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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 459, 17 September 1879, Page 2

Opunako Ministrels. —Eleven members —Town Hall, Hawera. —Wednesday 17th September. —Advt. At the R.M. Court on Monday (before Captain Wray, R.M.), David Quinn and Richard Foy, for stealing four fowls from D. Williamson, Wavcrley, were sentenced to one month imprisonment each in Wanganui gaol ; also to pay value of fowls Bs, and costs. The entertainment given in aid of the bailing fund of the Carlyle Presbyterian Church, brought in the handsome sum of £2l, which may bo considered very satisfactory. A few pounds will have to be deducted for expenses.

Mr F. R. Jackson will hold bis monthly stock sale at Wavcrley, ou Friday next.

Tenders will be received by the Patea East Road Board, up to noon on Saturday, for road works.

Mr Alex. Tait, a g-ontloman who lias had considerable experience in the. photography business, has secured Mr D. M. Warren’s gallery, where he intends operating for a Vom ua jd, xuwau uuu uioU ci should pay Mr Tait a visit.

The Committee of the Hawera Institute have decided to hold a bazaar in aid of the funds of that institution, and we trust to see it well patronised by all classes, for no doubt the whole community will benefit by the establishment of a good library. The Wanganui Herald of Saturday last says : —Some New Plymouth influence seems to be at work in Patea, which prevents the latter from pushing its interests in the manner most likely to meet with success. Mr Sherwood has has a powerful weapon ready to his hand, and had generously, too generously, declined to avail himself of it. The gross injustice of taking 25 per cent, of the land revenue of the Provincial District of Taranaki for the reclamation from the sea of a harbor at Now Plymouth, has long been apparent to persons perfectly impartial ; but it must appear doubly so to those who are doing so much against great odds, to make -a good and safe harbor at, Patea. The Taranaki members have long been trembling in their shoes, at the very apprehension of some demand being made to have the endowment fairly distributed, and they must have been greatly surprised at the modesty of Patea. Hero is a great field of local politics completely neglected ; local interests placed in abeyance, and a transparent wrong quietly submitted to by the keenest local politicians in the Colony. Can any one solve this extraordinary problem. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who hath not very often said, This night before I go to bed, “ I’ll call and pay the printer ?” Oh, there are many wo know well, But then their names wu will not tell, And when they die they’ll go to—well, A place where there’s no winter. “ Aticus,” in the Leader , writes :—“ A neat little fraud has just been discovered in England. A substantial London firm was in the habit of buying Hamburgh spirit in bond, racking it off into Martell’s casks, and sending it to Australia r.a Martell’s brandy. It was observed by the authorities that the firm had issued bonded entries for so many casks of Hamburgh spirit, and had issued export entries for the same number of casks of Martell’s brandy. An examination was made, the fraud was discovered, and the firm was fined £IOO. If this is the sort of spirituous liquor our tap-loafers have been imbibing, no wonder that intemperance is one of the cheif factors of insanity in Australia.”

One of the latest things in photograpy is called tu-type, and a company—American, of course—which have started in Sydney, are doing a very large business. By this progress you have twenty-five caries de visile for the small sum of 2s Gd, and most of them are capital likenesses. It is quite a usual thing now on meeting a friend to ask him to change photographs, and instead of sending a visiting card with the compliments of Mr So-and-so, you send your card with your photograph on it. The Hobart Town Mercury's correspondent says :—“ Some idea of the number of the people whe have taken up this mania may be gathered from the fact that at present they are getting on the average 300 customers daily. The whole process is very quickly gone through.”