PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last quarter, 510. Tuesday Evening, March 21, 1882.

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

Tuesday Evening, March 21, 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.

Parliament is expected to meet about the middle of May.

Hawera is to have a general holiday on Friday for the races. The loan of £5,000 for Hawera borough is proposed to be spread over ten years; but Councillor King has given notice to move that the term of repayment be fifteen years. Mr Richardson, sheep inspector, has spent several days in this district, but found no new cases of scab northward of Whenuaknra block.

The Patea Rifles will be inspected by Captain Keill this evening.

The Homeward ’Frisco mail closes in tins district on Thursday. A supplementary mail will be made up on Saturday morning; letters to be addressed 11 via New Plymouth.” We hear that the lowest tender for the Whenuaknra railway contract has not been taken np by Mr Mungo Heslop, of Dunedin, at £19,990. The next lowest was that of Mr Richards, of Hawera, lately employed by Downes, Proctor, & Co. at Pntea. Mr Richards has started for Wellington to give the necessary guarantees. It is said that the usual sureties have been increased by £I,OOO, the Government having doubt as to whether the work could be done without loss at so low a quotation. It is said to bo about £20,000. The Garrick Club is resuming activity with the approach of winter. A meeting is called for Wednesday to arrange the next entertainment, and to appoint a new president, Mr Houghton having resigned through increased demands on his time, It is desirable to have a president who can take an active part in ensuring the successful working of an amateur dramatic club, which can render valuable service in assisting the funds of local institutions. It is also desired to enrol at next meeting some additional useful members of both sexes.

A return cricket match, Patea Club ▼. Manntabi-Kakaramea, will be played next Saturday in tbe Domain, commencing at 1.30 sharp. The Chib team will be chosen from Jacomb, Coutts, Taplin, Tennent, Rose, Dasent, Arundell, Norman, Redgrave, C. Harden, W. Harden, Gibbous, Cowern, Black, Shields, E. C, Horner, Drake, Richards, Hume, Bright, and Nutsford. Mr Jacob takes charge of the country team.

What is the area of the “ port of Patea,” over which the Harbor Board’s jurisdiction extends ? Parties tendering for the Whenuaknra railway section have been applying to the Government and to the Board for permission to remove stone from a reef lying southeast of the river mouth. The Board had replied that it has no control, the line bonnding the port not having been defined. A letter from the Marine Department was read at the Board’s meeting yesterday, stating that the boundary of the port of Patea was gazetted in 1878 as “a circle of one and a half nautical miles from tbe signal station.” This places the reef in question within the control of the Board.

The Harbor Board accepted yesterday the tender of the Daily Mail to do all the advertising and printing for the Board during twelve months.