PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last year, 510. Monday Evening, April 3, 1882.

Patea Mail, 3 April 1882, Page 2

PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price Id. CIRCULA TION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last year, 510.

Monday Evening, April 3, 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.

A remarkable improvement will be effected at Wellington by the proposed reclamation of some seventy acres from the harbor, at the Te Aro end. The work is to be done in sections. About twent-eight acres will be first reclaimed, to fill in the triangular piece between the wharf and the main street which runs from Te Aro towards the harbor. That street will be continued over a shallow part of the bay till , it joins on the wharf; and this filling-in will give a good line of traffic directly from the wharf to Te Aro, without the present long detour through Willis street. The Government Engineer and the County Council do not agree as to the new line of foreshore. The Government have tried to move the Harbor Board to interfere by injunction, but the Board decline to do so. Probably the City Council wiil carry out the plan as-approved by them ; for ibis not easy to see.that the Government have any proper plea of interference with an. important harbor work.

It is expected that the stock shipping company at Wanganui will lay np all their steamers, or transfer them to other ports. A great slackness in stock shipping - has come over the-Wanganui port; caused chiefly, it is said, by the cheaper facilities of Waitara for shipping stock to Auckland. , Stock.from' Hawera district, and occasionally ‘from Pa tea, are being driven" overland to Waitara and shipped to Onehunga at a much tower rate than the cost- of shipping from Wahganuii The other market for Wanganui stock was the gold district of the. West Coast ; but there ; the; market has gone down of late years by the gradual abandonment of alluvial diggings, and the decrease of population. The old conditions of trade along this coast are .gradually but surely changing, by the developibent of new. districts and the opening of new lines of traffic and commerce. This change has made a great and unfortunate difference to Wanganui. Expected to arrive, Patea from Wellington to-morrow at 9 a.m. Mr W. Brown invites . lenders for . alterations and additions to drapery premises.