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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 371, 6 November 1878, Page 2

At a meeting of the committee of the Patea Agricultural and Pastoral Association hold on Saturday last, it was decided that similar prizes should.be given to Blood Colts aiid Fillies (1 and 2 year’s old) as for the draught Colts and Fillies. Letters were read from a number of gentlemen from Taranaki, Wairarapa, and other parts of the colony, signifying their intention to be piescnt in the capacity of Judges, as requested by the Secretary, including the following ;—J. J. Looney, H. D.Vavasour, W. R, Hastwell, Hugh McMastors, Duncan McMastcrs, John Stevens, Donald Fraser, John Drummond, T. H. Hill, Alexander Johnstone, Francis Symes. As some of those invited will be unable to attend other gentlemen were nominated, with whom the Secretary was instructed to communicate. The first instalment of machinery for the Kakaramea Saw Mill was brought from Wanganui by the carriers on Saturday last. Other portions have since arrived.

Masonic rrieeting will bo held at Carlyle Town Hall this evening. Tenders for desks for Nonnanby School will be received to-day by the Chairman of of School Committee.

The s.s. Clyde arrived from Wanganui early on Monday morning, and left again same day. She was off the river on Sunday. In connection with the application of the blind man Johnson to the Sergeant of Police for relief, we may mention that this is a not unusual occurrence. Men ,jn search of work, being without cash, bail up the polieo for a night’s lodgina'.or food. If the lock-up happens to be empty that serves, otherwise the travellers must spread themselves underneath the starsAmongst applicants there are many deserving men. The stage is a long one from Taranaki to Carlyle, with no place for shelter or means of obtaining relief except by begging, which-to those really in want is not palatable. The Police occasionally relieve from their private means. It would not be amiss if something in the shape of a benevolent fund was formed to be administered by tire Police to really deserving cases of men travelling in search of employment. A night’s lodging and a meal is all generally required or desired. Monday, the lltb of tins month, is to be observed as an official holiday throughout the Colony, in honor of the Prince of Wales’ Birthday. The Post Office and Telegraph Offices will participate. Mr G. A. Hurley, Wanganui, writes ; The time for receiving the entries for the special wheat prize offered by the W. A. and P, Association, to be competed for on the Bth instant, has been extended till the day of the show. Entiles may, therefore, be forwarded so as to reach the Secretary by 9 a.m. The entrance is free for wheat, and the quantity to be exhibited is not to be less than one bushel.

Mr W. Cowern’s great land sale will take place at Carlyle to-day.

Mr F. R. Jackson’s usual stock sale will be held at Wanganui to-day. Messrs McLean an I Co., have postponed the sale of Mr Partridge’s surplus stock, from the 13th to Monday the 18th November, on account of the Agricultural Society’s Show.

The Wanganui Agricultural Show will be held on Friday. A number of Taranaki men have passed through Carlyle during the week, on their way to the Show. Major Charles Stapp has been gazetted Immigration Officer for the Provincial District of Taranaki, vice W. K. Hulke, Esq., resigned. The ketches Argus and Wild Duck, bound for Patea, took shelter at Wanganui on Saturday last.

On account of the late shipwrecks in the Straits, £19,600 has been placed on the supplementary estimates, for the re-estab-lishment of the light-house at Maria, and for the fixing of other light , m the Straits.

Short as was the notice given of meeting for last Saturday, country as well as town was well represented. The resolutions were forwarded to Government on Monday, but no reply had been returned up-to five o’clock last night, though Mr Sherwood had received private telegram from one of the Ministry intimating that the matter was under consideration.

At the Carlyle Court, yesterday, before G. IL Wray, Esq., R.M., Matahi sued John Lyttle, OfKakaramea, for £lO, for alleged damage dbne to buggy entrusted to him, and for use of the same, for two months. The defendant denied that the buggy was delivered by him in the state in which it was brought to Court, and produced written agreements signed by the natives, permitting him to use the buggy until cost of repairs and money lent had been paid. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £5 and costs 18s, and Interpreter’s fee 215.-

The proprietors of-the Wellington Post having sued the Wellington Chronicle tor alleged libel, claiming £I,OOO damages, a special -jury before whom the case was heard awarded damages at £5. The Chronicle concludes an article, and points out the general scope of the verdict as follow's ; —“The Evening Chronicle declared that the “Special Cable News” received by the Post did not come from a “ Special London Correspondent.” It declared that the Post had published an account of certain experiments with a telephone, which was from beginning to end a, series of falsehoods, as the experiments had never taken place. And yesterday it was proved by overwhelming evidence that all these statements were absolutely true. Yet in face of this, a special jury came to a series of findings on tiie several issues so utterly ludicrous and inconsistent, as to. excite universal derision, while at the same time they cast the defendant in £5 damages and costs. Such a verdict in the face of the evidence adduced, was a scandal and disgrace, contrary alike to right, law, and justice.” ; The Canterbury Times says —“We loam from a reliable source that a patent is being secured for a new reaper and binder of Christchurch manufacture, which will, it is said, be a vast improvement upon all machines of the kind hitherto introduced to the public, inasmuch as it will not only be a match for tlie very best reapers yet imported, but will, in addition, possess the much needed improvement of binding with the straw as. it reaps. It is well known that wire as a material for binding is dangerously objectionable. The reaper in question, we arc pleased to say, is the invention of a Canterbury man, and is being brought out under the auspices of Mr W. Wilson, of Christ church. On Saturday last, the House of Representatives mo.t at noon. The Speaker read a schedule of the business during the session, after which : members adjourned to Legislative Council," where Parliament was formally proroguedjby Commission to the 14th of January next. The Commission consisted of the Hon Major Richmond, Sir Dillon Bell, and the Hon Colonel Whitmore. Twenty-three members of the House of Representatives were present.

A telegram from New Plymouth states that the formation of the railway as far as Waipukie village, is going on rapidly. A mile and a half of the rails are laid from the Inglewood end.

The Taranaki Herald says there are no fewer than one hundred and forty two rivers, streams, and streamlets between New Plymouth and Wiinganui. They are a capital feature of the country, but rather expensive in a road-making point of view:

From items sent by the Special Correspondent to the Taranaki Herald, as to proceedings in the Assembly, there is no room to doubt but that. 16 per cent, of Paten Laud Fund has been appropriated for the making of a branch lino of railway from the Mountain Koad to Opunake. The wording of the items appear to leave it open to the construction that*ls per cent, of the proceeds'of Waimate Plains, situated within Taranaki County, will also be taken for branch line of railway. The clause evidently passed exactly as first printed in the. Financial Arrangements Act, and the pit'll will, in any case, be on Patea. From this, the value of Government promises may be judged of. As advised by one of the speakers on Saturday night, we must agitate, and that continually, until some approach to justice is obtained.