PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Monday Evening, Sept. 25, 1882.

Patea Mail, 25 September 1882, Page 2

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

Monday Evening, Sept. 25, 1882.

Delivered on Monday, 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.

Mr Houghton having sold his interest in the Mail to Mr J. H. Clayton, editor and manager of the Christchurch evening Telegraph, the change will take place at the end ot September, It is hoped the Mail will flourish with increased success under Mr Clayton’s management. He is an able and experienced journalist, and will come to this district with an excellent reputation from Canterbury. As a mark of the respect in which be is held, we may mention that the employees of the Christchurch Telegraph entertained him to a farewell dinner on Saturday, and presented him with a testimonial of’their esteem. The retiring proprietor will take another opportunity of explaining his reasons for resigning the Mail, and of acknowledging his sense of gratitude for much kindness and friendly support received from the public of Patea district, and particular acts of kindness from personal friends.

Mr Bryce has returned home for a short rest.

The stock sale at Waverley on Friday was very successful, only one pen of cattle remaining unsold. Mr Powdrell’s Tally-ho is nominated for the Wanganui Stakes Handicap. The Wesleyan choir and Sundayschool children will perform a service of song in the chnrch on Wednesday evening.

The ss Wakalu sailed at 6 o’clock last evening, and arrived at Wellington at 11 o’clock to-day. The vessel has again been docked, and is not expected to get away to-day for Patea. It seems to be an oversight that the crew of the Wakatn steamer have received no recognition for their extra exertions and all-night labors in helping to get the steamer ont of perilous positions on two occasions. In thanking the officers and awarding them a bonus, it would have been a graceful act to thank the crew as well.

So Eltham township is to be felled now; and then there will be the usual excitement worked up—-junction of the railway to Mahaia and Opunake, junction of main road to Taupo and Auckland ; unrivalled chance for speculators in town lands; the usual vague pie-crust promises, and the usual finding of its own level afterwards, “ when the bottom falls out.” We have seen it all before, I fancy, and shall probably do so again.— Cor, Star.

Mr George Lansell, mining speculator of Victoria, lately gave a gold chain, valued at 500 guineas, to the corporation of Margate, England, where he was born. In explanation of the bankruptcy of M t r Tregear, surveyor, at New Plymouth, we learn that bailiffs were put into his house to recover rent for lease of a quarter-acre section in Whiteley Township, formerly Wesleyan Mission Station. Mr Tregear bid for one lease when this township was “ put up” some three years ago. No building has been erected in the “ township ” to this day, but rents are running on. The religious body owning the township sued Mr Tregear and got judgment for one year’s rent. The judgment was not pressed for execution at that time, but was put away among the law papers ot the late Mr Halse. However, this judgment has again turned up, and Mr Tregear being unable to pay on demand £4O arrears of rent, the bailiffs took possession of his effects. This led him to file his schedule. He had been paying off various old debts, reducing the total from £250 to about £7O. His intention was to first clear off tradesmen’s

debts and then pay for his unfortunate land “ spec..”

For a vacant seat in the Manaia Town Board, Mr P. M’Coy and Mr D. Sinclair are nominated. The ballot takes place this week.

The fatal accident to Mrs Hellier afe Hawera is thus explained. The horse becoming restive, its rider pulled hard at the reins, causing the horse to rear over backwards. It fell on her heavily, and she died from the shock, no boles being broken.

Ten thousand trout ova are expected from Dunedin to be landed at New Plymouth next week-end for hatching out by the Hawera Acclimatisation Society, Hatching boxes have been constructed, and Mr G. M’Leau will take charge of the fish.

Messrs Nolan’s stock sale at Manaia on Friday was marred by the weather. Only a few cattle turned up, which sold at the Hammer.

Clay tiles for drainage purposes are about to be manufactured in Patea, Two machines of the largest and newest pattern are expected to arrive shortly, and the motive power for driving them ii already provided. The factory will be on the river bank, with facility for water carriage, and within a few chains, from the railway. The site for the factory combines several advantages: (1) clay of a superior kind in enormous quantity; (2) water pressure equal to Bor 10 horse power working 8 hours a day, the supply being regular, and the fall remarkably suited for turbine pressure; (3) ready access to river and railway; (4) ample area for extensive operations; (5) closeness to the town. Preparations for starting the factory have been in progress some months, on the property of Mr G. F. Sherwood A large new dam for storing the wat?r issuing from several springs has just been finished, and the expense of construction must have been considerable. A graded roadway is also made from the high ground to the river flat where the tile machines will be erected. Signs of a well planned enterprise are visible in the preparations made, and Mr Sherwood will have many well-wishers for his success. Experts who have tested the clay speak of it as .exceptionally suited for tile-making.

