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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 454, 30 August 1879, Page 2

Mr F. 11. Jackson’s Hawera stock sale has heed postponed from Friday, sth September, to Saturday, 13lh. Fire Brigade will meet at the Albion Hotel on Monday evening next. Sheep owners throughout the County are requested to pay their rates. Patea Light Horse will parade for Government Inspection at 2 p.m. to-day. The second entertainment in aid of the funds of the Hawera Institute, will lake place in the Town Hall, Hawera, on Thursday, the 4th September. Programme will be found elsewhere. Tho nomination of candidates for the Wanganui seats in the House of Representatives, will take place on Wednesday next; and the poll, if accessary', will he taken on Friday. The following are the polling places : Resident Magistrate’s Court House, Wanganui ; Town Hall, Maxwelltown ; Town Hall, Waverley ; the polling booth, Marangai ; and the School-house, Upokongaro. Nomination of candidates for tliclygniont seat will take place to-day'. In election notice, the Hawera polling place is given as the blockhouse, bat there being no such place in existence now, we might inform electors that the Town Hall will be used instead. The Carlyle correspondent of the Wanganui Herald was observed tho other day in his back yard burning a few sheets of paper. A puff of wind carried a scorched fragment over the fence, and a small boy brought it to us. This is all we have been able to make out : Two B.’s, or not two B.’s, that is the question : Whether ’tis nobler passively, to suffer The gas and blundersof outrageous blockheads, Or to take arms against all incompetents, And by the ballot oust them ?—To vote, —to plump,— No more ; and by a poll to say we end The native row, and the thousand railway jobs The land is cursed with, —’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d.

A correspondent writes:—“On travelling np the coast from Opunake to Taranaki, I noticed some sheep on the roadside in a very bad way with scab. It must be very dangerous travelling that way with sheep, and no doubt is the cause of so many infected sheep in the County. Something should be done at once in this matter.” Wo have received from the composer (Mr John Grigg, Thames), a song entitled, “My own New Zealand Home.” The song is a very pretty one—both words and music—and being a New Zealand production, will no doubt be the more appreciated. We have shown the song to several musical people here, who, on trying it over, were so taken up with it, that they determined to procure copies. The Presbyterian Concert, advertised to take place in the Carlyle Town Flail on Thursdaj* next, has been unavoidable - postponed till Thursday, the 11th September. On Monday last, the football match between Wellington and Dunedin came off at Christchurch, and resulted, after a tremendous struggle, in a victory for the former, by a try, obtained by G. T. Bayly, to nothing. Four thousand people were present, and the visiting team received quite an ovation. Messrs McLean and Co.’s stock sale, advertised for Tuesday next, has been indafinetely postponed. The return Rifle match between Nos 1 and 2 Companies Patea Rifles, will take place to-day at the range. At the Carlyle Court on Thursday last, Constable Hynek preferred a charge against a man named James McCollum, for a breach of the “Anns Act, 1860,” by selling a gun to a native at Waitotara on the 28th August ; remanded to Monday, Ist September.—YesterdayA. Baldwin and R. Brodie were charged under the “ The Taranaki Municipal Police Ordinance, 1887,” in allowing their chimneys to take fire ; dismissed with cautions.—W. Williams for allowing four horses to wander at large, was fined 2s 6d a head, and 7s costs. Mr W. Cowern, acting for Mr Lett, disposed of a section in Taranaki Road on Wednesday, to Mr A. D. Willis, of Wanganui, at £7 per foot. The property is opposite the Court House. Mr W. Dale will hold a miscellaneous sale at his mart to-day, at 1 o’clock.

At the Hawera R.M. Court on Thursday last (before 0. A. Wray Esq,. R.M.) the following cases were heard ;—John Stevenson v T. Henly, claim £33 ; judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed, and 30s costs.—lloni Pihama v W. Higgins, claim £l7; paid into Court £3 3s 9; judgment for plaintiff for £4 9s 9d, with 29s costs, and 10s interpreter’s fee.—H. B. Code burn v W. Douglas, claim £ll 18 s Gd; judgment for piaintiif for £2 8s 6d ; coats divided.—"Several Hoad Board defaulters paid the money into Court. —A. Milham v A. Bremer and W. Duirs, for a breach of the Taranaki Impounding Ordinance, in rescuing 12 head of cattle that were being driven to pound ; dismissed with 12s costs. —Constable O’Brien v. G. Rogers and W. Cunningham, for being drunk and disorderly ; find 5s each and costs; and witnesses expenses Gs 3d each. —W. Wales v. Henry Hazel, for carrying away three colored cotton shirts; dismissed with 7s costs. — ‘Constable O’Brien v, Piekemup (a native) for being drunk and incapable ; lined 5s and costs, and witnesses expenses 12s, or 24 hours.—An order of protection, was granted, to protect the earnings and property of Elizabeth D’Alton, wife of Joseph E. D’Aiion, acquired since tin; 31st August, 1878, from her husband and all creditors and persons claiming under him. The following are (ho names of Sir W. Fox’s Committee at AVavcrley :—Captain Wakhiton, John Dickie', Wilson Milne, Joi,;i Milne, James Mathiesoiij Duncan McDonald, James M. Dickie,"G. Johnston, James Walker, 11. Johnston, John McLean, F. Farr, D. M. Hogg, G. Ncwlnnd, James Dickie, jun., Donald McDon’ald, James Aiken, J. W. Kenah, Li. Mclntosh, Win. Harrie, G. S. Bridge, Win. McFarlane, .D. S. Hunter, W. Morton, D. Fleming, W. S. Lind, A. Aiken, A. Dickie, A. Howie, A. Vincent, J. G. Dickie, Win. McLeod, W. Dickie, J. Sanders, A. Milne, Jas. Clicyne, 0. Robinson, Jas. B. Taylor, J. Dudley, U. N. Hawes, G. Ross, Owen Hawes. —Oapt. Wakint.on has been elected Chairman of Committee, and Air J. B. Taylor, Secretary.