PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year. 510. Monday Evening, Sept. 18, 1882

Patea Mail, 18 September 1882, Page 2

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

Monday Evening, Sept. 18, 1882

Delivered on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings by mounted messengers —at HfiAvcra by 7-SO o'clock, at Normanby by 8-15, at Manaia and Waimate Plains by 8-30, and Southward at WaVerley (for train) by 0 o’clock.

The ss Wakatu is detained by the underwriters in Wellington for overhaul, and leaves the slip to-day direct for Patea. The cricketing season being at hand, the annual general meeting of the Cricket Club is called for Wednesday evening next. The cricket pitch has been lengthened, for convenience of longstopping, and the ground is now in admirable order for beginning the season. Mr T. Lloyd, who is retiring from hotel-keeping at Manaia, is reported to have purchased 130 acres near Otakeho, at £lO 10s per acre, from Mr R. Dingle. Mr Lloyd also holds a deferred payment section near Manaia. The prosecution at Hawera for nonpayment of a separate license billiards by Mr Wallis, hotel-keeper, resulted in a decision that a publican must also pay for a billiard license. Mr Wallis has appealed. Thejustices were Captain Wilson and Mr J. Livingston. The Horticultural Society’s catalonge for the Spring Show will be ready for distribution at the end of this week. The show is fixed for November 22nd, and. the classes of exhibits are very similar tu those of last year. The Committee have endeavored to give increased interest to the new catalogue by including the lists for both Spring and Autumn Shows in the same book, and adding a calendar of garden operations and other information which will be useful to cultivators throughout the year. The list of exhibits for the Spring Show can be seen any day at the Mail office, but the whole book cannot be made up for a few days. The first experiment in Patea of planting a public avenue has just been completed. The street leading to the Cemetery is formed with an open roadway up the middle, the sides fenced with posts and wire, and trees planted within the fenced spaces. The side-fences can be removed in a few, years, leaving a carriage-way up the middle, and space for footways on each side. Four lines of trees are planted, those near the roadway being planes; and the side rows being pines, various. The avenue as now finished looks particularly neat and pleasing. The Cemetery Trustees have done a good useful work which will soon be the chief ornament of the suburbs. It is to be hoped this successful experiment will induce the Borough Council to plant other avenues nearer the town centre. The broad new roadway between the bridge and .Taplin’s corner offers just the kind of opportunity which the. Borough Council may turn to good account. The street and footpaths will together be one-aud-a-half chains, being broarder than Egmontstreet. This work when finished should make a noble approach to centre; and it can so into an. avenue by planting a fenced trees down each side, about four feet from the channel. There would remain as much space for traffic as in Egmont-street. Trees on that sloping street would have a fair amount of shelter to start them. • Parliament will have to be disestablished—done away—put down. The reason is thus explained by a journal at New Plymouth :—“ Pew persons outside of Wellington will regret that the General Assembly of New Zealand has been prorogued, and its power for doing mischief brought to an end.” Readers will naturally remark upon this view, that if the colony ought to rejoice when Parliament prorogues, there should be still more rejoicing if Parliament were prevented from meeting to do more mischief.

