PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. Circulation nearly 600 : average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Friday Evening, Jan. 27, 1882.

Patea Mail, 27 January 1882, Page 2

PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening , Price Id. Circulation nearly 600 : average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Friday Evening, Jan. 27, 1882.

The Premier arrived last night at New Plymouth, and will take steamer to Mauukau.

The following acknowledgment has been sent to the member for Egmonl: Patea, Jany. 26. Dear Sir,—Your kind reply of the 2.lst, respecting the removal of eel-weirs and survey of backcountry, is one for which we as a community should feel specially grateful. I have taken the liberty of publishing the reply, for the subjects are of too much general importance to he treated as private in any sense. Your prompt response in the shape of official action is mentioned here with lively satisfaction. Personally, I attribute immense importance to a quick removal of the eelweirs at a time when that seems our only remedial resource for improving the bar; and to the natural development of this port and district by opening the adjacent back country, and inducing a general activity of settlement. The Premier’s visit this week has given much pleasure.—Gratefully your servant, Edward Houghton. Land in Cape Colony is being advertised in England by the Cape Government on these terms: 10s per acre cash, payable at Is per annum extending over ten years, and free passages given to settler and family. This is an emigration scheme with a vengeance! That is a strange advertisement from the Railway Construction Department, announcing that plans and specifications for formation and platelaying on the Whennakura section of the railway are expected to be ready early in February, “ when tenders will be called for the execution of the work.” Can this be the advertisement which the Premier expected to see in the papers “ every day ?” The explanation appears to be that Mr Blackett is instructed to hurry out the contract, and finding the specifications are not yet complete, he is making a show of activity by a preliminary advertisement. The line between Waverley and Patea is described as about 8-k miles long. The English cricket match at Wellington has been a bad beating for the Coast team of 22 against the English 11, The higest scores in the Coast team were Mace's IS in the second innings. Cross 11 in first innings, aud Armitage 10. F. Read was unlucky in being run oat for nothing, and Coutts was bowled after 1 run. No less than nine of the team went out for nothing in the first innings, and three out of :w-Ire were blank in the second innings. The 22 were thus disposed of iu the firs: Innings on which the game was decided ; Caught 10, bowled i, run out 8. i.b.w, 1, stumped 2, not out 1. The telegram leaves one not accounted for. It gives 2 who were t; not out,” and if so, the game ought to be still going on. The bridge at Mauawapon is notified as unsafe for weights exceeding two tons. Mr G. Beamish, dog-tax collector for Patea County, will attend at the Council Office on Thursdays, Fridays, aud Saturdays. Mr Nutsford, watchmaker, announces a new stock of jewellery and watches. Messrs M’Keuua aud Cullinan call attention to arrival of new groceries and hardware. A supplementary mail vid ’Frisco is made up to-nioruing at 11.30. Ought the Post Office to publicly notify important matters like this ? Caterpillars have made their appearance amongst the crops in the Hawera district, and set about the business of destruction with right good will.—Tar. Herald. Joseph Cunningham was drowned at Opunaki on Tuesday, aud a coroner’s jury hare found that the affair was accidental.