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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 494, 25 February 1880, Page 2

The Bishop of Wellington will officiate at the morning service in St. George’s Church, on Sunday next; and will also hold a confirmation in the evening. A lecture will be delivered in the Town Hal I, Kawera, on Friday evening next, by Mr C. M. McMurdo, under the auspices of the Hawera Debating Society. The subject chosen is a very interesting one, and the lecture should be well attended. By advertisement elsewhere, it will be seen that Mr Brodie has disposed of his butchering business to Gowland, Adamson, and Co., who commence operations on the Ist March. H. McDevitts* tender (£149 19s 2d) for reducing grade on Mountain Road, was accepted by the County Council on Monday last. The time allowed for finishing the contract is fifty days ; but if McDevitt succeeds in getting through the work in thirty, a £lO bonus will be given. Carlyle Cadets will parade for monthly inspection tins evening, at 7 o’clock ; Kakaramea Rifles, to-morrow, at 2.80 p.m.; Nos. 1 and 2 Co’s. Hawera Rifles, on Saturday, at 2 p.m. ; Normanby Rifles, on Saturday, at 4 p.m.; Hawera Light Horse, for half-yearly inspection, on Satuiday, at II a.m. Wo have received a lengthy scrawl from Mr Francis Job Gane, in answer to a letter written by Mr W. Dale to the Taranaki Herald. Wc should like to see the letter in print, for the sake of being allowed to deal with Mr Job as lie deserves ; but the Taranaki Herald being the proper paper ror tiie letter to appear in, we decline the honor of inserting it, with thanks. If Taranaki won’t publish it, Job, tiy Wanganui, and if tin; latter place won’! tolerate such abominable i or.-why —gate Jericho.

Ward & Co , Drapers and Clothiers , of Wanganui , specially request the Settlers and others of Hawera and Normanby to read their advertisement mn .third page of this paper. They open in Hawera on .Saturday, 28tu inst, —Advt. The time of the Court was taken up yesterday morning by charges brought against the Chan-man and Secretary of the Cailyle School Committee by E. H. C. Plowden. The first charge was against the Chairman and Secretary conjointly, for illegal dissmissal as teacher from the Carlyle school ; but the action having been laid in a criminal manner, and the plaintiff wishing to recover damages as in a civil case, the Court non-suited him with costs.— The second charge was against James Kenworthy alone, for having used language likely to cause a breach of the peace —viz, that Plowden must have been mad for talking about his dismissal in the way he had done; however, the plaintiff, when in the witness box, said he did not consider the language used likely to cause a breach of the peace, and all he wanted was that the defendant apologise. The Bench said it had no power to make people apoligise. The plaintiff then said ho would be satisfied (o take another week’s wages. After trying the patience pf the Court, Captain Wray said that he allowed lire case to bo gone on with in order that the plaintiff might be heard, and that their was little or nothing before him to decide on. The case would bo dismissed with costs. — Charles Orchard v. G. Dempsey, claim £5 2s 6d ; judgment for plaintiff by default for amount claimed and 8s costs.

By the steamer on Saturday (says the Taranaki Herald ), Mr John Lowthwaite, an old and well-known settler, arrived once more in our midst, after an absence of about fourteen years. He lias gained a well-earned reputation in connection with his invention of a machine for stamping railway tickets ; and it was on account of legal business relating to this invention that he was compelled to visit England, He proved himself a good settler in the early days, and we cordially welcome him back to take his place once more amongst us. Four of the largest Trades Unions in Great Britain have, during their comparatively brief term of existence, spent over £300,000 in relieving the want of members on strikes.

Thu immense chicken-hatching establishment of Messrs Ronllier and Arnonlt, at Gambais, about 40 miles from Paris, France, has 30 incubators at work, and up to September 4th of this season these had safely turned out the almost incredible number of 42,000 chickens, almost all of which seem to have grown up well. This return is equal to the perfect work of nearly 4,000 hens, sitting successfully on eleven eggs each.