PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. Circulation nearly 600: average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Saturday Evening, Janry. 14, 1882.

Patea Mail, 14 January 1882, Page 2

PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price Id. Circulation nearly 600: average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Saturday Evening, Janry. 14, 1882.

Major Atkinson is stated to have been laid up in Wellington with severe indisposition, but is somewhat better. Mr Saunders has housed his hay seed in good condition, 1,043 sacks, though the broken weather made the work very risky. A little more wet might have caused a ruinous loss. The chestnut colt St. Clair, which won the last Patea Derby, is to be sold next Thursday at Hawera, by Nolan and Co. The Patea s.s. could not go out this afternoon, the south gale making the bar dangerous. She will sail at 4 a.m. on Sunday. The postmaster-general has consented to reduce the postal rate for magazines from 8d to 4d per lb. The Harbor Board will have to elect another chairman next month, this appointment being for one year, while the term for which each member serves on the Board is two years. It is matter for grave consideration whether a better choice cannot be made, in the interest of the Board and of the public. Some notion has been obtained of the un-business-like folly characterising some recent proceedings. It is not pleasant for a journalist to make himself responsible for exposures of official incapacity. Yet it would be grossly wrong to conceal facts of this nature, and allow public business to be mismanaged without letting the public know what is going on. It is painfully evident that the present chairman, though well-meaning and anxious for success, is quite unequal to the onerous position he fills. There were three candidates when he was appointed, and the Board were unfortunate in not choosing the best and most experienced of the three. A mistake like this should not be repeated. Private feeling cannot be set above public welfare.