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Patea Mail, 23 February 1882, Page 3

Hawcra Borough Council invites applications for the office of engineer; salary, £IOO per annum. The Brass Band intend to play in the Domain on Saturday afternoon. At last meeting of the Wanganui Harbor Board, the retiring chairman, referring to the harbor reserves, stated that nearly the whole of the deferred payment sections had been taken up, and that so many applications for land on cash payments had been already sent in that there was every prospect of the reserve being disposed of within six months.

Wanganui County Council has accepted the tender of Daniel O’Hara, at 2s 5d a yard, for the supply of gravel for the main road near Waitotara. A trial of Mr Bertram’s flax machinery is to take place at Feilding. The motive power is to be obtained from Mr Lash’s steam-engine, and the inventor is quite sanguine of success.

The Manawatu County Council are offering a bonus to any person discovering stone or metal suitable for roadmaking. The Sydney tramways have proved a decided financial success. There are at present twelve miles of track in active operation and 16 miles under construction, while tenders are shortly to be invited for 11 miles more. The capital expended up to the present time is £IBB,OOO, and the earnings are over 12 per cent.

The coroner at Melbourne recently pronounced the Hospital to be saturated with germs of disease to such an extent that trifling cases of injury, when brought within its tainted walls, were constantly in danger of assuming worse and even fatal developments; and he declared that it would be well were the entire structure to be demolished.