PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Friday Evening, June 16,1882.

Patea Mail, 16 June 1882, Page 2

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

Friday Evening, June 16,1882.

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

The daily mail service to Opunaki is again running.

A newspaper is started at Te Aroha goldfield. A letter on “ mutual improvement ” is held over for want of space.

The Financial Statement is to be delivered this evening. The s.s. Waka.tu was detained by a gale in Wellington yesterday, but leaves there at 5 this evening. The large new premises for the bank of Australasia have made rapid progress within the last few days. The frame work is upreared, the roofing timbers are being fixed, and the operations have been very rapid since the blocks were put in. Messrs Thompson and McLean, the contractors, seem thoroughly practical men.

An inquiry is ordered to be held at Wanganui touching the recent casualty near the Wanganui bar, in which the s.s. Clyde got stranded. Mr Lundon reports thus : —“As the preliminary inquiry shows that the masters of both the E. and U. Cameron and the s.s. Clyde, were to blame for the collision, I think a formal inquiry should be held. An amusing error is deduced from the census returns, just issued to Parliament. Carlyle township is stated to hare had 834 inhabitants in April last year (14 months ago), and Hawera township 943, showing an excess of 109 in favor of Hawera. These townships have been running a close race for some years, and now it is claimed that Hawera had distanced Patea even as far back as last April, and has outstripped it still more since then. Hawera is to be congratulated on the rapid progress made. But the figures should first be put right. Carlyle township was small in area when the census was taken, and had nearly half as many people living on suburban sections just outside the boundary as there were inside. Thus it happened that in the census returns, two totals were given ; namely 834 in the township, 1142 in township and suburbs. Those suburbs are now mostly included within the borough area, and the borough population is probably over 1200. Hawera township and suburbs were returned at 943 as compared with 1142’in Carlyle and suburbs. The hotels at Hawera were crammed at that time by people waiting to go on the Waimate Plains. The difference is still considerably in favor of Patea.

Air Cowern will sell to-morrow 200 lots of trees and shrubs from the Marton nursery.

Complaint is made at Wanganui that the Wakatu does not always call there when advertised to do so.

To catch the outgoing ’Frisco mail, a supplementary mail will be despatched from Patea by to-morrow’s up coach. Bye-laws of Patea borough appear on the lourth page. These are a second batch, to come into operation a month hence.

Mr Edwards, captain of the Paten steamer when she was wrecked at the Heads, is now chief mate of the Union Coy’s steamer Wanaka. Mr Hamerton, solicitor, is removing to Hawera, but will carry on business at his Patea office, which is in charge of his brother, Mr T. E. Hamerton.

A new election is ordered for Stanmore, Canterbury. The bill enabling Mr Pilliett to escape the consequence of certain corrupt practices by agents has now been passed through Parliament, and Mr Pilliett will not now be disqualified from standing again.

A weekly dancing assembly having been formed in Patea, and held in the Harmonic Hall, the Rev. Father Grogan has expressed stong disapproval of dancing assemblies. It is well known he has also used his influence to dissuade females of his flock from attending dancing parties. A small mutiny among sailors on shore from H.M. S. Miranda occurred in Wellington. Two naval pickets, on reaching the wharf, took off their belts and side-arms and threw them, at the feet of the lieutenant in charge. He stood passive until the police came to his assistance and took the mutineers in charge. One resisted violently. They were taken back to the warship after a night in the lockup, and were tried by court-martial.

The increase of Chinese in Northern Australia is so great, that a member of the South Australian Ministry was recently entertained at a banquet given hy a Chinese merchant j and the sentiment among the Chinese guests was thus expressed : “ Plenty soon Chinamen make tellitoly (territory) all the same as Singapore.” The sentiment was cheered ; and some reality was given to it by the health of the Emperor of China being toasted with loyal applause. Things are coming to a pretty pass up in the northern “ tellitoly” Mr Sheehan has brought in a bill to consolidate all revenues for educational purposes. This would be taking back the separate endowments given, and throwing all into a general fund. A question of this kind must lead to a serious and lengthy debate. Those who have' endowments wish to keep them ; those who want endowments wish to share in those already given. These differences are creating a grievance in many places. We do think that “ high schools ” and universities have actually less claim to endowments than the common schools of the people.

The next Government loan is to be raised on a different principle from the last. The Colonial Treasurer made it clear to the North Island railway deputation that the Government intend first to decide what works should be scheduled for construction out of loan, and then fix the amount of loan to be raised and spent on those particular works. This is different from borrowing for general purposes, and then permitting political cliques to badger and scramble and logroll for the money.

The Bar is in a better condition now than at any time since the breakwater was begun. The depth is greater, and the entrance comparatively good, though courage and judgment are needed to hit the right distance between wall and spit. The pilot’s report up to Saturday last says :—“ The bar and channel are in straight line with the end of breakwater, and with the fresh in a spell of fine weather and smooth bar in the middle of May, the bar got a good scour out. Although we had last week strong southerly winds with considerable heavy seas, the bar has not silted up much, and kept its position. Depth on bar last springs 12ft.; average depth in channel along breakwater 17ft.; width from breakwater to west spit 106 ft.” The Harbor Board have agreed, on the pilot’s recommendation, to purchase 50 fathoms of 2-inch European rope for ball halyards, and to sell the whaleboat and some unsafe ropes, the proceeds to go towards purchasing a coil of ■ 4-inch Manilla warp for rise in accidents. The pilot asked also for a rocket apparatus to fire a line across a ship from the breakwater in case of stranding. The Board deferred action on this at present.