PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last quarter, 510. Friday Evening, March 24, 1882.

Patea Mail, 24 March 1882, Page 3

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

Friday Evening, March 24, 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 Waveriey (for train) by 6 o’clock.

Ou Monday next Mr C. F. Barker will hold'a clearing out sale on behalf of Mr A. G. Saunders, who is leaving the district. The entries comprise nearly a thousand sheep, about seventy superior cows, a number of horses, farm implements, furniture, &c. The sale will take place on the farm at Whenunkurn, where lunch will be provided.

On the 20th, a man was drowned

while nltempting to cross the Manawalu jivef about.~9~niiles above Foxton. On St. Patrick’s day, Edwin Williams, ■while driving cattle at the Mauawatn Ferry, was drowned.

The capitation grant of the Wanganui Rifles’ just received from the Government, amounts to £164. The amount received by the, Patea Rifles is £l4b.

A?'tannery is about to be started at

Feikiing,

The Auckland Free Lance publishes a likeness oi Jem Mace, the champion prize fighter, and gives a concise account of his fighting career. In the event of tire Nielson.Volunteers attending the 'Easter ' encampment at Wanganui, Major Pitt is expected to take command.

Major Lockett is understppd to have been-bffered the- appointment of commanding officer of the Wauganni district. ■ There wiil'.howevcr be ho salary, but a forage allowance of about £IOO per year.

The Board of Governors of the Wanganui High School, which consists of members of the Education Board, will hold their first official meeting on the 28th.

Mr J. Richards invites tenders for a building in Leceister-strcet, Plans may be seem at Mr Cowerh’s.

• , Tenders close to-,day forthe alterations to the Waverley school-house. The partnership between R. and J. Muir, Waverley, has been dissolved by by mntual consent. The Nelson Mail of the 18th contains the following marriage notice. ' WiHiam Tyree to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the late J. S. Cross, Esq. The s.s. Patea arrived in Wellington at 4 a.m. to-day.