PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Friday Evening, May 19, 1882.

Patea Mail, 19 May 1882, Page 2

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

Friday Evening, May 19, 1882.

Delivered oh •'Monday, Wednesday, and / Friday/ Evenings by iirfounted mes- " sengers —at Havrera by 7-30 o’clock, - at Normanby by 8-15, at Manaia and VWairaatC' Plains byf ; B?’3o, and Southward at Waverley (for train) by 6 o’clock

Dr . Schwartzbash is staying at Wanganui a week longer than he intended, and is reported to have operated on numerous patients for diseases of’the eye, car, and . throat. He will visit Patea on the 26th.

The Brass' Band is getting uniforms of a light ami stylish kind ; white patrol jacket, with scarlet facings ' and .corded ..fronts; Grousers • of : blue cloth .with

scarlefcstripe’; and white helmets, spiked. The contract for-ihe clothing is being executed by Mr Herbert, 1 -tailor, Patea : and .we-suppbse/thei helmets' will be obtained from London. There are.l 6. ■\'i r.r -'.J «* , ■' iG 3 ; , i? uniforms. •

The handsome new premises for the bank of Sew Zealiind will bo open for business about the' middle of next. week. A notice of the sGdcUire in.its finished form appears on the.fourth page d this issue, ■ f: r •/ ■' ' /, ~Mr Wilfrid Dasent;.has;left,the. hank of- Now South Wale's,- and his place as clerk i8 ;i 'filied‘’by.:'’hho. i son of .Mr ;Har : den;'eirgineer to the County Council. A is printed in Auckland/iil the liatiye language.. The size is small, about --11 inches ,by 18,--. eqiGllV’the page of an ordinary family Bible. The title is the Korimako ; and .the threepence a copy* ..The editor says’heds unwiliing to receive a single' copperw for his laborer all - mustgo to the fund for carrying oh the paper, after paying for printing. - This paper commenced inMarch last: ’ . - ’Vv'V'A Test Case came before the Patea R. M. Court on Tuesday. Mr Barker; auctioneer, had refused! to pay'the Haf-

bor Bpnrd’s .charge for landed and left lying several days on the foreshore. Mr Barton, fori the . defence,! argued that the bye-laws contain no provision to meet such a>;case ; for as Mi’ Barker .had accepted .delivery of the timber, and thereby'relieved the Harbor Board from all responsibility, he ought mot to bo charged for taking tlie ! risk of leaving his timber on the foreshore; s He I should be allowed to leave timber there without charge; but df-a charge ought to be made, the Board’s charge was ex-cessive,-for it would he equal to nearly £2,000 a year per acre of foreshore — clearly, an r excessive charge, rr Mr, Hamertoh, for' the Harbor Board, contended that the charge for using say one-tenth of ah aci d for a--week to stack ■ timber could not be so low as a regular rentals by, i the : year,;. and; the ground» near the upper wharf hadnn exceptional value, because other consignees { could - not use it while ,Mr. Barker’s timbei; lay there encumbering the foreshore.—Mr: Wray/k-R.' M.y took. -tirhe> to- consider his decision, as the case raised a ndyet. point not contemplated dndthc-BoardV bye-laws.

Some districts, are: eager toiihaveia central prison forlong-seatenAe convicts;/ but Wellington is not. Yetitis there; j. the j .Crpyernment are buildings j ;a/ central 4 prison, and a recent deputation/ of outraged citizens-were told that.theiyf lij : Ps' * ■> t * .* ' ' f % ' ’ ' * protest came too- late. o r |j .

i The Maori King has been drinking, lit is a pity his gracioiys r ipot - t sep /). fetter exdmpto4(This^people : at lbe“’6pen-air parliament now being iheld. Report says he/ goes about in- ; itpxjcated,, lips r dowu while others make Speeches,*.<nnd'i tbep ’ getsi up* to Address the multitude with the. eloquence of a man whose head'' is muddled, A cold bath would do him good.

