KAKARAMEA.

Patea Mail, 12 February 1881, Page 3

KAKARAMEA.

(from OUK CORRESPONDENT.) Wednesday Evening. Safe. —Owing probably to harvest operations Mr W. Cowern’s stock sale was but thinly attended and entries few. Farmers are faking advantage of the unprecedented run of dry weather to get in their crops. People are crying out about their empty water-tanks and dried up wells. Cricket. —Our team did remarkably well on Saturdaj 7 last. It was gratifying to find that when the score was correctly summed up Kakararnea stood at tie with Patea. This has encouraged the members to play on until they do win. As the analysis of the play was given in Saturday’s issue it is needless for me to make further comment. The Entertainment in aid of the Institute so I am informed comes off next week. It will be of a mixed character? songs, choruses, recitations, &c., and a dance for a wind up. I hope that it will be well attended as new books are eagerly looked for. Friday Evening. Patea West Eoad Board. —A meeting of this Board was held in the Town Hall bn Thursday. Present, Messrs Chapman (Chairman), J. Paterson, Ball, and Hurley. A resolution was passed “ That tenders be called for 75 chains stumping and levelling on the Wilford Road.” Accounts passed for payment • Patea Mail and D. G. Fraser, surveyor. School Committee.—A meeting of the newly elected School Committee was held in the School room on Thursday evening. Present, Messrs Chapman (Chairman), Hawken, Payne, Jas. and Jos. Paterson, Salmon, and Closer. The principal business was the nomination of candidates for the Education Board. The following were selected : Messrs Watt, Williams and Bridge. A discussion about the School paddock arose. The Education Board will have eventually to decide the affair. Boiled Peach Dumpling. —For the crust, a pound of sifted flour, half pound of clarified beef drippings, a quarter of a pound of lard ; and half a teaspoonful of salt; mix three quarters of a pound of the flour in a bowl with a tablespoonful of butter, the salt, and a tumblerful or less of ice water (for the paste must be stiff), roll it out on your board, using the rest of the pound for rolling it and put the lard and drippings in small pieces all over it ; double, and roll out again, being careful not to break the crust ; roll out once more, fold up, and put it in the ice-box till ready to boil ; peel and cut in two four quarts of peaches, sprinkling them with a quarter of a pound of sugar ; roll your paste out about a quarter of an Inch thick in the middle and thinner at the edges, having it as nearly round as possible ; put your peaches in and draw up the edges to make a ball, tie tightly in a cloth that has been wrung out of cold water and had flower sifted over it, and drop in boiling water and let it boil steadily for an hour and a half ; serve as soon as taken from the pot. For sauce take two ounces of butter and four of brown sugar well creamed together, with a tablespoonful of brandy. Mr Sala says that a blind man might tell the different denominations of Russia notes by using his nose to determine the value ; the rule being, the lower the value the “ louder ” the smell. A hundred-rouble note will be redolent of patchouli, jockeyclub, or some equally fashionable perfume; while the single-rouble notes usually reeks of tallow or coarse tobacco.