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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 460, 20 September 1879, Page 2

Tenders will bo received by Mr A. Wood up to this evening, for repairing fencing.

The Patea Light Horse will parade for drill at 3 p.m. to-day. The annual meeting of the Carlyle Cricket Club will be held at the Albion Hotel this evening, at half-past seven o’clock.

Waverley Rifles will parade for Government inspection at 2-30 p.m. 10-clay. Ladies willing to assist at the Bazaar in aid of the Hawera Institute, are requested to meet at the Institute on Tuesday next, 23rd instant.

Miss Guerin, of Hawera, a lady of undoubted ability, lias opeutl a school for the niirnncjn rrF -•» fancy work.

An advertisement elsewhere announces that “ Hudson’s Surprise Party ” will perform in the Carlyle Town Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings next. The Company is composed of ladies and gentlemen minstrelists, but the usual custom of black faces is dispensed with by the former, as well as by Massa Johnson, the corner men only resorting to the disguise. Speaking of an entertainment given in Wanganui, the Chronicle says ; —A good audience greeted this company on Wednesday night, and from the applause and frequent encores throughout the evening, it is safe to say they were delighted with the performance. Upon the curtain raising, a very pretty scene was disclosed ; instead of the ordinary black face business, most of the chairs were occupied by gaily dressed young ladies, the only burnt cork being at at the corners, where Messrs Hudson and Wallace respectively weildcd the bones and tambourine, Mr Glover occupying the post of “ Johnson ” without the sable disguise. The usual chair programme was gone through very effectively, the choruses by the ladies sounding very sweetly, and the comic songs were intensley funny. The performance ended with a very funny sketch, “ At the Paris Exhibition,” The performance was most successful from first to last, and the troupe is well worth a visit. Miss Do Gay as violinist, and Mrs F, De Gay as pianist, performed their parts admirably, which greatly contributed to the success of the entertainment.”

Mr Cowern will sell by auction, on Wednesday next, at his warehouse, the unexpired lease of the Patea Wharves. The Post Office Saving’s Bank, Carlyle, has been appointed the place whore the Land Tax for the County of Patea shall be paid. The time for payment commences on the Ist October, between the hours of 10 a.ra. and 4 p.m. The Opunake Minstrels gave a performance in the Hawera Town Hall, on Wedhesday evening, in aid of the Hawera Brass Band. The Hall was well filled, and everything passed off very satisfactorily. In the advertisements of cash and deferred payment sales in the Ngairo District, it will be seen that an alteration has been made. Section 15, block 10 (deferred payment), and sections 14 and 17, block 10 (cash), have been reserved from sale as village sites. The unsold town and suburban sections in and near the township of Stratford, will be offered for sale at public auction, at the Crown Lands Office, New Plymouth, on Saturday, the 4th October. Information respecting the above can be obtained at the Land Office, Carlyle. A meeting of the Calyle School Committe was hold on Thursday evening, when Mr Donald Contts was voted for as member of the Education Board. Several complaints as to conduct of certain scholars, and as to disiplin of school, Were read, and a sub-committee appointed to inquire into the various matters. Arrange* ments were made respecting High School for quarter commencing Ist October. Accounts passed, and the meeting adjourned.

Major Atkinson, Colonel Trimble, and Mr Kelly, M.H.R'.’s, will arrive by coach this morning, on their way to Wellington. Wo believe they go on to Wanganui by the same coach.

A Committe meeting of file Patea Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held on Wednesday last, for the purpose of arranging matters connected with the next show Present— Messrs Peacock (chaiirnan), C. Syme, Gibson, Pearc6, Fleming, W. Gower, Chapman, A. Aiken, and Coutts. A programme, prepared by a sub-committee, was submitted to the meeting, and after a few alterations, was adopted. Judges and class stewards were appointed. The fixed date for holding shows (4th November) not being convenient, it was decided that the coming show be ‘held on the 26tb November. Resolved, that second prize-takers have the option of taking money or a certificate of merit.

The Wellington correspondent of the Tiniaru Herald telegraphed the following on the 25th August:—Slowly but surely the wicked ways and bad practices of the Government —or rather of Sir George Grey for, after all, he is the Government and he only—are coining to light. At the present moment there is lying on the Wellington wharf a considerable portion of 174 tons of railway material, which has been brought out by the Loch Cree. It is principally the different pieces of railway wagons, every one or which is branded “G. & L., W” which means" Guthrie &Larnach, Wellington.” It is all consigned to theGovernrnent. Besides this there is another lot of the same kind of material, and bearing the same brand, on its way to Wellington. Both lots represent thousands of pounds in value. The exact amount is of little consequence, though that can be given. If is the principle, or rather the want of principle, that makes people angry. Those who have inquired into tiie circumstances ask why could not the Government have purchased the scuff themselves, if they required it, and thus have saved commission and other profit that must goto the company of Guthrie and Larnach? One reply given is that a Parliamentary grant of two thousand pounds was nothing as compared with the great and glorious boon Mr Larnacb conferred upon the colony by making Sir George Grey Premier, and that it is only right his services should he recompensed inhsomo other way. It is also said, but the statement is not yet verified, that consignments of railway material, similar to that referred to, are being sent to the principal ports of New Zealand, all branded “ Guthrie & Larnach,’, and all purchased by the Government from that company.