In connection with, tile-making, a demonstration of water power took place the other day. Mr Sherwood’s new reservoir is formed by a large dam halfway down a long gully, and the overflow is at the point where a small waterfall used to run. To test the water supply, the dam was filled for the first time in a certain number of hours, exactly as calculated, and the mass was then let off through a long box culvert placed at the bottom as an outlet in case of accident or emergency requiring the dam to be rapidly emptied. The box culvert is 15 by 15 inches inside measure, and the sluice being raised at four o’clock afternoon, the reservoir took forty minutes to empty, the water shooting out of the large outlet and plunging down a long descent with thonging force, as. witnessed .by many visitors invited for the occasion. The dam, when emptied, showed that a Httli inside facing is still required in places. The general construction is a success; and the storage of water seems ample for driving, by turbine pressure at a much lower level, any machinery that is likely to be r used in tile-making, with power to spare. A driving power like this, so near to town, might be utilised for various purposes.

Cure fok Lockjaw. —A correspondent of the Scientific American, says :■— “ Let anyone has who an attack of lockjaw take a small quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour it on the wound, no matter where the wound, and relief will follow in less than a minute. Nothing better can be supplied to a severe cut or bruise than cold turpentine ; it will give certain relief almost instantly . Turpentine is also a sovereign remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel with it and place the flannel on the throat and chest, in every case three or fonr drops on a lump of sugar may be taken inwardly.

A very handsome memorial to the late Prince Imperial is now in the course of erection on the green facing the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. The funds for this monament have been raised by a military subscription. A statue of the Prince will surmount the memorial, which will also be decorated with a French eagle and a lanrel wreath, containing in the centre the letter “ N.”

Old Colonists. —A London letter says Mr H. Carleton, formerly member of the House of Representatives for the Bay of Islands, has just returned from a trip to Italy, and looks well. Another ex-member (Mr Barton, barrister-at-law), who was at war with the New Zealand Judges, is now settled in London. Mr G. M. Reed contemplated leaving for the Colony by this mail, bat has been detained by business in connection with the East Coast Land Settlement Company. It is not certain whether he wil go oat again.

In a bigamy base tried at Sooth Mahon, England, Michael Allen, cntler, pleaded that his second wife when she married him knew that he was a married man. The first wife was convicted of feipny, and otherwise led him an unhappy life, so he sold her for five shillings to a man with’whom she lived for many years. This was in 1851. He had never seen her since. The sale agreement was duly drawn up, witnessed by her father arid mother, and he thought it absolved! himbat he did not marry again till last year. He was committed for trial.

A London letter says that at an extraordinary general meeting of the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company Sir Charles Clifford (the chairman) drew attention to the satisfactory Financial Statement submitted by Major Atkinson, and referred to the fact that the railways of the colony were paying 5 per cent. He believed that the £8,000,000 loan would afford additional scope for the operations of the Trnst and Loan Cotnpany, by creating a demand for capital in various ways. He moved therefore a resolution confirming the increase of 1 the company’s capital by issuing 20,000 shares of £25 each, to be offered first of all to existing shareholders. The motion was carried unanimously. ,

Writing: about linseed, “ Agricola” in the Auckland Weekly News, under the beading of “ Subsidiary Crops,” makes the following , remarks on the prospects of cultivation in New Zealand : —lt appears that the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association have come to the determination to offer a prize for the production of a machine that will thrash and clean linseed, at the same time preserving the regularity of the straw ; as labor is expensive in this country, any machine that will lessen the cost will be a benefit. It would be a grand thing if both; seed and fibre conld be used, so that no part of the crop would be wasted. Some years ago in Ireland, there were in cultivation oyer 200,000 acres of flax, but the greater portion of the seed was wasted. Not long since a Belfast paper bad the following :—lt is certainly a curious con-

trast, that on the one side British India is exporting £30,000 worth of flax seed, **aud throwing away £500,000 worth of fibre ; and on the other, Ireland is raising to the, value of £2,000,000 of flax fibre, and rotting in the steep pools £500,000 worth of seed ! It is Russia alone that has been benefiting by the ignorance of the Hindoo ryot, and the prejudice and surprising carelessness of the Irish fanner. Not a particle of the valuable plant is allowed by her nobles to go to waste. She sells, us ,to the value of £3,000,000 of . fibre and £900,000 of seed each year, and does not even take onr manufactures in return. lam writing of linseed as an auxilary crop, but as scutching and oil mills become established, and the flax industry develops, there is no doubt that linseed will become one of the general crops grown by farmers, and will enter into the regular system of rotation that may be carried oat.