A King who thus - blndves : cannot be a. shining light among his people.' Not much discredit Us attached by -Maoris j to getting drunk;, hut .a great chief loses influence when he behaves like a sot on great occasions.

Grog bills are not worth much as debts unpaid. They are debts of honor, of a sort. The book debts of the Empire Hotel at Wanganui have been sold ; and being valued in the assets at £4OO, they fetched just fifty shillings.

/The master for ithe new school at Manaia is Mr George Wilks, late headmaster of Heathcote school, Canterbury. His’nOmination ;b£ the School Committee is not yet sanctioned by the Board of Education: '

Mr R. Baldwin, of Pa tea, is appointed Steward for the Hospital ; his daughter to assist in the work.

This is an age of uncertainty ; but one' would hardly think so if doubts can bo settled so easily as in the : following summary of a lecture :— li ThcTecturer impaled the theories and hypotheses of the philosophers and 1 scientists on the twin horns of well attested Revelation and multiplied experiment leavingthem, so as; to speak,; without leg to stand upon.”. :

1: The Gospel Temperance Crdsade is a new movement in England, like the Salvation Army, and apparently connected with/its operations. The same people are associated with both branches of this remarkable* revival work. Converts are enlisted not exactly by taking the r Queen’.s shilling,.,but by .taking a ribbon and "flaunting it as'ari etnblehi of con version, to ; t,he.,. gospel temperance cause/ • Tlje clergy, ju many downs are enrolling in this .’movement, and the results in large centres of population are remarkable. ./For instance,' at Stockport in Lancashire, ten thousand persons took the pledge during the short 1 mission iof Mr -R, T.,‘ Bopth, .a gospel temperance missionary. At Dewsbury ; 3,84Q., took the pledge ; at Haslingdenmearly 7,000; and. so on at other places. -The Salvation Array movement is not much sup-ported-by the clergy, so far as we -can - learn ;- f but the __ Gogpel.. Xetoperance Crusade is ’ £fehetMfy Vctcdihed and helped by them.

intoG the. collision of , the Ladybird:and. Wakatunm Wellington harbor/ has:: conclqded : ; :andi the i .Court blames, the captain of the Ladybird for hot checking the speed sooner . when nearing the wharf. He is ordered to 'pay. J.he gqsts; of v TheJngiiicer is declared not to blame, as he obeyed the order to stop when it was given, : - . ; ; •' ■ T ‘PlAins SettLers : are rather 'disheartened by losing a good burn of the bush this autumn, and so losing a year’s f usCpr their land in many cases. This - is a serious hardship to deferred payment occupiers, .who cannot afford snch loss of* time "arid * labor. ’ • !&i good season in the first year would have put them in good heart, whereas some of them have had a fair prospect blighted by the bad season! c | K I= } ■ ; ,Dp.Grf Licenses in-Patpa ; .County are ’ very fep, band as the period of grace has expired, several hundred owners will have to/ be summoned unless they ■ pay rip : before the toriperate. About a score of people in Patea borough are in the same fix, and the police are taking stock of unregistered ■; I J I: i-f-i A supplementary mail via New Plymouth for the ’Frisco route will be .made rip \at 'Pritea to-morrow forenoon, for the up-coach. An. the :'Patea iriyer has been inade by Mr Holtries, (district engineer,) Mr R, Brown, and sfr H. Mi Brewer, acting under instructions, froip, .Government.,. . We .believe tjio.intcntion is to report on (he practicability 'of ■ .usj ng the,river, as highway to land up the river suitable for sale and. settlement. When Mr Hall through Patea recently, while acting as Minister of Public Works, he-promised that this should be done, arid’lthis promise followed on a sriggestidri* made to him that a township. should be! formed near.ft.Leunction ..p|jlth,e Mftngaehu branch‘of the rive.r.' jSeemas f ;now probablpis that theHver may be = made ■riayigrible by suaggihg it ! r .soiriV ! fift:eeii midds up, to beO rifeediasrta navigable highway to the back part of the University Block ( now- befng surveyed), and blc«'ks.ilirl^er : iulaffd. ? r , ........ H . A Serious Problem foP Dunedirr is wank of funds for deepening the harbor, to fake/in .ships suitable for the frozen <meat trade, 1 ; .UrilesaJ the. bar : -calTi ba effecfuatlly ,arid ?:: •the' 4 lorig channel also dredged up to the city, the greaP prince Gof Otago will have to find some other outlet for its export of frozen .meat; trade gets into Company are increasing their capital in order to run idjrgjQi«teamerk' : fittedCwith refrigerating apparatus; and as Dunedin is the company’s centre; therO bill be. : a strong effort‘to "ma'ke ,;i iKjdtf a : '’de^w , k]fer. {fort; for Home steamers.

