PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1881.

Patea Mail, 7 April 1881, Page 2

PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1881.

The Patea portion of the English mail via ‘Frisco was delivered yesterday. About £7,000 of the New Plymouth borough loan has been taken up, and £6,000 of the amount will be placed on deposit for six months. Mr Wanklyn, secretary of the Hawera Acclimatization Society, notifies that shooting licenses may be obtained from Mr Chadwick, Patea, and from Mr Fookes, Waverley. Mr J. W. Bright, of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency, has taken charge of the agency for the Patea business of the New Zealand Insurance Company. Delay in the collection of census papers is being caused through householders not filling in particulars as requested. There is some jwobability of a readjustment of electoral districts, when the census returns will be the basis of alterations. On this account it is especially to be desired that Patea should show up to its fall strength as regards population. The census papers should therefore be correctly and promply filled up. The Chairman of the County Council states that the name of Carlyle will be abolished and the name of Patea be gazetted, as soon as Major Atkinson returns to Wellington. This will be the result of the resolution passed by the County Council, on the motion of Mr Bridge. The Town Board passed a similar resolution, but no official representation of the fact was made to Government.

Mr Caverhill has 6,000 sheep coming from Napier, and they are to be conveyed by rail from Palmerston to Waverley in about 100 tracks. The County Council resolved yesterday not to execute the work in Bed fordstreet, for which tenders had been called, and towards which the Town Board had engaged to contribute £SO. The liability for running storm-water from the County road on to sections held by Mr Wood and others will have to be fought out at law. Wanganui Derby. —Additional entries as follow have been received since Saturday : G. S. Newland’s g f by Puriri, dam Gladys ; D. Scott’s b c by Painter, dam Cornelia : D. Scott’s br f by Painter, dam Policy ; Dr Earle’s b f The Worm, by Early Bird, dam Uita : Maurice O’Brien’s br c Blarney, by Isaac Walton, dam Jenny : O. S. Brodi’s b g Dry Hash, by Day Dawn, dam unknown. Mr R. T. Southby has leased his property known as Stent’s farm, ICakaramea, tor ten years at an annual rental of £4OO, to Messrs Jacob and Chalmers. One is from Wanganui, the other from Canterbury. They take possession on the Ist of- May ; and Mr C. E. Barker is instructed to sell off the stock, implements, and furniture on the 4th May. Mr Barker lias acted as agent in the leasing. One pound an acre is the highest yet paid in the district, though not the only local farm let at that rate. Probably Mr Southby will make a Home trip. Steal before Starve.— “ I want you to give me in charge ” was the reply given on Monday night to the wife of a tradesman in Patca by a man who had entered the shop, picked up a book from the counter, and was deliberately marching out into the street with it till stopped by the query—- “ Where are you walking that book off to ? ” The man had a respectable though seedy appearance. He resisted the re-appropriation of the volume but slightly, and aftenvards stated that he was in want and desired to get into the hands of the police. Surely the man might have had a more creditable ambition. If willing 1 to work ho scarcely need steal, while so many country settlers are at any time ready to house and feed a man for his labour, even if indisposed or not in a position to pay wages. Major Atkinson in addressing his constituents at New Plymouth on Tuesday evening reiterated the statement that the late Government had left a deficit of £900,000, maintaining that it was an actual fact and not a case of manipulation of figures, and said that nearly £1,000,000 had been added to the public debt. What Mr Bryce had stated in regard to his resignation was perfectly correct, but Major Atkinson did not see that any principle was involved which needed his resigning. With regard to the coming session he was proud to repeat what had been so much laughed at, that all the colony required was careful administration and political rest. In other respects the speech was similar to that previously delivered. The meeting was orderly, and a vote of confidence was unanimously passed.

Scat, in Wairarapa. —A deputation of leading Wairarapa settlers lately waited upon the Hon. J. Hall, Premier, for the purpose of placing before him the conclusions come to by a committee which had been appointed at a meeting of gentlemen interested in sheep farming, recently held at Carterton, with regard to the administration of the Scab Act, and a number of amendments which were thought to be desirable. Mr Bonny introduced the deputation. Mr Buchanan briefly explained that, owing to the spread ot scab in the Wairarapa district, the settlers interested had held a meeting to consider their position, and appointed a committee to look after their interests. That committee had gone through the existing Act, and had come to the conclusion that a more careful administration of its provisions, as well as a number of amendments, were very desirable. It was urged that the law had not been as strictly enforced as it might have been, and that scab had existed in many flocks for a considerable time before the clean certificates were cancelled, and fines were not, in many discs, sufficiently enforced. The committee appointed by the settlers to make efforts to clear the district of scab are to co-operate with Mr Sutton, who has been specially appointed to report on the whole district.

