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Patea Mail, 9 December 1881, Page 3

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This Afternoon. - ♦ Large Salvage Claim. London, 7th. Ship Pareora, bound for Auckland, had to slip her anchor to avoid collision in the Thames, and being then rescued by a steam tug, £SOOO salvage has been claimed. Volunteer Police for Ireland. London, 7th. Government has invited 1,000 men of the Army Reserve or retired policemen to volunteer for special protection duty in Ireland, as Irish police. Severe Storm. London, 7tb, A severe storm, accompanied with heavy lightening and thunder, was experienced here yesterday, during which two persona were struck by lightning, and killed instantaneously'. London Markets. The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency' report under date London, 6th December ; —Wool : Competition decreasing, and the market weaker. Demand on French account sluggish. Superior greasy declined £d to Id per lb. To date 96,000 bales have been sold. Sales close on 10th instant. Wheat market is quiet. Adelaide and N.Z. are worth 50s per 4961b5. Tallow market is easier. Best mutton, £4O per ton ; best beef, £37 per ton. Leather: In hides and basils the market is drooping, late arrivals being heavy. Votes recorded at Patea up to five o’clock to-day were 194. Poll closes at six o’clock. Bishop Redwood has written to say be will open the new Catholic Church at Patea on Sunday, 18th instant. Father Kirk of Wanganui, and Father Chastagnon of New Plymouth, with one of the priests from Wellington, are expected. Arrangements are to be made with the railway authorities to run a special train from Wanganui to Waverley on the same morning, the coaches to be in attendance. The ceremony will commence at 11 a.m. The Bishop will probably stay at Patea on the Saturday. Complaints reach us that names of voters have been struck off the new roll without their knowledge. Messrs Gower, settlers, have been so treated ; and others aie said to have the same grievance. The new candidate for Wanganui, Mr Watt, addressed a meeting on Tuesday night. The uproar was great. Amendment of no confidence was proposed. Mr Bryce tried to speak, but not being a voter was prevented. Amid a stormy scene the amendment was carried by 120 against 117. Twenty-five thousand trout have been, liberated by the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society this season. The Auckland Acclamatisation Society have engaged the services of a practical tea grower to make experiments as to whether the tea plant can be profitably grown in the colony. At the Taranaki Land Board on Monday last, the report of the Ranger upon the opening up of the Ngatimaru country ■ was considered, when it was resolved “ That the Board recommends that the Woitara, Taramakau, and Kopu Blocks be opened up by Government by way of the L’ariki Road, as recommended in the Ranger’s report; and that the Board considers it desirable that this work should be done without delay, to show the natives that the blocks in question acquired by the Crown will be sold and occupied.” Mr Keisenbery, who for some time past has been clerk in Mr Freeman R. Jackson’s shipping department, Wanganui, has been appointed purser of the Bt. Ivilda, vacated by Mr Charles Derrett having accepted a position on one of the Union Company’s steamers. The tender of Mr James Tawse, a little over £2,000, lias been accepted for the erection of the Wanganui Endowed School. The Manawatu Times says no sane person for a moment imagines that Mr Watt has a ghost of a show against Mr Ballance, and his opposition is bat a mean and contemptible exhibition of impotent spite.