PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. Circulation nearly 600 : average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Monday Evening, Jan. 23, 1882.

Patea Mail, 23 January 1882, Page 2

PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price Id. Circulation nearly 600 : average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Monday Evening, Jan. 23, 1882.

Mr H. M. Brewer, the Government agent for settling compensation claims in respect of land taken for railway purposes, has returned from Hawera and will be engaged on the line between Patea and Burke’s farm until Thursday next. His Patea address is the Albion Hotel. Urgent business will prevent his staying longer than Thursday on this visit. , . ; ; Mr W. invites 5 attention to new stock of season’s draperies; as advertised. We are informed that, 500 acres of education reserve are to be sold immediately. This land was granted recently as an endowment for the High School at New Plymouth, under the terms of an Act passed in ’7B. The 500 acres are situated near Manaia, on the bush side, abutting on the road to Normanby. The land is partly open and partly cleared, there being also clearings in the bush. The. land will be sold, through Mr W. Cowern, in suitable sections. It is,; said—but' not attested by affidavit duly made and witnessed — that when Volunteers were firing on the range this morning, some had not come in uniform; and this being an imperative condition, and Major Noake being on the there was some curious dodging out of one suit of clothes into another—behind the flax bushes. It is said—and still on the same weak evidence , —that the military full dress was insome instances rather like that-deshabille of a hussar . regiment which, being surprised in camp before daylight, turned out . with, or without uniform, leapt on horses in the wild skurry of darkness, and rode at the enemy and licked them. That famous regiment still wears a loose* sleeve to each jacket, to indicate that, helter-skelter victory ; and, it may not be- too much of a: shock; to suggest that some local Volunteers—not ali of them * —might adopt a deshabille emblem of the same sort. If they don’t like a loose sleeve to the tunic, they might try a loose leg to the other things, or tack on a piece of white drapery like a flag of truce hanging behind. These are only suggestions. A private letter to Dunedin says the composition of the next Australian Eleven will be as follows: Bonnor, Blackham,Boyle, ] Edwards, Giffen, Horan, Evans, ~ Massie, Murdoch, MDonnel!, M’Shane, Palmer, and Sp-offorth. . .., / / : At < Studhplme Junction sale Canterbury, 10,000 bushels off.wheat realised the handsome price : of four shillings per bushel in the railway trucks*