PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last year, 510. Wednesday Evening, April 5, 1882.

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

Wednesday Evening, April 5, 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 Waver ley ‘(for train) by 6 o’clock.

The Mail will not be published on Good Friday. News telegrams will also not be obtainable for publication on Easter Monday, the local office being open only an hour in the morning and one hour late in the evening. In the absence of outside news on Easter Mon.day, and business places being closed, the Mail will not be published on that day. It will be issued on Saturday at the usual hour, and on Tuesday next. Tiraaru has a grievance. The Railway Department is allowing cheap fares from all parts of Otago to the Exhibition at Christchurch, but no concession is made for fares from Tiraaru, ,100; miles from the Exhibition.

Worrying Fowls is becoming a local grievance. t Complaints are made by several Patea residents that their fowl-houses afe J entered at night by dogs, and a number of .birds have been found dead. The last case is that of the ; Steward at, the. Hospital, nine' or ten of his fowls being worried during Monday night. Some birds were found dead; others had backs or wings broken, and just aliyCi* -One:.dog -was seen with a bird in its month in the early morning.; j ; Dogs that - commit ravages of this kind ought to be killed off without mercy.

The Wakatu is announced to sail for Lyttelton (Exhibiton) next Saturday,

Mr Cowern announces a sale of town sections, under order of the mortgagee.

Disorderly houses, and x’ows therein, are said to be increasing at Wanganui.

An address to Major Noake on his retiring from the command of Volunteers in the district is being signed by members of the Alexandra Cavalry at Wanganui. The address expresses esteem for the popular Major, and regret at his retirement. .

The Oxford and Cambridge boatrace on the Thames was run on the Ist April. The Oxford eight won easily by six lengths.

It is gravely written that “ Wanganui people have recently, and with much justice, been complaining of the heat.” We understand this to mean that the Government have been again favoring Wellington as against Wanganui—else why talk of the “justice” or injustice of the heat ? • Some people like a foretaste of what is in store. It is expected that the Clyde steamer " will be laid up shortly, there not being sufficient carrying trade from Wanganui to Patea to keep a steamer running.

We understand that the directors of the Patea S. S. Company resolved last evening to appoint Mr Edwards to the command of the Patea steamer, and Captain Gibbons to the command of the Wakatu steamer. Mr Edwards holds a captain’s certificate, and has been mate of the Patea about 14 months, giving entire satisfaction.. He has brought the steamer into this port several times. Captain Bonner was one of the applicants for the supposed ■ vacancy. I Mr Downes, contractor from Dunedin, 1 arrived here yesterday on his way to New Plymouth, and will remain a few days in the district, clearing up matters ■ connected with the harbor railway con- | stmetion. « Babies have to be fed, even when travelling. This discovery was not made ' yesterday, but a discovery was made the other day that babies travelling in railway carriages require certain attentions which mothers' do not like to perform under the scrutiny of strangers. There is quite a demand, on the South Island railway, for a separate carriage allotted to ladies,? specially for mothers with infants. It is a luxurious age, this.

It is said that the recent visit of the Russian Pacific squadron to Melbourne _ harbor has given a stimulus towards.the completion of certain defensive works which had been contemplated, and which are now in active progress. Ministers got a little bit frightened, and are spending £150,000 on additional defences to the harbor;

Accounts were passed by the Borough Council on Monday, as follow :--Wellington Post £2 ss, E. C. Horner, auditing, £1 Is; J. Anderson, blind &c, 8s 6d ; H. A. Arthur, linoleum for s' Council-room and furniture, £2 19s 9d; Daily Mail £4 Os 3d; J. E. Keys \ £32 15s 6d; Engineer’s salary £lB Iss ; O’Meara, wages £lO 8s; Hogan, wages £8 9s 7d; D. Jones, wages £9 15s; Tonkin, fwages £4 10s; Jacob, wages’ £1 8s ; O’Connor, wages £l2 16s ; Byrne, wages £5 19s ; A. Black, printing £6 12s 6d; Kenworthy, stationery £9 9s 3d ; Dale, timber’£3 10s -2d ; D. M. Harris, (Valuation Rollp £.lO ; £R. 4 Jacomb, salary £5 3s 4d. The Council resolved that all accounts and to come before 'the Council mnst-.be -.re- < ceived not later than 12 liodh on the day of meeting. In the list of accounts , was one ‘ for various articles supplied to the Engineer’s office, Upon his order, without any requisition signed by the Clerk, as-required by resolution recently , passed. One article, f the window-blind, had jbeen ordered the Clerk; the Engineer ordering the other articles as being-necessary furnishings for his office. The Council passed only those articles which had been authorised. 1

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The inward ’Frisco mail reached this district to-day.

Mr J. E. Keys and Mr J. G. Beamish have returned from the Hot Springs. It seems like carrying war into the invader’s territory when Freethinkers select Rome as the fittest place for holding a general conference. Rome is still the centre: of; Obristendon, and the Pope still guides and controls many millions of voluntary subjects scattered over the world.. Yet it. is in the seven hilled city, under shadow of the Vatican, that the Freethinkers propose to gather and fulminate against priestcraft. Another labor war is starting in America. Laborer’s wages are said to be too low—they always are—and strikes are spreading. This is a fine opportunity for agitators of the Kearney type, who can mount a platform, take their coat off in the heat of . argument, and make a slashing attack on bloated capitalists. It is not a little strange the labor market should be so

Efoerstocked in a country which has unlimited capacity for absorbing, new populations,' and ought to drain off all snrplns labor from the towns. Yet there is a mistaken tendency for towns to become weighted with a class of shiftless hangers-on, who settle down to a precarious existence in towns, instead of pushing out to frontier districts where labor is wanted.

A priest put up to auction the pews in the Roman Catholic church at Garteen, county Sligo-: Soon after the sale another priest was appointed, and he rearranged the pews and sold them at a fresh auction. The rival claimants lof sofne of; thfe pews had tofight for possession, hut were stopped hy the ■ police. They renewed the struggle at ■ divine service next Sunday, and the end J of it was that the pews got smashed np dnring the melee , and some heads got . broken.

Exhibition “privileges” are being sold at Christchurch. Mr Quill, of Ashburton, was the highest tenderer for liquor bars, and these with cloak-rooms and other money-making extras have realised nearly twelve hundred pounds. Yerdancy. Ist Fresh—“ How did the llemorial Hall election come out?” 2nd, “ Qh, Carver had 11 votes, Salters 9; andScattering 516.” Ist Fresh—“ Then Scattering got it.”

The careless man and the the thief are equally troublesome. Neither of them ever leaves anything where he finds it. Two children are playing together in a garden. The little sister says to her little brother, “Which would you rather be, n little flower or a little bird ?” The young man, after a minute’s reflection, A little bird—because it eats!”

Inquirer: Does a man’s size vary ? Yes,

«ir; weVe seen a man in a bar-room treating the crowd, and be" was the biggest man in the town till 5 his mother : ih-law came in and took him by the ear, and then he was a very fine little fellow.