PATEA MAIL Established 1875, CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Wednesday Evening, July 5, 1882.

Patea Mail, 5 July 1882, Page 2

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

Wednesday Evening, July 5, 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 Weekly Supplement to be presented with Friday’s issue of the Mail contains a visit to Newgate Mark Twain’s Version, of Hamlet—Lady Godiva—Lines for an —a short tale entitled Your money or your life” ,—-“ Midnight Visitor”—Good Thoughts —Scientific notes reviews on books and music—Household hints—Agricultural items with Poetry, Wit and Wisdom, and miscellaneous items. Messrs Langley brothers, storekeepers at Manaia, are dissolving partnership, the younger brother continuing the business. Mr Watts, lately cabinet-maker at Hawera, has opened the new hotel at Okoiawa. It is a commodious two-, storey building, in advance of present requirement, though a few months will make a great difference on that side of the Plains. The St Kilda steamer has been purchased by Messrs Kennedy Bros., of the Brunner Coal Company, for £l7lO. Captain Greager, late of the ss Wakatu, will take command. The Church Meeting this evening should draw a numerous company to Harmonic Hall at 7.30, o’clock. Church affairs have been languishing a long time, and the Anglican community have needed some stimulus, or scheme, or opportunity, to induce them to make a combined and worthy effort for, erecting a new church on a scale suited to the population. Money can be raised by merely utilising some building land now lying useless as a paddock near the parsonage. That land would sell readily bn long leases for building sections; and the revenue so created would provide an ample building fund.

A second coach between Patea and Hawera is now being run by Mr Prosser. The morning conch leaves Patea at 8.30, and passengers can reach Opnnaki the same day. The afternoon coach leaves Hawera at two o’clock, so that passengers may catch the early coach leaving Patea next morning for Waverley and the south train. The as Wakatu was detained in port again to day by rough weather. She is announced for a trip to Westport on the 9th, calling at Nelson if inducement offers.

The contractor for sinking additional artesian wells for the Corporation of Napier, struck water at a depth of 160 feet, in the well sunk in Raffles-street, obtaining a splendid flow.

A telegraphic item referring to the prevalence of measles in Auckland was inadvertently placed with local matter in last issue.

William Burton, a stout old man employed as cook at Kakararaea camp and lately at Mrs O’Dea’s, Patea, died bn Friday in the Hospital, from paralysis. The following accounts were passed for payment at the meeting of the Borough Council Oh Monday :—Oppehheimer & Co., Auckland, £3 ; Patea S.S. Coy., 8s; J. Gibson, 6s; Do G. Fraser, £4; Patea Mail, £4 7s 6d ; H. Dixon, 5s ; S. Tnplin, 5s ; J. E. Keys, £2B 6s 6d; O’Meara, £lO 3s ; Hogan, £1 2s 6d ; Evening News , £3 9s 6d ; W. Dale, £3B 10s 3d; G. Sharpe, Is 6d; J. R. Watts, £6 16s; A. B. Byrne, £5 12s ; J. O’Connor, £6 6s ; E. A. Bryne, £2 2s ; News , £2 6s 6d ; J. Kenworthy, £5 9s.

Further improvements in the interior, of St. George’s Church have been made. The side windows have been cleverly painted to resemble stained glass, bearing various biblical sentences in Latin and Greek, and other ornamentations of an ecclesiastical character. The pulpit has been considerably raised, and moved out of the chancel to a more appropriate position.. The improved appearance of the chancel is now seen without obstruction.

The Canterbury Times says:—Mr Ivess has begun his Parliamentary life gracefully. One of the first things he has done has been to move for the indemnification of his defeated opponent (Mr Wa.son) for expenses incurred by the fault of Government officials. The directors of the Orient Steam Navigation Company (Limited), in their report, state that the net profits in 1881 were £46,040, Of this, £27,649 has been added to the reserve fund as a proportionate provision for the cost of the steamers, leaving ah available balance of £18,391, from which it is proposed to pay a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum free of income tax.

Respecting the point of junction with this coast of the proposed line of railway from Auckland, the Feilding Star has not yet met with a satisfactory suggestion. It ventures to assert “ that we can offer a few very sound reasons why the town of Feilding should be a point of departure, in preference to any other place on the Patea-Manawatu line.” The writer then dilates on the fifty to sixty miles of timber land on the “proper” line of route, now burnt to waste, but which with every mile of line opened would be made marketable, the land cleared of forest would support settlers, new villages and towns would be formed, and the development of meat freezing, with cheap transit, would enable that particular district to become “ the great cattle producing country of the West Coast.”

The aborigines of Australia are being rapidly thinned out. The State gives each native a blanket, and thirty years ago there was always a goodly number mustered to get their large allowance from the Government, but they have gradually, diminished until last year, an old man who rejoices in the name of George Brown, after having travelled many weary miles arrived at his destination, and took his yearly allowance with a broard grin of delight and a grunt of satisfaction.

Samson was the first actor who brought down the house. When Bismarck heard that Jumbo was going to emigrate to America, he exclaimed “ Et tu Brute.”