PATEA DAILY MAIL. Wednesday Evening, Feb. 22, 1882.

Patea Mail, 22 February 1882, Page 2

PATEA DAILY MAIL.

Wednesday Evening, Feb. 22, 1882.

Published every Evening, Price Id. Circulation nearly 600 : average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent.

Tenders are called for alterations to Waverley School. ' Dog-tax in Patea borough is now due, ns notified. Mrs Hovvit t has opened a Patea registry for domestic servants. The Homeward mail via ’Frisco closes here to-morrow. Tenders for cattle-yards at Normanby close to-morrow. A trial of disc harrows will take place on Mr Saunders’s farm next Saturday. The death of Colonel Finnerty, father of Mr C. Finnerty, surveyor, is reported from Perth, Western Australia. He died from apoplexy, caused by a fall. A covrespoTK-leni says tlje HWwera, congregation of the Church of England will be surprised to hear that the Rev. Mr Swindele does not intend coming to Hawera. The communication came by wire from the Bishop of Wellington; so nothing as to the cause .of his not coming is known yet. The poll for Licensing Committee in Waverley district is interesting as showing that . the Temperance advocates have some power in Waverley; J. M. Dickie and G. S. Bridge being the Temperance candidates : Waverley. Waitotara. TI. J. Hair 34 19 53 G. S. Bridge 49 1 50 J. M. Dickie ...45 2........47 W. Brewer 25 19 44 W. Wilson ....24 20 44 J. Durie 19 19 38 D. McDonald 34 3 37 Jno, Handley 7 ..17 24 A new forage plant called "the teosinte plant has been sent by Sir Julius Vogel to Mr Murdock, of the bank of New Zealand, Auckland. The plant has been recently brought from Egypt, where when it is mowed down, it grows again at a rate of a foot in four days. It is rich in saccharine matter and highly nutritious. It is a grass of au enormous size. Thomas Hope Lewis, of Ohinemutu, has been appointed Resident Medical officer for the Thermal Springs District.

Passengers by the Potosi steamer are delayed at Melbourne a few days, there being measles on board.

Time has been extended for the preparation of valuation roll for borough of Hawera till 3rd of March. Objections will be received until 3rd April.

A dangerous well near the bell-tower, Patea, needs protection. The lid is off, and the well being near a line of footpath, there is some risk at night.

Plans and specifications for the Waverley-to-Patea railway section are now to he seen at the Patea Land Office.

The Sheep Districts of Napier, Canterbury, Otago, and Wairnn have been gazzetted clean, notice bearing date Bth Feb. The Sheep Districts of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, and Marlborough, are declared to be infected districts.

The quarterly concert of the Harmonic Society on Thursday comprises several miscellaneous selections that are new’ to a Patea audience, and the repetition of Birch’s operetta “ Eveleen the Rose the Yale,should be an interesting performance now that the members are well versed in the music.

The following persons are selected to play in the cricket match on Saturday against Hawera, on the Patea gronnd : Messrs Jacob (captain), Jacomb, Fraser, Contis, Read, Taplin, F. T. Horner, Arnndell, Tennent, Newton, and Redgrave. Emergency men : C. Harden and W. Harden. Play will commence sharp at 10 o’clock, and the emergency men will be chosen if the team are not ready to commence with the game: The Wanganui Herald says—lnspector T. G. Richardson, heretofore in charge of the Wellington subdivision of the sheep and cattle district, has been appointed to take charge of the Wanganui subdivision during the suspension from duty of Inspectors Gersc and Mackenzie ; and Inspector W. A. Scaife has been appointed, as from the Ist February last, to be sheep Inspector and a deputy cattle Inspector for the Wanganui subdivision. “ Winks, of Hawera, a distant relative doubtless of Rip Van Winkle, has achieved notoriety. His ambition led him to make one among «five candidates, for the office of first Mayor of that budding municipality. W inks went to the poll, and got three votes—his own, of course, his proposer’s and his seconder’s. Winks forfeits the deposit, as by law provided, and no doubt, as he reads the account of the day's proceedings in tho ; local paper, muses somewhat after this fashion—Winkle, winkle, little Star, how I wonder Haw-era ; couldn’t all my virtues spy, in the twinkling of an eye ?”—Asmodeus in N.Z. Mail. The scarcity of labor in Feilding is much complained of.

A correspondent has forwarded to the Feilding Guardian an account of a discovery of gold stone at Sandon by a Government official.