PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last quarter, 510. Saturday Evening, March 26, 1882.

Patea Mail, 25 March 1882, Page 3

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

Saturday Evening, March 26, 1882.

Delivered every Evening by mounted messengers —at Hawera by 7-30 o’clock, at Norm an by by 8-15, at Manaia and Waimate Plains by 8-30, and Southward at "Waverley (for train) by 6 o’clock.

Conveyances will leave Mr Barker's auction mart from 11 o’clock on Monday for the convenience of persons attending Mr Albert G. Saunders’s clearing out sale of farming stock.

The s.s. Patea was detained yesterday in Wellington owing to a strong gale. She is expected at 12 to-morrow. The Sydney City Council has appointed a committee of aldermen to enquire into the powers of the city gas companies. V- The Patea school committee notify an increase of teachers, and request parents to send to school all children of school ago, otherwise the compulsory clauses of the Education Act will be enforced. A new quarter of the high school commenceson 3rd April, and it is necessary that pupils shonl dbe entered and fees paid on or before that date.

On account of Mr Honguez offering for sale the goodwill of lease and premises held by him, Messrs McKenna & Cnllinan write: “Kindly allow ns to state that we have a lease of the premises known as the Co-operative Store, and occupied by ns. From the wording of the advertisement in last evening’s issue some of onr customers and the public have thought that wo have no lease. This is not the case: business will be continued as heretofore.”—Advt.

The New Plymouth police have been instructed to stop all games of chance during the races to be held next Thursday and Friday.

The young man, who was killed near Hawera recently, was a son of Michael Coyle, of Sanson, and was aged 22 years. Sir William Fox took the chair, on the occasion of the Rev. Gow Jnkuffiar’s lecture on Africa, in New Plymouth. The lecturer in giving an account of his conversion to Christianity, stated that he had been imEnglnnd studying medicine for thirteen months, had also visited France and Scotland, and had been advised to take a tonr through the Colonies prior to returning to his own home in Africa. The Auckland Free Lance thus refers to this missionary : The Wesleyans have secured a real live lion in the shape of a black native missionary from the Makalolo, one of the tribes of Central Africa. He is a very able man, fluent in speech, graphic in description, while his peroration and eloquent testimony to the labours of Livingstone, and what that grand old traveller accomplished for the aboriginals of the “ Dark Continent,” was a treat, and not likely to be forgotten by those who heard it at Pitt street church. R, H. Govett, who recently passed overland with a companion from Mokau to Waikato, and who was reported to have stated that he had not been civilly treated, writes in contradiction and says: “ Te Wetere was, from the first, most courteous and hospitable, though he did not, for reasons which have nothing to do with us personally, at once give us a pass or a guide on to the Waikato. I have written to Te Wetere, expressing my sorrow that his feelings should have been hurt by the thought that two whom he had treated so kindly, should have had the meanness—not to say the wickedness—to afterwards malign him ; but it is only just to him, as well as to Mr Marshall and myself, to publicly contradict the charge in question. I gladly take this opportunity of mentioning that not only from Te Wetere, but from all the Maoris we visited on our way to Auckland, we met with the utmost kindness and hospitality.”

Mr Walter’s colt, by Yattendon, out of Peeress, that was bought in at Mr A. Towns’ sale, has been sold to a gentleman at Kockhampton for 500 guineas.