The Napier Mercury says wc have got some good news for the practitioners of this town, namely, that it is not intended to flush the drains to keep them clean, because it is thought such an act would only stir up the sediment and make the malarious stench worse than is aiising from the drain-opening near the Post Office.

The trial of the Russian for the murder of a Maori at To Arolia commenced in the Supremo Court, Auckland, on Monday. The ship Berwickshire, from < Acenock, bad to putback through meeting with rough weather when 600 miles from land. a&Tlie Chinese now occupy the whole of the available gold mining land in Dunstan and the western district of Otago. Mr Frederick Trimble lias been gazetted clerk at Hawera of the Resident Magistrate’s Court for the upper Wanganui district. A telegram received in Wellington on Monday states Colonel Roberts is reported to be dangerously ill in camp from typhod fever. During the storm on Sunday the Piako, which was anchored off Taurauga, broke away and settled down on her anchor, which drove a hole in her bottom. She has been banded over to the underwriters. The Treasurer of the Wanganui Bible Society announced at a committee meeting on Monday a balance in band of £'Z'2 1 s 3d. It was resolved to procure a supply of Maori Bibles from Auckland. The Australian team of footballer-, will play their first match against the Victorians on the 7th May. They proceed on a Lour through New Zealand on June 4tb. Mi Munro, member of ibe Victorian Assembly, was violently assaulted by another member, Mr Sergeant, in public on the 4th instant, and the latter has since been arrested. The Australia arrived in Auckland on the 4tli, with the English mails, and reported the City of New York overdue at Honolulu when the Australia left there. Gable message, however, announces the arrival of the overdue steamer at ’Frisco on the 3rd. The Visiting Justices of the Dunedin gaol have sent the Minister of Justice a strong protest against certain extraordinary doings in the Dunedin gaol, which will probably result in a Parliamentary enquiry. A telegram dated Marten, April sth sa3's Christian Goodrun and Joseph HaR were arrested here last night charged with child murder. Goodrun is Hall’s daughter. She was brought up to-day and remanded for eight days. The father will be brought up at Palmerston. On Friday last nearly 2,000 uninsured sacks of wheat belonging to Gould and Cameron, Canterbury District, wore destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. A quantity of grain was also destroyed in the Manderville swamp on Thursday. While at New Plymouth on Monday Mr Brogden visited the iron works accompanied by Mr E. M. Smith, who showed him over the works and explained the process which had been adopted at the last smelting of ironsand at Henui.

A five-roomed dwelling-house at Mataitawa, Taranaki, was totally destroyed by lire on Thursday evening last. The inmates, Mr and Mrs Peterson, who were awakened with a sense of suffocation, had difficulty in escaping with their lives. The total amount of Property Tax paid within the financial year ending 31st March, was £220,764. It is estimated that the total receipts of the tax will reach £260,000. The contributions to March 31st were Canterbury £58,081, Otago £45,303, Wellington £38,527, Auckland £33,474, Hawke’s Bay £14,250, Taranaki £12,106, Nelson £10,960, Southland £8,063.

In Wellington a married woman had been cohabiting with an Italian fisherman, and the latter bolted with his paramour’s daughter, aged fourteen. The mother prosecuted him in the R.M. Court for abduction, and, when the case was tried, the girl swore that her mother had taken the proceedings out of jealousy, and that she (the girl of fourteen), had seduced the Italian, and not he her. The R.M. was shocked at the immorality disclosed, but discharged the prisoner. The Marton, foal, root, and grain show held on Saturday the 2nd instant, is reported successful, the muster of heavy and light draught stock being considerable, though there was little competition in saddle and light harness horses. The correspondent of a contemporary says the samples of spring and autumn wheat were really splendid, and could not easily be surpassed. The oats, barley, and ryegrass were very good, especially a sample of skinless oats exhibited by Mr L. 0. Richards. The display of roots, however, was poor, and the judges called the attention of the stewards to the fact that exhibitors were not careful enough in preparing their exhibits, especially in the potato class. Dairy produce was very well got up, but the quantity was small.