Second Edition

Patea Mail, 1 April 1882, Page 3

Second Edition

Mr Cary, manager of the “ Juvenile Pirates,” tells his creditors that he lost £643 in this venture. Mr G. D. Haraerton succeeds to Mr Barley man’s business as solicitor at Hawera, and will pay frequent visits to Hawera. Mr Holmes, of the Grown Lands Department, is now in Patea transacting urgent business in the absence of Mr Wray, Commissioner.

A new Burgess Roll for Patea borough has been, prepared by the Town Clerk; there being only just time to complete it, after the revision of the Assessment Roll, The new roll must be open for public inspection from the Ist to 15th April, for objections to be made. The Borough Council will; then have to meet specially to amend and confirm the Roll. It will come into force for voting purposes on the Ist of June.

It is proposed to form a local company for working an oil mill in this district. Machinery- for extracting the oil and working up the fibre can be obtained at a moderate outlay ; and the district is highly suitable for growing linseed. Mr W. Cowern has been collecting information as to the cost and management of a mill, and the profitable disposal of the oil and fibre. Farmers and others interested in the promotion of a useful industry are invited by advertisement to meet at the Central Hotel next Wednesday afternoon.

Butter. —£13,000,000 sterling annually goes from England to the Continent for butter. Why should not a part of this enormous sum be diverted to. New Zealand ? All the natural advantages exist here, and it only wants an intelligent mode of dairying and the use of proper appliances to add immensely to the national prosperity.

A Perilous Ride. —On the arrival of the Great Northern Scotch express at Darlington, ; at half-past two o’clock one morning in January last two brothers, named Hamilton, aged ten and fourteen, were found hanging on under one of the carriages, haying- ridden thus from Edinburgh, a distance of 169 miles. They were detained by the, railway officials, pending enquiries, they having stated their intention of riding to London,

The receipts at the Chicago stockyards for the week ending October 20, aggregated 43,793 head, being over 3,000 in excess of any previous week, and the largest number ever received at any market in the United States in the same length of time.

The directors of the Union Steamship Company have decided to build two more large boats of the Te Anau or Manapouri class, in addition to the three now building or ready.

The police are making raids on houses of ill-fame in Auckland. Eight woriien were arrested in one house, and have been sentenced to imprisonment; most of them for six months. • A. man is known by the company he keeps out of. ’ Lord Alvanley spoke of a man who i‘ muddled away his fortune in paying his tradesmens’bills!” The coming woman will not marry until she is able to support a husband in the ; style he has been accustomed to. at home. . ' , When the Old Testament is revised arid modernized) it will probably state that Adam, after eating the apple, received >vord that his resignation would be accepted. “ Had. drank” is not good English grammar, says a high authority. It certainly s not. : “ Was drunk” is better grammar, and more in accordance with the facts., A worn-out parent has named his first baby Macbeth, because he has “ murdered sleep.” :. '