PATEA MAIL. Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Wednesday Evening, April 26, 1882.

Patea Mail, 26 April 1882, Page 2

PATEA MAIL. Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES . Average circulation last year, 510.

Wednesday Evening, April 26, 1882.

Delivered on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings by mounted messengers —at Hawera by 7-30 o’clock, at Normanby by 8-15, at Manaia and Waimatc Plains by S-30, and Southward at Waverley (for train) by 6 o’clock.

Hiroki’s trial is to take place in Christchurch, we suppose, as the other Maori trials arc to be transferred from the heated air of New, Plymouth, to remove any risk of prejudice against, such troublesome fellows as Te Whiti, Tohu, and other law-breakers about Parihaka, who are now being shipped away to Canterbury in the Government steamer. Hiroki’s case differs from the vest, for his was an ordinary murder committed in cold blood some years ago near Waitotnra. If Hiroki also goes to Christchurch, several witnesses from this district will be wanted there, and the trial will be -’expensive. The witnesses will include Mr Fraser, the surveyor who was to have been shot but escaped by a lucky mistake.;- also Constable Burrows, Mr Bartlett (assistant in the survey), three natives from Waitotara, and Mr Williams, formerly Native Commissioner.

John Bateman, a man lately employed at Kakaramea hotel, is in custody on a charge of stealing a rug, value 15s, the properly of Mr O’Sullivan. The man had been paid off about a week ago, and .a rug being missed he was apprehended at Hawera on a warrant the, rug being there found in his possession.

..A. handsome new post-ofiSce for We]lington is in course of erection on the old corner section opposite the wharf. It is probably the best site in the city for a good public building, and will have an imposing frontage towards the shipping avenue whore strangers land to get a first impression of the “ empire city,”

A special mooting of the Borough Council will be bold to-morrow, to confirm the Burgess List ns revised and amended by the Court.

IllustratedSuvrlements will now bo presented weekly with the Mail. The Supplement to be given witli Friday evening’s issue contains a picturesque view ot the “Dial Kanges ami the mouth of the Lcvcn Liver,” Tasmania ; also stories, sketches, and articles on a Dark Deed in Australia, a Visit to Longfellow, a Bear Story,' Wit and Wisdom, the Forged Fifties, the Ball Scandal, Tom ’Sheridan, Man’s Mortality (a jpocmj,.... Household ...Recipes, and various news.

A Chinkse Doctor Is making a stir in London. He has settled in fashionable Harley street, at (be West End, and is sending out circulars with testimonials of bis medical skill. He asks no questions, but says “I will tell you where the pain is felt." He promises to relieve’asthma in five minutes, to bringto people in a fit, and to perform difficult operations without the use of instruments. On Lee seems to combine necromancy with medicine, and perhaps he is in league with the stars. .Ho is said to hail from Australia, add perhaps our cousins over there did not appreciate the wonderful Chinese doctor. u .

A Settler from Canterbury having purchased 500 acres near Pungarchn camp, at a price. under £5 an acre, says that land of.equal quality in Canterbury would cost nearly £ls an acre.

A Dangerous Corner is left at'the end of York street, turning off the. main road to the wharves. The road at the corner has been lowered to improve the grade, leaving the footpath high, with; a dangerous drop to the road. That corner is an awkward trap, in the dark. Mr C.; A. Wray is appointed a Visiting .Justice .for the inspection of prisoners in this judical district. The Orient Company’s steamship Garonne, which left Melbourne on the 3rd March, with 4000 sheep and a quantity of beef and veal, arrived in London 21st Apiil. The meat has been examined and is reported to be in prime condition.

The Christchurch Board of Health is about to; issue uiotices Insisting-an all cesspools in the district being abolished.

A Memorial in favor of the reinstatement of Mr W. Mackenzie as a sheep inspector (now ■■ under-suspension) is being signed in this district.

Mr F. M. Chapman, of Clovcrdale, Palea, lias purchased 300 acres near Rahotu village settlement, Cape Egmont, and.it is said he intends removing shortly. Mr Chapman is chairman of the Patea County Council and other public bodies, and would be much missed from-this district. . •••

At the .Wanganui Supreme Court yesterday the gram! jury returned true hills in the following cases : —Frederick Dryer, indecent assault; John Burns, stabbing; Te Rahu, horse stealing;" John Dawson, forgery ; Charles Todd, horse stealing; : Patrick Ganghran, forgery and embezzlement; William Dodds, forg ; cry(4.cases), and Haraipe Te Puke, fbrgery' (4 cases); Reuben Bason, stabbing. In the case against Alexander Mackenzie, charged with personation, the grand jury returned no bill, and prisoner was discharged. Two boys, Edmund and William Havre, have been drowned whilst bathing in the Patea river, near Stratford.

