The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1877.

The Harbour Board met this morning, but owing to the agreement from the Bank, rela tive to the loan, not having arrived, the members adjourned till 3 o'clock on Wcdne3diy, intimation having been received to the effect that the deed would be forwarded by the steamer due hero on that day.

i An Art and Industrial Exhibition is to be held at Wanganui next month. Messrs. W. R. King and Son aro adding another wing to their drapery establishment at Hawera. | We would remind our readers that the usual fortnightly quadrille class will bo held at tho Masonic Hall, this evening. The p.s. Hauraki returned from Mokau on Saturday afternoou. Every ono speaks of tho unbounded hospitality of the natives. Slio leaves to-night for the Mauukau, with a cargo of sheep. The Patea Education Board arc an extravagant body ; they actually have ordorod " a Colonial oven to be procured and fixed for Mr. Brown." What havo Colonial oveus to do with education ? The death of Mrs. Bravo, well known iv connection with the " Bravo case," is reported. The report, however, wants confirmation. "Sinbad," a sporting writer in a Canterbury J paper, says that Mr. Vavasour's Bide-a-Wee has gone into Bob Ray's hands. The plans for a new arcade in Mannersstreet, Wellington, have been submitted to tbo city architects. The Patea County and Patea West Road District are about to bo engaged in legal proceediugs against each other. A dies'? Club has bceu started at Hawera, of which Captain Nepean Kenny has been elected President. A football match between Hawera and Wairoa came off on tho 30th June, when the team from the former place was victorious. The Patea Agricultural Association will hold their annual ploughing match at Waverley on the 26th instant. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the July Number of tbe New Plymouth Wesley an Chronicle. As usual it is very neatly printed, and contains a quantity of matter interesting to persons connected with the Wesleyan aud other religious denominations. Iv the estimated receipts and expenditure of the Patea County, for the nine months from Ist July, 1577, to 31st March, IS7B, the estimated expenditure is put down at £3,463 15s. 10s., and tho iucome at £1,359 14s. 6d., showing a deficiency of £2,074 6s. 4d. Signors Del Vescovo and Song, according to the Evening Pest, have executed some pretty busts and Btatuettes, in terra cotta and marble, of some of the leading citizens of Wellington^ and nlso of their wives aud daughters. We inspected this morning, at Mr. Pugh's a number of rolls of Colonial tweeds that he has just received from tho Mosgiel Wool Factory, and he tells us that he has made arrangements for a regular supply of them for thro future. There are sixteen different varieties of patterns to choose from, and as they are neat, the tweed durable, and Mr. Pugh's fit perfect, we should imagine that trade with him would considerably during tha next few months. We would direct the reader's attention to Mr. Pugh's now advertisement in our back page. According to the New Plymouth Wesleyan Chronicle, a writer in the New Zealand We.ileyan, referring toihe late Rev. John WhiMey, who, he says, was killed at Mokau about 18GS» 11 thinks that sufficient honor has not been paid to his memory by the insertion of a note in the conference minutes, and the erection of a tablet in a wooden church." The writer has evidently been misinformed about the matter. The Rev. John Whitoley (who was esteemed by the whole community) was murdered on tho 13th February, 18G9, with several others at Pukearuhe (better known as the Whito Cliff.-', and where tho Armed Constabulary are now stationed) aud not at Mokau, and afterwards a monument was erected by public subscription, to the Rev. Mr. Whitclcy's memory, and placed iv the cemetery ; and on it was recorded that dire event, with the names of all who were killed. The Wcslayan Chronicle suggests that no fitter monument could be erected to his memory than a "Whiteley Memorial Church" in the town where he laboured so many years, which suggestion we havo no doubt will be taken up and carried out, as subscriptions for such a purpose might be obtained not only from all parts of the Colony but from England likewise. From a private letter from Patea, which has been shown us, we havo been permitted to make tho following extract : — " People down here look upon the Mountain Road as essentially Government work. Years ago it was fully understood that tho trunk line of road at the back of the mountain would bo completed, and as every month il is getting to bo a matter of less importance to this end, why thoy arc indisposed to dip into their own pockets, but prefer td spend their money on works which will bo readier, and yield profit by opening out other markets. New Plymouth ought to havo completed what nature has laid the foundation, namely, a harbour, and then it could have commanded and would have helped to develop trade in this district, and by making settlement profitable, would havo made native outbreaks impossible." This only shows the necessity thore is for this portion of the district pushing on the making of tho Mountain Road wjthout delay, or, by tho timn our harbour is built, the tnido wih have drifted from it. j

The Paten Harbour Board aye, it appears, very active. At present we learn the Board

being restricted in tho matter of funds, are only calculating on being enabled to call for touders for one portion- of tho work — that is, tho eastern groin, which is estimated to cost about £1,000. A Government engineer is to bo sent up to make a final survey of tho river an>l draw up specifications. A gentleman writing from Patea, who refers to this matter, says, " should this work be done and prove effective, tho completion of tho Mountain Road will bo a matter but of little importance to this district. Wellington being within eight hours sail by steamers of the Manawatu and Storm Bird class, will got the trade. Timber cau bo run from the Pelorus in sailing vessels iv about the same time. Iv this way n, ready outlet for produce and stock will be at all times available, and land owners will be encouraged to cultivcito the wonderfully rich hinds of this part of the Province. Timber, which hitherto has been scarce aud dear, will bo lower in price, aud so give a spurt to fenciug and building .operations. It is not unlikely that cheese factories and baooncuring establishments will follow tho liver improvcraeuts.''

