PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Wednesday Evening, May 3, 1882.

Patea Mail, 3 May 1882, Page 2

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

Wednesday Evening, May 3, 1882.

Delivered on Mondav, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings 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,

The ’Frisco mail reached this district to-day.

A Cooper is starting business in Patea, and advertises for support in this new industry. Mr J. Gregan has rented part of Messrs Mace &. Bassett’s premises, opposite Mr Odgers’s hotel, and is turning out large ami small casks, which arc put together with workmanlike skill. The quality of his work should secure custom. A

Mr A. Dickie’s pure-bred Clydesdale stallion Lion passed through Patea on Monday,,on its way to the farm at Momahaki. Lion is to travel this! district next season. He is : a powerful draught animal of great length, by Colin Campbell, bred by Mr J, Walls, of Kaiapoi Island ; its sire being the imported horse Fergus, out of Scotland’s Pride.

The first stock sale at Manaia, held by Messrs B. H. Nolan & Co. takes place on Thursday. The entries show a good start.

A Maori walking stick, carved by Mr Hebherley, of Grey town, was bought for five guineas by the Duke, of Manchester during his recent visit. Ferrets are so plentiful at Greytown, where they were brought to keep down the rabbits, that hent-roosts are being robbed by ferrets prowling at night. Mr F. R. Jackson’s Waverley stock sale takes place oil Friday.

District Plans have been returned from New Plymouth td the Patea Land Office, after removal to make corrections. Akaroa is noted for its many fruit gardens. Yet the owners are not happy. They complain of thieves. Many orchards have been stripped of fruit this autumn : some few trees were not stripped, because on them the fruit looked loss tempting. Mr Saunders, who is opposing Mr Ivess in the Wakanni contest, says the best Minister to have been made Premier was not Mr Whitaker, but Mr Bryce. Mr Richardson, Sheep Inspector, intimates that the puyenmt of sheep rates is much in arrear, and a large number of summonses will bo issued in this district if arrears are not paid shortly. These rates should have been paid last September. Banuun, the American showman, will visit Australia Tn December, and will bring his big menagerie through this colony. Barnum is more anxious than ever to bring over the great elephant from the Zoological Gardens in London. Some shareholders in the gardens appealed to the Court of Chancery against the sale of Jumbo, after it refused to leave its old home ; but the Court could not interfere with what the managing •ommittee had done.