Wednesday Evening, June 28,1882.

Patea Mail, 28 June 1882, Page 2

Wednesday Evening, June 28,1882.

The Institute Committee have agreed to promote an, entertainment in aid of the funds. The membership has increased about 25 per cent, since some effort was made to increase the, usefulness of the Institute, but the amount Of public support is not adequate to meet all expenses. It' is ascertained that the number was only about 50 when the new ■ Committee was elected, and the number is now increased to 75. This number appears very small for the town and district. Several batches of new book, chiefly light literature, have been added; and the Reading Room is now well stocked, well lighted and comfortable. The Committee made themselves responsible-for a debt of £65 ahd after passing accounts for payment last evening of about £l7, the overdraft will be about £j62, guaranteed; on the Committee’s bill. Half-year’s subscription will be due next week. The financial position is therefore improving, though slowly. The proposed entertainment should be a good lift. The programme is to comprise music, readings and recitals, and probably a dramatic piece. The date is fixed at about seven weeks hence, so as not to clash with the next Harmonic concert.

Tenders for Mr Tapliu’s new store and dwelling may be sent in either for the whole work or for portions of it. We are requested to state that this was intended, though not so expressed in the advertisement as first drawn. Mr Cowern will offer for sale on Friday, the salvage from the late fire at the Kakararaea boiling-down works.

Mr Do Banks notifies the sale of his dairy cows, and that he has arranged to continue the delivery of milk as usual.

' Mr F. R jaek&m’s Wayerley sale takes place on Friday.

* The e.s. Wakatq left Wellington for ; Patea at noon to Slay.

The Rev. Father Grogan announces that he will celebrate mass at Patea tomorrow.

Mr D. M’Lean has resigned from the Hawera Road Board, to make,room for a Whakaraara representative ; and it has been arranged to nominate Mr R. W. Foreman to the vacancy. A horse attached to a hitchlng-post opposite Mr, Nutsford’s shop got startled yesterday and tugged at the bridle till, it pulled up the post, and might have run away with it ; gangling to the rein, but fortunately the animal was quietened before any awkward consequence followed. Butchers in Patea usually make a mid-winter display of meat, and Mr T. Haywood took his torn last Saturday, the Meat Bazaar being attractively set out with extra ; choice carcases of beef, veal,' mutton, and young pork, Mr J. Adamson’s handiwork was noticeable as an ingenious sorb of decoration. Mr- J; Riseley has purchased the entire horse War Eagle, a dark brown with black points/bred byMr Gerrard, of Rapid Bay, South Australia, and lately standing in Canterbury. This blood horse will reach Patea to-morrow by steamer, and is said to be a fine stylish horse with great substance and quality ; its stock being noted as racers, carriage horses, hunters, and superior hacks. , Its pedigree is very good. Mr M’Kittrick’s bankruptcy will be better understood after Friday’s meeting of creditors. At present it is difficult to know’ which statements are accurate and which are not. We find that some information Already published 1 was hot correct, although obtained at first hand. , It now appears that the relative who was mentioned in connection with a dishonored bill was; the person who put in the bailiffs, and that the bank of N.S.W. was not directly concerned, as it had not discounted the bill. That bank, therefore, has no claim on the estate. The furniture and stock are being sold Under a separate bill of sale held by another person. A’memorial respecting the unfinished railway in this district, has 'heen ■ presented through the Wellington Chamber of Commerce (o the Minister for Public Works, and he has given a favorable answer, as reported in another column* It is due to the public to state that when Mr Houghton was in Wellington recently, he called on Mr Duthie and the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, suggesting; that a. memorial should be: signed by Wellington merchants, to ensure a vote being placed on this year’s estimates for completing the railway. A memorial was drafted, and the matter was left to the Chairman of the Chamber and Mr Duthie. They have now taken proper and useful action to get the memorial signed and presented. ■Writes a Hampden correspondent of the North Otago Times:—-An uncommon application ; was made some time ago to the local Registrar of Marriages, which is of some interest. A Maori sought to. obtain a certificate to enable him to marry a woman of his own race who had been previously married to another Native, bnt under the Maori form and custom. The application raises a question which may become a ,serious one to those concerned. It -has been referred to headquarters, and is now, I understand, under consideration. s

Frost fish are very plentiful of late near Timaru. The other day a couple nearly five feet ip length were found, in close proximity to each other;

A member of the Dunedin School Committee proposed that the teachers of Otago .memorialise the Education .Board, in reference to Mr Farnie’s dismissal. In a discussion which followed, the members seemed to think that Mr Farnie, in forwarding' the letter which caused his dismissal, had only acted as amanuensis for ; the-; majority of the teachers. .

There ia agood opening for carpenters at Auckland. We learn that a contractor in the country is paying 15s a day for workmen.

The inward ’Frisco mail reached this district to-day. * Mr W. E. Cross, a Masterton brewer, has been apprehended for having an illegal still in his posession. The new word Telelogne is introduced to describe messages sent over the telephone.

An old woman named Johnston, over 80 years of age, in the town of Leeds, England, lately completed her twohundredth time of being < convicted 'for worshipping Bacchq?. Shu reformed, and when the last steamer departed, was Iccturingonprisonreminisceuccs In London the { ‘ hobby ” fares well. He has comodious apartments at the station house, has reading, bath,., and billiard rooms, and a well Supplied .kitchen. There is also a police fund, which goes towards supporting the children of deceased policemen. The name given to the infant daughter of the Duke and Duchess of. Connaught is Margaret Victoria Augusta Charlotte Norah, Nearly all the members of the Royal Family were present at the baptism, which took placguin Windsor Gastle last March. .

The surgeons who attended President Garfield have charged ratherexorbitantly. For instance Df Bliss is allowed £SOOO ; Drs Reybnrn, Agnew, Boynton, and Hamilton, £3OOO each; Surgeons Barnes and Woodward are to - be promoted to Major General and Lient.-Col. respectively. The nnrse is also to receive £IOOO, so that for medical attendance alone the bills; amount- to £18^000;' The following is an extract of a letter written by Messrs Murray, Roberts, & Co. to the Dunedin Morning Herald, relative to the prices realised in London of the frozen meat that was shipped in February, per ship Dunedin :—349 carcases of mutton after paying freight brought 2£d per lb and all expenses (including,insurance at 84 per cent.) the'sum of ’ This gives a net return of almost 21s per carcase at Port Chalmers, and as the sheep averaged 871b, is equal to 234.6 th per lb. When the sheep -were shipped, .skins were only worth Is Id each, and taking the offal into account, and after paying all expenses, we receive a net of 22a 3d per head. Similar sheep to those were selling in the yards in Dunedin during the month of February at 13s per head.