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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 397, 5 February 1879, Page 2

We call special attention to the advertisement on our fourth page of the Patea District Jockey Club Races, which take place on the 20th and 21st instants. Acceptances for the handicaps and general entries close on Saturday evening the Bth instant. Tenders for oats for the coach horses arc required by Mr Andrew Young, at Wanganui. Tenders receivable until the 15th instant. Since the new Institute building has been erected at Carlyle there has been a very considerable increase of members, which now number 97. Other improvements arc contemplated which it is expected will still further increase the attractiveness of this very useful institution. A sale of 335 town and 32 suburban sections at Stratford, will take place at the Crown Lands offices, New Plymouth, on Saturday next. Captain Marshall, from Waihi, was at Carlyle on Monday and yesterday, for the purpose of swearing-in members of the Patea Light Horse. Captain Gower and a number of the men were sworn-in, and the remainder will be mustered and sworn in by their Captain. Arms and accoutrements are being sent from Wellington, which on arrival will be served out on the ground in front of the Institute, Carlyle, on a clay to bo advertised. Stratford town sections to the value of £3OO wore sold in Wanganui, for Mr W. Dale, on Saturday last. It is estimated by those competent to judge that about ten thousand bales of wool, will by the end of the season, have been brought across the Rimutaka by rail to Wellington. At Carlyle, on Monday, before Dr Croft and 11. F. Christie Esq., J.P.’s, Constable Burrow, o£ Wavcrley, charged James McKenna with burglariously breaking into and entering a dwelling bouse. The case was dismissed. On Tuesday, before G. A. Wray, Esq., R.M., R. Erskine sued Isaac Baxter for £5 8s 9d. Judgment was given for the defendant, with costs and solicitor’s fee 21s.

The Wanganui Education Board continued its sitting on Thursday last, having boon adjourned from the previous day, when applications for the posts in the District High School were considered, with the result announced in last issue. As anounced in last issue Mr T. G. Scott, the champion wire walker, with his varied company of singers, dancers, &c., appeared at the Carlyle Town Hall, on Monday evening and again last night. An extra performance is announced for Carlyle on Friday evening. This evening and to-morrow the company will perform at Hawera. W. J. Chanly has been gazetted postmaster, at Hawera; P. Cosgrave, Manutahi; and T. Dawson, Waitotara.

The <; City of the Plains” (Hawera) men having lately discovered suitable water for practice are going to form a Rowing Club, and as there are good men in the district who mean business, they hope soon to have a Club which will make it hot for any outsiders at any rowing contest which may be arranged. A Provisional committee has been formed as follows— Messrs E. Blake, John Blake, —Bussell, and P. C. Moore. A meeting of all interested is convened for Saturday evening. At meeting of the Taranaki Land Board on ilie .£>Stli January a. letter £rom the Under-Secretary was read in which it stated that the Government had decided to allow the Taranaki County Council the sum of £I,OOO out of the £IO,OOO voted by the Legislature last session on account of roads in deferred payment districts, disposed of prior to the Ist January 1878. The expenditure was to be left entirely j with the County officers, the only condition being that the Land Board approves of the lines of road upon which it was proposed to expend the money. A petition being read at the meeting of the Taranaki Land Board, on the 28th January, from residents at Whakamara. asking the Board “ to take immediate steps to open up the Ingahapi Eoad for dray traffic it being the road which will benefit the principal portion of the residents on the Block,” it being at the same time stated “ that certain money had been sent to the District Eoad Board for constructing this road and it had been misapplied,” the Chairman of the Land Board (Mr 0. D. Whitcombe) as reported in the Herald remarked “ that they had behaved most disgracefully towards the deferred payment settlers. Ho fancied they -were open to an action for the recovery of the money. It was one of the most iniquitous misappropriations of public money he had ever seen by the tyranny of a majority.” It was resolved to send a circular letter to the Taranaki and Patea County Councils and Eoad Boards interested, calling attention to the provisions of the Land Act as regards deferred payments. If Patea had a representative on the Land Board the trouble about the Whakamara deferred payment money would be better understood, and less violent language would doubtless have been used by the chairman. As some correspondence on this subject will shortly appear from Mr Gane, wo refrain at present from comment. Mr Dale will Hold sale of stock at his Patea yards to-morrow. Air F. E. Jackson will hold usual sale at Waverley on Friday. A large number of sheep are entered. Mr T. E. Hamerton, announces sale of Stratford sections, at bis Mart, New Plymouth, on the Bth instant. |

A letter from Mr Janies Nicholson, giving the Boiling Down Company’s view of the question which has so often been brought before the Harbor Board, received last night, too late for present issue, shall appear in our next.

British Mai's via Suez, will close at the Patea Post Office, on Friday, the 7th instant, at 7.30 a.m,—Fkaxcis Lung, Postmaster.

At a wall attended meeting of the Wanganui Teachers Association, held on Saturday last the following gentlemen were elected to offices as under :—Mr Hulke, President ; Messrs West and Williamson, Vice-Presidents ; Mr Giilet, Secretary and Treasurer. Committee— Messrs Harris, M arton; Postans,Bin ls;Guthrie,GoatV alley ; Seaton, Taonui; Burnham, Crofton; Locke, Palmerston; Southwick, Bangitikei ; Hansard, Waverl ey. Though not authoritatively informed we understand that the steamer Patea would not leave Wellington until this day. Under the heading of “ Weekly Bulletin” the N. Z. Mail says : Both the Government yachts having been engaged m the service of Ministers and their friends, his Excellency the Governor has been obliged to make arrangements for taking his departure from Wellington by the ordinary passenger lines. It may be hoped that Lord Normauby will soon cease to remember the official discomfort of the later period of his rule amongst us, ami we believe that in his expressed hatred to Imperial authority, and in his insolence and discourtesy to her Majesty’s Representative in this Colony, Sir George Grey is the exponent of the sentiment of a very inconsiderable fraction of the people of New Zealand.

A strong committee from among the Presbyterians of Halcombo lias been formed, for the purpose of having a church erected at that place. We acknowledgdc the receipt of a pamphlet from Melbourne, entitled “The Chinese Question in Australia 1878-79,” edited by throe Chinese merchants of Melbourne. The editors in stating the primary cause of Chinese immigration to the colonies, contend for the right on the part of the Chinese to settle in any part of the British Empire. The Chinese view of the question is strongly- put, and afterpointing out that the Chinese were compelled by force of arms to throw open certain of their ports, reciprocity being the basis of the treaty, the editors contend that the free entry of Europeans having been given to China, free entry of the Chinese to all parts of the British Empire should be allowed in terms of the treaty which was forced upon China, instead of compelling them as now to “ either starve, beg, steal, or vanish.” The pamphlet concludes —“ In the name of heaven, wo ask, where is yoni justice ? Where your religion? Where your morality? Where your sense of right and wrong? Where your enlightenment? Where your love of liberty? Where your respect of international law ? Which are the pagans — you or w-o ?” Timber to the extent of about 80,000 feet a week is being brought from the Wairarapa to Wellington.