PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1881.

Patea Mail, 23 April 1881, Page 2

PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1881.

Ail Illustrated Weekly Supplement is presented with this issue of the Mail. A case of scarlet fever is reported in Wanganui. Juuok Hardcastle did not reach Patea yesterday, but is expected by to day’s coach, when applications in bankruptcy will be taken. Pour- Cottages are being built by Mr Dale on the flat near Mr Fairclough’s late residence. Twenty-thousand sleepers arc to be freighted from Fox ton to Patea, for the harbor railway. Two hundred Chinese arrived at Sydney on the 20th April, by the steamer Crusader from Hong Kong. Messrs R. 11. Nolan and Co., ot Hawera, announce alteration ot date of their stock sale from Friday Gth May to Thursday sth. The Domain - Trustees held a long meeting on Thursday evening, and passed a series of bye-laws for regulating the use of the Patea Recreation Ground. The schooner Edith Reid, now discharging timber for the railway works, is the largest craft that has yet entered the Patea river. This is her second trip to the port, and she sailed in with a fair wind, with abundant water on the bar. A Cricket Match is arranged for Saturday on the Patea ground, the local club having got permission from the Domain Board to use the cricket pitch. The game will be town v. country players, commencing at twelve o’clock. Advantage was taken of the holiday on Easter Monday to arrange a tiring match for the Patea Cadets. A number of articles were contributed as prizes, which with the entrance fee of Is each made up ten prizes to be shot for by nineteen competitors. To equalise the firing those who entered for the contest were handicapped as shown in the following table of results. The ten highest scorers took prizes.

Sergeant Boynton, of the Armed Constahularly force, lias been appointed Gaoler of the Wanganui gaol. Cable message from London, April 19, says:—-A sculling race took place to-day at Southampton between. Edward Trickett and an oarsman named Kirby. The contest resulted in an easy victory for Trickett. The population of Brunnertowu numbers not fewer than 350 or 100, 100 of these being coal miners; and it wants telegraphic conveniences. If the request is not granted the matter will be brought before the House. Guanoes in local snipping are being made. The steamer Wakatu will trade directly between Patea and Wellington in future, and will not call at other ports. This may he taken us a clear indication that the trade of the port is increasing. The small steamer Clyde is being taken oft' the Wanganni-Patea trade, and is for sale. The Bank of New Zealand’s halfyearly meeting was held in Auckland on the 21st. The report shows net profit £7G,4G4; balance from last half-year, £23,337 : total for division, £99,801. Of tins a dividend and bonus of 15 per cent absorbed £75,000, leaving a balance to carry to profit and loss account • '£24,801. A large fire occnred in Queen-street, Auckland, early on Thursday morning, live business premises being more or less destroyed and the savings’ bank being with difficulty saved. A resilience at Epsom, insured for loss than half its value, £1,400, was totally destroyed by fire through the accidental upsetting of a kerosine lamp by Mrs Hancock, wife of the owner. The Removal of the Patea Town Hall is being undertaken by Messrs Hibbs and Jones, The structure is to be slewed round and removed back, so that the entrance will be from the side street, and the present frontage will be cleared for the erection of shops, Mr Christie intends to keep the hall for public purposes until a new public hall is built. Tenders are called for completing the railway formation at two points on the line up to Manutahi. One is on Burke’s farm, and the other is just north of Kakarnmea. These cuttings will complete the formation from the Patea river to the road crossing to Woodville. Other small works will be needed to complete the formation to Manutahi. It is satisfactory to observe that the Government are not losing sight of this section, for they must be aware that it leads to nowhere at present. The Duke ok Manchester. —The W.iirarapa Standard says : —The seventh Duke of Manchester, who is now on a visit to Now Zealand, is the patron of some seven church livings and should bj- the fitness of things be a religions man. He iss7years of age, and the reputed owner in Groat Britain of 2G,GG2 acres of land yielding an animal rental of £38,340. He receives the annual sum of £23 5s a year from the army vote. lie is an ex-colonel in the army, a Colonel in the militia, and the deputy Lord Lieutenant for Hunts. His peerage dates from 1719. His land lies in three counties and lets for about 28s 9d per acre. On Wednesday afternoon information was conveyed to the police that Mr Thos. Peake, architect, had been found dead in his bouse, situated in Lowllier-streot, on the River Bank, Wanganui. Inspector James and Sergeant Bissett immediately proceeded to the spot, and, on bursting open the door, which was locked on the inside, found the body of deceased lying on the floor with the hands clenched on the breast, and bearing, the evidence of having been dead some hours. Verdict of coroner’s jury is that he committed suicide while of unsound mind. Several ladies in Wanganui have been pestered lately with applications for food and raiment from able bodied men and women who have represented themselves as penniless and unable to obtain work. A banquet was in preparation for the Duke of Manchester at Peilding, but as the Duke is to arrive there earlier than expected, the project lias been abandoned. He was expected Sunday 24(b.

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