NEWS OF THE DAY.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1115, 21 November 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The'regular monthly' meeting of the Patea Masonic Lodge, 53G S.G., was hold on Monday evening, Bro Luxford, R W M, presiding. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year :—R WM, B'o Thomas Haywood ; DM, Bro E L Barton ; SM, Bro P 0 Gowland ; S W, Bro Thomas Eyton ; J W, Bro Alfred Gower ; Secretary, Bro J Gordon Rose ; Treasurer, Bro E LBn ton ; SD, Bro S Taplin ; J D, Bro Daniel Paul ; JG, Bro Alfred Wood; Tyler, Bro WA White. The installation takes place on St Andrew’s day when several of the sister Lodges will be represented and the ceremony of installation performed by P M’s Gordon, of Canterbury, Luxford, Finnerty, and Gowland of Patea, assisted by visiting P M’s. Mr F R Jackson’s Hawera sale will be held on Friday. A list of the entries appears elsewhere. The Waverley has been detained in Wellington by the gale, but is expected in to-morrow. She will leave at midnight for Nelson. The New Zealand Volunteer and Armed Constabulary Service Gazette is the title of a new monthly journal issued at Christchurch. We have sent our copy to Captain Taplin, so that the members of the Patea Rifles can have a look at it.

The household furniture and effects of Mr G. F. Sherwood will be sold by auction on Saturday next. We hope the sale will be a good one, because a decent sum of money will be of great assistance to Mr Sherwood in the new country to which he is going. Some excellent furniture and other things will be put up for sale without reserve, and the opportunity will be a good one to those desirous either of adding to their household goods or securing some of the bargains which Mr Cowern will offer.

Mr W R Waddell, baker, has been returned Mayor of Auckland without opposition, Th'e’Egmont Racing Club’s next meeting has been fixed for St Patrick’s Day. About £4OO will be given in stakes.

The usual monthly meeting of the Fire Brigade was hold at the Albion Hotel on Monday evening. There were present Captain Gibbons, in the chair, Secretary Bright, Assistant-Foreman Kells, Branchman Barraclough, and Fireman Kells The secretary stated that he had received a guinea from Mr Gower and £1 from Mr Mahony in aid of the funds of the Brigade. Out of that ha had paid £1 Bs, to meet expenses incurred in con nection with tho lato fire. There were 3s in the bank, consequently the amount in their hands was 16s. Accounts amounting to 19s Gd were passed for payment. Tho secretary gave notice to move at next meeting “That owing to want of funds to carry on, and the apathy of the public, the Brigade be disbanded, the plant handed over to (ho Borough Council in trust, and the engine returned to the New Zealand Insurance Co., Wanganui.” Mr Lundberg was elected a member of the Brigade, and Mr Kearney nominated, after which tho meeting adjourned. There arc now three candidates for the Wanganui mayoralty, Messrs G. Carson, G. Hutchison, and Jas. Laird. Lieut. Kitching of the Pat.ca Rifles passed his examination for a commission ac Wanganui on Monday' night before Major Stapp and a board of examining oil I CITS.

Mi-fsnj Bate and Thomson have been nominated for the Mayoralty of Ilawera. Tbo poll will take place on the 28th hist. A telegram from New Plymouth informs ns that the steamers Douglas and Lalla Rookh left Waitara for Manakau at noon yesterday, but the Rowena, as she was going out, got on a bank in the river. The schooner Colonist also on going out struck, and was detained,

There are employed in the ship-building establishments and marine engineering works of Great Britain 100,000 men, whoso annua) wage earnings amount to £7,000,000. Rowi has expressed himself to the Native Minister as favourable to the construction of the trunk railway from To Awamutu to Wellington, via Taupo. At the meeting of the Irish National Convention in Melbourne, n telegram was received from Mr Parnell wishing sucess. Dr O'Doghcrfy was elected president. A long series of resolutions were passed, deploring ,the present condition of Ireland, and pledging the Convention to assist in trying to ameliorate it ; adopting a petition to the Imperial Government in favour of local government in Ireland ; deploring the crimes which stained the recent history of Ireland, and declaring the coercive policy to be a fruitful source of disorder and crime. The next Convention is fixed to be hold in Sydney next year. The latest Yankee advertising device is described as follow's :—“ A shapely girl ap* peared at a fifth-story window in Boston Her long hair was loose, and her gown was white, so. (hat to the uncritical eye she .looked like a per-on right from bod ; but she wore shoes arid stockings, as was subsequently observed, and there were numerous toucbe s of a careful toilet. However, she fairly repre" sented a girl hastily aroused from sleep by fire. Her movements were rapid, too, and her manner wild. »Sho Hung open the sash and climbed out on the sill, The square fronting the building was almost instantly crowded. With a shrill cry she dropped herself. A thrill of horror ran through the multitude. But the girl was not dashed to pieces on the pavement, She descended with great but harmless celerity into the arms of a man, who began at once to expatiate upon the merits of his device, which consisted of a single wire attached to a kind of harness, and pulled out from a box by (he weight of (he persin bitched to it. The girl was liked, but nobody cared anything about the apparatus, and its ingenious exhibitor did not make a single sale, the people disappearing as soon as she did.”

