PATEA MAIL Establised 1875 CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Monday Evening, May 33, 1882.

Patea Mail, 22 May 1882, Page 2

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

Monday Evening, May 33, 1882.

Delivered on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday /Evenings by-; mounted sengers at., Hawera,, by 7-30 o’clock', at Nonnanby by 8-15”, ‘at Manaia 'and Waimate Plains by -8-30, and Southward ij,t r -Waver ley,;,(for train): .by :6 b’block;

’ Tc Whiti and To hj if. have been taken to the woollen*’factory; tile machinery in ’motion beCnis to have astonished them’ more than anything ;seetf’hiiKef’ip.-. ’ . , ; Post'offices'; in ; this district "will :i he closed bn Wednesday, the Queen’s birth-i day.' ' • The' Patea i School Gommittee have decided to solicit Is for each scholar per quarter, towiirds school cleaning'and other'neebseary works. No single family; is expected to contribute more than two shillings...... ; , ,rn • f i ( ,. ; ,T,he Wakatu has hadra rough to Wellington, arriving there bn Sdh-! day forenoon. MterK hours passage.; The paddle steamer Lyttelton .arrived! to-day, by way of Wangahni, affbrfox-* traordinary belays, through, bad weather.;

The Coloretf Opera Pouffe Company will give a performance this evening in-, Pateay instead of Saturday, the weather! having been unfoybrable. There, are' seven performer?, anci having got, stack! up in Patea with bad weather, they are; entitled to such generous support as thepublic ' can give= for the 7 extra*expense' they are put to. The Taranaki paper 1 speaks well’ of their amusing entertainment. r > i i i

The Annual Meeting of the Agricultural; anch' Pastoral;/Associatipn/is! announced for Wednesday week, Bfst. 1 Many subscriptions; are -in ‘arrear, and; some effort must be made to get them; paid lip before the'annual meeting. . i

The monthly parade of Volunteers for Government inspection takes place tomorrow.

/B.] : official re- * turns we have ascertained that on) ! the opennlahds son tithe Waimalh» 'Plains, j there are 128 D. P. selectors who occupy,; or are supposed'td 'occupy, their hold-j ings. Of these 67 occupy rural land,; covering an area .(exclusive of cash land)! of 43,02, acres. VThe, balance, reside pnj • suburban or village settlement land .;on t deferred land at Okaiawa occupy 391 acres ; 22j at Manaia occupy 468 acres; and 17 i settlers at Otakeho occupy 563 acres.; The total area occupied by 128 selectors! being; hffifonaiß&s" held , bonder .deferred I payment.— ,< A I' 1 A Surplus 'is ' hy Hfiel Colonial TreaßhEer;''''A'£nrpfns is always ! good news, and |s; especially. jyelcome ,in; a colony that ais slpwly; recoVerittg from j Wv'ere ' rp ahk-j ruptcy. It-.liasV : hee# ,spine \ weeks that the rcvenue wou.ld exceed the ? expenditure /when ; thd yearns ;'ac6ounfs; came to be balanced. ■ are told s it is! at fact— alp the '■ better' if : the ;su iplus j is a spanker. Receipts ‘from.'!imports; haVe ’ bebii ' larger than last ye and we,believe it is in Customs .revenue! ,that 4he increase.is;most noticeable. A; colony that imports ; more than 1 before j must: be expanding in its iwants hnd; increasing in^its^spfendin^ Exports lire the' main sohice of health, \ for .it is, ; by ' exports . that -we pay, for ! Merchandise coriiingjntp the,country.

