PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Monday Evening, Aug. 21, 1882.

Patea Mail, 21 August 1882, Page 3

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

Monday Evening, Aug. 21, 1882.

Delivered on Montlav, 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 8-80. and Southward at Waverley (for train) by 6 o’clock.

Readers in Waverley district will be interested in Messrs 'R. and J. Muir’s new advertisement, in this issue. The Institute entertainment is fixed for Wednesday in next week, being postponed to leave a clear field for the Fire Brigade entertainment this week. The Institute programme will comprise the famous comedy “ Cool as a Cucumber,” to beenacted by local amateurs; also the successful burlesque opera (in character), “ Trial by Jury.” Some members of the Patea brass band will kindly assist with overture and interlude, and the whole band will play sections at the door before eight o’clock. The inward ’Frisco mail reached yesterday, and letters may expected in this district to-morrow. The Fire Brigade entertainment tomorrow evening is expected to draw a full house. A number of songs are to be given by local musicians whose ability has been proved by previous successes. The dramatic pieces are said to be lively, and we hope they will go off well, A torchlight procession will be a preliminary sensation on an imposing scale ; the Fire Brigade, the Volunteers, and the Band, all joining in this display before eight o’clock.

A first dividend of five shillings in the pound in the estate of Mr M’Kittrick, lately of the Central Hotel, is being paid by the trustee. The estate is expected to yield a further dividend of four or five shillings, accordingly as the book debts may be realised.

Tenders are invited for additions to the Harmonic Hall, in the shape of dressing rooms at the rear. Some convenienc" of this kind is much needed, for entertainments and balls. Amendments to the bye-laws of the Harbor Board are advertised. The main alteration is in the increase of wharfage rates, to give effect to the general rise from Is 6d to the new rate of 2s 6d per ton. These amendments are to be confirmed at a meeting to be held about a week hence.

Mr Wood has definitely declined to withdraw his resignation as pilot and harbormaster, and a sncccessor is now advertised for. Mr Wood does not intend to leave Patea at present, but he does prefer to be relieved of a duty which he regards as too harassing for the poor way in which his attention to the work has been appreciated. The Harbor Board have lost a good servant for want of a little tact and consideration in their treatment of him. All parties will regret the result. The Board had no intention, to be overbearing or harsh towards an old servant, whose zealous attention so duty we believe the members fully appreciated. The mistake is made, and apparently can’t be mended.

A Russian museum has lately been presented with one thousand tea-pots. They were collected by Baroness Struve, the wife of a Russian minister at America.

The publication of the earlier volumes of Lord Lytton’s life is being prepared by bis son.

A box on the ear is considered a mild form of chastisement, but has a certain amount of danger connected with it. A

journalist has lately died in the hospital

at New York, from the effects of a slap on ear, given him when a boy. His was brought about by abscess brain, the result of the blow on the .1,