PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Wednesday Evening, Aug. 16, 1882.

Patea Mail, 16 August 1882, Page 2

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

Wednesday Evening, Aug. 16, 1882.

Delivered on Mondav, 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.

Captain Bonner will take charge of the Wakatu, commencing his first trip to-morrow. Captain Gibbons will start for Auckland with the machinery which is to be fixed in the new steamer now building. The Chairman of the County Council returned to-day from Wellington, and we believe has succeeded in obtaining a substantial help toward repairing the County road northward of Waverley, on the plea of the railway traffic cutting it up.

The two men injured in a railway cutting are walking about the Hospital grounds to day. Stockman has now the use of bis legs, the numbness decreasing each day, and can walk with ease. Lawn, who was buried four feet under the fall of soft rock, can walk with crutches ; one leg being well, but the other still numb and almost useless, Mr H. A. Arthur is exibiting a cosylooking suite of drawing-room furniture, handsomely carved in rich sateen cretonne that' matches excellently with the wood. He is also making up a superior suite covered in a richly figured tapestry cretonne. It is creditable that Palea tradesmen can supply locally upholstered suites and excellent cabinet-work equal to the products of large towns, where luxurious furniture is more in demand. When a district has been some years settled, the prospering holders of large properties may be expected to furnish their homes in a style creditable to their sense of comfort. A Deputation from Normanby district returned to-day from Wellington, with not much consolation. They were Mr 0. E. Gibson, Mr Brett, and Mr Morrison (chairman of Hawera Road Board.) They asked for a grant of £2OOO to be put on the estimates for metalling Boylan road and making it part of the Mountain road, as more convenient to settlers; also £2,000 for bridges over roads about Eltham ; £ISOO to complete the metalling of Normanby-to-Manaia road. The Minister of Public Works told them the new Roads Construction Bill, when it passes, will enable the local bodies to borrow for these works, and put on a special rate. This was all they could get in lieu of cash. As to their other requests, the Minister promised to erect sheds at Eltham and Te Roti stations ; also to enquire as to holding monthly sittings of the R.M. Court at Normanby. A cemetery reserve for Normanby is to be laid off at Waihi; but the appeal for that land to be made an endowment for Normanby was not successful.

Railway Land required for continuing the line to Manutahi is gazetted to be taken ; the sections and linkage being stated in detail. Land required in the Hawera survey district for continuing the northern line towards Manutahi is also gazetted to be taken. This shows an intention to push on the formation from both ends towards Manutahi as the point of junction.

Some old soldiers who have failed to get land grants, are signing a petition at Wanganui to send to the Queen.

Mr G. F. Barker’s sale of stock and implements takes place on Thursday.

Mr P. R. Jackson’s stock sale at Hawera takes place on Friday.