PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. Circulation nearly GOO : average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Saturday Evening, Jan. 28, 1882.

Patea Mail, 28 January 1882, Page 3

PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price Id. Circulation nearly GOO : average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Saturday Evening, Jan. 28, 1882.

The Weekly Supplement will bo issued with the Mail probably on Monday, owing to non-arrival in time (or Saturday. Mr Palmer has requested the Bailiff at the Court to receive and pay over to the Hospital the sum of £1 3s recovered by judgment from Mr Olague, in the civil case heard yesterday. A notice for payment of property tax ia advertised in this issue. The Wesleyan body is fortunate in secured £IOO for the Patea circuit this year, through the representation of the Rev J. A. Luxfoid at the Conference. The appointment of a suitable engineer, to act also ns authorised surveyor, for the Borough Council, will enable public improvements to commence at once. Even the Works is stopped from entering on any important new work out of present funds, nntil proper levels and estimates are obtained. It is important also that the permanent levels, when taken, shall not be open to question or dispute as to accuracy. The advertisement on this matter appears in this issue. A meeting of creditors in the estate of Francis Williamson was called for Thursday, but none attended except the trustee, Mr Taplin. Mr Barker’s annual ram and ewe fair in Patea is advertised for Wednesday, February 15th. He will offer 100 Lincoln rams from the Premier’s estate at Leeston ; also rams from local farms including 7 from Mr Sheild’s, 10 from R. B. Pearce’s, 8 on account of Mr M’Rae; also a large number of ewes and lambs on account of various owners. Cattle, horses, and pigs are in the catalogue. Received late, another letter on early dosing, from “ New Arrival.” Hawera reckons on £1,150 as the probable revenue of the new borough, Mr J, Anderson has arrived from Wanganui with Mrs Anderson and daughter. The new furniture premises, which make a fine architectural fillingin for the corner section opposite the Central Hotel, are to be opened this evening. Deputations to the Premier, in bis passage up this Coast as Minister for Public Works, have differed in character at each centre. At Patea he discussed sheep-scab with farmers, and discussed the river and land-settlement with local men of business. At Hawera be discussed Supreme Court and local crime with Mr Barleyman. At New Plymouth the Premier has been met by a “ special and influential deputation,” Now this distinction is peculiar. It almost conveys the rude insinuation that the other deputations—especially Mr Barleyman’s—were not special and were not influential. After reading the telegraphed report of the New Plymouth deputation, we may all take a back seat. It was thought that the long catalogue of grievances read by Mr Barleyman at Hawera had thrown Patea eloquence into the shade. But Taranaki has beaten both : its deputation was “special and influential.” jpee, a Dunedin constable, who was lately sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for stealing fowls that he was sent to watch, was convicted chiefly on a confession alleged to have been made to a brother constable, and which the latter reduced to writing in his note boob. Constable O’Shea, who produced this book, is now being prosecuted for peijury. At Timaru on the 21st, the force of the sea was so great that a twelve-ton concrete block was moved clean across the breakwater, and lodged within a foot or two of the wharf, tearing up the rails in its passage.