PATEA MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1880.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 518, 11 May 1880, Page 2

PATEA MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1880.

Woodville. —An agency for the Mail has I been opened at Woodville, and subscribers in that district can now obtain their papers at Mr Hurley’s Woodville Hdtel. The parcel will reach the hotel in the forenoon of Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; ; ; . ; j ) O' i », i' ■: ' . ' Tub Funeral of Mr J. Sheehan’s : daughter, of Whenuakura, took . place; on. Saturday, at the Patea Cemetery,; Father Grogan reading the bmlal .service. There was a remarkably. large attendance of settlers on horseback from pi County. , ; -r | i ; sAi Letter fanent the. Redistribution, of Seats Bill, promised by the Govern-) ment, will appear in; the Mail on Thursday. Pressure on our space,, compels this and other ''matters oFinterest to be left over. , -: r ■ l .l ' Mr. W. F. S itA\r is gazetted a trustee of the Wairoa-Coinetci-yJ in slaeo of Mr? Gi ! Buriouj deceased. : 1 •,

Land 7 Sales in this district produced a revenue to-the County Council last year of- £11.69 : 15s 9d. Av, %. County Payments, —The County Council authorised the following payments at the monthly meeting : T. Tapi in, hospital, £2O ,6 s :8d ;. Mrs O’Connor, £1 Gs ; Pate a Mail, £1 18s, . 3d.;. J. . Gibson, sundries, 7s 6d; Evening Post, £1 9s ; G. Harden, stamps and telegrams, £1 3s; J. Robson, timber, £2O 8s ; Williams and Sons, £5 12s 3d ; S. Tapi in, £1 Os 9d; wages, Mountain Road, £SO 'Ms ; wages, main road, £l3l Gs: totalj‘23s 2s sd. Three Accidents happened during Saturday’s football match in Carlyle. Mr Pringle, captain of one team, fell in a scramble after the ball, and felt himself injured in one shoulder, but got up and resumed the exciting play, without knowing exactly what was amiss. Soon he had to drop out of the game, feeling faint through the increasing pain in his shoulder. A friend standing by examined the shoulder, and told him the bone was certainly broken. He advised immediate resort to a doctor ; but that kind of advice is easier to give than to put into effect in a town where no one resorts to a doctor who can possibly avoid that person. Mr Pringle was more anxious to conceal his serious injury from the players, whose fun he did not wish to check, than he was to hurry off to a surgical operation. He said it would look so foolish to let people know he was hurt; and he retired as if nothing had happened. Fortunately Dr Keating was on a visit to Carlyle, and sot the broken bone. Mr Pringle is able to get about, "with care. The captain of the other loam, ; Mr Coutts, had his wrist sprained severely in a fall; and a third player “collided” so foccibly, in a rough-and-tumble scramble, that he was “winded” for ten minutes, but plunged in again when the pain had cased. This furious enjoyment of football would lead to fewer accidents if it wore a.rule in this part, as it is in many other places, that the ball shall not be touched with hands except to throw it back when kicked beyond the playing course. Five Thousand Pounds were yesterday placed to the credit of the Harbor Board, through the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand. This is the second half of the loan of £IO,OOO obtained from the Savings Bank Department, at interest, for carrying out the large scheme of harbor improvement at the Patea Heads.

An Accident happened on Sunday evening to Mr R. Horner, of Whonuaknra. He was thrown from his horse, and injured, but not seriously ; and he was unable to attend the Harbor Board meeting yesterday. FooTDAUi. —An alphabetical match took place on Saturday afternoon on the usual ground, the following being the teams: —From Ato M: Messrs Contts, Dassent, Baggett, Flood, Guerin, Hunter, Jones, Hccnan, Morris, Kitchen, Gower, Byrne, Foster, J, Chadwick. From N to Z : Messrs Powell, Pringle, Turner, D. Williams, W. Williams, Skclley, Sinclairc, Norn’s, Webb, and Adamson, the latter playing on this side to equalise numbers. The'match proved the best played this season, the A to M team receiving a half-point, and the N to Z division one half-point and a touch-down. The game was not without accident. A match, fifteen a side, has been arranged to be played on the Queen’s birthday, between, the Carlyle and Star Clubs.

“ Pioneer” Ims written an interesting letter on the policy of promoting prosperity in the largo towns within this county, by raising funds for local im provcincnts. His communication shall appear on Thursday.

Cattle Importation from Auckland is prohibited by order in Council, reported in the last Gazette. A penalty of £SO per head is to attach to the removal of any live cattle “ out of the South Auckland cattle district, or out of any place south of the Whan Portage in the North Auckland cattle district.

Diphtheria is still very prevalent among families on the Whonnaknra Block. Some simple remedies have been brought under our notice, and one will be found in to-day’s Mail. Others which have been sent to ns may have a place later. Heads of families will hardly need reminding of the desirability of obtaining prompt medical advice in every serious attack of illness ; and the specifics which we arc induced to publish should be regarded as serving the simpler requirements of domestic treatment. The difficulty of obtaining medical aid in this district are so well known, that it becomes a public duty to assist in alleviating the consequent trouble and anxiety by placing simple and safe remedies within reach, as applicable to the -now prevalent diphtheria.

A Letter on the Cricket Ground question is held over-till Thursday.

Bankrupt Drapery Stock is being sold at Wanganui by Mi - J,'Paul, of Wellington, at a considerable discount. The stock is very large. Rangitikei Erection resulted in a victory for Sir WV Fox, but it was a victory little removed from moral defeat. The numbers polled were, Fox 214, Fraser 114, Lyons 6G. It will be apparentthat if only one opponent had been in the field, the knight’s position would have , been much weakened, for putting the votes of the two-opponents together, they make 180, being only 34 below Sir W. Fox’s total. One of the polling booths was not opened till 40 minutes after time, and this may vitiate the whole election. Possibly, the one district may have its rotes, .taken afresh separately, Within, the regular hours,.: but this iis doubtful.- ‘ : ] The . .Plains.*— A >, correspondent \ at Opuhake reports that on Saturday the road-making progressed at the rate of 155 chains, including 7^-, chains ,of j swamp'p *and’ Allat, tit 'this rate/ ’if thb|i feather continue favorable, the roads ■ would meet hi 20 days, counting'from j yesterday, . y j, JA ,