PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. CIRCULATION nearly 600 DAILY. Average circulation last year, 510. Tuesday Evening, April 11, 1882.

Patea Mail, 11 April 1882, Page 2

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

Tuesday Evening, April 11, 1882.

Delivered every, Evening, by mounted mesJ t sengers atHawera ~ by 1 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.

Easter hfonday was; a rainy and dismal,Jroliday, and. the .weather has been quite broken, as if the wet season ha'd set in early. ■ ;Gbod /Friday, however, was a pleasant day, and there was much travelling about and visiting along the coast. The ;Coashe_s have been heavily laden with " Easter" visitors, mostly strangers on a flying..visit, or relatives of residents. .The .Volunteer :Review yesterday at Wanganui was a wet amusement. V

~ Bush-bukxing has been a failure this season. .There? has been so little dry • weather this and the summer hasbeenso unlik&dhe usual dry time in this district, that the clearing of fern andbuslr on new land has ■■ been hardly begun, A good bnrn could not be had. Even fern land was, hot dry. enough for a fire to run, the under-part being too moist to burn. The ’ loss of a good bnrn is the loss ofa year /.on, Jand, not yet sown in; grass. • This; will be a serious drawback ,to the poorer holders who .cannot" afford the loss of a season.

A, change in the Patea;branch of the N.Z. Clothing Factory takes place today, Mr W. H. Clarke taking the management, and Mr Cottrell leaving the district for other employment, though not with the same firm. Mr Clarke,was formerly in Auckland, and lately in Wanganui,

Buckingham- Palace, in St. James’s Park, has four hundred rooms,'andextensive alterations and renovations have,-been- 3 made' lately.'" Her prefers the old fashioned bnt cosy St. James's Palace as, a London residence/ and she ' rarely ToCcupies a Bnckmgham" Palace.

Eddystone lighthouse has been superseded by a new- structure built on the rock in a fresh : position,, the oldlighthouse having become so undermined bys. the wash ot the sea that it may topple over in a storm. It is proposed to form a company for*'taking-' down‘ Since tpri’s? famous structure (123; years ;old); arid re-erecting it on the Hoe at Plymouth, charging a fee for admission, : - • 1 “ Evaiis’s hotel ” Iri Qoyent 'Garden, .7; London, is being transmogrified into a club-honse. Songs, suppers, and Paddy Green-—these be all faded memories., now. '■ f Wpman ; is so - much r the creature of fashidri that 'it is how the correct style to “ wear ” a large mouth. This information coiries from America/where thing is on a. large .scale. The style in London lately was for women to trass their -hips - fb make-them/rhigh, like** those old .“prints of Queen. Elizabeth, who’ looked so starchy aridpbmpbns in a-farthingale trussed up at the hips.

To Clean Gold or Silver Chains, &c,—Put into a small glass bottle of warm water a little powdered chalk and some soap, let. thejn dissolve; before .putting the'chain in, cork, bottle and shake it. 1 The action against ’the: glass polishes the gold, and"' the soap and chalk'extract every of'grease arid ;l diH from the 1 iriterstices'Of a chain of the most intricate pattern ; rinse it vfater, wipelwith a towel, and the chain will be as good/arijiew] x.

To-morrowis the last day for sending in designs for hewf Borough. Council , Chambers at Hawera,. A bonns ofj£2o J is offered for the best design. *.

A meeting of Hiiwbra ratepayers takes placePornight-to-consider the qnestion of borrowing 5£5,000. • -

Tenders ate.invited for carting timber for Manawapon Bridge. J

The County Cbuncil/invite teriders for gravelling the main street, Waverley,