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Patea Mail, 22 May 1882, Page 3

The native at Waitotpra who stabbed his wife and a man with a penknife has been remoyd to Wanganui -for trial.. Our. Normanby correspondent, reports that Mr; Quin has resigned his seat on the Town Board, as a protest against the mode of spending the rates? within the township. Mr Foulis has to-day/inspected the Patea School, and reports' on it as follows;—■“ Conducted as at previous inspection, in an excellent spirit/ 4 and witli much ability. But J no/ industry can contend with more than partial success against the disadvantage of irregular attendance, the one great barrier to all satisfactory progress.”

10s Reward.; LOST, 1 bay Cob Gelding,; branded WE (letters conjoined) on the near shoulder, one white hind foot?; had a rope on when lost from Mokoia. Any-one-givingl information leading tb' the recovery of same, will receive, the above reward,. . • : , : J. ROLFB, Manntahi.

An American journal advertises thus ; “ Waiited;- a modern young' lady’s forehead. ■ The editor not having seen one for several years, is willing to pay a fair, price for ;a glimpse at the genuine old article.” j “ You may say; whatTyou please,” solemnly remarked a red-nosed listener;!© a temperance lecturer,- “ but ■ whisky once saved my life.” “ flow was that ?” “Why I; wanted a drink so bad that I. got up once in the middle, of the night and went out to hunt for a. pub. v, While I was gone, the house caught fire and roasted the old : ' A party of vegetarians who were boarding at - a water-cure establishment/, while taking a walk in’the fields, were attacked by a bull which chased them furiously out of his; pasture. “ That’s your-grati-tude; is it, you great hateful thing ?” exclaimed one of the ladies, ’ panting-with fright and fatigue. “After this I’d ‘eat beef three times a day 1” ‘ '

; Howitt, confectioner, Patea. . . . ‘ ’' ’ ; ■ TREES ! TREES 1, ;TREES! At the Lark Hall Nursery, Walmea Road. THE Largest-and. Finest.Stock of Trees in Nelson. 40,000 Fruit Trees (one, two, and three years-'old)r —* • . Rhododendrons , Azaleas^. Heaths Arancarias ‘Pines Cypresses ' Magnolias Gamraellias Walnuts • Chestnuts; Filbert Nuts Variegated Holly Quicks Berberries ; : African Boxthorn, : :; And a Large Variety of Flowering Shrubs, ;.■■■', Plants, &c., &c. 100,000 Pirius Insignis, from 5s to 15s per 100. Cupressus- Macrocarpa, from 5s to 20s per 100. JOHN HALE, Nelson.