The.Masonic lodge meets this evening. The Volunteer inspection parade takes place to-morrow evening. Tenders for painting grand stand on Waverley racecourse are invited. Mr Crosse, dentist, announces visits to Waverley and Patea next week. Captain Gibbons is selling his furniture, through Mr Coworn, and intends residing in Auckland several months. An essay on “ wheat growing will be read at to-morrow’s meeting ol the Waverley Y.M.M.I Society. The inward ’Frisco mail reached Auckland last evening. Letters may be expected in this district to-morrow. One of the newly elected Councillors had a social party on Saturday evening, with refreshments and a dance. Tenders for completing the railway formation up to Manutahi station, and some small works this side of Burke’s catting, will close to-morrow. The length between. Burke’s and Manutahi is said to be heavy work mostly. The charge against a bigamist from this district, John Lyttle, lately of Knkaramea, blacksmith, has been adjourned at Auckland, to enable wit- - nesses to be got from New Plymouth, and Wanganui. Sending a Bogus Telegram. —ln the Taranaki News, J. Whitely King writes a letter staling that he was the sender of the bogus telegram which caused such uneasiness in this district relative to Te Wetere’s leaving Wellington during the session, at Mr Sheehan’s instigation and through Mr Bryce’s direction. The letter comes from Gore, Southland. Public money will be spent in this district to a considerable amount during the next twelvemonth. The completion of the railway from Waverley to Manutahi, including ballasting and platelaying from Patea bridge to Manutahi, may be expected to be finished by December or January. The last connecting link between Manutahi and Hawera may be put under contract during the next three months. The work of surveying the bnsh behind Patea, and making roads for settlement, is to go on. The Momahaki land, about 9,000 acres, is to be put in the market at an early date. This expenditure of public money and the opening of land in the district should make trade good during the next twelvemonth. Among useful measures passed this session were about 20 bills for consolidating all existing statutes relating to the particular subject of each bill; and these 20 bills comprise the condensed provisions which had been scattered through nearly 200 statutes, and which are now brought into handy compactness. But ttie necessity for consolidation statutes so early in the colony’s history is evidence that much of the past legislation has been experimental tinkering. Australasian Fresh Meat Comply.—The prospectus of this undertaking states that the company has been formed specially to work fresh meat and other produce business from Australia or elsewhere upon the refrigerating system. Of the 20,000 shares now offered to the public, 4,000 shares, it is stated, have already been subscribed for are reserved for Australasia. of payment are 10s on application, 20s on allotment, 20s within two months after allotment, and the balance in instalments of not exceeding £2 per share, at intervals of not less than two months and at twenty-one days’ notice. The official native report of the bombardment of Alexandria, according to the European Mail, was to this effect: “ Admiral Seymour killed. Eight ironclads sunk, two burnt, and four bound together to be brought to Cairo.” The natives were not left long in donbt as to the stern facts of that encounter between ironclad ships and stone forts. London Truth says this colony has borrowed too much and too fast, and has exhausted her security. For the week ending the 9th inst, 730 persons were relieved by the Dunedin Benevolent Society.

American trout is to be largely imported to Canterbury next season. Fifty thousand acres of bnsh land in the Manawatu District will be felled and cleared within the next twelve months. Nearly £II,OOO has been subscribed for an art gallery at Aberdeen. The Queen sent £SO. Wellington is preparing a show of pigeons, canaries, poultry, and dogs; and the entries are said to be in excess of the space allotted. On the 3rd April, 1881, the population of Tasmania was 115,705, and out of that number only 74,887 conld read and write. Prom the time the Debtors and Creditors Act came into force, there have been 7824 cases of bankruptcy in this colony. ■ A resolution has been passed at Temnka, Canterbury, to float a company with a nominal capital of £6,000, for the manufacture of European flax into fibre, oil and cake. A gambling saloon in Wanganui, much frequented by clerks and young shop-men, has earned a sudden notoriety by exposure through the press. But what are the police doing ? Several English insurance companies lost heavily by the burning of the city of Alexandria. In some policies, “ war risks” are exempted. Was the burning of Alexandria a war risk ? The Resident Engineer reports to the Taranaki Harbor Board : The grass and ice plants planted during the winter months are looking strong and healthy, and I am of opinion that they will answer our expectations in stopping the drift sand from the works. A famous English politician of the last generation is dead. Sir George Grey was associated with Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell up to 1868. He retired into private life about the time when Mr Gladstone took a leading position in politics. The Canterbury Linseed Oil and Fibre Company is not yet formed, but additional subscribers are to be canvassed for. Particulars are to be obtained of an American improved flax and hemp dressing machine. It is stated that 200 acres will be sown in flax if the company be started this season. The project for starting a farmers’ cooperative association at New Plymouth hns caused keen discussion as to tradesmen’s prices and the credit system. If business could be done mostly on a cash system, the prices could be made much lower without injury, because the present long waiting for overdue accounts and the present losses for bad debts would be saved. Strange to learn at this day that the head of Oliver Cromwell is still “in excellent preservation.” 'The Protector’s head is supposed to have been blown down from the top of Westminster Hall, where it had been placed on a spike for crows to peck at when Charles the Second came to the throne ; and the head was then picked up, sold to Mr Wilkinson, near Sevenoaks, and embalmed. The hair and features are ■aid to be life-like even yet, and there is the hole in the skull where the head was impaled, and also “ a hole where a large wart had been cut out.”