PATEA MAIL Establish 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Friday Evening, Aug. 18, 1882.

Patea Mail, 18 August 1882, Page 2

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

Friday Evening, Aug. 18, 1882.

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Rent for the Cemetery reserve being in arrear, the Board have resolved to re-enter on the land if the rent he not paid within fourteen days from Monday last.

We learn that Captain Martin has sold his farm near Manaia at LIT an acre to Mr Hislop, of Wanganui. Captain Martin does not intend to leave the district.

The Cemetery Board have agreed to form a wide pathway round the burial ground, ami plant trees along it and also some additional trees in the main avenue. The trees on the hill behind the Cemetery are doing remarkably well, and those in the lower ground are thriving fast. Lambs arc suffering terribly from the severe weather this month. On a farm near Kakaramea, 38 were killed during the south-west storm of hail and rain on Wednesday night. Other losses in the district are reported. For early lambs, this season is proving one of the worst daring many years. Tenders for fencing trees when planted in Scotlaud-street, by Cemetery trustees, were :—P. Neilson, sawn posts, £63 I3s 9d, accepted ; those declined being ; P. M’Langhian, £7O ; Parnell and Carey, sawn posts, £2 10s per chain, split posts £2 ss. A care-taker for the Cemetery is to be appointed by tender.

“ Liberal ideas and how to strive for them ” was the subject of a lecture by Robert Stout, delivered before the Working Men’s Political Association, in Christchurch. He believed in no system of land-holding unless it made the State the landlord. What right had we to dispose of the laud so that those coming after us would have no right in it ? Unimproved land in the colony is valued at 50 to 60 millions sterling; and when this land acquired a value by people occupying it, that increased value should not go to individuals, but to the State. Mr Foulis, school inspector for the Wanganui Education Board, has fixed upon the following dates for examinations in standard work : Waitotara, 21st November ; Waverley, 22nd and 23rd ; Kohi, 24th ; Patea, 27th, 28th, and 29th ; Whenuaknra, 30th ; Kakorarnea, Ist December; Woodville, 4th ; Manntahi, sth ; Whakamara, 6th ; Hawera, 7tb, Bth, and 11th; Normanby, 12th and 13th ; Ngaire, 14th ; Manaia, 18th and 19th. We understand that Mr A. Wood declines to withdraw his notice of resignation as pilot and harbor-master at Patea. This is to be regretted. Mr Wood is .held in such high respect as a careful and attentive pilot, knowing every peculiarity of the harbor, that it will be a misfortune for the place if he persists in resigning. He would be doing himself justice by waiting till the next meeting of the' Harbor Board,-seeking a personal interview with them, and acting according to the result. We agree that the Board might have beeen less cnrt, and more considerate, in their mode of transmitting the last instruction to him about not departing from the code of rules for signalling. Mr Wood will have sufficiently vindicated his position by tendering his resignation, and by withdrawing it now that the Board have asked him to do so; and have also expressed their confidence in him. We are requested to correct an inaccuracy as to what the Chairman said. In expressing surprise at the resignation, he did not say he was not aware of the grievance, but that he was not aware of the pilot’s intention to resign. Diamonds to the value of £4,500,000 were exported from the Oape during 1881.

11. J. Duncan filed in Wellington in 1879. The lirsl dividend of four-pence in the £ is only now being paid. The Wellington contribution of the Timam Wreck Fund amounted to LISG 7s lid. Owing to (he slackness of business, the Transatlantic Insurance Company have closed their agencies in New Zealand. In Germany Prince Charles, Emperor William’s brother, has a cigar-holder in which lie smokes three cigars at a time. Professor Fraser, the phrenologist, is lecturing in Christchurch to crowded audieuccs. He intends visiting this coast early next year. A man named Pyke fell from a plank in Christchurch the other day, breaking Ins right, and severely spraining his left leg. At Tapanni recently, a man for a wager ate nine dozen oysters, and wanted more. His opponent could not come up to the nine dozen. Wellington Floods.— Damage to the extent of £SOO has been cansed by floods during the late storm in the Karori and Makara district. Forbes, the war-correspondent, will be unable to visit Now Zealand until the end of the year, as he wishes to be in Melbourne to see the races.

A London telegram says Professor Jovons, the well-known political economist, has been .drowned while bathing. He was 47 years of age.

The revenuejderived from the Telegraph Department in New Zealand last year for telegrams alone, amounted to L 78,116, and. the exenditure, L 87,457. A man named Walsh, a settler near Kakain, lias been arrested for threatening to shoot a constable who attempted to interview him on the subject of alleged cruelties to horses on his farm.

The Otago harbor-master says that a powerful fog signal should be placed at Taiaroa Heads, and urged that Government should be again asked for one, in connection with the lighthouse.

An unfortunate lad named Webb has had botli his legs amputated in the Dunedin Hospital. He had the misfortune to be lost iu the snow in the Teviot Ranges, where he was severely frost-bitten.

Tha following are the salaries of the Agent-Generals in the different places : Canada, L 2,800 ; New South Wales, L2,‘rso ; Victoria, L 2,000 ; Soutli Australia, L 1,500 ; and New Zealand, L 1,250Edward. Thomas, formerly of Auckland and the Thames, has been brought up in Victoria in connection with the recent gold robbery at the Day Dawn mine, Charter’s Towers. He was remanded.

The electric light is now used in the reading room of Watson’s Hotel, Dunedin. Ten Swan lamps are used for the lighting of the room, and give the greatest satisfaction.

Drunkenness is on the increase at Rotorua. This arises from the Natives receiving rents for for the Rotorua township. rents which are obtained by leasing: their land under the Thermal Springs Act.

Doctors can sometimes make extortionate demands from their patients. A London doctor lately demanded LSOO to visit a patient in Glasgow. A reply was sent for him to come. His name was Dr Andrew Clarke.

A breach of promise action action is shortly to be heard at Wellington. The parties are Miss Sweeny a saleswoman, and Mr Leybourne a Government clerk. They were untiring correspondents, and the secrets of between 60 and 100 love letters are to be divulged.

The sheriff has, it is stated, applied Government for an investigation to be held re Winiata’s hanging. The Rev. Mr Wallis, an eye-witness, writing to the Auckland Star , says it was a most barbarous affair, and entirely coincides with the reports before published.

Four girls, three of whom are fourteen and the other fifteen, have beeii carrying on petty pilfering in Christchurch to an alarming extent. Fifteen charges were numbered against them, the total amount of the articles stolen being £8 10s. The girls were sent to the Industrial School.

“ Darky Thompson,” a favorite old Wellingtonian died last week at Masterton. For several years he was landlord of the National and Prince of Wales Hotels, iu Wellington. About ten years ago he went to Masterton, where he opened the Prince of Wales Hotel, and having made a competency, retired to private life some time ago. He was a member of the Masterton Masonic Lodge.