PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Wednesday Evening, Sept. 27, 1882.

Patea Mail, 27 September 1882, Page 2

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

Wednesday Evening, Sept. 27, 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 Waver ley (for train) by 6 o’clock.

The Government’s fresh nominee on the Wanganui Harbor Board is Mr Watt, Mr Peat having declined to be .again nominated. Capitation allowance for schools in this district was increased Is 6d per head by the Education Board yesterday. The Patea Committee had applied for an increase, and the Board have granted it to all committees, out of the extra os a head which Parliament voted for School Boards throughout the colony. The Education Board have carried the other 3s 6d per head to their general fund. The Wakatu has been detained in Wellington for repair of the damage sustained in grounding on the west spit last week. She has had to be put on the slip for a day or so, but is expected to leave Wellington to-morrow for Patea. She will sail for Westport with live stock on Friday, and go on to Wellington. ' The manager informs ns that the crew of the steamer received a bonus, as well as the officers, for extra exertions daring the recent mishaps.

Messrs G. and F. Horner announce sections for sale on the Waimate Plains.

Messrs Muir, Waverley, call attention to new season’s draperies. Mr I. Lupton’s Clydesdale stallion Lord Derby is advertised to travel the district this season.

Messrs Prosser are now running an extra line of coaches between Hawera and Waverley, meeting the trains at both ends.

The railway formation, Hukatere to Manutahi section, is reported to be let to Messrs Dickson, of Patea, their tender being about £2,660. ; In the estate of W. Williams, the trustee announces a first and final dividend of Is 2£d in the pound. The purchaser of the estate paid £7OO for it, and this sum has been so reduced by expenses of litigation that only a trifling dividend remains to the creditors. They earned more than this small dividend in wages for attending so many meetings of creditors. Prices of cattle at Homo have been little affected by all the importation of frozen moat. Ireland sends an enormous quantity of cattle to England, and a letter received from an Irish farmer says : “ Cattle are extremely dear. I got £lB 10s each for a lot of two-your-old bullocks and heifers last month, and am giving £lO 10s to £l2 each for yearlings-—strong. Beef and mutton lOd per lb. I sent a lot of lambs to Manchester and Dublin, £2 2s each clear to pocket.”

Mr F. R. Jackson’s stock sale at Kakaramea takes place on Friday, v A “service of song” in the Wesleyan cbnrclf is announced for this evening. The Kakaramea entertainment tomorrow evening will be attended by the Patea brass band.

Applications for the office of manager of the Patea Permanent Land, Building, and Investment Society will close tomorrow. In the R.M. Court yesterday, judgment was given against William Johnston, stableman, Kakaramea, for £9 15s due to Jas. Slater, storekeeper. At the District Court Judge Hardcastle, on being applied to for one guinea costs in the case of a merchant as a witness, declined to grant the application, stating that such sura could only be asked in the case of professional men. In the case referred to he conld only grant ten shillings.—Wang. Herald.

The contracts made for Bedford street and Egmont street south are considered to be at a remarkably low price. The whole work can be done cheaply, no doubt, by being in one contractor’s hand. Mr M’Laughlin has done a large amount of contracting about the district, and understands this kind of work very closely. He will start with men and drays on Monday. Tenders are accepted for streets formation to the amount of £1,691. These works are to be paid for out of loan : the Council, however, have not decided whether to put the loan on the open market, or in what way to raise the money. This matter was discussed for the third time at Monday’s meeting, and again adjourned. Business done in committee is not intended to be made public, and we are nnable to explain the apparently long delay in deciding how to raise the £IO,OOO which ratepayers have authorised the Council to borrow.

Other tenders for streets formation, under the borough loan scheme, may be called shortly. The Council meet again next Monday, and there will be laid be fore them plans and specifications for Leicester-street, to be re-graded from Gibson’s corner to Dr Croft’s, and formed with footpaths and waterchannels to a point just below Devonstreet, which is a cross-street to be made through from Odgers’s hotel. Leicesterstreet will thus end on the flat for the present, the remainder being a practicable road. The new formation from Dr Croft’s corner downward will have one footpath kerbed and gravelled, and the middle of roadway gravelled 12 feet. Another street that will be ready for tendering on Monday, and which is connected with same work, is Dorsetstreet from the Central Hotel to Staf-ford-street, near Harmonic Hall. This work will have to fit in with Leicesterstreet, by being graded afresh from the hotel northward. The short piece between Dr Croft’s and Stafford-street will be formed about half the full width, and raised to the permanent level. A good road will then be available in the direction of the Hospital, and some small expenditure on the remaining length would make it decent.

