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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 531, 10 June 1880, Page 2

The Carlyle School Committee meet this evening. Mr Ward, barrister and solicitor, lately of Napier, is settling in Carlyle. The Rev. Father Grogan will celebrate mass on Sunday, at Carlyle, at the usual hour. ‘ The Homeward Mail via San Francisco will close in this district on the 16th, next Wednesday. Several Matters of local interest, including the Town Board proceedings, are crushed out till Saturday, through pressure of news. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, .Mr G. M. O’Rorke, has been knighted'. The ceremony will be performed by the Governor as Her Majesty’s yiee-gerent.. Colonel Trimble, who moved the Address in Reply to the Governor’s Speech, has been appointed Chairman of the Native Affairs Committee of the Lower House. Native Lands Court. —Some information as to the purpose and period of transferring the Native Lands Court business to Carlyle is held over, unavoidably, till Saturday. About 100 persons attended Mr Milne’s meeting at Waverley last night. The speaker was attentively listened to, the proceedings occasionaly becoming lively.

“Old Hatter” has sent us a metrical lecture on the kind of prudence; and the degree of good manners which ought to appertain to “ brave'young captains” of football clubs. There is sense in “ Old Hatter’s” lines, but his metre is mixed, arid his moral is obscure.

A mob ot splendid cattle, about 450 breeding cows 1 arid sonie calves, passed through Carlyle yesterday, on their way to the Honourable Robert Campbell’s run at Oroua Downs Fox ton. They were from the herd of Mr J. S. Everell, Hawera; and many settlers would have preferred to sec breeding animals of this class remain in the district to stock new runs.

The Committee of Petitions appointed at the recent public meeting, held a conference on Tuesday evening. Pour new members were nominated to the committee, namely Mr Tennent, Mr T. Haywood, Mr Kenworthy, and Mr Houghton. A draft form of petitions to Parliament was revised and provisionally approved. Another- conference .is calle'd for Thursday evening,'to adopt the petitions, to arrange for obtaining signatures throughout the County, and to devise means for defraying the necessary expenses. Literary Society.— -A first meeting to organise this society in connection with’ the Library was held on Monday night. Mr Gibson was voted; to the chair. An explanation was given by the secretary, Mr Wilkinson, as to the manner in which the society is intended to be worked. It was resolved that the meeting form itself into a Literary Society ; the only qualification necessary being that those joining shall belong to of .become members of the Carlyle Institute. It was also resolved that the rules of the former Debating Club be adopted. A working" committee was formed, consisting of Messrs Tregear, R. A. Adams, : and A., Gower. ; Mr Wilkinson was ’elected secretary. Mr Tregear consented to open the session by givijag Ii?-isi;intindjBd{|:o have a debate once a fortnight, to be open only to members. , , , (/li j‘,l i.l ! i, J I '!

Dr KeatingJs resignation as medical officer to the A.Qj. force is gazetted. He will how in Carlyle. The Bush -S'ettlers at Woodville and thereabout are not disposed to pass unchallenged-the statements and arguments set forth") in the letter of “ SelfReliant,” published in the Mail. We are interested in promoting a sound principle in politics, and in road making as a part of political government. That principle is “ the greatest happiness to the greatest number.” How does it apply to tins claim of recent settlers to have access to their land ? “ SelfReliant” has set forth one view : a spokesman of. the Woodville settlers has addressed to us a letter setting forth their view. The letter shall appear on Saturday. ; ; The monthly meeting of the Carlyle Fire : Brigade was held on Tuesday night, at the Albion Hotel, when one member was elected and one proposed. It was resolved to collect the honorary members’ subscriptions at Once. The Government having granted the Brigade (through Mr Sherwood) one of the sheds near the Court House as an enginehouse, it was resolved to apply; to both the. Town Board and the County Council for a site for the shed and for the bell. It was resolved to ask one of the merchants in town to purchase the bell for the Brigade. . . ■