PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1881.

Patea Mail, 18 August 1881, Page 2

PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1881.

The Garrick Club rehearses tb-night for ..the. coui,?ng_ eHtertainmenUatJKLakaramea.

Lydia Howarde’s comic opera troupe are to perform at Waverley next Monday and Tuesday, at Patea on Wednesday and Thursday (Mr Dales’s .auction room), and at Hawera Friday and Saturday in next week. The Representation Bill passed second reading on Tuesday after midnight, by strong majority. Several abstract motions are blocking its further progress, which is doubtful. The fate of such a measure, in present state of parties, is that the bill will probably bo killed by motions and the delays caused thereby;

Affidavits have been made re the motion for upsetting the appointment of trustee in Williams’s bankruptcy. 1 The motion was to have been made before the Registrar to-day, but lias been postponed till Monday next, the debtor’s solicitor having gone to New Plymouth on business.

The native meeting at Parihaka was held yesterday, and the muster is probably larger than at any ordinary monthly meeting-. The number ot Maoris going up has been remarkable. The gossip among natives now at the Patea Land Court is that a mountain of food has been gathered at Parihaka from donations by various hapns. Tauroa has also sent a contribution, and this is said to be his first. This mountain of “grub” or kai is said to be one chain long and several feet high, made up of potatoes, fish, flour, and toothsome odds and ends. Among other things in plenty, but not necessarily to be eaten,' are tobacco, blankets, and fleas.

Late rains have caused settlement of new embankment on the railway line midway between the Station and the bridge at the bend. This settling 6f loose spoil was sure to happen in wet weather. A length of 55 yards has sunk about a foot in the lowest part, but this small drop will be easily made up. The rails and sleepers now laid on the flat formation, from the bend to near the Station area will be bedded up with Jballast ‘ six inches above the present level, so that small irregularities now visible will disappear alter the ballasting. The erection of, Station buildings by the new Messrs Bull, ot Bulltpwn, should be commenced two or three weeks hence. The presence of a steamer at the new wharf now and again gives a business-like aspect to the Station side. It is to be hoped an engine will be running daily up to Manutahi within three months.

Three fresh cases of small-pox were reported in Sydney on the 15th.

: Mr Donald Coutts;,was gazetted a member of the Patea Harbor Board on the 9th.,!..; ■*" Cable from New York on August 15th says—President Garfield has experienced Bfrionsi,relapse, dnd vomiting with feverish symptoms. " Railway Returns for the four weeks ending’2s thr-"June shew receipts-’on Wanganui section amounting to £2,892, being £149 more than for the same period in 1880 ; New Plymouth section £764j' being £BB mute than fur the same period in 1880. Cables via Melbourne, dated August Bth, say—The application of Mr Bradlaugh for a rule nisi for a new trial was made absolute, returnable in November. Mr Bradlaugh addressed an assemblage of 10,000 people at Northampton. Great enthusiasm prevailed in his behalf. : The New Zealand Shipping Company loaded at Home last year 63 ships, having a tonnage of 58,424 tons register. Twenty-eight ships sailed from Lyttelton and Timaru. There are how 55 apprentices on board the company’s ships, and some who have been promoted to be officers in this way, and several New Zealand lads, are getting into places of command. Additional subscriptions to pay the funeral expenses of the late Mrs Brown, whose distressing circumstances were well known, have been received as follow: Mrs T. H. 10s, lady.'at Wanganui (per Herald) 10s, lady friend at Wanganui (per Mrs Currie)£l, R. Baldwin 2s 6d. Total received to date, £3 lisi Amount still wanted £1 9s. The ' workshop lately used by Mr Cockbnrn, coach builder, Hawera, has i been let temporarily to Messrs Donaghue, ’ Chisholm, and Smith, who entered into possession yesterday. The trustee will receive the rent until the property can be offered for sale and disposed of. The new proprietors intend to work a Hawera branch of their Patea Coach Factory.

It is reported that Thomas Anderson, the unfortunate surveyor who shot himself near Manutahi a few days ago,, bad insured his life for £500., Inquiry is being made to ascertain which office he was. insured in, and how long ago. There is difficulty in recovering insurance in the case of a suicide.

A Law Library is desirable in this district. Mr Hamerton mentioned the matter at the .R.M. Court on Tuesday, and said -that seven practitioners in a district can legally constitute a Law Society, into whose funds all fees required from lawyers shall be paid, those Lunds being- . available for, purchasingbooks to form a Law Library. The fees from this district go to the Taranaki Law Society at present; and it appears that while seven members are the legal minimum for a society, there are at present six in Patea and Hawera.

At the Patea R.M. Court on’,. Tuesday, before Dr Croft and R. C. Tennent, J.P’s, a re-hearing was applied for by J. Reid, carpenter,- Patea, on the ground of having fresh material evidence since his case was heard on Friday. Mr Hamerton opposed on behalf of the plaintiff Henry Wilson. There appeared to be a signed order for about £3 which Reid said might be presented afresh. Mr Hamerton undertook that the plaintiff should give a full acquittance or restore the order. Upon this the application was dismissed.—J. Whelan sued W. Neary, saddler, for £3 9s 9d, provisions supplied; Defendant asked for a month’s grace, and plaintiff agreed. Judgment for amount, to be' paid ■mthin a month.

The Christchurch University has conferred the degree of B.A-. on Mr Edgar, junr., and M.A. degree on Miss Helen Con non. Miss Connoii is the first lady who has received the degree of M.A, from a British University. Mr J. P. Maxwell j the General Manager of NeW Zealand Railways, has intimated to .the Government, his ..desire to retire from his appointment at an early datej as he purposes proceeding to England.,