SECOND EDITION.

Patea Mail, 2 November 1881, Page 3

SECOND EDITION.

(JPress.Associaton Telegrams. ) - News from the Front. Opunaki, This Day. A daily coach service commenced today ' between New Plymouth and Opunaki. No. coach will run on Saturday, 1 owing to it being the day when " the crisis will occur. Capt. Northcfoft,from Waikato, has arrived at Pungarehu. The Thames volunteers are on the road to Pungarehu from Opunaki, and will arrive' there about three o’clock. • GHANGED. TONE in TE WHITI. Te W'hiti add ressed the Parihaka j natives on Monday. The speech was ofa pacific character. He counselled no resistance to Europeans, and mentioned that when he had. counselled resisting there were few on the land. This was now reversed, and it appeared to him that every southerly wind brought more men. "

Mr Dale has discovered that Mr Houghton is not registered as proprietor of the Mail. Let somebody sue on that: we believe part of the penalty is payable to the informer in such cases. Is there a mischievous simpleton who wants to test this in a Court ?

The statement about gravel being, removed from Harbor Board reserves is r thus answered. Mr P. O’S M’Car thy has shown os a receipt for 400 yds of gravel, £lO, paid to the Board Sept. 28th ; and he-says no gravel was removed from the reserve before Sept. Ist. Mr Sherwood left the Board long before that date. Mr Dale will see how easy it is to be misled, and how easy it is to libel an opponent. Of course, such mistakes at election timss ought to be and are regarded leniently.

Mr Dale’s statement about the Harbor Board., punt being used without payment, through Mr Sherwood’s negligence, is answered, im a letter from Downes, Proctor, & Co., giving a .very different account of ’the transaction. Mr Dale is unhappy in his attacks oh. other persons. The letter will appear in next issue.