PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510.
Monday Evening, June 26,1882.
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.
Manning’s Illustrated Stock Doctor, and Live Stock Encyclopaedia (advertised in this issue) can be recommended as a valuable work of reference for farmers and stockowners. It contains nearly 1100 large pages, and over 400 illustrations, besides charts ; and it gives much valuable information on matters relating to horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry; being, as we are told, the result of twenty-five years’ practical experience. The price is moderate.
New Steamer. —The Wanganui Herald says ; Steps are about to be taken to place n the Wanganui-Wellington trade a steamer that for speed and accomodation will equal the latest ventures of the Union Compan} T . The boat in question will be owned by a local company, the prospectus of -which, we understand, will be placed before the public in a few days. It is proposed to entrust the building of the boat to one of the best firms on the Olyde» so that all the latest improvements both in the machinery department and for passenger accomodation will be embodied. A steamer averaging 12 to 13 knots per hour will be able to make the journey in eight hours, and as it is proposed to make her departure from either end to fit in with the train service, the present large passenger trade will be considerably augmented.
Michael Davitt telegraphs that he expects a sacrifice will be demanded to satisfy the vengeance of Irish Landlordism, and that he has private information he himself will be the sacrifice selected.
Why is a wit like a Chinese lady’s foot? Because brevity is the soul (sole) of it.
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Patea Mail, 26 June 1882, Page 2
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