NEWS OF THE DAY.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1127, 19 December 1883, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

In the Waikato, a man advertises for a woman to wash, iron, and milk one or two cows; What does he want his cows washed and ironed for ? It is notified that the Solicitors in Patea will close their offices from Monday, Dec 24 until the second of January both days inclusive.

A six days’ walking match for £IOO a side has been arranged between Edwards and Huckstep and Arthur and James Hendry of Auckland.

Two bullocks from the estate of the late Neil Black, in Victoria, have recently been killed. One turned the, scale at 18201bs, the other at 17421b5.

: Two tons of Te Awamutu cheese have been sold in Sydney at 9d per lb, and though 2d per lb of import duty must be deducted from that figure, it is still highly satisfactory. In Dunedin last year the revenue from rates was £19,000, and the interest on loans and payments to sinking fund absorbed £20,000, or £IOOO more than the total of rates. No wonder they have bard times down South I

On New Year’s Day, a train will leave Patea for Wanganui at 6 p.m. This will give Waverley and Wanganui people an opportunity of attending the Caledonian Society’s sports, which usually make the holiday an enjoyable one. The Sheffield Telegraph quotes a 1 otter cut from a New Zealand paper in which “a man willing to work ” bemoans the cruelty of emigration agents who lure poor men out to the antipodes with the assurance that plenty of work at prime wages is to be had there. The Telegraph says “ this epistle will perhaps open the eyes of would-be emigrants as to the state of the labour market in one at least of our most prosperous colonies.”

The San Prancisco mail was delivered in town this afternoon. 7 ?r

Entries for the Caledonian sports.close to-night‘. at 9 o’clock at Mr. Chadwick’s office. - _ 1

: Severe,shocks of earthquake were felt in T some of the country towns/ih Otago yesterday. . : \ zMr ■E. v dF. Lee, MH.R;, for Selwyn, who has been, ill for some tilnojvdiedNyostbrday morning.

Mrs Currie will have her usual Christmas tree on Monday next. There will bo joy amongst the juveniles at this amusement. The Wellington police have laid an ihfofmali6h'again|t Kate Boyle, charging her with therwilfiffmurder of her infant.! Messrs Nolanj" Tonka arid Co. sell stock at Manaia to-morrow at 1 p.m. This sale is becoming .oiiei .the most popular on the coast, arid attracts a largo number of buyers. Mr; W. H: Bindon head master of the Newton E,aft School, Auckland, has been appointed inspector of the ■ Wanganui Education district. There were thirtythree applicants. A petition is to be presented to the County Council praying them to constitute a new Road district of a portion of the Jandjcomprised in No. 3 sub-section of the Wairoa High way district.

The meeting of creditors in the estate of Mr. W. Handley,-Sawmiller, called for eleven o’clock this: morning, to consider the debtor’s intended application for discharge, lapsed for want of a quorum. At the meeting of the Education Board yesterday a lettei was read from the secretary to the Wheuuakura Education Committee urging the necessity of immediate repairs, and asking for a grant to complete the same. It was resolved to hold over consideration of the application till the Board is in funds. .

The amount of Property Tax paid throughout the colony to Saturday night amounted to £245,000, which is within £SOOO of the Treasurer’s estimate. It is anticipation that fully an additional £IO,OOO will yet bo paid. Several large cheques woro paid in on Saturday, one amounting to £9OOO. The New JZoaland Shipping Company have received advices that the meat by the British Queen arrived at Home in good condition. The Aorangi left Teneriffe on Decerribcr 7 for Wellington, and the Doric left Plymouth for Auckland on the 15th.

The Secretary of the: West Coast Meat and Produce Export Company received tlie following telegram froin Mr Hales, Christchurch, this afternoon . —Mr Coxon very unwell since return ; partially confined to his bed ; expects to get away at end of week.

_ Quite a new significance will be henceforth given to the term “ jam tart ” as applied to the “hupper suckles.” An English paper -states that Lord Sudeley is building a large manufactory for jams on his estate in Gloucestershire. Two years ago he planted 93,000 gooseberry bushes there, 167,000 black currants, 2,010 plums, 25,000 raspberries, and 52 acres of strawberries.

Tuberculosis, the disease which is killing rabbits by thousands, in the Queenstown, Otago, district, but- which was at first supposed (o bo limited to that particular part of „,the country, has now broken out among the rabbits near Dunedin, and appears to be spreading throughout the province, to the groat joy L no doubt; of the settlers/;

We draw special’ attention to the very important sale to be held by Mr F, R. Jackson at Hawera on Fridnjn As will be seen by the advertisement elsewhere, there are a large number of entries of every variety, including an assortment, of farm implements belonging to Mr J, S. Oaverhill. A very large attendance is expected, and the sale will, no doubt, pass off well. The Home correspondent of a southern paper sends the following : The last days of the season at Dieppe have been-en-livened by an international -scandal, A Parisian actress, whose dress and general behavior were, to put it mildly, eccentric, captivated a noble, son of Albion. Arrangements wore made for a flight across the Channel, but the evening before, the lady becoming anxious to try the powers of a wooden horse, persuaded her cavalier to mount with her upon one of the smart little steeds of a now nearlydeserted “ round-about.” Some Parisians looking on, happening to recognise the fair equestrian, made use of some rather highly-flavored chaff. The Englishman “went for” the nearest. A fight ensued, in which our countryman.got so severely punished that, when carried insensible to his hotel, his/face next morning resembled une veritable, poire quite.- The funniest part is that when the gentlemnri recovered consciousness the cause of the quarrel had flown, and left no address.