The monthly inspection.parade of the Patea Rifle Volunteers was held last evening. There was a good master, and rthe company went through the various -exercises in a satisfactory manner..

Mr George Hutchison, injured by (ho coach accident, returned to Wanganui, from Patea, by yesterday morning’s train, and was able to get about. He paid a visit ”to the Court during the afternoon. :Mr F. R. Jackson’s usual stock sale, takes place at Hawera on Friday. Several thorough-bred horses will "be’ offered. ■ -

The Wakalu s.s. left Wanganui yesterday with a number, of passengers and 185 bags vyh eat. Te Whiti and the other imprisoned chiefs might be turned to good account while in Christchurch, for if not found guilty of the crimes charged against them, they might be shown through the Exhibition, and be convinced if npt convicted of the Irresistible power of lire pakeha race. A peep at the wonders and the bewildering grandeui; of. courts and bays and aisles within that big show-, house would impress the native mind with peculiar force, and might have more educating influence than a generation of preaching and drinking.

The Waverley Rifle corps and the Eminent Rifle corps arc formally disbanded.

Over-work at the Patea Post Office lias been a local grievance for some lime, as persons have to be kept waiting so long at the window for letters or other business; .An Inspector lias visited the office, and it is understood that another assistant is to be recommended.

Complaints are increasing in Patea about the number of horses and occasional cattle straying in the streets. The police are powerless, unless they know the particular animals and can summon tho owners; for there-being no legal pound in the borough, there is no place to drive the animals into.

Writing lessons are advertised by a visitor to patea, Mr Knutson, who has numerous specimens of improvement made by pupils.. ' ’■ ,

The Inquest on a Maori found dead near Manntahi has resulted in a verdict that death was caused by a- 'blow from Gallagher’s stick, but that the publican received - [revocation.' Bail was provided t for his appearance at the trial.

The Railway Cutting near the Patea end of the Whenuakura section is begun by McDevitt, under a sub-contract, near the Boiling-down Works. Messrs Wilkie are also shaping for work at several points, by letting off cuttings to working parties. The short term.'of nine months for completing the line to Patea will allow of no time being lost. The penalty for delay will be pretty stiff, if enforced.

It is high : time that a thorough inquiry was made into the causes of recent disasters on entering or leaving the Patea river. The inquiry just made at the Court House into the wreck of the Patea steamer has been careful, patient, and 'exhaustive. At one part of the evidence the Court expressed its desire to sift the present case thoroughly. The Mayor, as chairman^said It is the desire of the Court to make this examination as exhaustive as possible ; and the Court is .prepared to sit and hear evidence of any form, that may . tend to bring out the real fault,- wherever it lies. Thef Court is-determined to find out the real cause of this disaster, if it can do so.

Two criminal cases from this district will come before the Supreme Court, at New Plymouth,* the first week in May. The more serious case is that of Airs O’Sullivan, widow of a baker.; and the indictment will .probably contain two counts charging her with concealment of birth and with the wilful murder of her infant.- The lesser case is that of the youth Neary, charged with stealing money from the house of Mr Bremer, of Whenuakura.

Mr James Lett intends re-opening the store premises of the late Mr Whelan, having purchased the property with the object of continuing the? storekeeping business on his own account. Mr Lett is one of the oldest residents, and is favorably known throughout the district . He was a storekeeper in Wanganui many years ago.

The Coach Accident has proved to be much less serious in its results than seemed likely from the condition of sufferers-'.soon after the capsize. .Mr Hutchison’s recovery has been remarkable, for ho remained unconscious so long- after being thrown from the end seat of the coach, that his condition appeared serious indeed. His wife was - telegraphed for, and arrived in Patea from Wanganui the same evening. She found Mr Hutchison so much better, after regaining consciousness, that the lawyer was already more anxious about his professional cares at Wanganui than about his personal condition. Affairs of some urgency caused him to make light bf his painfully injured shoulder, and he actually started for Wanganui by daybreak next morning, with his wife; being driven in a buggy' (reclining on a mattress) to ■ Waverley station at a walking; pace, and by train to Wanganui. Dr. -jKeating had attended him (ill late oii the evening, before departure yesterday morning,; ‘ youth named Arnold, whose head severe- knock causing slight coucussion of the brain, was also able to proceed to Hawerayesterday in company of his anxious father./ r J

The Gale on Sunday night 1 , following a day of autumnal calm, was one of the most violent storms felt for years along this; coast. : It was also violent in the South Island, though no damage is reported. Equinoxial gales are less destructive oh land or sea in these latitudes than they are in Britain ; but Sunday night’s gale was a - howling specimen, accompanied by thunder: and the wind rose almost to a gale last night.

'A. gold nugget weighing 153 ounces .17 pennyweights was recently lound in a shallow -gutter at Temora goldfield. 1