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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 515, 4 May 1880, Page 2

An Accident befell Father Grogan Avliile driving a horse and buggy on Sunday morning, to attend service at the Carlyle Catholic Church. Descending the hill towards the Patoa bridge on the Whenuakura side, the horse appears to have felt the trap pressing on behind, and kicking out it soon knocked its shoes through the front apron, injuring Father Grogan’s leg with the fnfions backAvard fling. The horse tore the shafts off the buggy, and was dashing aAvay Avith them, but Father Grogan leapt from the machine at the same moment, and gallantly seizing the animal’s head brought him to a stand. The Father was not seriously the worse- for his narrow escape, but the church congregation were keft Availing more than an hour for his delayed appearance, before service could begin. It is the same neat buggy that was made by .Messrs Williams for Father Ryan, and it can be repaired.

Mrs O’Sullivan, widow of the lute Diems O’Sullivan, applied to the District Court, on Saturday, for letters of administration as exocutiix of the estate. Mr Hnmerton obtained for her the necessary order by tendering bond. Shooting Licenses are getting rather mixed. The’ Halve ra Acclintatisatibiii

Society are issuing licenses over a J dis-* puted boundary, for .they claim the whole range of the County of Patea; whereas our Waitotara correspondent points out that the Wanganui society claim for their society the whole range between the old pioviuclal boundaries of Taranaki and Wellington, thereby' overlapping the Patea County some ton miles. Sportsmen"'operating over these disputed ton miles arc liable to get into trouble whichever society may have licensed them, unless it can be shown that the Wanganui boundary is : clearly illegal. *

The Second Football Match of the season was played in Carlyle ,otv Saturday, between picked sides, and resulted in a decided victory for the following players, chosen by Mr Pringle , Messrs Coutts, Powell, Sinclair, Flood, Skelley, Turner, Taylor, Gower, and Carey. Mr Norris selected Messrs Dassent, Adamson, Kitchen, Hcam.cn, Hunter, Guerin, Drake, Baylis, and, Whelan; but his.team;succeeded in obtaining only two tries to their opponent’s five goals and two trios. There wore no accidents on this occasion. An alphabetical match has boon arranged for next Saturday. Infected Sheep, wore seen yesterday forenoon feeding along the road on the Whenuakura Block. There were five rams marked with the scab brand, and it must be evident that if a mob of sheep were being driven along, as mobs often are, tiioso sheep would get mixed, and do no end of mischief. The fence' in which these rams had been feeding is very low, and probably they had jumped it. ■ It is a wise saw that you should never put all your eggs into one basket. The axiom has received a local exemplification which is at once new and interesting. A townsman ordered half-a-dozen eggs. A basket of eggs was sent, but he found only five. His commercial habit of m}nd impelled him to demand the other egg. The seller said it was not exactly his fault that there were not six eggs, as he had done his best to get them laid, but the hens would have their own way and lay at their own time. It was now winter, and the buyer might have to wait some time for his sixth egg, which could not therefore bo guaranteed ; but if the liens ever began again, the missing egg should be supplied. .Well, the days passed, until there came a fine morning on which the buyer, of the six eggs received a small parcel. It was a warm egg, just laid ; and his commercial conscience was satisfied. But he.hesitates about giving a farther commission for new-laid eggs.

A Concert and Public Ball are projected by that useful local body, the Harmonic Society, to be hold shortly in the To.vn Hall, The intelligence will bo received with peculiar pleasure the more intelligent settlers in the district, and wo hope to see not a few visitors from remoter parts of the district. After the music, the benches will bo cleared for the lively dance, and as this is an unusual enjoyment in Carlyle, it ought to be particularly attractive to all who delight in social gaiety in a form so gonial and unobjectionable. The Harmonic Society desire to clear off a debt in repeat-of a section of land purchased for the society. It was paid for out of the general fund account, but the society wish bo keep the land account separate from the general fund, treating it as other institutions treat their building' fund. One entertainment towards clearing this account has been given, and this second one may result in wiping off the debt. This idea of a short concert to be followed by a ball appears to be.au admirable combination of harmless dissipations. : • : '

A Dramatic Club at Ashburton are repeating a nautical drama which they played very successfully, a month ago, [t is the drama “ Ashore and -A float.”

Butleu, of Dunedin, took to crime almost as soon as he could roach a pocket to pick.- He arrived in Victoria by the ship General Palmer, in , 1853, and graduated in crime in 18G0, and at the early ago of nine he received twelve months for vagrancy; At thirteen he was convicted for robbery under arms. In Victoria ho was known by the aliases of George Lee, James Wilson, and Midway. The Victorian police described him as “ an expert burglar who usually carried firearms. He left Victoria for New Zealand, with the intention of joining: Miumce de Harven,- another discharged prisoner from Pentridge. Football Club.— At a meeting of the Carlyle .Football; Club held on Saturday, a letter was read from the secretary and treasurer of trustees of the Cricket and Athletic Spoils Ground,, informing the chib that it was necessary they should write for permission to play on the ground, and suggesting that if this course were adopted the request might be granted and a suitable piece of the enclosure chosen for the purpose j also stating that the trustees would hold the C.F.C. responsible for any damage they had done and cautioning them not to play on the pitch belonging - to the Cricket Club. The subject of the letter was fully debated, and a resolution passed, “That the Carlyle Football Club will take no action in reference thereto until the powers of the trustees are fully ascertained,, but that in the meantime every care would be taken not to damage the pitch, as the C.F.C. recognised the right in equity of the Cricket Club. A bye-law is to be passed making it , a condition that no scrimmages be allowed to take place on the pitch. Iji of the trustees'and'tliernature oTtho trust will be considered.,' After .this subject droppeod, several new members were elected, and the tender of Messrs Skelloy & Co. for uniforms was accented.: , \ *

EAster Offerings iivS'the itf&rlyle' Catholic' Church 'on Sunday amounted;, to £37 10s.; ’ ■'•; i ! , T" f

Re W. Higgins and Francis Hig- : gins, debtors, Mr. Partington applied to the District Court, on Saturday, for orders of discharge, which were granted. t '* f/ 'f V £ *. ”■' / The Eangitikei contest is- not quite a walk-over. A well-known Frazer has entered the field at the last moment, to challenge the supreme self-confidence of Sir William Fox, the, energetic champion : of cold-watbr politics.

Major Atkinson and Mr Bryce are th&only Ministers 'now'absentfrom Wellington.. The Wanganui Chronicle explains the Colonial Treasurer’s position thus ; —The Patea Mail complains that Major Atkinson has not yet addressed Ins constituents. We suppose he will do so before the meeting of Parliament, and a sufficient reason for his not having done so before is to bo found in the immense mass of public business he has had to transact since the termination of the session. We regret to learn that;at present he is lying ill in .Auckland. Want of rest is assigned as the cause.

In the matter of a deed of arrangement filed in September last, and made between T. Hay wood, son,, and 11. Haywood, of the first part, and T. Haywood, jiin., of the second part, and the creditors of T. Haywood, sen., and 11. Haywood, of the third part, an ex parto application was made to the District Court on Saturday, praying for. relief on the ground that the deed of assignment did not give power to T. Haywood, jun., to sue upon the book debts, the document i being improperly drawn to that extent. Judge Shaw, after hearing Mr Farrington in support of the applicant, made an order quashing the assignment, and ordering a fresh meeting of creditors. The proceedings thusbegin de novo.