PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last quarter, 510. Thursday Evening, March 2, 1882.

Patea Mail, 2 March 1882, Page 2

PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price Id. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last quarter, 510.

Thursday Evening, March 2, 1882.

Delivered every Evening by mounted messengers at Hawera by 7-30 o’clock, at Normanby by 8-15, at Manaia and Waimate Plains by 8-30, and Southward at Waverley (for train) by 6 o’clock.

Mr Beere, civil engineer, announces that he will calculate quantities &c for intending contractors, in connection with the Whenuakura railway section. A private ball takes place to-night in the Harmonic Hall, being a complimentary gathering of the friends of Mrs Hunter, Waverley, and Mrs W. Wilson, Whenuakura. In reply to an application from the. Waverley Town Board, the County Council yesterday agreed, on the motion of Councillor Taylor, to invite tenders for gravelling the main street through Waverley, as soon as the formation is finished. Some discussion which took place will be reported. Tenders for carting 300 yards of clay to a place round the foundations of Patea Hospital were received by the County Council as-follow::—T. Collopy,: at 3s 2d per yard; P, Regan, at ss. The latter tender was accepted. Tenders had been received by a committee of the County Council for carting gravel on to County road as follow:—For contract 69, P. Murphy 10s 5d per yard, (the only tender) accepted. For contract 71, Murphy & Kennich 6s 4d (accepted), Skelley & M’Loughlin Ils,‘ P.- Murphy 8s 9d, J. Hughes 11s 3d; For'contract 70, Murphy & Kennich 4s (accepted), Skelley & M’Loughlin 6s 6d and 9s according to pit, P. Murphy 6s sd. Payable quartz reefs have been lately discovered at the head of the Marvia river, on the line of the -West Coast Railway, and a rush is expected to set in. Two of the directors of the Golden Eagle Gold Mining Company, Wellington, have a sample of gold from the mine, representing the result of four tons’ crushing, which yielded: at the rate of about one ounce to the ton. At the weekly meeting of the Southern Cross Lodge New Zealand Independent Order of Good Templars in Wellington, 20 signed the Constitution adopted by the Lodge, It recognises no Grand Lodge, but intends to work its funds for the advancement of temperance in its own locality. ...... Five monkeys, confined in a cage in the Botanical Gardens, Wellington, recently managed to get loose, one of them more precocious than the others having opened the door. They fan'r away as hard as they could, and arriving at the boundary of the gardens, climbed up a willow-tree, and set their pursuers at defiance. A well-meaning raember.of “the force ” attempted their capture" by ascending the tree. The monkeys, how- ■ ever, dropped quietly to the ground. After crossing the road, and indulging in a few peaches, stolen from an adjacent garden, they quietly made tracks for home. . ■ . The crops on the Akura Plains, near Mssterton, are turning out a heavy average. A large quantity of wheat has been threshed, and the yield varies from 38 to 40 bushels to the acre. At Te Ore Ore, the natives have between 400 and 500 acres of wheat, bqt it has run to straw, and will barely give 30 bushels to the acre. A contemporary hears that a change will be made at the Front in the course of a few days. Three companies—Nos. 5, 4, and 3—ofthe Armed Constabulary Force (some 200 men), are under orders to proceed immediately to the Waikato, and will there commence the construe- ! tion of a road to Ohinerautn. Captain Gascoyne will be in command of the detachment. A second steam fire engine is likely to be obtained for Napier. One townsman started the project with a £lO subscription.