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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 529, 5 June 1880, Page 2

The Weekly Suitlemext of Literature axd General News will be issued next Tuesday, and a second supplement within a few days, to make up for unavoidable arrears in this department. The Inward Mail via San Francisco was brought yesterday by coach from New Plymouth. It reached Carlyle at A .. _ nn/1 will ho nvoi’ln.hle fo Callei'S this morning. A well-known settler in this County sold 50 cattle at £9 Os. per head, making the nice little sum of £lO5. Not bad for 300 acres.

Messrs Brewer’s sheep at Whonuakura are officially declared infected. Salmon.- —ThoAcclimatisationSociety at Wanganui have been considering the practicability of stocking the Wanganui river with salmon ova obtained from America. The cost of some 200,000 ova would be about £350, including all expenses. The society have decided that their funds are too limited for such an undertaking ; and they are now enquiring the: cost of introducing English salmon. A Literary and Mutual Improvement Class has been formed in connection with the Patoa Library, and the first meeting of members or of persons desirous of joining will be. held in the Library on Monday. Debates, elocutionary readings, and other forms of active mental cultivation arc projected by the movers. The New Hotel which Mr Milroy is completing is to be leased, we believe, by Mr McKetterick, of Whenuakura. The Salary of the Clerk of the County Council was again under discussion at last meeting, and a committee is to consider what change to advise. Getting on.— -The impressions of people in Great Britain concerning this colony are frequently derived from the most untrustworthy sources, and unfornately there is no thdrougly effective remedy tor an evil which has taxed the strength of Government to cope with only partially.. In every community there, are numbers, of men who, partly from inevitable circumstances and partly from natural ineptitude to fight the battle of life successfully, rail altogether at what is expressively called “ getting bn.” The colonies, notwithstanding the great and multitudinous advantages they offer to the thrifty hard-working man, furnish many such instances, and those who, have been worsted in the struggle, hardly ever recognising their own share of responsibility for defeat, pour out a doleful tale of the hardships of a colonist’s career, and the small chances there. are for his advancement and permanent prosperity. The British Press occasionally teems with'letters from persons of this class, written either from the colony or after a return to the Old Country.—Wanganui Chronicle.

The Town Board Elections for Carlyle took place on Thursday. Six candidates contested three vacancies, with the following result:—Mr Sherwood, 51 votes; Mr S. Taplin, 47; Mr W. Dixon, 39 ; Mr W. Dale, 26; Mr J. Whelan, 24; Mr J. Lett, 15. In this list, Mr Taplin and Mr Dale sought re-election, the former succeeding. Mr Sherwood, who heads the poll,' has been a member in a previous period. Mr Dixon joins the Board for the first time. . , The . newly-constituted ,Board will appoint itsbwii arid the choice is expected to. He between; Mr Milroy and Mr Sherwood. *i /

County Finances.— The Chairman of the County Council has received the following telegram granting the £SOO whicb,had been withheld at Wellington: —“ Minister has agreed to waive deduction on account of the deviation, namely,; £500? This amount is balance of grant. — J. Knowles.” The roadmen who had been temporarily suspended tor want of funds for keeping the Mountain road in repair may now resume their work, we suppose, and do something towards keeping the mail-road open through the winter. The Patf.a steamer left Wellington yesterday for Patea, and is expected early this morning. She will sail for Wellington on Sunday.

We understand that the Government have decided to transfer, to a Native Lands Court at Carlyle, all the business relating to lands between the Waitotara and .Waingongora rivers. This area will take in many hundred thousands of acres of land to be adjudicated upon with reference to native claims of ownership, preparatory to the public sale of such lands for settlement. Wc shall be able to offer some interesting intorraation on this important matter next Tuesday. The Committee of Petitions appointed at the public meeting held on Tuesday, for the discussion of County politics, will hold their first conference this evening, to consider the form of petitions to Parliament sotting forth the objects of the four resolutions.,

Cutting Down Expenses is the the order of the day with the Comity Councillors. They have agreed to reduce their own honorarium from £1 10s per day to 10s. for attendances.