PATEA MAIE Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Monday Evening, May 15,1882.

Patea Mail, 15 May 1882, Page 2

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

Monday Evening, May 15,1882.

, Deliygiyd T °A Monday, Wednesday; - and ! 5 Friday Evenings by mounted mes-

sengers —at Hawera by 7-30 o’clock, ... at Kormanby by -8-15,; at Manaia and Waiinate Plains by 8-30, and Southward at Waverley (for train) by 6 o’clock

A Native Land Court is to sit at Waitara next week to deal with the Mokau land. The, opening of that country to settlement will increase the politicarinvpbrtance'of this West Coast, and will stimulate itscomraercialactivity. The country around Kawhia harbor is also likely to be opened to white settle-ment--ri.peidiaps. immediately..' iThese harbor settlements will give access to the interior King-conntiy, which may soon be pierced by a railway, 'p ~ -f A Steward is wanted at the Hospital, and applications have been invited. The County Council ought to have ad fhr a married couple, as being more suitable than a.single steward to have charge of the Hospital. We are informed that,applications from a married, couple be ; but .as; tenders closed on Saturday the 1 result must be left to chance. /'/.../

f There will be 'two eclipses this year, both of the sun'; and a transit of Vends across the sun’s disk. . , Another transit of Venus will hot occur : for' 122, years. . : The Assault rCABEr heard at the R.M. Court on Friday was adjourned at Hhe close, of ;tbp complainant’s case. In addition to the evidence reported, Dr /Keating deposed, that he dressed :i Mr • Honeyfield’s hand on the 3rd instant, .and found a contused and lacerated wound, apparently caused by_a violent blow. If such a blow had fallen oh the head, the result might haverbeen fatal; George Buckerell, manager .for -*MrHoueyfield, corroborated the statement as to the. assault by Mr Fairweather on Mr Honeyfield. Mr Hamerton,' for the defence, asked for time to "summon witnesses. The case was therefore adjourned till Friday next. . ' t I , Opunake is gazetted under the town districts Act; ahd ; the first election of Commissioners takes place on. the Bth June, Mr John Maysmor being returning Officer.- .. • T i t . Mr P. Campbell is appointed trustee of Manutahi -Cemetery, in place of Mr Thomas Bayley, who has left the district.

Dr Smith, of Hawera, is appointed. Public Vaccinator for the Hawera and Inglewood districts. s ■

;Mr Jollie, who has purchased the lease of Mr Coutts’s farm, is now in England, and is expected to reach Patea about Christmas next. His family is large, and he" intends building a good residence .on the property, in-r tending to settle here permanently.

Civil Cases at the- R;M. Court >on Friday were disposed of late in the afternoon as follow:—Mr Hamerton, solicitor, sued a cecent .named Doherty for £B, professional services-in-carrying through the bankruptcy ; l|r' ; Birton conducted the case for plaintiff. "Verdict for amount, with costs £1 Is.—. Alexander Wood, Tafel£’a. was sued by Mr Hamertoh for £6j professional services. Judgment for amount anjd cbstsV—Mahony y. W. Williams. 1 sehr., was’a claim for £4 13s 6d, goods"* (supplied: ! i Deferidant was absent. Judgment for amount hnid'hosts.—Hogan v. T. Irwin was a claim for 18s. Judgment for amount and,hosts. j (Hi . r >-; h' t

' IAN-AbofroN' for recovery of a horse >lost from a grazing paddock was heard in 5 the R.M., Court pit ' Frfday. [Mr. A had »\ .hprse\ in .Mr D. Smith’s run on usual grazingterms. Mr Barton appeared forplaintiff and Mr Hamerton for defendant.

*Mr Wray ruled that ?asj taken reasonable care of the horse, andiwab not caused its loss, he could not be held liable; Ibr ' the'- value* /iTodgitfedtf for. defendant, and costs £1 Is.

The Wakatu arrived tin’s morning fram Wellington, the first voyage since the collision.

The first autumn sale of trees and shrubs is announced by Mr Cowern.

provisional directors, Qf thenew. Patea*?company ‘for working ahoilabdflax mill will hold their first meeting next t Friday/1 "This important local undertaking. Js_an ass.ured_sucpess,.,by. the hearty co-operation of settlers and commercial then in the -district.

KolherV waxwork exhibition drew a~ numerous attendance_at the Harmonic Hall on V The historical figures appear to have been moulded from photographs, and the result is disappointing. Idr Gladstone’s features, for instance, have none of the characteristics of that statesman. Mr Parnelb is even more unlike the determined Original/' Te Whiti comes nearer to a true presentment. The armor worn by the redbqbtable chief of the Kelly gang ,is a grim -curiosity. Only a giant could carry and‘ fight in such a weight of iron. Th&Kolher.brothers, the older especially, gave ah unusual display of skill by performing on various musical The exhibition goes to Marion. . v

A stabbing AFfRAy is, reported from Waitotara. Several Maoris arc stated to have been quarrelling, and one . stab* bed two other and.nthenTran away. Particulars are wanting..