COUNTY NEWS.

Patea Mail, 23 June 1881, Page 2

COUNTY NEWS.

Volunteers in Patea are talking of getting up a ball. Liquors are not to be sold in the strangers’ room of the Lower House. Mr Jackson’s stock sale at Hawera takes place to-day. Cable news last night says the chief murderer in the Sandfly massacre has been hanged. England has complained to the American Government of the operations of Fenians in America. . Two hundred Italians at Marseilles have been arrested tor hissing French soldiers returning from Tunis. Small-pox is decreasing at Sydney. The ’Frisco, steamer from Sydney could not land passengers at Auckland yesterday, but the mails were fumigated.^^Tbe gravel-pit which the natives prevented being worked near Parihaka is not a native reserve. What next ? Our Wellington correspondent telegraphs the Premier promised yesterday to introduce the Representation Bill as soon as possible. The following are gazetted warders of the Wanganui-Waitotara Highway District.—Donald Smith, John Handley, W. H. Watt, William Cony, and G. S. Robinson. The Native Office, Gill-street, New Plymouth, has been appointed the place at which electoral rolls for New Plymouth, Grey and Bell, and Egmont Districts may be inspected. Government were defeated yesterday by 35 to 28 on a motion affirming that charges against Government officers involving fine or dismissal shall be heard with open doors. This is the second defeat on a minor point within a week. The official census returns have been gazetted, and give the population of Patea County as 3,487 males, 2,275 females, total 5,762. 3,930 males, 2,888 • females, total 6,818; Borough of New Plymouth 1,682 males, 1,644 females, total 3,326. Wanganui County 1,934 males, 1,523 females, total 3,457; Borough of Wanganui 2,328 males, 2,315 females, total 4,643. An examination of pupil teachers under the Wanganui Education Board will take place on the 28th instant. Twenty-eight are entered for examination at Wanganui, ten . at Palmerston North, and four at Hawera. The examination at Hawera will be contacted by the Rev J. Torry, Mrs Tony judging the needlework. ; Gazette ot 16th June contains notifications of a number of blocks of native lands to which government have relinquished claim, including all that parcel of land in the District of Patea, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, known by the name of Te Ngaere, containing by admeasurement 75,000 acres, more or less. Also 1 acre 2 roods in the town of Stratford, being sections 204 to 206, 244 to 246. The latter is intended as site for school bouse. Sheep-farmers in the Eangitikei district are anticipating that the present winter will be unusually severe upon the sheep, through the dry weather in summer having burnt up the grass, and the rain having set in too late to promote the grass before, the frosty season. ■ ) News from London to 6th June states —Of the provisions placed * on. board the Orient steamer Lusitana, from Melbourne, the milk perished, buf the meat arrived in fair condition. The game and fruit were landed in splendid order. The City of New York which arrived at Auckland from Sydney on the 21st, was placed in quarantine.