PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last quarter, 510. Tuesday Evening, March 14, 1882.

Patea Mail, 14 March 1882, Page 3

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

Tuesday Evening, March 14, 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 8-80, and Southward at Waverley (for train) by 6 o’clock.

A great fire in New York destroyed the publishing offices of seven newspapers, all grouped in one square block of buildings. The fire started in the N.Y. World office, and spread to the others. Pour hundred persons were employed in the block, and twelve women were burned to death in an upper storey, retreat being cut off, and the height too great to leap. Many others were saved by jumping a depth of 40 and 50 feet, being caught in blankets to

break the fall. Some women stood at windows, afraid to leap outward, the fire glaring and crackling behind them, till they fell back and were seen no more. One old woman stood a long time at a fourth-storey window imploring help, till her clothes caught fire, and the poor creature disappeared—a sickening horror. One young girl leaping from a window was not caught by the crowd below, and she was bruised to death by the fall. The total loss property is said to be two hundred thousand pounds. Madame Nillson, once the pritna donna of the world, and famous as the Swedish nightingale, amassed a considerable fortune during her operatic reign. It is said she has lost nearly all by the failure of a clerical bank in Prance, the Union Generale, which offered high interest on deposits, and then smashed.

A curious incident is reported in connection with the Times newspaper. Sir William Harcourt made a speech, and the report as printed contained some unfortunate word or phrase of an outrageously indecent nature. Whether the indecency was made by a careless printer and passed by sleepy proofreaders, is not stated ; but the Times was soon selling in the streets at a pound per copy, to feed a depraved taste. The manager made a severe example in the Times office; for as it was impossible to discover the culprit who made the outrageous error, or whether it was done by accident or evil design, and as nobody would blab, the Whole of one room was cleared out—twenty printers and two proof-readers discharged instantly. The Times also published an apology for the indecent error. It is fortunate that such incidents are rare in newspapers. Where printed indecency is intentional, it defeats itself.

London had an epidemic of small-pox a year ago. Now the fashionable Westend is infected with scarlet fever and diphtheria, the latter a dangerous disease that attacks the throat.

Tenders will be invited shortly for laying rails and ballasting the formation between Patea railway bridge and Burke’s farm. The locomotive engine at Patea wharf is now ready, the painting being done by Mr Chisholm, of the Coach Factory ; and the engine will be available tor running ballast.

A concert in behalf of the new Catholic church at Patoa is projected.

No curate is yet appointed to the Church of England at Patea. The curate who left Karori, making room for Mr Dasent, has now accepted another appointment. It was erroneously reported from Wellington that he was coming to Patea. Mr J. E. Keys and Mr J. G. Beamish have gone to the Hot Springs on a visit. Mr Keys has lately had a stiffening in the sinews of one hand, making it almost useless ; and he will try the effect of sulphur baths.

A small steamer of 20 tons register is purchased as a tug and fishing-boat for Waitara river, by Captain Reay, Mr Gibbins, and Mr Kane.

The catalogue of Mr Sannder’s clearing sale appears in this issue. Ii is reported that Mr Bryce is to have the honor of knighthood, for his settlement of the West Coast difficulty.

The Patea steamer arrived this afternoon from Wellington, The inward ’Frisco mail reached Wanganui last night by way of Wellington. The mail for this part of the coast was not included in that batch. It is expected to-raorrow.

A branch of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society is about to be formed in Patea. A sufficient number of names have been given in to warrant the starting of the society, and and when the dispensation arrives from Melbourne the branch will be formally opened. The cricket match next Saturday will be the Patea Rifle Volunteers v. Eleven of Patea Club, the game to commence at 1.30 sharp. The Club team will be chosen from Messrs Jacob (captain), Jacomb, Read, Taplin, Arnndell, P. T. Horner, Tennent, Harden (2), Norman, Redgrave, Hume, E. C. Horner, Gibbons, Sheilds, W. Cowern, Richards, and Bright, The Rifle team is not yet selected. Most of the Club’s prominent members belong to the Company, and a well contested match is expected, Waverley Town Board intend to lay a rate of one shilling in the pound, under the Town Districts Act.

A special sale of Mr John Burke’s superior Lincoln sheep, comprising 1600 ewes, lambs, and wethers, with 6 purebred Lincoln rams, takes place to-morrow at Mr Cowern’s Patea yards. Mr Barker’s stock sale to-morrow, at his Patea yards, comprises 1220 sheep and 85 cattle, with horses, pigs, and implements.

Another bootmaker has started in Patea, Mr P. Quinn, in a shop in Leicester street below Gibson's store.

Volnnteer rolls for capitation allowance are to be sent in at the old rates: £2 for rifled, £1 for cadets, £2 10s for cavalry, artillery, and naval brigades.

It is said that at the funeral of the late J. J. Whelan, the Foresters desired to repeat the form of burial service used by the order. Father Grogan, who performed the burial according to Catholic ritual, refused to countenance the use of the Foresters’ form of service, either with or without that of the church.

The R.M. Court at Patea sits only on Fridays during Mr Wray’s absence, unless criminal business requires an intermediate sitting. An assault case from Waverley is expected to come before the Patea Court this week. A publican from Patea had some angry words with a draper lately in business here. Blows were struck, and a serious fight ensued. One party has now summoned the other, and it is said counsel are engaged on both sides. If the Americans are swamping the English farmer with their produce, it seems to be the other way with the English gardener. Large quantities of English potatoes and cauliflowers, it is stated, are being shipped weekly to New York for consumption in that city. The cauliflowers are fetching 8s a dozen ; potatoes, after paying freightage, leave a handsome profit; and such is the scarcity of celery that a quarter-dollar a stick is paid for it.

The remarkable increase in demand for oatmeal in the United States daring the past few years is commented on by the American Grocer. As an article of diet it is now used very generally in the Eastern, Middle, and Western States, and is fast making inroads into the hitherto undisputed domain of Indian meal in the South and South-west.

It is a curious fact that the superfluous rough fat which is cut from joints, chops, &c., by butchers and thrown on one side, brings them as good a price as the meat. In Christchurch lately the soap boilers have been paying 2d to per lb for as much as they could get.

Six distinct shades of red are often seen upon one round hat.