A school fee of 2s 6J per, quarter is to be paid by Wanganni; scholars under five years old. ; ; ' Bills introduced into Parliament up to the present are: Trade Woiks bill (by Major Atkinson); Indemnity and, . WestCofst Pease Preservation: bill (by Mi* Bryce): and other-hills.' :'DiSTßEse, ; among jLhe: working classes has disappeared—according to the Jjp,y.orjiorjL speech-.... It is certain there is no clamor this winter for work to be provided by Governmentfor unemployed; and -it-is to be hoped colony will get through the winter without any shell necessity. ~ A curious proof of 'the prevalence ofIhe ;English -language throughout the 'globe is afforded by a statement in the Newspaper and Bank of the World, ' that out of 34,274 newspapers and periodicals which were published in 1880, ino fewer ;than!l6,soo were printed in - our own tongue. - Nearly half the remainder Were in Gbrmail’ a quarter in French, arid* tlie } great bulk of the rest in Spanish. Daily^papers j-npmbered 4020, and the gross-cilculatiorl of the whole f perioi|ical ■ press is: qstimated at' i0,502,606;0d0.' " = ‘ The new Con ncii'Chambes fol Hawera borough are not to exceed £ 1000, and tenders are invited on Mr Pinches’ plan.

Deferred-., payment., selectors, on the Plains haye/compliod with the conditions of the . Act in nearly’ every, instance. Only three at ;okiawa and one at Mauala have failed to improve the : land' as required ; but among those who , made improvements, fully 20 have shown-no ' hona fide in ten tlon of.personally residing. Residence on the jOpen sections is compulsory, but .on ibush sections only a certain improvement eachi year is rejj.l r -±J\ : i.- . H

Extension of Time to bush settlers

oh ! deferred -pafroeirt is llikely to granted, on account of their losing the usual . burning season for want-of dry weather.:. The ißanger, reports as follows': —h ; .With, regard* t'o-tbe'report*'of lands in the 1 Ngaire district, I beg to bring„ to your notice the exceptionalJy'unfavbnablc. season we have had for bush work. In no cases have good burns. been obtainable,’and in many: cases, dh- spitej’qf sistent attempts lb bum) the attempts have resulted in failure. On this account'l would recommend the.'Board'to grant extension of time till next’season’ to those .who ihayefejled a s safficient area, but through adverse weather have been unable to burn or grasp- it. if n- two cases—viz., sections 51 and 18, block 6 —the areas necessary have not been felled,- and the -lands - are liable to forfeit lire.’’—The Land Board resolved that the rbport be adopted, and that extension of time for twelve months be granted to the . persons who r have been unable to. lay down their - in t grass; and that the holders- be notified* that the fourth instalment is due.

Twelve waggons for the, railway, are to be carted from Wellington to Patea, and tenders are invitedV .

The new bridge at Manawapou is not yet / conjrappoed. We are told; that delay in getting the right sort of timber has prevented the contractor from starting earlier.V\ The o.bld bridge, is. supposed to be shored up safely.

: dA ; DBPU,mTioN fromvthe ? Hawera Borough Council is authorised to negotiate the £5,000-loah during the visit to Wellington on other business. The Council doi not appear to have any particular lenders in view, but tation-:are‘ to W drideavoiir to negotiatey-’

Tenders for additions New | Plymonth railway station were sent in as follow:—M. S. Daniells, £1318; N. Hooker, £1392; Berry, and Ne\vman,-= £1400; D. Scfellyl "£4586 ; ? P’ McLaughlin, £1639; KJ Tonkin; £ 1647'; S. THckgbh, £ 1696; J. Cosgrave;"£l7s2; A.] JN’atfrau, ,£1794; Orr and £2041 ; : R. Kirkpatrick, £2041, . jThe tender of Mr phniellsJa accepted. " ’ 5 ’]() in'l}:'-)'*.* Jii'i- I

Provisional of the Pa lea Oil and Flai’Cbmpany'met on Friday at Mr Barker’s office for the first time since the public |Ai hoar/i of, ? directors .®as;Agreed to,'comprising al| ' shareholders who have shown an active interest in the f< project,; -and MiBarker was appointed/ chairman/ Mr hW? Cbwern;' sCcrCtary/ , TheVnniiiber of 5 p £s'‘* shhireg'f applied ! fbf ' tfr date" is about 280, representing- nearly one? half the proposed capital The company’s prospectus is to be published tTheuchhifipfin baA received a letter from : ¥p6fson church expressing, confidence in the pro?; jected mill, 1 Ail'd fapplyifijr'ftir shared Mr Thomson, Wayerley, also commends the project, •, ahd says;Patea as the ;pprt' ought also to be the manufacturing centre of Uie: district;? r- ■ %-s