Second Edition

Patea Mail, 18 September 1882, Page 3

Second Edition

Timber is raised in price 2s per 100 feet. The Manawatu millers seem to have combined to put up the price. It is said a saw-milier can buy a block of land three miles from Halcombe station abounding with the finest timber in the district at £4 per acre ; can get the logging done.for 2s, sawing for 2s, cartage, wear and tear, and interest, Is 6d, total, 5s 6d per hundred. There is every prospect of a trade springing up with Melbourne, and the demand along this coast will be brisk during summer. Seeing this prospect, the millers clap on the increase. A complete victory in Egypt is announced to-day. -The Egyptian army has surrendered at Cairo, and that inland capital is now occupied by the British. The war is over, there being no soldiers left to defend a hopeless cause. The Education Board will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, on account of the disorganised condition of the High School at Wanganui. A useful institution in Dunedin is the Patients’ and Prisoners’ Aid Society, which in its fifth year has spent £442 in helping released prisoners to make a fresh start under favorable conditions, and in helping lunatic patients after release from the asylum. The members of the telephonic exchange in Christchurch are agitating for a reduction in rates..