PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last quarter, 510. Wednesday Evening, March 15, 1882.

Patea Mail, 15 March 1882, Page 3

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

Wednesday Evening, March 15, 1882.

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

The end of Carey’s Juveniles is that R. W. Carey has “ filed ” at Wellington. Major Noake’s resignation, dated Feb. 28th, is gazetted. Money order and savings bank business is now opeqed at Stratford.

Mr G. S. Bridge is gazetted as judge of the Assessment Court for Patea borough. The revision of the Valuation Roll will therefore come before him. Mr J. Anderson calls attention to his furniture and carpets in stock. The inward mail via ’Frisco arrived here this afternoon. Messrs Nolan’s stock sale at Hawera to-morrow . comprises 20 pure-bred Leicester and Lincoln rams, numerous entries of cattle, and 550 sheep. About a holiday for Waverley races, a correspondent writes :—Friday being the day of the Waverley races, can some arrangement not be made by our leading storekeepers to close, and so allow of a visit to the races ? Things are, as we all know, dull just now, so that one day would not be missed.

Mrs Honguez, whose mind became affected in Patea, is now recovering at the asylum in Wellington, and may bo able to return in a week or two. Her mind is restored, but her bodily health is still weak. A letter from Wellington says that among the amusements provided at the asylum, the City Band plays in the grounds on Saturday afternoons; and each Tuesday there is a concert, patients joining in the dance that follows. Those patients whose treatment is paid for have comforts in the shape of a library, pleasantly furnished rooms, flowers, and watchful attendance. The Queen is making an interesting experiment. The “ Life of the Prince Consort,” edited by Theodore Martin, is being published in a cheap form to reach the million, or rather the hundreds of millions of her Majesty’s subjects. The original edition of five volumes, costing nearly a pound each, is being issued in five monthly parts, at sixpence each ; the complete biography costing 2s 6d. This cheap edition of a national book may be expected to run to hundreds of thousands of copies. It is only a question of making the book known to ensure enormous sale. The domestic life of the Royal Family up to 1861 is a story of interesting simplicity and homely affection. Politics are interwoven lightly, but the book is mainly a love-story after the wedding.

The result of a strike at Auckland is instructive, as showing the absorbing capacity of that province. The Union Sash and Door Company had a difference with their men as to hours and wages, ending in a partial strike and then a lock-out. Nearly two hundred hands were thrown out of employment until they accepted the terras of surrender. It is stated that not one has returned to the company’s employ, but all have got work elsewhere, of one kind or another, except about a dozen, who are probably maintained by a system of mutual contribution.

It was a distressing error to report, as a Wanganni paper did, that a young lady had fallen ill of typhoid fever, the other paper following with a similar sad statement; when the whole matter has had to be put right by a further sad announcement, that the young lady’s malady was not exactly typhoid fever, but was an illness “ superinduced by over-exertion at lawn tennis.” Keally, some check will have to be put on lawn tennis in Wanganui.

Handsome chenille fringes curled, and very full, are used with great effect upon mantles of vigogne, Sicilienne, or satin.

As to knighting Mr Bryce for the Parihnka business, the Lyttelton Times I hicks I he* idea is good fun. It suggests ;is liis coat of anus a white horse curvetting on a potato field vert. Supporters, a volunteer rampant , and a special correspondent regardant. Motto: Solitudmem faciunt , paeem appellant. The Times solemnly argues that the hero who ought to:be knighted is Te Whiti. The Times needs a lucid interval.

At Greytown, Mr Renall was summoned by the Wairarapa Daily tor £l6, the amount of advertising his election candidature. It was not proved that Mr Renall gave the order, but that his committee did, and the decision was in favor of defendant. Those who gave the order should pay, if they have any honor.

The prospectus of the Taranaki Ironsand Company has been issued, proposed capital £4OOO in £1 shares. The old company is being liquidated, and the works at Henui being now under offer at an almost nominal sum, the object of the present company is to purchase the works and plant, and “ try again.”

Maori chiefs are to be invited to the Exhibition at Christchurch. The Government have telegraphed that they will forwai’d the invitation to chiefs, but will not pay for conveyance or maintenance. Messrs Joubert & Twopeny now state that these conditions are not intended, and that if the principal chiefs will go to the Exhibition j their expenses will be defrayed.