PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average, circulation last year, 510. Wednesday Evening, May 17, 1882

Patea Mail, 17 May 1882, Page 2

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

Wednesday Evening, May 17, 1882

Delivered on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday -. Evenings by mounted ’messengers —at Hawera by 7-30- o’clock, at Normanby by 8-15, at Manaiaf and Waimate Plains by 8-30,-. and- Southward at Waver ley (for train) by 6 o’clock

Parliament will meet to-morrow for despatch of business. Tiijnaru -harbor is on its trial, hnd is proving a death-trap for ships in rough weather. Two ships were wrecked in Sunday’s gale, the cables breaking in the heaving swell of the sea. As to the previous wreck, inquiry shows that the barque Duke of Sutherland, wrecked by striking the ground in the harbor, during a gale, was not sound, some of her timbers being rotten. The Homeward ’Frisco mail closes tomorrow in this district, the Patea box closing at 7 p.m. Steam-shipping has been profitable at Auckland lately. The newly formed Northern . Company. made a profit of £8,550 in the last twelve months, and will extend its operations by increasing its fleet to nine steamers.

Mr F. R. Jackson’s second sale at Manaia lakes place on Friday, com-* prising numerous entries. The Committee of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association are to meet on Satardry, and the annual meeting takes place on the Saturday , following. Mr J. Gibson invites attention to his announcement -of groceries, liquors, and seeds. .. . . . Mr Barker’s sale of horses takes place to-morrow. The entries are numerous, including some well bred animals: Household furniture of two residents leaving-the district wifi be sold by Mr Cowern on Saturday. Other 'sundries are announced for the same sale. The Wakatu could not leave Wellington this afternoon; a strong gale blowing. ' i /O. : i " ; . Prospectus of the Hawera Gas Company appears in this- issue. A sad sequel to a divorce case occurred at Wellington. A decree nisi was pronounced on Monday in the suit of Mrs Yauso against her husband (from Dunedin) for adultery and cruelty. The husband then went to his bedroom at a lodging-house and shot himself with a gum He is dead. : The broken cable across the Strait is now repaired and in working order. : The’ )f7akatu ! s ; s,. . arrived, at Wellington at-9 o’clock 1 this morning; after a run of 14 hours against head wind.: She leaves Wellington, to-morrow for Patea. The , paddle-steamer Lyttelton left Wellington for Patea on Saturday last, but when off the bar it was-found necessary to , back if o ,Eapiti for shelter,"" where she lay mitif Tuesday morning, when she. (eft for Wanganui, arriving; last evening short of provisions. She has a full cargo for Patea, and will leave Wanganui this evening.

The Queen shows herself with less reserve in Scotland and on the Continent than she does tfrthe English - people. This is the complaint made at Home during they Queen’s 7 recent visit ’to Mentone) where she drove about with much more freedom than is her Majesty’s habit in England. There is this difference. The Queen does drive about pretty often at Windsor and in Lohdbn during* the “ season,- hut)is rarely seen in the English provincial towns. Such reserve is a mistake.

A poem upon . Dean Stanley, has been written by Matthew Arnold; - 1