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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 404, 1 March 1879, Page 2

Remember Mr Cowern’s land sale ai Hawera, to-day.

Tenders will be received for additions to the Empire Hotel, Ilawera,. up to thi.evening.

Patea Light Horae Volunteers paradi for six days consecutive drill,.commencin': on Monday next.

The usual quarterly meeting of tK Licensing Comt wiii be held at Carlyle on Tuesday next, 4'tli March.

Mr Coker, pianoforte tuner for Mr King, of ■Wanganui, is now in this district, and announces that orders left at Mr Currie’s will bo promptly attended to. ■ The Assessment Court, to heat objections against the Hawera Town Board and TlawcriV Hoad Board Valuation Rolls, will be held in the Hawera Town Hail, on Monday next, 3rd March, the former at 11 a.m., and the latter at noon.

The monthly meeting of the Patea East Road Board and Carlyle Town Board will be held on Monday next, at the usual time. County Council will meet on Wednesday, when the motion for merging the Road Boards will he brought on for discussion.

The Turakina annual race meeting will be held on Wednesday next. It will be seen by announcement in another column that Messrs J. Cosgrave and Co., of Auckland, are holding a clearing sale of drapery at Watt’s store, Hawera. The Patea races are 311st over, but the excitement does not seem to have subsided. To-day' a grand meet has been arranged, when all the employees of Messrs Williams and Sons will engage in a 100 yards foot race. The place selected for the run is near the Institute, and the time of starting is 4 o’clock, so that a large gathering may be expected to see snob a display of muscle. Out of fourteen hands employed, an exciting race may 7 bo looked for.

‘‘The Little World ” will be exhibited in Carlyle tin's afternoon and evening, but we do not know where. It is found that for the Wellington country districts the cost of valuation under the Land Tax Act will actually exceed the receipts.

Wo understand that the subscription list in aid of the wilt ami family or tiic into mate of the Patea, is being well responded to, and that nearly £IOO has already been collected. The Patea S.S. Co. headed the m-i wiib £2O.

At tlio R.M. Court yesterday, there were several civil cases down for hearing, but the only one dealt with was, W. Dale, sen., v W. Norman, a debt claim of £3 10s. Judgment was given for plaintiff hy defau’t, fm amount claimed, and 21s costs. The remainder of the eases were settled out of Court.

A long coffin-shaped box was observed securely lashed down in a trap at the back of the Court-house yesterday afternoon. Upon enquiry ns to its contents, wo learned that the Chief Surveyor of New Plymouth, lira! gained the day, and the strange box contained the original plans, &e., of the local office, in readiness to be forwarded to Hawera that night. However, Patea is not so badly off as if they were allowed to go when first sent for, as tracings of all plans have been received since, which contain exactly the sameinformation, although not so lasting as the original documents.

The result of the sale of sections in the Wairoa Survey District, held yesterday, is as follows :—Block VIII : Sec. 2,105 a 3r, W. Seaton, £6 per acre; see. 4, 77<t lr 16p, P. Hastings, £3 per aero ; sec. 8, BGa i r 18p, J. Brophy, £6 15s per acre ; sec. 12, 128 a lr Bp, J. VV. Aiken, £3 Is per acre. Block IX : Sec, 2, 182 a, P. Wilson, £3 per acre; sec 5, 62a lr, M. Burke, £3 per acre; sec. 6, 122 a 2r, G. Ashcroft, £3 per acre ; sec. 7, not applied for ; sec. 12, 47a 2r 18p, G. R. Horner, £3 per acre ; sec. 17, 6Ga 3r 12p, H. Muldrock, £3 Is per acre ; sec. 18, not applied for ; sec. 21, 80a 2r 20p, AV. Murray, £3 per acre ; sec. 22, 88a 3r 3lp, J. R. Rolling, £3 per acre; sec, 24, 5Ga lr, W. Hill, £3 per acre. It is not long since Mr W. Dixon introduced himself to the Patea public as a painter and paperhanger, to fill up a vacancy in our local requirements. And wc have every reason to believe he does not regret the step taken. Mr Dixon, since going into business hero, has found plenty to do, so much indeed, that he has been compelled to erect more commodious premises to meet the growing wants of the district. The new building is situated between Mr D. M. Warren’s photographic studio and the Town Hall, and helps to form a striking contrast to the once barren appearance of that side of Hie Taranaki Road. It contains seven rooms—four upstairs and throe down—all of comfortable appearance. There is also an outbuilding, for the storage and mixing of paints ; and an archway where glass, &c. will be kept. Mr Dixon has a large and well assorted stock of paperhangings ami other necessaries connected with the trade in the front shop, and wo believe an ironmongery department will be connected in a few days. Altogether Mr Dixon has proved himself very enterprising and energetic—qualities that rarely fail to meet their reward. Mr Story was the builder of the new warehouse, &c. The Wellington Chronicle says :—The report of the New Zealand Standard Insurance Company for the half-year ending December 30th, shows a balance of £23,010' to the credit of profit and loss account, which is recommended to be applied as follows :—To payment of ten per cent, £3;750 ; to profit and loss, £19,260. The directors regret not beingable to recommend the distribution of a bonus in addition to the dividend, but in the present depressed state of insurance business they do not feel warranted in so doing. . The following tenders have been received for the Waipuku contract (.permanent way) of the Waitara-Patea railway : —Accepted : D. Wilkie, New Plymouth, £1730. Declined ; J. Mulree, New Plymouth, £1822 ; W. J. Bassett, Wanganui, £1987 ; D. Glendinning, New Plymouth, £1994; Hurstbouse and -Berry, New Plymouth, £2703 ; R. McGonagle, New Plymouth, £2859. The Wellington Chronicle of the 2G(h says that there is an undoubted split in the Cabinet re Luckie’s appointment to the cornraissionership of annuities, which threatens the withdrawal from the Ministry of the Honorable? Messrs Stout and Balance, and possibly Macandrew, should Sir George Grey maintain his present attitude of opposition to the said appointment. The Chronicle deprecates ibis course of action, and says—“ We do not care a straw whether Lnckie does or does not get the billet, but the really important question is, shall the country be governed by a constitutional Ministry, or by the despotic will of Sir G. Grey ?" " ’