The opening cricket match of the season will be played on the Patea Domain; next Saturday. The married cricketers reckon on beating the single team <f all to pieces;” and it will thus be a ladies’ battle, although they are only to look on while the male athletes do the fighting. The married team will be chosen from the following members : —Messrs Jacob, Jacomb, Kitching, Gibbous, Dixon, R. B. Hamilton, Tennent, Taplin, Norman, Redgrave, Sheild, Whittom, Cowern, Barton, Eyton, and Bright. The single members’ team will be chosen from Messrs Read, Arundel, W. Harden, C. Harden, Newton, Hume, H. Nicholson, Smart, E. C. Horner, Doncghuo, Doan, Wright, Rose, and Nutsford. Play will begin at two o’clock sharp, and other cricketing frieiids are invited to attend, as the teams will not necessarily be confined to eleven a-sido.

The total amount of the sale of treasures at Hamilton Palace, Scotland, was £397,567.

An attempt is being made in Christchurch to start a co-operative Building

Society. The Christchurch Young Men’s Club has now 63 members, which is far above the promoters’ expectation. Mrs Langtry was very successful in her English tour, netting £l4=oo clear profit in one week.

On the coast of Norway, a railway carriage door has been washed ashore. It is supposed to belong to the ill-fated train that attempted to cross the Tay Bridge, Scotland. Sit Julius Vogel says he will not be able to visit N.Z. for some time yet t He took a trip to Sydney recently by rail, which caused him difficulty and pain.

Murdoch, the Australian cricketer, is making the best batting averages at Home. He has made a total of over a thousand runs in seventeen matches ; while in the bowling Spofforth has 70 wickets to his credit, and Palmer 90.

The Canterbury Fire Association offer rewards amounting to £IOSO to any persons who can give information that will lead to conviction respecting the late incendiary fires. The five Akaroa hotels offer £IOO each.

When the Duke of Connaught proposed accompanying the troops to Egypt the proposal was subject to disapproval. He however pointed out that there were many lives between him and the Throne, and it did not matter much whether he went or not.

A man made a curious find near Oamaru a few days ago. He discovered some oyster shells on the top of a hill, and on opening them they were found to contain pearls. He showed them to a jeweller, who alleges they are valuable. The locality where they were found is kept secret.

Small-pox has been prevalent of late at Capetown. There were a number of deaths in August, as many as 19 dying in one day. It has been estimated by the Cape Argus that there are 200 to 300 cases. The mortality amongst the Malays has been very serious. Every precaution is being taken, but it has not been rooted out as yet.

A machine for making cigarettes has been patented in America. It makes 100,000 cigarettes per day, which is the work of sixty hands, and during the year ended June 30tb, 1880,.- there were 408,000,000 cigarettes made. The machine is not large, and can be easily % placed in a moderately-sized room.

The destructive fire at Timaru last week was discovered by a compositor in the Herald office, and very few knew of it until next morning, owing to the fire-bell being an inferior one. The total value of property destroyed is about £14,600. Three large shops were destroyed, and one of the. firms estimate their loss at-£2OOO. The total amount the insurance offices lost was £10,350, The following is the present rate of charges for the carriage of wool upon the Victorian railways. Rate per bale, not over 4 cwt: 20 miles and under, Is; 26 miles and under, Is 3d; 45 miles and under, 2s per bale. For every 5 miles or part of 5 miles cumulative in each instance on preceding rate. Over 45 and up to 60 miles, 4d ; over 60 and up to IUO miles, 3d ; over 100 and up to 160 miles, 2d ; over 160 miles, Id.

The Directors of the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association have decided to call for tenders for the construction of a large wool and grain store at the railway siding on the South belt, recently purchased by the Association. The building will be 112 ft long by 77ft in width, and is to be constructed of galvanised iron. It will be provided with weigh-bridges and other necessary appliances. It is intended to hold auction sales of wool in this store, at which all the auctioneers will be enabled to sell the wool committed to their care by their various clients during the coming season.