Mr T. Fergus, for the Lake districts, expects to visit Patea shortly.

A public meeting on the harbor rating question is called for Thursday next in Patea. This announcement reached us just before going to press, and seems to do what is advocated in an article in this issue, written before the meeting was fixed. It is to be hoped some practical decision will be arrived at by the meeting.

This District has shown signs of vigorous progress within a few days, in the starting of an oil and flax mill company in Patea, and the equally successful floating of a public company at Hawera for lighting the place with gas. Both these undertakings appear sound, and it is to be hoped they will prove as profitable ns they are useful. The gas project has been mooted in Patea, bnt not in a public manner. It can wait till some briskness is imparted to business by the opening ot land, near the borough for settlement. -

Fires at Invercargill have been

almost epidemic lately. One broke ont at a bakery in Dee street, near the * theatre, and great excitement prevailed in expectation that the theatre wohld be burned down. The brigade worked hard, and only the bakery was destroyed.

Grain continues to “ harden ” in price, caused mainly by extensive buying at Melbourne on the speculation for a further rise. Wheat and oats are commanding very high rates They Vriay come down : as rapidly. Subscriptions in aid of families of the drowned at Timaru on Sunday are cominng in liberally. A local concert realised, £63 lor the fundi -. The .Timaru manager of tHelLZ*rSUlpping Company h§§ giyep fifty guineas. r V,One of/ the ships which drifted, loose, the City of Perth, i§'afloat again, not much damaged.

Insurance Losses during, th_o past twrfte mouths have been remarkably hcayy. The Colonial Insurance Company is" unable to pay a dividend, the losses {having, been almost treble the amount of last year. The losses , were m 1880, rising to L 23,241 in ’Bl, and jumping to L 68,486 in the last twelve months.

The Horse Sale at Mr Barker’s Patea Yards yesterday, was largely attended, and prices for draughts were considered hotter than the average lately. Seventy-four lots of 'draught and hack. horses were offered, most of them unbroken. Heavy draughts unbroken ranged from £lB to £26 TOs ; one broken fetched £2B 10s. Light draughts unbroken £l2 to £lB. Several draughts . were bought, .by Mr Fulton for Napier. Hacks, about a dozen, fetched £8 to £9 10s. Four Tom Thumb ponies sold at £5 to £7 10s.. Some cattle were alscr put in ' heifers and steers.

Mr Dale has removed into his large new residence, and the house he has vacated is braced up for removal on wheeled trollies to. a new site.:-

One of Messrs Lawler’s painters named O’Brien fell off a plank and hurt himself irij the. staircase of Mr Dale’s new residence on Wednesday. ; He was badly cut about the face, falling a distance of 10 or 12 feet. At the R.M. Court to day no cases were set down for hearing. If oil had been thrown oh the, “ troubled water ” at Tiraau, the four small boats might not have capsized, and lives would not have been sacrificed. Experiments ought ’to be made in this colony,, to test not so much the efficacy (which is proved) as the,usefulness of this cheap expedient for stilling broken waters at the entrance, to exposed harbors. Mi Gilbert, piano tuner, will visit Patea on the 27th.