The Patea Mail. Established 1875. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1883. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1092, 28 September 1883, Page 2

The Patea Mail. Established 1875. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1883. NEWS OF THE DAY.

The election of one Councillor to the Borough Council, which took place yesterday, resulted in the return of Mr J. W. Bright, who polled 80 votes to his opponent’s (Mr P. C. Gowland) 26. Mr Bright briefly thanked the burgesses for returning him by such a large majority, and said that he would do his best for them while in the Council.

The usual weekl}' session of Star of Patea Lodge 1.0. G.T. was held on Wednesday evening, when there was again a good gathering of members. A communication was read announcing the expected visit of Bro. D. C. Cameron, G.W.S. next week. It was resolved to bold a public meeting on the occasion, and Sir W. Fox has consented to take the chair. Particulars of this meeting will be found advertised. Mr Covvern will auction the stock now remaining in the Beehive store to-morrow afternoon at 2.30 p.m.

It is stated that Mr Hunter Shaw has leased his eligible farm, consisting of about 400 acres, situated on the Whenuakura Block, to Mr Valentine Smith, from the Wairarapa district. The price mentioned is 15s per acre. It is said that Mr Shaw intends to take up his residence in town. Tenders for erecting a drinking trough in Bedford-street close at noon on Monday next, at the Borough Council office. Owners of horses aro reminded that the parade in connection with the Agricultural and Pastoral Association will take, place to-morrow afternoon on the Show ground at 2 o’clock. We understand that at the next meeting of the Education Board Mr Carson will give notice of motion, that tho resolution dismissing Inspector Foulis be rescinded; and that the Secretary, Mr A. A. Browne, receive three months’notice of tho termination of bis engagement. In consequence of tho additional facilities afforded by the railway it is intended by the Department that an additional mail per day will leave Patea for Hawera and vice versa, commencing on Monday next. Tho Patea mail most probably will close about 6 30, and the Hawera one reach here by the morning train, and so bo in lime for delivery by the letter carrier.

A meeting of persons interested in the formation of a Swimming Club was held at the Albion Hotel on Wednesday evening. About Sixteen were present, and Mr McKnight was elected Chairman. All those present being highly in favour of such a club being formed at once, it was decided that the present bathing shed be repaired as soon as possible, and life buoys and other apparatus obtained. Mr McKnight was elected secretary and treasurer, and a committee consisting of Messrs Kells, Gower, Harris, Tyer, and the secretary and treasurer appointed. The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the chair.

Tho following account of a most discreditable affair is furnished by a correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald : “ 1 happened to be walking in tho cemetery to-day, when a poor woman, frantic with grief, asked mo what she should do ? She had come to pay her Sunday visit to tho grave of her little girl, who had been buried about a year. Since the burial tho authorities had inquired if the parents intended to buy the grave, and the answer was in the affirmative ; but being poor people they have hitherto been unable to do so. This morning the poor mother was horrified to find the grave of her child opened and empty while the coffin had been taken out and lay on the grass out of the way. Is there a single excuse or reason that can justify such a proceeding in the free and humane colony of New Zealand.” A Greymouth telegram stotes tiiat the Oreti lost five bullocks on tier passage fio'.n Wanganui.

Meetings of creditors in the estates of Hugh Muldrock, John Armstrong, and Rupert■ Ja,comb will he held to-morrow. A Young’s creditors meet on Monday. , The New Zealand Shipping Company is advised by cable that the British King reached Rio Janioro on the 24th instant. All were well, and the frozen meat in good condition. She left Lyttelton seven days later than the Catalonia, but now is only four days behind the big Cunarder. With reference to the~cablegram elsewhere, announcing the failure of the shipment of frozen meat by the Mataura from Auckland, we learn that the greater portion of the cargo was insured with the New Zealand Insurance Companj'. The Company will therefore be the principal losers by the failure of the refrigerating.

The Christchurch Industrial Association have carried the following resolution : “That this Association is of opinion that it would be fortho welfare of the whole Colony if the Government of New Zealand were to call for tenders in each of the Provincial Districts for the manufacturing within the Colony of all the locomotives and other rolling-stock that may bo required from time to time on the Now Zealand Railways. Mr C. M. Gray, who seconded the resolution, stated that during the past six years, nearly £1,000,000 has been expended in rolling-stock, rails, &c: ordered from beyond the Colony.' Ho had gone carefully into statistics, and found that in 1877 £85,700 had been expended in - this direction ; in 1878, £151,351 ; in 1879, £221,952; in 1880, £113,878; in 1881, £45,536 ; and in 1882, £24,480 —a total of £642,897.

The jam industry seems to bo steadily growing at Nelson. As the season advances (says the Nelson Mail ) preparations arc being busily made at the Nelson Jam Factory in anticipation of tho work that the summer and autumn are to bring in the shape of jam and sauce making. Sixteen hands are kept regularly employed in making tins for the reception of jam, some scwt of tin being used up every day in their manufacture, which is immensely assisted by an ingenious little American machine used for rolling the tin into cylidrical form after it has been first cut by another machine into the required length. In other directions the tops and bottoms are being cut out, and the former stamped, while three or four boys are kept at work soldering. No less than 300,000 tins, each to hold a pound of jam, will be prepared for the coming season, and these are now being turned out at the rate of about 2400 a day.

A correspondent writes to the Argus apropos of the late earthquake disturbances, to give his recollection of the escape of a single steamer when all other shipping moored at Arica was destroyed. He says : “ This, however, is not applicable to the fine paddle steamer Santiago, commanded by one of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s most able officers, Captain King, in which vessel I was a passenger. Before the * earthwave ’ had communicated it’s influence seaward, Captain King slipped away from the roadstead, and when we at length felt the inward motion of the tidal wave the highest possible pressure of steam was put on, it being a question whether the boilers would burst or whether we would be carried back so far that the wave would burst over us. Fortunately, the noble ship behaved splendidly, and the waves burst about 100 yards behind us. That same wave carried the United States ‘ double-ender ’ Waterec farmland.”

Tine interment of the late Mete Kingi has been postponed until Monday noon. A very large number of natives are arriving at Putiki to take part in the proceedings. A holiday has been proclaimed in Wanganui, and the volunteers and a large body of civilians will attend the funeral of the deceased chief. The Herald says that the features of the dead man present rather a peculiar study to scientists. The complexion has changed to a dull whitish colour, but the face has swollen considerably, and the tatooing is very marked. The coffin (which is under a tent) is religiously guarded. Some amusing incidents aro related in the Scotch papers of the fishermen and women who went to the Fisheries Exhibition in London. When tho fisher folk were at tho Mansion Houso tho daughter of the Mayor struck up a Scotch reel on tho piano, and his Lordship led oil tho dunce with Jcanio Wilson. His Lordship also danced an Irish jig with Sophia Main, another of tho girls. When Mrs Mills, who asked tho Princess Beatrice “ How is ycr mullior koepin’?” described tho Lord Mayor of London vvalt/.ing with a fisher lassie, and tho Mayoress similarly engaged with a fisherman, while a young Indy supplied pianoforte music, words appear to fail hor, for she concluded (ho narration by saying, “An’ there were five bunder fishermen lookin’ at them ; it was nwfii’ I” Tho newspapers of the world use 300,000 tons of paper per annum—one third of tlio total produce of tho paper mills.