Miss Chrispe, head nurse of the Auckland Hospital, who has two medals fo r service on the field, has had the decoration of the Order of the Red Cross conferred on her by the Queen. The Governor will be asked to present the insignia.

Further news to hand about the floods in Otago states that Mr Charles Eddie, manager for Mr Calcutt, valuator of lands taken for public works, was drowned in a creek while proceeding in a buggy to meet a train at the Goodwood station. He had been warned of danger, but had taken no notice. The accident was seen by some men on a hill near by, but nothing could be done to rescue the drowning man, whoso body lias since been recovered. Another of the passengers in the buggy in which the man Hobbs lost bis life near Palmerston, died on Monday afternoon. The conduct of the two young men Sloam who went to the rescue of this party, is spoken of in (he highest terms. One of them dived after Foster and brought him out by the hair of bis head. They had a small boat, and it capsized, and both bad, to swim ashore. At the inquest on Hobbs, the coroner specially thanked (ho Sloans on bchvlf of the jury. Maori Hill, a suburb of Dunedin, will probably have an expenditure, of LtOO entailed upon it by (he floods, and the North-East Valley L3OO. Gordon Bros’ nursery was completely wrecked l)3 r water, and the damage is estimated at over L4OO.

A. native woman at Aotca has given birth to a child with two faces and only one head. It is two months old, hut the Star says it is not expected to live.

It is now almost certain that Messrs Aitken, Lilburn and Company's sailing vessel Loch Fyne, which left Lyttelton for Tendon -with a cargo of wheat on the 14th May last, foundered off Capo Horn in one of the terrible gales which prevailed in those latitudes during June. The vessel was insured in Glasgow for £20,000, and some small re-insurances were this week effected at 75 guineas per cent. Her tonnage was 1,270 register.

! The Wellington Woollen Company has been successfully floated. The Post states that almost the whole of the 10,000 shares placed on the market have been subscribed for in the Wellington district.

Sunday evening theatrical performances are given in New Orleans, San Francisco, and Chicago. The next question will be whether Nosv York and other large American cities will follow suit.

diaries Pemberton was brought up at the 11 M Court' yeslonlay on a charge of lunacy, hut was dismissed, ho agreeing to return to Marlon, at which place ho had been working for some lime previous to bis coming to Wavcrley.

Somewhat of an innovation in church music (says tho A uckland Star') was in* (reduced yestorpay at (ho special services in the Congregational Church, Borosfordstroet. In addition to the harmonium, six other instruments were introduced to swell the volume of praise, viss., four fiddles, a cornorpean, and a flute. So far ns tho music produced was concerned, the result was most satisfactory—tho blending of the different instruments making to the auditor not a bad imation of the organ ; but tho sight of the fiddlers’elbows working vigorously in uni.sion was rat nor aft incongruous clement, and might readily suggest other and more festive scenes. Tho congregation as a body, seemed highly pleased with tho fresh auxiliaries to the sacred harmony; but several Presbyterians, lately arrived from Scotland, who were at (he services, sustained a severe shock to their ideas of propriety. We are not aware if it is intended to make the reed and string band a regular feature of tho worship,

Messrs Shaw, Savill and Co.’s steamer Triumph has arrived at Hobart all well. She left for New Z 'aland on Monday. A pitiful accident happened to a little girl in Wellington on Sumla}' morning. While crossing Cuba-strect at the corner of Ingcstre-strcel, a tram-car came up, the horse of which knocked her down, and before she could be rescued the wheels passed over her little hands, maiming her for life. The child, who is aged nine years, is a daughter of Mr Grant, formerly engaged in the Customs Department, She was taken to the Hospital, and Dr Diver, honorary surgeon, found the left hand so mangled that he had to amputate what remained of the fingers, and also remove the first finger of the right hand.— N.Z. Times.

It is generally supposed that meat which has undergone the refrigerating process when once thawed must be used immediately. Captain Whitson, of the ship Dunedin, who is an authority on the matter, states that moat thus treated will keep fresh considerably longer than the ordinary meat. Jo proof of fins lie save that ho presented Captain Edie, of the steamer Waihora, with a frozen sheep, which that gentleman took to sea with him; part of it lie sent to a fiicnd at Hobart, and the remainder was dressed some twelve'days after he received it, and was found in far better condition than any meat procurable in cither Hobart or Melbourne. Thnaru Herald.