PATEA DAILY MAIL, Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last quarter, 510. Monday Evening, March 13, 1882.

Patea Mail, 13 March 1882, Page 3

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

Monday Evening, March 13, 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.

The English mail via ’Frisco has not arrived to-day in this district. It reached Auckland last Thursday. The Harbor Board meeting could not be held to-day, only Mr Horner and Mr Aitchison being present. Mr R. A. Adams is said to be unwell.

Reported that scab in sheep is found on a large farm near Waverley, by the new inspector.

Mr Cowern invites tenders for lease of 33 acres of flat near Patea river, part of Mr Hughes’s farm. At Opunaki a ball was held on Friday night to signalise the opening of a drill-shed, 70 feet by 40. The attendance was large, about 100 couples crushing against each other. The formal opening was made by Major Stapp, the Volunteers being formed in line.

The Wakatu steamer was brought to the wharf yesterday about 1.30; the discharged coals having been taken in, and steam got up. The hull makes no wafer after the patching. The whole crew, with the captain and stewardess, were on the steamer when launched over the breakwater on Saturday, having remained in her since the breaking of the propeller a month ago. The timber and gear used in launching will be rafted up from the breakwater and placed on board before the steamer leaves port. She was to go to Nelson for complete repair, but possibly she may go to the patent slip at Wellington, where she could be put right in two or three days.

Sergt. Carey and Corpl. Carey, who were picked in Sergt. Kitching’s team to fire on Saturday last, were unable to do so. The average scores will be taken as the test, this bringing Kitching’s team up to 266. They therefore win the match by 32. The return match will be fired next Thursday morning.

Gossip about the railway contract, Waverley-to-Patea, makes it probable that the successful tender will not be much over twenty thousand pounds. Tenders closed last Friday, and several are from this district. The existence of ballast along the route is an important contingency that may affect the prices. We believe no extension is made or hinted at as to time for completing the work. Ballast is not to be run over the finished line south of Wavorley. It may not be easy, therefore, to find ballast for the first four miles up to Whennakura bridge. The creditors in the estate of Mr W. Williams, Patea, have not done with litigation. The question as to partnership with the sons is to be raised shortly on the action of an opposing creditor. We suppose the action will be directed against the trustee, as representing the estate. It was expected the whole question would have been raised before the District Judge, on the debtor’s application for discharge. That application cannot now be made until the next sitting of the District Court at Patea in April. Proceedings in another form are now being taken to anticipate the debtor’s application for discharge. Probably it will be a case for the Supreme Court.

If you would keep your breeding sows and young pigs healthy let them never be without a mixture of ashes, coal, and chip dirt, a liberal supply of which should be placed in the cellar in the fall for future use.

CANTERBURY GRAIN & PRODUCE. Christchurch, 9th. —The business of the week has been much of the same character as the preceding, A steady trade can be noted in wheat at prices on much the same basis as before. Deliveries by rail are now getting more continuous, and vessels in consequence are receiving greater despatch in loading wheat. Considerable sales have been made during the week, farmers and others preferring to sell to shipping. Prime quality stands at 4s 4d, to4ssd, and good averages 4s 2d, to 4s 3d. There is no alteration to note in connection with oats. Little has been done in barley, and sales will not be frequent for a time, yet prices remain at 3s 6d to 4s. Flour is quoted by millers at £lO 10s, and oatmeal at £l2 10s for parcels. The inquiry for grass seed continues, and prices have still further hardened. Good farmers dressed is readily saleable at 4s 6d to 4s 9d. Best town-dressed lots commenced up to 5s 3d.