HAWERA.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 514, 1 May 1880, Page 3

HAWERA.

(MAIL OFFICE: HIGH-STREET.)

The Times lias been discontinued as a separate publication, and is incorporated with the Patea Mail. The reason is simply this. Mr Ivess had promised to publish a local paper in Haweia, but being Into in the field he hesitated to invest any large capital in the property. He therefore issued the Times experimentally, to see how a second local paper would bo received by tlie residents of Hawera and Normanby, intending to print and publish it at Ins Hawera office in High-street if sufficient encouragement wore apparent. He has found, however, that a second local paper has been viewed with some disfavor as an attempt to damage a paper already in the Held. Having no desire to do that, and wishing only to fuffil his previous engagement, he deems it unbusiness like to in running counter to a clearly exlocal feeling, and has discontinued the Times. Ho is also satisfied that the field is not largo enough for a second local paper. The Star is produced in a stylo so ► icreditable to its proprietors and to the disthat Mr Ivess his pleasure in testifying to the excellence of the local paper. A printing plant and machinery had been ready to be forwarded from Carlyle to Hawera, hut it appeared to him a week ago to bo a more sensibleancl proper course to retain that plant for somo other field. The Mail has a legitimate position in the districts of Hawera and Normanby as a large journal circulating over the whole comity, and ho has determined to enlarge the scope of the Mail by opening a district office at Hawera, and reporting all local event* with fulness and promptitude. The Mail will be delivered to subscribers in these districts on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings, at an early hour.

Referring to a recent paragraph about a young woman having been buried in this district without the rites of the English Church, a correspondent states that the case referred to is by no means a solitary one. He also says there are numbers o£ unhaptized children in the district, some of them three or four years old, whose parents are anxious for the periodical visits of a clergyman in order that their offsprings may receive the first rites of their church. The residents of Normanby had intended interviewing the Archdeacon on the matter, on his late visit to the district, if he had put in an appearance at that township. The railway authorities have decided to discontinue the use of matai or black pine for contracts on the local railway, this timber being too brittle to resist the heavy pressure p£ high embankments. Totara is the timber to be substituted, but there is little or none hero, and it will have to be obtained outside the district.

A respectable looking young man named William Cole was charged yesterday at the R.M. Court with stealing two rings and a blanket, of the value of £l7, from J. Wilson, of the Katamarao Hotel. The evidence of Mr Wilson was taken, as also that of a man named-William.Creighton, who had been a fellow boarder of ; prisoner’s, and who,' after an . unsuccessful search had boon,.made for the rings, followed prisoner to Manutahi, and having gained his confidence, was shown one of tho rings by prisoner, witness finding the other in his boot, r Witness gave information by telegram to the police at Hawera, and the prisoner was arrested. He seemed much affected durin.gr tha hearing l ,, and fainted whilst tl(e evidence of the ser-. geant was being taken. At this stage the Court was adjourned until to-day. .

WAVERLEY. [FROM'OCR. CORRESPONDENT.] Subscribers can have the Mail delivered early each morning, as our mounted courier passes along the road between Carlyle and Waverley. Any request to this effect, addressed to the Mail office or to our Waverley agent, will be attended to. Readers would find it an advantage to have their paper dropped at the gates with the latest news and telegrams in time for the breakfast hour. A Serious -Accident happened yesterday, which hnd-au almost fatal, termination. Mr Robert Sangster was working in a gravel-pit,- in connection with a road contract near the town, when the side of the pit fell;,in, burying the poor fellow. Ho was dug ont in time to save life, but (according to last night’s report) he was injured by the weight pf_the land-slip. . Vaccination.—- -TKereVas a large" attendance of mothers and children at the old Town Hall, bn Wednesday, for the purpose of Ji&viug children vaccinated. The display- Of well-dressed youngsters spoke well for this district, from a statistical point and’-the supply of daintyribbons shewed that mothers arc still able to afford a little finery. Town Board,— At the nomination on Thursday, two candidates were duly proposed and seconded forlhes. vacant-scat, Messrs*' James Bowie and Samnel Caldwell. They are two suitable men, and either of them would make a useful member. JUr Bowie will have the batter chance, as he will; if elected, be the only membeiywho does not live, on the main of course we want some The poll takes place on the Tlth May, and it is at all events satisfactory to see that some interest is being taken in local affairs.

Waverley School. —Mr Donald Contts, one of the members of the Education Board, visited the school on Tuesday last, on his way to Wanganui. The chairman of the School Committee had invited him to inspect the premises, that ho might be able to speak from his own observation: From his remarks at the Board meeting on Wednesday, it would appear that he does not think the claims of the school have received sufficient attention. ; Town Hall. —Waverley can boast of as neat a Town Hall as is to bo seen on the const,’ yet it stands empty—never used. Can nothing be done in the way of readings or concerts to make use of what was considered a great want while there was no ball, but which now seems not wanted when there is one ? Il is to be hoped that some of our local societies may see fit to try what can be done. VINE CULTURE. Napier, Friday. In reply to deputation of northern settlers, the Attorney-General promised that the Government will offer facilities for vine culture in North Island, by setting apart an area of land for the purpose of aiding any special settlement tor vinegrowing.