PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. Circulation nearly 600: average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Saturday Evening, January 7, 1882.

Patea Mail, 7 January 1882, Page 2

PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price Id. Circulation nearly 600: average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Saturday Evening, January 7, 1882.

There has been much discussion in the Southern papers about the Wellington explosion, and it seems possible that some further enquiry will be made. It is very doubtful whether the mixture described in Court could possibly have produced the effects that resulted. If the English cricketers now in Victoria can be induced to visit this Coast, as they probably will, there may be matches arranged at two or three centres—say Wanganui and New Plymouth. It cannot be long before matches of this magnitude will be played in the Pa tea district, at Patea or Hawera as a centre. The District Court was to have been held next Monday for the usual quarterly sitting. The judge will not be present; but has deputed the Clerk, Mr Dean, to deal with the following unopposed applications of bankrupts for discharge : —lsaac Ols on, W. Barnes, Edmund Doherty, J. H. Waite, T. G. Watson. The only other case requiring the Judge’s presence was the opposed application of Mr W. Williams for certificate of discharge. This was to have been opposed, we believe, by Mr T. North and perhaps one or two other creditors. The case is now postponed—possibly till the next quarterly sitting. The trustee is unable, in the meantime, to deal with the £7OO received for the estate, as he must keep the bulk of it in hand to provide £3 a week for the debtor until the date of his discharge. The creditors having carried a resolution to that effect, the payment may go on perhaps two years, unless the debtor be sooner discharged, or unless the whole proceedings in bankruptcy can be upset as informal. The fix is a curious one, Mr Williams gets his £3 a week, and the creditors get nothing while twiddling their thumbs in angry expectancy. The. volume of “ New Zealand Statistics” is now issued at ss, aud not as formerly, 15s. This is a step in the right direction. The volume contains some 280 pages, and is a mine of information.

Auctioneers are looking to Manaia. Mr Freeman Jackson calls tenders for erecting sale-yards at Manaia. Mr Mcßae is already established there, and Mr Barker is commencing the same business at Manaia in conjunction with Mr Hurley, lately his clerk. A case of dog stealing came before the R.M. at Patea yesterday afternoon. John Grotty had been apprehended at Waverley for stealing a sheep-dog on Wednesday, the property of William Largue, value £2. The prisoner was found guilty, and fined 40s and costs. Allowed seven days to pay the money, with alternative of fourteen days in gaol. Mr Ballance intends to contest the legality of the Wanganui election. He will allege, it is said, seven cases of intimidation exercised by Mr John Anderson. This appears to be an allegation that a certain employer intimidated his workmen from voting for Mr Ballance. The case Brett v. Young is not yet over. At Wanganui last week, legal objections were raised by Mr Hutchison, on behalf of Mr Young, to the proceedings at Hawera, one being that an exparte hearing should not have been proceeded with until further seven days’ notice had been given to Mr Young. As Messrs Jackson and Livingston did not agree upon an award, the matter was passed over to Mr D. Peate, referee, and we learn that there is to be a fresh hearing before him on the 16th instant, at Hawera. A Canterbury journal reports of a McCormick twine-binder recently imported—The working of the machine appeared very satisfactory, as no “misses’ were made throughout the trial. Dysentery is an -annual visitant to Ashburton. From Saturday to Tuesday last, nine deaths were recorded. There is on exhibition at the Christchurch Industrial Association a large skein of yellow silk in the raw state? grown by Mr Federli, in Christchurch, during the past week. At the annual trial of grass strippers at Spreydon, Canterbury, of two machines entered, that of P. and D. Duncan was considered best for colonial requirements. J. P. McGregor, formerly of Wanganui, won the high jump at the Caledonian sports, Christchurch, with a leap of sft. Sin. Building operations are going on merilly with several rather important structures in Ashburton. The Bank of New Zealand will be notable as being the first building erected in Kolmar stone. The stone is of the fine creamy color so much admired in the better class of freestone found in the Mount Somers and Alford Forest districts. Two street fronts of Friedlander’s new store will be in Kolmar stone. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, a recent addition to business firms, have also begun building. A largo grain store, a new brewery in brick, with extensive additions to another brewery are in hand. New stables to replace some recently burnt are to be built of brick and Kolmar stone, and an Oddfellows’ hall to hold 1000 people will be in stone. To avoid the present inconvenience in collecting the beer duty, an Auckland brewer has suggested that every brewery should be considered a bond, and the working tuns gauged from time to time, after which a brewer could do as he liked with his produce.