The Hon. Donald Eeid and Mr. Civil Commissioner Brown had terribly rough weather, we learn, duriug their journey from New Plymouth to Hawera. It was dull all tho wwar,) r , and therefore impossible for Mr. Reid to sco much of the country. They left here early on Monday last, aud tho same night stopped at Opunake. On Tuesday the wind and rain was terrific, and ou crossing the Waimate Plains they passed through a succession of hailstorms. They, however, reached Hawera all right, and started the next raoruiog for Carlyle, where they arrived at about 1 o'clock on Woducsda}'. Mr. Sherwood, who had been delegated by the County Council to sco Mr. Reid respecting the reserves and other business affecting the County, had an interview with him early iv tho afternoon ; after which" Mr. Sherwood, as Chairman of the Harbour Board, took the hon. gentleman to the entrance of the Patea River, and explained the proposed plan for improving the river, stating the cost, funds available, and requirements in the shape of borrowing powers or further reserves, before the work contemplated could be completed. Mr. Reid is said to have spoken favourably of tho project, and considered lhat the Bonrd ought to bo put in a position to obtain tho £40,000 or £50,000 which it is estimated the whole of the proposed works will cost. The Hon. the Secretary for Crown Lands left Carlyle by the coach for Wanganui on Thursday morning.

A new economic Bank, with a capital of £500,000, is announced in Melbourne. The ship Cairo, from London to Melbourne, now long overdue, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing. There is ft rumour iv Wellington (says a correspondent) that the Government will place on tho estimates a considerable sum of money to be distributed amongst Mechanics' Institutes, and iv aid of County Libraries. It is said that the Government will ask tho House to vote next session the sum of £2,000 due to Sir Julius Yogel for travelling expenser, which was struck off the estimates last session. The ship Broomhall, from. London, which arrived at Wellington on the 29th Juno, is the largest vessel that has ever entered Wellington Harbour, being 1,380 tons register. She made the passage iv soventy-eight days, from laud to laud. An ancient iron rowlock, deeply encrusted with shells and marine deposits, and supposed to havo belonged to a boat of Captain Cook's ship, has been picked up on the beach at Poverty Bay. The " Scottish aud New Zealand Investment Society" is the name of a company started at homo for the purpose of providing capital for developing the resources of Southland. A walking match of fifty miles for £2,"i, took place in Loudou on tho 23th April between Walter Lewis and Arthur Hancock resulting in ft victory for the former aB Hancock gave in. Lewis did 45 miles 933 yards ia 7h. 24m. 9s. Sir. 11. Ford, of Canterbury, has purchased tho sheep station of Mr. Joshua, consistiug of 31,600 aci'osof land in the Hawko's Bay District, with 27,000 sheep and station plant for 37,000. Mr. John Hindmarsh, of Adelaide, has purchased the property of Mr. McLellan, in the District of Hawko's Bay. consisting of 30,000 acres of land, with 8,000 sheep, 40 head of cattle, 8 bullock-drays, 8 horße?, and all the station plant, for £15,000. It was reported in tho papers a (short time since that a piano had been purchased by order of the Government for ono of the Ministerial residences. We hear that tho explanatiou of this is that Mr. Clayton, having been requested by Dr. Pollen to buy the piano for him in his private capacity, misundorstood tho order and "bought it as if oa bobnlf of tho Government. Teaching must borough work in New South Wales. A Government school teacher writes to one of the papers, and says he has to attend, on alternate days, two schools eight miles apart. To go from ono to the other he has to ride four miles, to pull a boat for a mile and a quarter across an inlet of the pen, and to walk the romaing three miles to (bo school through a wild bush. — - Referring to tho strictness in the Govern- . ment office in Wellington, a correspondent to tho Evening Star writes- -."Recently a gentleman in one of the offices instead of the usual formula, " Please, sir, may Igo out,"' informed his cbiof that he was going out: the reprimand followed sharp and decisive, — "Resume your soat at once, sir, and go on with your work." Then cnine tho retort courteous from tho indignant sub, "Look here. Mr. you mny go to " (a warmer climate), ond lie loft tho oOico and tho Service there and then." Auothor idler, uo doubt, has been got rid of.