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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 395, 29 January 1879, Page 2

The ketch Agnes, Captain Calvert, sailed from Patea on Sunday morning, arrived in Wellington at three o’clock on Monday afternoon, and was discharging cargo on Tuesday. Telegram was received by Mr J. Gibson from Captain Gibbon on Monday, slating that the new steamer “ Patea” would bo ready for sea by the end of the present week. The trial trip was run on Monday. The outgoing British mail via San Francisco will close at Carlyle, at 7.30 p.m. this (Wednesday) evening. Messrs McLean and Co., Auctioneers, Hawera, report having hold a satisfactory sale of town sections, the propei ty_ of Mr J, Winks. Back quarter-acre sections sold from £23 to £45. The eighth of an acre fronting High Street sold for £BG—a number of other sections same size for £43 each.

A special telegram from Waitotara to the W augtxnmfJemld on Saturday' say's; “A mob of cattle crossing the bridge this morning carried away' the 101 l gate.” Our contemporary referring to this matter say's : —lt appears from a telegram from our Waitotara correspondent that a mob of cattle have relieved the Patea County Council of a difficulty. The gate they erected at the Waitotara bridge lias been unceremoniously carried away, and the Patea magnates will lie wise if they allow the matter so to rest. The erection of a gate, and the levying of a toll, was something more than foolish, it was illegal. On the authority of the Chairman of the Wanganui Council we may 7 state that the control of the Waitotara bridge was vested in the Wanganui Council about eighteen months back, and that the Patea Council have altogether exceeded theirpowersin attempting to levy a toll. The cattle have smashed their gate, perhaps after all the best method of extricating the over-hasty Councillors from a false position.” The Wanganui Chronicle , cm Monday in reprinting local from our Saturday’s issue says ■“ The facts as we have learned them are very different from the above, and we shall therefore take occasion to refer to the matter again.” We learn from Waitotara that the contractor for Wanganui roads, who has been carting gravel from the Patea side of the river, and objects to pay tribute, has carried the toll gate bodily away. The new steam thrashing machine, imported by' Mr W. Derrett, was landed at Wanganui last week, and arrived .at Patea yesterday, having been brought up overland.

The anti-harbor mwi at Plynmntb have taken the initiatory step towards getting lip a vow ol : tins kind common t<> Taranaki, bat rtf a nature which few civilised communities care for.

A charge of theft preferred by Constable Burrow, from Waverley, heard at Carlyle, was dismissed, being deemed trivial.

To-day(Wednosday) Mr William Cowern will hold a great land sale at Carlyle. List of the various properties will be found in advertising columns. As every facility has been afforded for obtaining information and fur inspection of the land by the auctioneer, and.the inquiry for land is still brisk, theic ought to he a good sale. Applications for selection of Carlyle suburban at the upset prices iixed, must he made before three o’clock,, as auctioning will commence at half-pad: three o’clock. As it is pretty certain that the railway, when made, will skirt those live-acre seel ions, the higher value which will thereby bo given is worth consideration.

At the sixth conference of the Wesleyan Ministers of .\ew Zealand, which opened in Auckland on Friday, the 17th instant, the llov Morley was elected president by a majority of eight voles ; Bavin was 1 appointed conference secretary; lliehardstm, assistant-secretary ; Lee, journal secretary ; Bull, corresponding secretary. The retiring president delivered an exhaustive address. At the sitting on the 24th instant, the'president road u telegram from the Victorian Conference, now sitting in Melbourne, announcing the death of the Bev J. Eggleston, usually known as “Father Eggleston.” He was a minister of -15

years’standing. , , The following letter, appeared in the Taranaki Humid as fo ■ the reported seizure of arms from Natives ;—“ It is a matter of surprise to many settlors that the authorities whose business it is do not indict the person promulgating statements to the alarm of the public, especially as the offender in this ease is noted for that line of business. The wording of the Act of Council is " In time of war. or public danger, shall have knowingly propayuted false news to the obstruction of Government, or the alarm of her Majesty’s subjects.” It will, therefore, he seen that the ulfeiice lies in the publishing of the article-—telegram— or siatement. The publication might be made in ever so good lakh, still il. the story al torwards turned out to be false, the ollendor is as much liable, although probably would not, under the cireumstancees, be so severely with, as if he knew the falsity at the time of printing. However, that would bo a question entirely for the Judge in passing sentence, and no doubt would ho taken into consideration, along with the' tharacter generally borne I.)} - the culprit tor this class of offence, and his antecedents. It is not a mlitter in anv way for tue consideration of the executive authority, and it is to be imped that the Government will not let the matter rest without example.”

In laving oft the Government Township of Stratford, !he rand land was allowed to join close np to the Government Town sections,no.ainurb.in sections bc.tig bud oh:. At the late land saio at Anv Plymouth, Mr William Dale made purchases of land situated on the lino of road anti railway, adjoining and indeed intended to form parr of the Township, which he has had surveyed and will oiler tor sale in quarter and half-acre s,-clions. The streets have been laid off one and a-half chains wide. The land is reported as beautifully level, and flu; Township will be connected by rail with new Plymouth in tho course or a few months, G overmuenr and contractors using everv endeavor io get the work pushed on. High hopes an. ent'-vtatiied of the future o 1 ’ StnuiWd-on-Eatea, as readers may observe by auctioneer s note. Tim railway station will only be a short walk from sections which will he. oitcred for sale to dav at iiawera.

A few months ago there was a rush for now buildings at Carlyb*. Borne nave since been erected, ntb.-r.s ere in progress. Tiie very great difficulty of obtaining timber damped t.lio ardour ,ot many who were intending to build. V\ e understand that tlio Kakaramea Baw Mill is now at work and in a position to meet fairly heavy demands. Tnnbei from this mill has been received in Carlyle. We hope a ready supply of timber will stimulate building operations. It is high time fresh tenders were out.

Mr J. If. Schultzo announces that he has secured a tirst-cir.ss workman in connection with his boot and shoe business.

At a meeting for the election of school committee at Carlyle on .Monday evening, it was mentioned that cases of fever were under treatment in the houses of parents, some of whose children were attending school. Sergeant Whelan and the Chairman of the School Committee mafic a tour of inspection on Tuesday morning, but could not hear of any cases of fever, though it was requested that the children from one household should not again ho sent to school until sanitary reforms had been elfecucdin connection with the dwelling.

A flat race of 400 yards for TOO a-sidc has been arrrangod between Mr J. Russ 41 and Mr W. Mininix, to take place in about three week’s time.

The Taranaki Herald says : —Fifty labourers arrived by the Wellington from Auckland, on the 23rd January, to work on Messrs Hurstbonsc and Berry’s railway contract, Stratford. Messrs Standish and Hughes, solicitors, New Plymouth, announce a branch office, in Messrs McLean and Go’s premises Hawora.

Tenders for Mr E. Hunt’s farm at Waverlcy, will be received by Mr (d. S. Bridge, until the 31st instant.

Applications for Secretaysbip, Patea Harbor Board, will be received until tomorrow.

The annual general meeting of members of the Carlyle Institute, will be held on Friday. Though neither time nor place of meeting were stated in the advertisement in the last issue, the meeting will be held Institute at 7.30. p.m. Only such as have paid their subscriptions in advance, to the 31st March, will be entilled to vote at the meeting. It will be necessary, therefi -re, for all who desire to take part to at once pay up.