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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 489, 3 January 1880, Page 2

Vv’e would remind our readers that, the Carmdini Operatic and Badad Company perform in the Carlyle Town Hull on .Monday and Tuesday evenings next. Mr W. Dale will hold a mooollaneona sale at Ida mart to-day. And, on Tuesday next, be will offer for sale—Horses, waggons, .freehold and leasehold land, tic.

Mr V. Ik Jackson's Wavcrh-y stock sale lakes place to-day. Mr G. H. Daley, photographer, announces having commenced practice in Mr if ,M. Warren's studio. We are informed on good authority that the above gentleman is u first-class operator.

On Mew Year’s F.vc the Albion Hotel was iho scene of festivity, MrT. Haywood having prepared a free spread for a largo number of his friends. Plenty of good eatables wen; obtainable, and, aided by sparkling champagne, everyone did ample justice to landlord's liberality. A merry time was spent, ami the health of minehost w;is drank with musical honors. Mnnerons other (oasts were also drunk before the company separated.

A meeting of the committee of the Caledonian Society wili be held at tin; Albion Hotel, this evening.

No Jess Ilian four persons were sninmoiiwl before tiic li.M. yesterday, for allowing cattle to wander on the public streets. They were all lined :fs (id a-head and costs. Aunt her case of a .similar nature was adjourned tor a week.

Beware oF she “ telegram-sender,’’ Yesterday a man was making the best. ui: his time by burrowing money to send a telegram to soni" unknown place, lie got the right side dl several people, but. WuS oveniu.diy found out, and it; lie is not already in the pigeon-box, ho soon will be, if he i. iocs not nun id ins ways. We heard yesterday ’hat the telegraphic operators throughout the colony are on strike, owing; to the extra hours they have to work without additional pay. It strikes iu that this is a iiuVcl kind of strike.

The special concert given hj} r the Carlyle Harmonic Society on Thursday evening, in aid of their building fund, was in every wav a success. The hall was well filled, mid we must admit that, with the rest of the audience, we were agreeably surprised at the very excellent entertainment given. The first part consisted of miscellaneous music, in which all who performed .gave saris faction. Not a few rumours wore

ailed previous (o the concert, that the cantata of •• Trial by Jury” would _be murdered, but if any of those nnnonrists were present on Thursday evening, they must have been ashamed of themselves ; for with the exception of a little flatness ar limes, which was hardiy noticeable, each of i.iie performers succeeded admirably wilh their parts. Wo do not remember having more thoroughly enjoyed an entertainment, more ('specially as the stage had been arranged so as to give (ho appearance of a Court of law, with lbs judge, jurymen, wc., all in place. We arc sorry that our space prevents our giving a more lengthy description of me concert, bin. wo cannot conclude even those brief remarks without congratulating the conductor of t ho Society (Mr"]!. 0. Tennont), for wo feel sure that it is owing to his unremitting energies that such progress has been made b}' members.

We lake the following from the Evening p i; ,g • —l'’i)r a considerable time past the A.C. force iu the West Coast District lias been steadily increasing; in numbers, and the greatest attention has been given to the training of the men. By the end of the present year there will bo a force of fully 800 well-drilled men available for service there ; and early in the new y c*ai this force will, we believe, cross the river on to the disputed Waimate Plains, and commence road-making there, if the Maoris permit this without resistance, the survey of the Plains will be resumed under pioteclion of the constabulary, and village settlements will be laid out and occupied, [f the natives offer any obstruction, rye believe that some very decided action will be taken, and that Tc Whiti may probably have a number of uninvited visitors at Parihaki. The Native Minister and possibly another member of the Gtovernment will, it is understood, be on the spot to direct operations, and deal with circumstances as (hey .arise. The utmost care will he taken 'for the protection of all ontscttlers should the Maoris resort to reprisals.

Tiie Patea Steam Shipping Company intend, during- the Christmas Holidays, to run the s.s. Patea on Excursion Tiips to Nelson and Wellington, at reduced tares. Intending cxeuislniii.-ts will find this an excellent op.virtunity tor visiting these Pm" s. A nvT.

A little incident., or rather aii'-edote ol Sydney may cause you some ainusenmn!. says the special corp'Spond mt ol the .1 uaWami Sl>tr. A novel question is going the rounds as to the state of your health in a new form—flow’s your poly mis ? ” It arose in this wise;—Mr Gooch Gordon or Gordon Gooch, formerly a favorite ha- - s singer, whom we also knew in Auckland some years ago with the Carnndnns, has just returned to Australia, after a long visit r.o Engl a. in i, where he studied under Mael'amm and other professors of the Kova! .-Va.-Jomy of Music, and being elected an associate of that institute, is entitled to write A.R.A.M. after his name. ]c was said that ids voice had wonderfully improved. and that he might now be considered one of the most finished .singers of; tin; dev. But this did nor sullico for Mr Gooch, who, being about; to give a concert, and fearing lost some little peculiarity in his voice might he set down as a -fault, issued a circular, which fie. sent round in large numhars to the public. Herein he stated that whilst in England lie had been terribly alarmed by the loss of his voice in conserpmnce of the formation ol: a polypus in his throat. All the doctors slated that ho would never lose the polypus and never regain Isis voice ; hut, amidst much anxiety, he continued under medical treatment, underwent an operation, lost his polypus, and found his voice. Mow, the reading of all this in a solemn cireu ar at the hack of the programme is really funny, though 1 lie personal relation of it would no doubt he very alarming to Mr Gooch’s friends; and now, whenever anyone coughs in a peculiar manner, his friends arc naturally uneasy, and wonder whether ho has a polypus in his thro,-it.