PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Friday Evening, June 30, 1882.

Patea Mail, 30 June 1882, Page 2

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

Friday Evening, June 30, 1882.

Delivered on Monday y Wednesday, and i Friday Evenings by mounted mes- ■ sengers —at Hawera by 7-30 o’clock,! at' Nbrmanby by ; 8-15, at Manaia and i Waimatb Plains by 8-30, and ; Southward i at Waverley (for train) [hf' 1 6 o’clock.

The Illustrated, Supplement thus, week. ■ shews a pictorial sketch Qf the cremation .process as practised in parts of India : also. articles on Remarkable Dreams—a War Correspondent’s Career—Rat Shooting infFiji— iah : Jbkers— Wit and Wisdom—Larrtekins as they are—Story of Clytia—Too Awfully Utter—tale; Mildaed Blaquaire^—arid f other readible items. : . , Mr J. Lett announces arrival of Canterbury prime hams and bacon. • Mr McKenna js; opening a grocery store on his own account.

; Mr James Graham is commencing the saddleiry business in Patea.' I j Mr Barker; will sell trees and Shrubs to-morrow, from Mr James Laird’s Wanganui nursery. ‘ ' The Hospital contract for grocery stores expires to-day,''we are informed, and ; eiiqniry "is 'made as to why fresh tenders are not invited.' The thorough-bred stallion War Eagle, bpught; by Mr J. Risely, was' landed from , the Wakatn yesterday morning. Having been ‘ trayellihg nearly, a fortnight the handsome animal . looked like a traveller justi landed from a rough passage. He has fine ; slim legs, for ; Itylo and fleetness, and bears the stain)* of good breeding in head and frame.

-: ; WaverleyY. MJ Mutual Improvement Society’s: next meeting is advertised. ; '

Waitora harbor loan of £IO,OOO is now raised, and the terms are said to be easy. t[> , , VM .. t: , -, r/ Mr Warren, photographer, has intrdthe instantaneous process* taking portraits in;’ a fraction .of a second. This enables an accurate likeness to be secured

the sitter ha ving no time to move or fidget before the.vthing'-‘is ddfife The excaught with surprising success.

A Maori tradition says- th 6“ jiN. Z. lanrelji’called the. Kanaka, was brought frorii Hawaihi iu the canoe Aotea, comlanded at Patea.

A forest of snags is found embedded ;in the “ flats” of the Wanganui river, and as some of these snags are big'trees, the' work' of dredging is impeded. Unstil these impediments are removed, the ichannel cannot, be much improved; on |the other hand, if the removal be found {reasonably practicable* r rthe'- outward iseour will be greatly aided in keeping a deep channel. The Wanganui river is still a problem.

Servants’ wages in Durham, an agricultural and mining district in the north iof England, ruled ak follows in May 'Best servants*, £7 to £9 10s the half 'year; second best, £6 to £7; girls £8 ios. .:;

Belles at the Waverley ball are said to have been two : in .particular: a married Tlady living south,of Waverley bn. the* seaward side, and a young Spinster,, from Patea. - So .long as: men toay differ' in opinion, they will differ about belles ,■ at a .boll.. , / Styles, of, feminine beauty are as various as styles of dress.; :

Tenders for painting the new bank of ■Australasia as a sub-contract are understood to be as follow i—WeUipgtpP firm £ 120£ Sparkes dßl3l 15sj Lawler Bros. j£l4§, Read £145, W. Dixon £175. The;. Wellington tender is understood fo have been accepted* - J The Paftea Volunteer Band -played in the open air last evening, and vfbr. ~their Stand they selected the end of Lincoln street. The evening being bright aild Clear, a goodly number of both sexes took ihe opportunity; of-listening to. the local musicians, who acquitted themselves creditably, considering, that some of the tunes were pew to Them.'* The time was good, and the bandmaster, Mr T. Haraerton, may be complimented on his first; wielding; the baton in public,with the band. They ’ ployed well, and practice will ‘ spbn dead to excellence of execution.

i At a small township in Otago, -the Presbyterian congregation have caused tb be erected a large stable in connection with their —all over the country—to tie horses up to a. fence,in. all weathers, while the (Worshippers are inside, and there are many congregations that could do worse than to follow the example set by the Warepa churchgoers.

I A happy blunder for the Irish peasantry, was recently made by a parcels’ delivery agency. A bale was brought to Miss Parnell, Ladies’ Land League, Dtiblih, aind was found on opening to contain a large quantity of second-hand clothing... The name of the donor could not'hoifounri, and the clothes were distributed the tenants.’ A few days afterwards a.' letter came,' wanting to have the goods ' returned! > They are beyond recovery'now, abd it ;am action is brought it will, It- is 1 : said, be defended v;

iTho Hon. E. Richardson addressed a large number of tbeStanmpre electors ,at KnightstpwUj.and Received a votebf thanks and three-cheers;

;; : Signor Qabelli, a civil engineer at Borne, oecently explained a scheme for carrying, through a funriel to Sicily.' V An Auckland tradesman informs the Herald that he has advertised f^ I 'a Boy, nine times in succession. He has came to the conclusion that the youngßtpps| t dbh’t want hard work, but Government BhletK

;-Mr Massey ex-city, clerk in Banedin, has opened proceeding’s against' the Gouncil to re-instate him in office. : ~ In Italy, a late budget shows a surplus of over two millions sterling.