PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1881.

Patea Mail, 23 August 1881, Page 2

PATEA COUNTY MAIL PUBLISHED Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1881.

The monthly inspection of the Patea Rifles takes place this evening. It is stated there are 28 deserted wires with 74 children in Wellington. The Clyde floated off the Opunaki beach pn Sunday’s morning tide, and reached Wanganui same day. The motion to upset the appointment of creditors’ trustee in the estate of W. Williams was argued yesterday, and decision is reserved till this morning. The arguments are reported elsewhere. On Thursday last a man named John Williams, working for Mr Walkinton, near Waverley, met with an accident which dislocated his shoulder. The poor fellow was suffering great pain, and Mr Walkinton and Mr Newland kindly accompanied him to Dr Keating, at Patea, when he was’ soon relieved, bandaged up, and able to return home. The Timaru Harbor Endowment Bill is now before the Legislative Council for second reading. Several Councillors spoke strongly against the bill, on the ground that the Timam harbor is certain to fill with shingle, as predicted by Sir John Coode and two Government engineers, and which is now happening. The debate was adjourned. The tendency to issue revised editions is becoming troublesome. A revised edition of an oath came before a Court yesterday. One counsel said the oath was not faithfully recorded. The opposite council suggested it would be too wicked to write down the oath in its naked horror. The other counsel thought it was a fatal objection that the record left out the “ damn.” The Court is taking time to consider. The Wakatu steamer got in the harbor on Saturday’s afternoon tide, after waiting since Friday to be let in. Captain Evans tried hard to get his full cargo of railway iron and some merchandise discharged during the night. The merchandise was taken off at the west wharf, and the steamer crossed to the railway wharf and got men to unload the iron. They finished soon after midnight, and the Wakatu sailed at 7 a.ra, for Wanganui and Nelson. Sharp work. New Plymouth is very much before Parliament just now. Mr Hamlin has given notice of a question in the House, as to the conditions under which a free train (was it a free train ?) was laid on to enable persons at New Plymouth to attend the meeting at Waitara on the harbor question. It is said that Mr Hamlin has been privately posted up in the facts. Another story is that the train was laid on as a private “ spec.” A deputation from New Plymouth passed through this district on Sunday, in hot haste to reach Wellington before the close of the debate on the harbor question. Rut the debate had closed, and a resolution to stop the works had been carried, before the deputation left New Plymouth. These enlightened deputies had to discover, while on their way, that the business they were going on was finished and done with. The deputies hoped, by hard pushing, to reach Wellington last night (Monday) ; but being there, what can they do ? If they expect to get the House to pass another resolution allowing the works to go on till the Commission can report to a new Parliament after the elections, those deputies must be very simple politicians. Perhaps the half-dozen deputies have a notion that their combined presence in Wellington may make some wicked legislators tremble in their shoes for daring to stop those gigantic works at Moturoa., There can be no doubt that the deputies, when they take their hats off, will . cause a sort of fright. There are six of them, namely Messrs King (chairman of the Board)) Standish, Weston, Samuels, Kelly, andRhind (foreman of works).

The expected inward ’Frisco mail is a day late in reaching Auckland.

Pick and shovel men are wanted at Hukatcri, to finish the railway formation contracts for Scelley and M’Loughlin. Mr F. O’S. McCarthy advertises prime Dunedin beer at the Railway Hotel. Tenders are called for erecting new premises in Egmont-street for the Bank of New Zealand. The football match at Wanganni between County teams resulted in a defeat for Patea County. The match was evenly contested, but we are told the play was not first-rate. The time . had to be shortened in the latter spells to . enable Patea men to catch the train. It is curious that each side was sure of a greater advantage if full time could have been given in the latter part of the game. lead or Barczinsky is to appear at the Court-house to-day, on bail, charged with stealing, in June, a tea-pot and three glass stands, total value 30s, the property of Mr J. Gibson., The brother of the accused was engaged at Gibson’s store as bookkeeper, and the above articles with others were missed, and were eventually put into Mr Dale’s auction by the brother now charged, and were sold on his account. The tea-pot, value 15s, fetched 2s 6d at auction. The Land Court concluded its sitting at Patea on Saturday. A sum of £SOO was to have been paid to natives yesterday, but the money had not been forwarded from Wellington, and the natives at length the town. Over two thousand pounds will be paid for blocks put through the Court. All expenditure on harbor works at New Plymouth Is to cease at once, until a Commission to be appointed by special bill shall have enquired and reported to the new Parliament after the elections.