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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 389, 8 January 1879, Page 2

The Wellington Chronicle of the 2nd instant say’s :—“ The Government made a great stroke of diplomacy when they made Bewi their friend, and established a cordial relationship Avith the numerous and poAverful Ngatimaniapoto tribe. This one solid gain is more than the equivalent of the sum of previous successes in the region of Native affairs.” After referring to the groAving influence of Tc Whiti over the Native mind in matters of religion, and to the possible danger of one man wielding so much poAver for good or evil, as whim or circircnmstances may decide, our contemporary proceeds:—“ When a difficulty is foreseen, it is met half-way. All that is necessary on the part, of the Government is to match and measure

the growing power of this new fanaticism. There is no clamro'r except in a false security ami indifference. The whole aspect Native affairs was perhaps nov-'W brighter, iunvi's alliance is sincere, cordial, and all-powerful so far as regards his tribe. The Waikatos are satisfied, and express entire confidence in the Grovernruc'ht. The East Coast is loval. and evi.m the Uriwera are allies, and would be amongst the first to rally to the side of the Government were their services required. The Bay of Islands is contented and as friendly as in times past. Te Wliiti alone gives reason, not for disquietude, but for watchfulness. Pariliaku has become a Cave of Adullam. and the discontented: spirits may indnlne a desire to give effect to some snnersfitiou or behest of their first prophet. The local character of the movement, whatever it is, can never become formidable, if there is a watchful, firm, ami determined altitude on the part of the Government. It must not be forgotten either that there am certain Europeans anxious for any trouble which would benefit themselves individually, and while the telegrams we see are proof of of their desires, their power of mischief may be easily curtailed by obtaining an accurate knowledge of their intrigues and movements. In a word., security depends more noon (die Government being accurately informed of what is passing, and upon firm and decisive action arising from n perfect knowledge o! the situation, than upon meetings, kororos, and the usual methods of resolving difficulties with the native race.”

A Press Agency Telegram, dated New Plymouth, hist Dec.mibor, sav.-i:—“Tho Public Works Quivers nave instructions to toll the contractors that fines will he strictly cnfarced, ii :he lino to Stratford is not finished within contract time. Tin; fne is TlOd a we A. The Cov-rnm-ut are. determined to have this s-cli ,;t finished before the winter, and alp.) intend to have a seel ion bwou.i Stratford well pushed forward.

W. I>. Woods, who gained a. little notoriety about two ywir.s sign, by gashing his throat, was brought before tho iv.M and Dr Croft, at Carlyle, yesterday, on a charge of lunacy, which had been preferred by John Balt. lie appears in have imbibed to iVecly during the holidays, an living discharged by the Corny was admitted to the Carlyle Hospital for a few (lavs.

.The wife of .Mr .1. Packcnham of Carlyle died in child-birth about half-past seven o’clock yesterday morning, after but a f-.-w days’ iliii Mrs Paekenham was but 27 years of age, and ordinariily of su-Tu robust appearance, tint news of her d.ia'ii caused general sun ease. There are four children, none of widen are old enough to care lor {hemv.-jv-as. The f'mmra! wH! take pi.aco at liaii-past time o’clock this morning. Vie understand that duly will uni be resinned at ilm Carlyle Pci mo! until Mon-lay, the 2d:h in-can!, when another effort to secure ad cidldreu of school age wid be made.

At (bo Carlyle Court on Monday Veron J olios. found sn-i-piug in a wood shed at night, was bruiiglu up under tin Vagrauey Act, and dismissed wiih ; caution.

