the Ci ief Commissioner of Lands, of what is known as the R.M. Deserve, Carlyle. Such an opportunity of securing the best possible business sites cannot again occur. Mr W. Dale is also about offering in Wellington, 24 residence sites. These sales should attract outsiders to buy for bona fide occupation, or as safe investments for spare cash.

At the Debating Society on Thursday evening, the subject for discussion was, “That in case of war with a civilized nation, England is justified in employing the whole resources of the Empire, including troops from any’ native races.” Mr Trcgear opened the debate in the negative, followed by MrTonneut in the affirmative. The former was supported by’ Messrs W. Coweru, R. A. Adams, and Fairclough, and the latter by Messrs Horner (senior), Greenway, and Hirst. On being put to the vote, the negatives gained by a majority of one. MrTaplin in the absence of the President occupied the chair. The Wanganui Herald, in a very 7 complimentary notice of the late presentation to Mr Sherwood, says : —“ That Mr Sherwood is a public man in every sense of the word must be admitted. From those car!}’ day’s when, as Patea correspondent of this journal, he advocated the interests of the district, down through his connection with nearly every public body’that the development of the district brought into life, and finally as the Cliaitinan of the Patea Harbor Boaid lie has been foremost in public matters. Such devotion to the public interests means neglect of privategain, and Mr Sherwood has the proud consciousness of knowing that ho retains clean hands throughout. As a journal that has consistently supported him, knowing that he has been working for the public weal, we heartily rejoice at the reception he has met with at the hands of the inhabitants of the Patea County’.” The N. Z. Times, of the IGth instant, says —“ The Government have pledged themselves to stand by their moafures, or to go to tlio country’ and Jail with them. They’believe that tlich - Land Tax Bill, and their Property’ Tax Bill, and their Bill for taxing local enterprise in joint stock companies whilst allowing foreigners to go free, are popular measures, and will be more acceptable to the people themselves than they have been to the representative of the people in Parliament. Ministers believe that it is a good tiling to starve

still more the local bodies in both Islands, and they hope to find a profit in making branch lines like the ‘Tapanni’ and the ‘.Nightcaps,’ gross jobs, both of them, which would not be the less jobs even if they bad the sanction of Parliament which they have not ” Our contemporary then enumerates the broken promises, and concludes that in case of a dissolution “ oven Sir George Grey cannot do the trick of the stump a second time, and Ministers will now bo judged by their acts not by their words; not by what they may promise to do, bid by what they have already proposed to do or leave undone. There cannot be a doubt as to the verdict of the country.” The Cricketing Season has arrived—so has the N.Z.S. Co.’s splendid 10G5 ton ocean going ship “ Orari,” from London, with a heavy consignment of every description of GTvlCKktixg Material for Mr Samuel Taplin, general merchant, Carlyle. The “ Orari” reached the Port of Wellington on the IGth instant, deliver}’ of this first-class consignment at Carlyle may, therefore, be daily expected. Inspection invited. Orders received from any part of the County will be executed with the greatest promptitude.— Adv.