PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1881.

Patea Mail, 19 July 1881, Page 2

PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1881.

Land for Waverly district road is advertised to-day. * Travellers from Wellington report a steady revival of business in that city. Similar reports came from Auckland.

Mr Keith’s lease of Coutts’s farm has been purchased by Mr A. G. Saunders, from Canterbury. Mr Keith goes to the Hawera district.

Mr. Haase will start a coach from the Albion Hotel at half-past four this afternoon, for the Waverley meeting on the County representation. The Pacific Mail Steamship City of New York, which left Auckland on the 21st June with the Homeward Australian and New Zealand mails, arrived at San Francisco on 14th July. The schooner Edith Reid was being towed into harbor on Sunday by the Patea, when the steamer ran too near the north spit and grounded. She cut the tow line, slewed round to seatrflS, and knocked against the schooner in with way on. The schooner being helpless without sail knocked against the breakwater, and drifted till she stuck on the north bank. The steamer Lad headed out to sea, and came into port later. As the tide rose, the schooner spread sail and floated farther into the river, and anchored. Her side is scraped a little and rudder fixings are strained, but the injury is trifling. She brings timber for the railway contract.

Heat is so intense in north America, that 550 deaths from sunstroke have occurred. The July heat in England is almost tropical. The new branch of the Australasian bank at Hawera, which was opened with a rush last Friday morning, is to be managed by Mr A. Campbell, from Sanson, and Mr Norman will return to Patea. A battle has been fought between the French troops in Tunis and the Arabs, The town of Sfax was stormed and captured by the French, who had 80 killed and 40 wounded. Mr T. Messiter’s shop at Wanganui was broken into on the night of Thursday last, and the sum of £8 4s abstracted from the till in the barber’s shop. Madame Lotti Wilmot had a large audience at her opening lecture in Wanganui on Sunday. Damage to the amount of twenty thousand pounds was done by a waterspout bursting over the Thames on Saturday night. Rain fell heavily 48 hours. Two men were drowned, many cottages were swept away, water races were destroyed, several storekeepers are ruined, 'and general disaster is visible. Government were asked for assistance. - The resolutions passed at the public meeting on Saturday evening were telegraphed yesterday by Mr Aitchison, to the respective Ministers, and to Mr. Dale for presenting to Major Atkinson. While the Chairman of the County is in Wellington on private Easiness, it is understood that he will forward the objects of the meeting by making suitable representations. Good Templars will have their anniversary tea meeting and entertainment to-morrow, in the Patea Town Hall. This will be the last public use of the building, which is now getting filled up as a goods store. Messrs Mahony and Co. are entitled to public thanks for so liberally allowing the use of a private building free of charge for public convenience. The new Harmonic Hall cannot be finished too soon. A mob of cattle while being driven over Wanganui bridge on Saturday, became terrified- by the slippery nature of the bridge and the noise made by their hoofs in their attempts to scamper across. They slipped down by the dozen and lay for a time in helpless heaps. One animal had its leg broken and numbers were cat and badly bruised. A London cable message says the police have succeeded in arresting the supposed perpetrator of the horrible murder recently committed in a railway carriage on the Brighton line.