PATEA MAIL

Patea Mail, 4 August 1882, Page 2

PATEA MAIL

-i- ; oEsflBLISIIEl) 1875. • :

CIRCULA TlONnearly 600 COPIES. -Average/circulation last year. 510.

Delivered on Mondav. Wednesday, and ■"Fri'ctay - ' Evenings by mounted messengers— at Hawera by 7-30 o’clock, at Norraanby' by 8-15, at Mauaia and Waimate Plains by 8-30, and Southward ■ at - AVaverlcy ’ (for train) 'by "'o’clock.

Friday Evbiung, 1 Aug. 4, 1882. Mr C. F. Barker, will give a public trial of one of Ransom, Sims, and Head’s double-furrow ploughs, at Mr Fairweather’s farm, on Saturday, at 12 noon. '

The Wakatu steamer has been doing smart work this week. She started for Wellington t on Tuesday, night at 9-30 and returned here on-Thursday morning with a fall cargo. : She sailed again last night for Wellington, and is expected hereiagain on Saturday; ; - '

How some Government officials do things.in .this colony may,be learnt by the following recent incident. The Land Tax department sent a claim for a farm near Waverley, and addressed the pfiper to, the’ two trustees of the estate. This was right so far; but the envelope was wrongly addressed to Wanganui, and sent there. The Waverley trustees , not being. known there, the letter lay some time, and was returned to Wellington. By this time a fine had accrued, the, tax not having been paid within the date specified. The /tax paper, • with fine added for delay, was addressed once more to the trustees, , this>time:! being i posted to Waverley. The trustees (Mr G. S.' Bridge/ being one) then paid l the tax, but refused to pay the fine for’a delay which they had not caused. The taxpaper went back to- - Welliugton, and the Department consented to remit the fine for delay) “ under the circumstances,” and addressed this communication to the trustees at “ Waverley, Christchurch.” It went to Christchurch, and there being: no Waverley down there, the Tetter was sent across to Waverley near Patea, and did once more ; find the trustees. Ts this to be taken as an ordinary sample of official routine ?

The Chairman of the County Council is going to Wellington (by request o( the executive committee) to interview Ministers with the .object of getting assistance :to put the county roads in proper repair, after being cut up by the heavy timber, traffic from the Waverley terminus"; also to nrge the opening of Crown lands in the -back- country ; and to promote other matters of importance to. the county. Government recently promised £4OO towards the main'road, on ‘account/ of, railway traffic, if the Council would spend an equal sum) but through some misunderstanding, only £2OO has been contributed from Wellington,

The Eev. Mr Fairclough, lately transferred from Patea to Invercargill, has just hath the satisfaction of ''completing the erection of a large new church for the Wesleyan body at that place. A sbireri ori an' extensive scale celebrated the event ; : and Mr, ■; Fairclough.; was on the successful result of his labors in . connection , with the new church. He is sure ,to be popular at Invercargill, and cannot help being energetic, as his Patea friends know.

An example of the injndiciousness of quick riding through the town at night occurred on Wednesday. Mr; Kenworthy, in crossing the road from near tlie new bank premises about half-past seven o’clock, having taken the precaution by looking up and down the street to note 'that the roadway was clear, started slantwise. Before. one third of the way oyer be was knocked violently down from'behind by a horse. Beyond a severe 1 shaking -and : a prominent graVel' rash, no great barm was done. The rider did ; not trouble to ascertain the extent of damage done.

Albion Hotel stables are to let by tender. Quarterly licensing meetings are advertised for September. Rev. Mr Luxford will preach in the Harmonic Hall on Sunday evening. Qil . and Fibre Company directors are to meet on Saturday afternoon at the Secretary’s' office, to register the company. A meeting of shareholders will be held at a later date to elect perma-nent-directors ; and, their first duty will be to acquire a suitable site for the factory.

Mr C. F. Barker will sell to-morrow a quantity of fruit trees from Mr Ivory’s nursery, Canterbury. Mr*R. Robb, who recently,purchased the site of the hoiling-down : works at Kabaramea, now advertises that he is a cash purchaser of hides and wool. He is arranging to resume boiling-dowu operations. :

W. Cowern reports of the, Lincoln-st. Sale, Yards on the second,inst, 51 head cattle, 412 sheep, and several horses *•« made, up the sale.:; Cattle showed no "f apparent alteration in value. Sheep: Old ewes 7s fid, called wethers 7s fid, hoggets' 7s 9d and 11s 6d, fat sheep (light weights). 11s . lid. Horses, no demand. , /

The new school at Manaia was opened last Monday with sixty-three pupils by the Rev. Mr Wilkes. This, was a greater number: than expected,, and Mrs Wilkes was called upon for school duty.

The Ngaire correspondent of the Hawera 'Star , says * Mr Curtis, who went from her.e; to urge the.case of the Opunake road, has interviewed, Ministers in Wellington, andTs hopeful of success. It is beyond all doubt, that it has been openly promised to buyers of land at Stratford, that this road would be made by Government ; and what is more, it would now pay them handsomely to make it. Opunake too has all justice on its side, when asking that.the back country should be opened up by a road which would bring trade to its port.

The Canterbury Times says : That most important industry, the cultivation of European flax,bids fair to. receive due attention. A prospectus is issued of the Canterbury Linseed Oil and Fibre Company (Limited). ’ The capital, is to be £IO,OOO, in 2000 shares of £5, with power to increase the capital to £20,000. The list of provisional directors includes the Mayor of Christchurch, and other well-known business men. The prospectus states that it is proposed to erect scutching mills in the districts where crops of European flax are grown, and also ;a factory in a central-positionr'-Ttis estimated that about £4OOO will be sufficient to acquire land, erect the necessary buildings, provide machinery, and meet preliminary expenses.

A batch of Messrs Grant and Forster’s farmers from Lincolnshire,, left Loudon in June. They are bound for Auckland. .. For the three months previous to June,' 35,126 money orders were issued at N. Z. post ', offices, the total amount being £121,710.; : The famed Timaru ‘bghost” has; been captured. The awful terror of the town turns out.to he a poor, worn-out halfnaked man, suffering from delirium tremens. , Ho was captured by two youths, and the police arrived and locked the unfortunate “ spectre” up. , _ At Walaroo, ! &dutfe"Australia, a'mif^ named Spreent fell down a shaft hOO f ( e deep, and was dashed to pieces. J The Hon. W, J. -Clarke has offered £5,000-towards establishing a scholarship 5 inconnection with the Roy ah College-of Music, in Victoria.-' v - Tho Wellington Meat Freezing Company have chartered two ships for the conveyance of cargoes of frozen meat. The first vessel is intended to be despatched‘about December next, arid the other in the month of March following. ' Mr Snow, of Massachusetts, proprietor of the Maori paper published at Auckland, is dosing his- dusky readers with items on temperance. -Advice in that direction is needed. , ......

A telegram from Wellington ■ to : the. Tauranga Times states that the Government intend to push pri the road to Opotiki via Te Teko, Whakatanc; and the back of Ohiwa and bpbtiki, thus adopting the inland track from Opotiki to- Gisborne.