The Patea Mail. Established 1875. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1883. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1118, 28 November 1883, Page 2

The Patea Mail. Established 1875. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1883. NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Rev J Warren, Wesleyan Missionary at Auckland, since 1888, died on Saturday last.

The programme' for the Knkararnca sports on Boxing Day appears in this issue.

Mr F. R. Jackson holds his Kakararnen sale on Friday, Entries are detailed elsewhere.

The steward of the Hospital acknowledges with thanks the receipt of a parcel of. illustrated papers from Mr F. Cole, Otauto.

A report is current in Queenstown Ot?go, that diamonds have been discovered at Earnslaw, but no reliable information is obtainable.

The Spring show of the Patca Horticultural Society was held 3’esterday, and passed off very successfully. A list of the prize-takers is given in another column.

“ Adamastor,” whose sncce s as a “ Consnltationist" upon sporting events is beyond dispute, has an important announcement in this issue with reference to the Dunedin Cup.

At Manaia, to-morrow, Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co will offer a quantity of stock, also the right to run stock upon 200 acres of grass, within two miles of the township. Daniel Mayowell, of Pahanui Lione, Canterbury, manure manufacturer, has been committed for trial on a charge of false pretences. He had obtained fifteen pounds from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company as an advance on five casks alleged to be’of tallow, but proving to be yellow liquid with a foul smell, utterly useless and unsaleable, extracted from bones.

Bishop HaclfieM will visit the coast this week.

Captain Peter Logan, the Albion Company’s Superintendent, died at Port Chalmers yesterday.

Norman by Town Hall has been bought by Mr Rowe for £3OO, the amount of his mortgage;

Mr Tennont will not leave Pa'ea until about the 6th of January. He will thus be present at the Caledonian Sports on New Years Day. A meeting of the County Council, was to have been held this morning, but no’quorum being obtainable, it was adjourned till' Wednesday next.

The amount of Messrs W and S Gower’s tender for Sec. 22 of the University Reserve for the second term of seven years, was3s6d, and not 2s Gd, as stated in our last. At the meeting of the Taranaki Education Board held on Monday, Mr Foulis, the late Inspector of Schools in this district was chosen as head master of the New Plymouth Central School, The salary is £350.

A man named J Arundel was fined £5 or in default one months imprisonment at Port Chalmers recently for forging a railway ticket. The defendant bad altered the dates on the ticket, a monthly one, so »8 to extend it for twenty days. The body of W Thomas, a seaman of the Firth of Dornoch, which sailed recentlS* for London, was found floating in Lyttelton Harbour on Monday morning. He had been . reported as a - deserter. It is supposed that whilst rdtbmpting to board his ship bo fell and fractured bis skull against the side.

In a paper received by the last mail the following appears : —A butcher at Klofrn, in Canton Zurich, Switzerland, recently killed a diseased calf, and, sold the lies!). Ninety persons who ate of it have fallen ill, and five ,of Them .are not expected to recover. Two goats that drank from a stream, into which some broth made from the infected yeaf was thrown also became ill, and one lias since died.. The butcher has been arrested..

A telegram from Nelson states that two foreign .seamen belonging to the barque MayQueen, which was lying at the anchorage, left their vessel the other night on a raft constructed of two spais, each ten feet long, with a small hatchway lashed across them, and they took with them a life buoy. This morning the life buoy was picked up under the cliffs and the raft was found on the boulder bank, but neither of the mon,(whose names were ’Marlin Oisea' and Johanna Furman) have been seen or heard of, though they reached. I and, .- v: . 4 An accident occurred at Otakiho ■ on Saturda}’ to - a man named Charles Hassal, whojs working in Mr Isaac Wilson’s bush property. It appears, says the Mailnia correspondent of the Star, that ' Hasmlwas felling timber when a.tree struck him cutting-open his head, and injuring hisspine. Paralysis of his lower limbs set in and death resulted. Dr Alexander had been in attendance, but allbougb everything was done for the sufferer, be died on Monday morning. The man has.no family, but has friends in the South Inland.

A report reached town 3 - osterda3' afternoon .about half-past two that a fire had Occurred at Kakaratnea at one o’clock the same da}- by which the house of Mr O’Shaughnessy was totally destroyed. Afr and Airs O’Shanghnessy were in town at the time of the fire, some children being left at home. Almost ever3 T thing was destro3’ed, only a few odds and ends being saved. The fire, it is surmised, originated through a defective chimney. Th° house and furniture were insured in the Colonial office for £l2O Yellow fever is raging in Alexico. At Gua3’mas, out of an opera company numbering thirty-one members seventeen died—-including the Prima Donna Peralta —in less than three weeks. At the end of the following two weeks only five of the original troupe were left living. The medical men were all sick and two of them died. The victims were buried liastily and nncoffined, three hours being the usual interval between death and burial. The disease is sweeping the interior towns like wildfire. The courts are all closed, the judges having fled. Mr Bate, one of the candidates for the Mayoralty of Hawera, addressed the ratepayers on Monday. Speaking about the borrowing scheme to supply water and gas he said that the cost would be £20,000, and the borrowing of that sum meant doubling tlio present rales. He maintained that the}’ were not in a position to bear this now. It was all ver}’ well to cry out for a progressive Mayor to push the Borough ahead, but there could be too much pushing ahead, as. was illustrated in the ease of Patca. Patca had been pushed ahead too fast, with the result that there was now financial stagnation. He had too much interest in Hawera to wish to sec that occur, and there should be just ns much care in working a borough asm working a private business.

Four members of the Harbour Board, Messrs Gibson (chairman), Richards, Adams, and Aifchison, paid, a visit to the breakwater yesterday. The object of their journey was to inspect the site of the wall proposed to bo built by the Railway Department for the protection of the railway embankment. Two propositions have been before > the Board. First the Department proposed to build a wall in continuation of the present one for a distance of 320 feet and in lino with that structure. The Harbour Board was asked and agreed'-to undertake the job-: the Government to find the mdncj'. Thd Board thought this was a good thing for the river and an effectual protection to the railway bank, and felt glad. Then came a memo from the Department saying that they did not intend to build the wall, but would protect the banks in another way. “ Another way ” turns out to he a wall 300 feet in length and about 50 feet further inshore to that at first pro posed. It was to inspect the “ lay of the land ” that the Harbour Board members went down yesterday.. The conclusion they came to was that No. lAval', although not on the lines of Sir J. Goode’s plan, would have been a useful work for which they would cheerfully have given (ho stone. No. 2 wall will neither do harm nor good, hut to give stone for it, oil dear no. They will be happy to sell it to the Government at the highest possible price, if they will persist in constructing No. 2 wall. The members of the Board thought (hat the difference in the cost of tho w ills would not be more than £6O or £IOO in favour of No. 2, and it was suggested that if No. 1 could be made, the excess might be charged against the Board and deducted from that compen-.-which is to ho given some day for ijmil token. This idea found great favour. ■lViii* ’jiitriy then paid a visit to the breakwater. The channel was unusually wide for this season of the year, and had app.-ip-mly plenty of water. Opinions w re i xpn-ssed that owing to the growth of the beach on the eastern side it would be necessary to lengthen the mole before long. The point was not discussed in detail, but all agreed that an additional 100 feet or so would be a great improvement. The party then returned to town, 1 having enjoyed a very pleasant walk.