SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

Patea Mail, 5 February 1881, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT. RECEPTION OP AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS. Wellington, 4th. The Australian cricketers landed to-day. Our people, from a sense of their own personal inferiority, did not receive them in a chivalrous manner. A few cheers given in a feeble manner by some boys, was about all that could be heard. Shame on our team. NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR DEMONSTRATION. New Plymouth, 4th. When the first stone of the Harbor is laid, copies of newspapers in the district, including the Patea County Maii. of the 3rd, and Haivera Star of the 2nd, Wells' “ History of Taranaki,” and coins ol the realm, will be placed under the stone. An excursion train will run, leaving Eltham at 7a m. Persons from Patea can return the same night, reaching Eltham at 8 p.m. Return tickets, at single fares, will be available for Tuesday morning’s train. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL BUSINESS. Wellington, 4th. A meeting of the Executive Council was held to-day at Government House, His Excellency Sir Arthur Gordon presiding. Routine business was transacted, and among other things the Bth and 22nd proximo have been definitely settled as the days on which the Property Tax must be paid. MORE MAORI PLOUGHING. Wellington, 4th. The Maoris who have been engaged in ploughing before Parihaka encroached on the Constabulary road, but desisted when remonstrated with. Arch. Maunsell, Auckland, in an address on the Education Act protested strongly against any attempt to reintroduce denominationalism, but claimed that the New South Wales system of admitting ministers and other qualified persons to give religious instruction at convenient hours, should be allowed under the Act. An extraordinary whirlwind, at Elsternwick, in Victoria, swept along the ; road like an immense pillar, and destroyed fences and also the front of a cottage, while the atmosphere around was still. Stefano is the name of a new shade of dark claret.