The following gniF-mmi are, amongs the number gar: •if--.! ■• ! ■: v.i’ii .t.-i mid or the L;i:ul Tax Act :—Edward Green way, Patoa (eastern <!i;;Sri:-i) ; William Dak 1 , Patea (western district); Edward N-•*11 u1 {i Liniton, Wanganui, (Wattotara Wanganui) ; T. Farrah, Wanganui, (Borough of Wanganui). The Taranaki TlrralJ, referring to the want of I‘;iitJi shown by tin.- lata and presold. Government, m no! s.,■ -n• Ii:11»- full \ money voted ns - tin- Mountain Hoad, says ; *• Wo have boon so’emmy promised that the railway will la- op.-ned (o Sir, Word bv August. If, therefore. the worst parf.’i o[ : the road between Norm.ml.w ami .Uangmmi arc gravelled before winter sots in, iln-re is still a possibidly that t.!io coach may run tbrongb to there during the winter without any serious inrerruotion. We liiinlc that the two Comities ssionld work together witli ibis object in view, so that by means of coach and rail, communication may be opened as soon as fiossiblc, an.!, if mice opened, wo may bn certain it, will not be given up without a d.-sperato struggle, to overcome t.ho diimnltics which may threaten its interm-itson."

At a molding of the Taranaki Education U' servos Board, on Tuesday, the 31st December, Mr .[dale, of Patea. applied for a lease for 21 year-;, from .Lmnary next, of suburban section No. 4s, Carlyle, and for permission to cut streets through it. It was decid’d to advise the applicant to allow his leas.■ to nm out, afmr which, if possible, an arrangement would be made.

Mr W. Coworn will boh! a cattle sale at Kakaramca to-day, Wc understand that there is every probability of the now steam thresher, which Messrs Hearn and Kennedy are importing, arriving at Patca in time for this season's crops. The thresher has a livc-l'cct barrel, and will be driven by an eight-horse power engine, and is what is known as a straw consumer. The machine is aboard of a vessel which left Fmgland early in October, and is therefore now about due.

The Waimate Plains surveyors and men had holiday extending from Christmas to the turn of the New Year. They have again resumed duly, parties have been re-organised, and a fair start with the survey was made again yesterday, (Tuesday) morning. Dead or not, Tliroki’s wife has been buried at Waitotara, telegram from New Plymouth to the contrary notwithstanding. Being no quorum, there was no meeting of the Patea East Hoad Board on -Monday last. Four large cases comprising the now lamp and fixing?, with stores, for the Patea Heads, arrived by the s.s. Clyde yesterday from Wanganui. The lamp, or rather young lighthouse, for so it appears to be, was lighted and on view at the Council Chambers last night. The lamp is one of Chance’s Dioptric No. 2 Order, with prisms, and gives forth a brilliant light. The frameworkis of brass. It will be necessary to erect a small house and stand for it at the Heads before it can be used. This day (Wednesday), at ten o’clock, the ' examinations for the scholarships granted under the F.ducation Act will be hold at Wanganui.

Mr J. frcv/cek, junior, has taken over the Nonnnnhy butchery business lately conducted by Messrs. McL’Dowie and Perry.

Though we have been fully aware by reports in the local papers, wc have taken no notice of the .squabble which, for some months past, lias been going- on between the Taranaki Commissioner of Lands, and the litecoivor of Land Revenue. Shortly stated the dispute arises from a difference of opinion between the above officers, as to the precise measure of red tape to bo used in the transaction of public business. Neither one nor the other knows bis rigid measure. Pending the settlement of the squabble, the general public suffer. Last week, Mr Win. Dale went from Carlyle, to attend the Government Land sale at New Plymouth, Ho purchase I Stratford suburban sections, but neither the Land Commissioner nor the Deceiver of Land Revenue could be prevailed upon to take the deposit money, .'dr Dale might have spared time to witness a good square light between the disputants, but he could not afford to hang about New Plymouth for weeks, possibly months, for a .settlement of the official dispute, lie had therefore to go through the form of tendering the cash, and then left, Barely when business can lie managed without hitch at the Carlyle office, while squabbling is going at tbc head centre, (.here should bo less dosiro on (lie part of Land Boards to hold sales of Patca Lands outside the County.

