PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Wednesday Evening, Oct. 4, 1882.

Patea Mail, 4 October 1882, Page 2

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

Wednesday Evening, Oct. 4, 1882.

Delivered on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings by mounted messengers— at Hawera by 7-50 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.

At Manaia on Friday, Mr F. B. Jackson’s stock sale will be held. Mr E. Ellery Gilbert, piano tuner, will visit Patea on or abont Friday next. There were no cases at the R. M. Court yesterday. The Homeward mail via ’Frisco closes in this district to-morrow, the Patea box closing at 7 pan. Messrs Macfarlane and Swinbourn commenced erecting the Whenuakura station buildings on Monday. They had been delayed for timber. The Borough Council have agreed to invite competitive designs for Borough Chambers to be built at the top of Bedford-street. The discussion as to sites is reported elsewhere.

It is announced that the Patea S.B* Company have appointed Mr Cray, of Normanby, as auditor of accounts. The advantage to be gained by going so far afield for an auditor is not apparent. The meeting of Patea Volunteers did not take place last evening, the weather being very unfavorable for attendant*. The question of holding sports on New Year’s day is therefore postponed. There is a dangerous place at the south end of the Whenuakura bridge, owing to the space between the sides of the bridge and the road being unprotected. The danger of riding or driving at night is great. In driving cattle it is also troublesome, as there is a chance of them jumping down to the river. A dusty debate took, place in the Borough Council on Monday, anent the building of a watering cart. Some large ideas, and some very small ones, found expression. Jokes, anger, eloquence, and finance, all got mixed in this curious debate. The cart was “ carried ” by a narrow majority ; and the speeches are fully recorded in the Mail, for the instruction of •anxious ratepayers.

The Oil and Fibre Company’s directors met on Saturday evening, at Mr Cowern’s office. Mr J. Sheild was elected chairman. They appointed Mr Eyton secretary for the year; salary £2O, and he to provide office-room. Five offers of sites, all suitable in varying degrees for the company’s works, were received ; and a committee comprising the chairman, Mr Cowern, and Mr Honeyfield, was appointed to inspect the sites and treat with the owners as to terms. The question of machinery was postponed, pending some inquiries which are to be made. Accounts were passed for payment, and the directors will meet again shortly. O’Connor, the runner, was presented with a chronometer valued at 30 guineas, last week at Dunedin.

In America, during the late tornadoes, 130 persons were killed, and property amounting to 7,000,000 dols. destroyed.

A sale of 1,750,000 acres of Otago pastural land belonging to the Crown, is to take place in February. The firm of John Elder and Co., shipbuilders, pay £23,000 per fortnight in wages.

The well known crack racers Suwarrow and Grand Duchess have been scratched for the Melbourne Cup.