PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last quarter, 510. Monday Evening, March 20, 1882.

Patea Mail, 20 March 1882, Page 2

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

Monday Evening, March 20, 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.

Trees in Waverley main street are proposed to be planted by the Town Board; a sensible project which we hope to see carried out next winter.; Trees in towns have a soothing, charm and a picturesque relief which need only be seen to be appreciated. The grading of the main road through Waverley, with the corresponding level of footpaths, was measured off by the County Engineer on Thursday. According to Waverley gossip, there is some unwillingness to sign an undertaking required by the County Council, to the effect that the Town Board will take all responsibility for alteration of levels. Suppose any claim for compensation be made, one or other body should be responsible. Which' is it to be ? Mr Taylor has resigned his connection with the Town Board. There has been some difference about an overdraft, and the Board’s account has been transferred to the Bank of New Zealand. . , ■ ! Mount Egmoat has been ascended from Stratford side by Mr A. Sherer, of Midhirst, and four others. They placed a white flag on the highest peak. The view was clear and far-reaching; Tongariro, Ruapehu, and Raglan heads being distinct landmarks. As to the railway contract, Whennakura section, we learn by private telegram from Dunedin that the lowest tender is believed to be that of Mr Mungo Heslop, £19,990. The contract is not signed, and there is supposed to have been an error in calculating the price for obtaining certain material required in the specification. Several of the tenders range between £20,000 and £22,000. ; The contract for painting and papering Manaia school is obtained by Mr W. Dixon, Patea. The contract for painting railway bridges is : not yet settled. Suicide was committed at Wanganui last evening, by a cabinet-maker - named Robert Gray, who hanged himself in his work-shop. The wife had gone out a few hours, and found him dead on her return.

A really clever dramatic company is now visiting Patea, and we have confidence in asking the public to give them a good house this evening. There are seven acting members, a good pianist, and an agent. The expenses for nine adults are considerable in travelling through small towns. The play to-night is H. J. Byron’s famous comedy “ Our Boys,” which had a run of nearly two years at the Vaudeville theatre in the Strand, with Messrs James and Thorne in leading parts. A light funny burlesque follows, and the bow-bow character with the doggy face is immense. The company played “ Caste ” on Saturday evening to a thin house, the notice being too short. They played it really well for a travelling company, though this kind of piece is hardly relished by a colonial audience. Miss Lawrence was interesting as Ester Eccles, Miss Nye was vivacious as the frolicsome Polly, Miss Amy Johns (an > excellent singer) was the high and austere Marquise. Among the four male characters, Mr G. W. Herbert was irresistibly funny as the drunken Eccles (though the Marquise says there never was an Eccles); and the play was worth seeing for his part alone. Bishop Moran left England on his return to Dunedin by the ss Chimborazo early in January, but broke the voyage at the Cape in order to visit his old diocese, Grahamstown. His Lordship comes on, it is understood, by the Sorata, and may therefore be expected in Dunedin at the end of this month.

The Bank of New South Wales and Bank of New Zealand have mutually arranged to raise the price of gold 6d per ounce at their Westport and Charleston branches. It is now £3 17s.

Mrs Hampton, the lady revivalist, is about to commence a series of services in Christchurch. Arrangements are to be made by a committee of ministers and laymen of various denominations for the services.

Mormon saints who marry many wives are now put under a legal ban. A law of the United States, just passed, prohibits polygamy within any State of the Union. The State of Utah is included, despite the saints’ protests, and any Mormon wife may now be free, and the police or others may prosecute every much-married person.

For earache, dissolve assaf*»tida in water ; warm a few drops and drop in the ear, then cork the ear with wool.