A telegram from New Ptymouth, pub* fished in our last issue, stated that the mails had been taken by the Mountain Road, by Chcvannes, for the first time on Friday, the drd instant. It appears that the coach was driven as far as Stratford, the mails being forwarded therefrom <m pack-horses. Mr Rogers, Foreman of

Works lor Patea Comity, was at St rat Lord on the arrival of the coach, having been along the road setting men to work at tho worst places, so as to enaide the coachman to drive through from Ilawera nest day It would have hewn impossible for the coach to have got through safely on Friday. About twenty-live of McLean’s men were specially eng igcd to make good the bad places. On Saturday morning, the coa<*h with tin; mails, left ilawera, and got through in ten hours. Gangs of imm were early at work, ami mustered strong at the bad j/aivs. Thanks, however, to the previous days good work, the most formidable dilncultics had been overcome. At one awkward looking place, the men ojivrod to carry the coach across, hut tho whip was ro'i.d to ilm occasion and piloted huimed along. On Monday the road was all right, and the journey from Hawera to n trait oiil, s. ) long as the weather keeps dry will be made in three hours. Another three lionrs wdi he occupied in reaching Inglewood. As soon as wet weather sots m, tho road wi.l oe impassable as before, dust now it is a dvlighlnii drive, and will emit unto so wiiilc line weather last.

(hi tic? sln-ngth of Constable Slued bavttig lie -n removed to !-iav.-era, some hors:> owners turned fiieir animals out to gram; on town e,-'.-lions. Const ttbio Sbiel returned {«» Gary I- on Monday, by special request and an-mgement, having been requested to 1 1!: > (he position of Drill Ins!rector to the now forming Cavalry Corps. Beware again yo grass stealers. On Satitrd \y last there, was a largo mooting ar tin- Albion Hotel of persons iiiiercs-vd in ilm formation of a Cavalry v e’nnte.--- (Try. Pifty-lhree natn \s in all were ban.led in. A committee was formed and tin; Avr-tarc instructed to write, to diiv-viim-iP r; ding the number enrolled, but that (dneers had not been elected, Sunday last saw .another lot of Maoris I'‘iind noriiiward. in all about fifty, liiidyof wimm wore men, and tits rest women and y.omig children. They had "•ilh th-m pa-k horses, and a more than usual all ii'.van--!- of baggage. Quo rider li.ada packs iron! cross-cut. saws. Altogether it looks a& ii: tin* natives going north are preparing fur a long stay.

Too following is frmu the Taranaki Herald's report of the Waste Land Board proceedings :.V letter was read from .Messrs F. J. ami G. W. Gano, stating that the IJa'.vm Load District have decided to spend tic* second instalment of the (tcteiTO.l paym-ut road money on (ho Nowland Hoad, (which is not of the slightest benefit lo any of the selectors). Would t’i j Land Board allow ms not to pay the second instalment for a month or two) the tirst inst.’vmen; has been in the Bank four or live months), and we have written to the Government on the subject ?” The letter I'lirth-T stated that they were petitioning the County Council to form a senarato road district in the locality. No action was taken in the matter.—A letter was read from F. J. and G. W. Gone, asking’ the !> aird to put sections 1, 2, and з, \V akaunra 131 ode, Hawera District, into one section. The application was aececdcd to. —.V loUor was read from Captain Wi’.-yv, staling, in answer to the onomry oi the Board, that lie considered i‘3 ]ier aero a fair unset price for portion of section of No. -152, Oimknku District, containing’ 22 acres ; and that he knew of no olijeciioii to the land being disposed of by public auction. It. was decided to put, up lIn; land to auction in a month's time, at Carlyle, at the up set price of £3 и. acre.— Application of Air I’earco to take his son into partnership with him as owii'-r of a section (which was deferred in order to see that .Mr Pearce, jnn. was of the requisite age) was acceded to, ho being of the ago required by the Act.

