NEWS OF THE DAY.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 948, 20 October 1882, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr John Gibson invites tenders for his new store at Hawera. The sailing of the Wakatu has been postponed till to-morrow afternoon. Mr C. F. Barker’s stock sale will be held at his yards on Monday, at 1.30 p.ra. We hear that Mr Derrott has leased his farm to Mr Heslop, of Wanganui, at 17s 6d per acre. Tenders for formation, &c., of several streets close on Monday, as per advertisement. Mr F. R. Jackson’s cattle sale will be held at Waverley to-morrow. There are a large number of entries. The cricket match Town v. Country wilbe resumed to-morrow. Play will com mence at 2 o’clock. Mr F. R. Jackson is now receiving entries at the Hawera office for the Kakaramea sale on Friday next. Mr W. Cowern announces a stock sale at the Lincoln street Yards on Wednesday, Nov. Ist. Present entries comprise 100 head of cattle. The only case at the R.M, Court this morning, was that of Cowern v M’Carthy, which was further adjourned for a week. Mr Aitchison has resigned his seat 5n the Harbour Board. Mr Coutts has also forwarded his resignation to the Government. Mr Clague asks us to correct a misprint in the report of his case last Wednesday. His wife’s maiden name was Jessie Marshall, instead of Masher as printed. The Steward of the Hospital gratefully acknowledges the receipt of pastry, cakes, &c., from the committee of the Tradesmen’s Ball, held last Tuesday evening. The large gate leading into the hospital grounds has been locked by the House steward on account of the destruction caused to his garden by straying horses. It would be a great convenience to pedestrians and visitors to the institution if a side gate were erected.

The Clyde Ship Yards launched 20 new vessels during August. The appliqations for shaves in the Frozen Moat Company at Napier are several thousands in excess of the number to be allotted. The annual mooting of the Caledonian Society will be held at Haywood’s Hotel to-morrow evening. The principal business will be to decide about holding the Sports on New Year’s Day. By the substitution of a single letter, Mr Sherwood > at the meeting on Tuesday, was made to say that ho would not be connected with the Harbour scheme unless the works were expensive. Extensive was the word used, and the difference is a very wide one. The election to the vacancy in the Havvera Borough Council through the resignation of Mr Hobbs came off yesterday, and resulted in a victory for Mr Prichard, who polled 107 votes to Mr R. Lynchs’ 88. There was a good deal of interest taken in the result. An error occurred in our report of the Harbour meeting at Mr Dale’s warehouse on Tuesday. Mr Coutts was made to say that the Harbour Board revenue was £7OO, and the expenditure £520. The figures should have been : Revenue, £1261 ; expenditure, £IOBO. Cr. balance, £lßl. Mr W. G. .White, lion, secretary to the Havvera Cricket Club, has, says the Star, received the following telegram from the hon. secretary of the Auckland cricketers : —“ Excuse unavoidable delay'. Owing limited, time, cricket team unable play. Albert Dewebs.’’ This is a great disappointment to Haw era cricketers. -The prospectus of the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company appears in another column. We hope that the settlers in this district will assist in floating the company by taking up shares. The industry of meat-freezing may be said to be firmly established in other parts of the colony, and there is no part of New Zealand which should reap greater benefits from the export of frozen meat than this coast, The Manawatu, bound from Wanganui to Westport, put into Nelson yesterday, having been unable to round the Spit. She was at anchor in Guard’s Bay for some time, and afterwards ran over to the Spit. She reports the weather as being most tempestuous, and so signs of breaking. She had lost a number of cattle, sheep, and pigs.. ... -, t . The Australasian of September 30 makes the astounding statement that the Sydney footballers’ defeats at “ Auckland, Dunedin, and Otago ” are counterbalanced, by their victories at “ Wellington, Canterbury, and Christchurch,” Who would have thought that the leading weekly of Australia could make such ludicrous blunders ? A most extraordinary freak of Nature occurred on a farm at Woodend a- few days ago. On Sept. 28, a cow, the pro-: perty of Mr J. Stanton, gave birth to a bull calf, which was fully matured and healthy, and the cow, which was not in her ordinary condition bn such occasions, grazed along contentedly till Tuesday, Oct. 2, when she was delivered of another bull calfj equally healthy, and of as good quality. Both calves and the cow are now doing well, and Mr Stanton is at a loss to know if he shall call those calves twins. A correspondent writes to the Wanganui Herald :—The Murimotu settlers anticipate that a crisis between the Government and Major Kemp will shortly be arrived at. Many of them appear eager that it should take place at an early date, and they predict the time for such on the occasion of an attempt being made to pack the wool from the Moorhouse Station at the Murimotu through to Napier. This, it is expected, will bring about a collision between the Government and the Natives, which will lead to the opening up of the interior.

The Sydney Morning Herald wants to know whether “ we must look to a superiority, of qualit3 r as a reason for-the good prices, and confess that the New Zealand mountains have reared a better class of stock than our broader and more genial pasture lands ? All evidence hitherto obtained points to the contrary conclusion, and it is very generally understood that the best of the Australian mutton, or even the average of the ordinary Australian herds is better suited to the requirements of the London purchasei'sthan the finer and smaller sheep of New Zealand.” At the last meeting of the Canterbury Oil and Fibre Company, the Secretary, Mr M. Murphy, read a letter received by the editor of the Lyttelton Times from Mr Laymont, of San Francisco, stating that he had patented a flax machine that would thrash the seed and reduce the straw to fibre at the same time, the latter thereby retaining all its natural strength, lustre, and softness, entirely doing away with the tedious and expensive method of rotting, the work being done on the field where the plant is grown. Mr Murphy stated that the letter had been received on Saturday morning, and that he had written to Mr Laymont for full particulars by the outgoing San Francisco mail. Several other letters were read and received. The Chairman explained that steps had been taken to obtain machinery from Philadelphia and Belfast.