The Ncio Zealand Gazette of the 27th December, contains proclamation defining the districts and sub-division of districts under il the Sheep Act, 1878.” The New Plymouth District cmnprises the County of Taranaki. The Wellington District his iive sun-divisions. Wanganui forms one sub-division, and comprises the Counties of Patea, and so much of the Wanganui County as is not included in the Napier Sheep District. The sections of the Sheep Act which came into operation on the Ist January, have been gazetted for general information. The following are the number of tlie Sections :—ls, 21, 38, 40, 57, and GB. Section 15 gives the Inspector power to cal! upon any owner to declare the number and condition of his sheep. Section 21 provides for the making out of returns bet,ween the Ist and 30th June for rating purposes. Section 33 provides for the punishment of owners of infected sheep, refusing or neglecting to take steps to clean their {looks. Section 40 provides that seven days notice shall be given of intention to remove infected sheep from or to clean or infected districts. Section 57 provides that owners of unfenced land of over 500 acres, shall give notice to adjoining owners of intention to muster. Section G8 gives to the Inspector power to take steps to clean sheep infected with lice, in like manner as if infected with scab.

_ Messrs v \V. n ßrewcr and Alexander Howie jiin., were duly nominated as candidates for a seat in the County Council on Saturda3’ last. The election is fixed for the iSch instant.

.When will the new steamer arrive, is continually being asked. Well, the Maoa» ger ( Mr. D. M. Harris), has been informed by Captain Gibbon, that lie will communicate directly the date of the sailing from Wellington has been fixed, and the same will he at oncer advertised in Patea, so that importers may advise as to cargo, and exporters prepare for jjher first departure from Patea.

A Press Association message, dated Palmerston North, December 31, says : “ During the week, trains have been arriving north laden with natives for Kororeowapnni. There is considerable consternation among the settlers in the vicinity. Some females are leaving for Wellington. Iloani Meihana, the chief of the IJangltanes, sent a message to the Lditor of the Manawatn Times, and published an assir.anee that there was not the slightest cause for anxiety. He states the meeting was called by himself, and other chiefs, to urge various tribes to abandon ILuihauism and embrace Christianity. It does not matter whether they become Roman Catholics, Weslcyans, or Protestants. Moani Meihani is an ordained clergyman of the English Church, and is honored by the natives, and respected by the whites.”

ihc lion Mr Macandrew lately* paid an official, viiit to Wliangarei, a settlement ninth of Auckland. The Herald says—- “ The North contains some 20,000 inhabitants, with a capacity of extension existing nowhere else in tiio colony, and we feel sure that no other district of tiie .same area, with the same number of inhabitants, has so little to shew in the matter of expenditure from the Public Works loans since 1870.” A deputation waited upon Mr Macandrew, in regard to local wants, and in the address which was presented, after pointing out how very lit tic had been done by Government, it was stated—•' Considering that we are situated in the fur North, remote from the prospering influences of political favour, wc have not been altogether idle,” to winch Mr Macandievv, in the coolest possible manner, replied, I think it is well you are so, as I think the less yon have to do with political favour the better, ion should encourage a spirit of selfreliance, and I have no doubt that, as Sir George Grey says, there is a great future, before y u if you rely upon yourselves.” Our contemporary, after expressing the opinion that preaching self-reliance under such circumstances was a bold—even audacious—step for Mr Macandrew to take, proceeds Does Mr Macandrew imagine that it would have been better for the residents of some parts of Otago— Tapanni, for instance—-if they had not had political favour, or political power,enough to get railway duos, and that the Wliangarei people would have been worse off if they had had political favour sufficient to have obtained, say, their fair share from the public works expenditure? This doctrine of sidC-rehancc, which Mr Macandrew has become so suddenly enamoured of, wo do not remember to have heard him preach in Otago ; and self-reliance, like charity, should begin at home. At all events, the settlors of Auckland province must he excused if (boy manifest some impatience when people from the South, whom everything that can he desired hi the way of public works has been made at tiie cost of the colony, preach that they ‘should encourage a spirit of self reliance.’ ”