CARLYLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 55, 20 October 1880, Page 3

CARLYLE.

(f 80111 OTTB OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Carltle* Tuesday. The new yards and shed of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be finished this week. There is a general feefing oagxeuea that the show wflltoe a successful affair, should the weather prove lavorable.

Building is going on briskly in and around Kakarainea. ,

There is not a private house or shop to be let in Carlyle, a gentleman who recently arrived from Wellington having experienced considerable difficulty in getting the only available private residence. He secured it by ofiering to pay the rent in advance.

A public meeting, to consider the question of merging the county in the road boards, or road boards into the county council, was convened by Messrs. Dale and Homer on Saturday last, at Patea. The conveners of the meeting expressed disappointment at the scanty attendance of settlers and ratepayers, of whom not more than about a dozen were present. No definite proposition was laid before the meeting, but it was stated that the county council was started under a system according to which a government subsidy and a proportion of the land fund was jaid' to it, wbioh enabled the council to

meet the current expenditure, -without direct local taxation. Now, however, both these sources of revenue were withdrawn, and the council found itself in the position of having an available balance for expenditure of some whereas their engineer reported that about £4000 would be required to maintain the sixty miles of county road during the next nine months. Mr. Sherwood thought the chairman of the county had not been nearly energetic enough in dunning the Government for money. Mr. Dale denied the soft impeachment, and asserted that he had been continually "writing to the Government, but only received a succession of refusals. A general expression of opinion was elicited in favor of leaving the question in abeyance, certainly until after the publication of returns showing the expenditure hitherto inciirred by the council, and the meeting closed with a vote of thanks to Messrs Dale and Homer.

On Saturday afternoon, a cricket match — First Eleven v. Twenty-two of remainder of club and all-comers — was commenced on the recreation ground. The weather was most enjoyable, and the match attracted a large number of spectators. The twenty-two went in first to bat, and were all disposed of for 52 runs. Barobel and Head "were the only two •who made a stand against Petch's howling, Read being not out with a carefully -made 17. Petch was in excellent trim with the ball, and got 11 of the 21 wickets for a very small number of runs. He also won a cap by obtaining three wickets with three consecutive balls. For the eleven, Heenan's score of 33 was put together in excellent form, Jacomb, Pringle, and Coutts also got into double figureß. The match will be continued next Saturday. The scores are as follow : — TWENTY-TWO. Beere, lbw, b Petch 0 May, c and b Kitching 3 Finnerty, b Petch 0 Barabel, b Petch 8 O'Grady, b Petch 1 Owen, b Peteh O Dixon k o Petch 0 Bagged b P. etch. 5 E. C. Homer, b Petch 0 W. Kitching, b Petch 2 Taplin, c Coutts, b Kitching ... 0 A. Black, c and b Petch ... 0 Forster, b Kitching 5 Eead, F., not out 17 .runout 0 F. Homer, b Petch 0 Cowern, c Coutts, b Kitching 1 Eyton, c Jacomb, b Pringle >.. 0 . Drake, c Jacomb, b Pringle ... 0 Turner, b Coutts O Gibbons, b Pringle ... ... 2 Sinclair, run out 3 Extras 6 52 ELEVEN. Tennent, c Owen b May ... O Kitching, b May 1 Heenan, b Dixon 33 Croft, c Dixon, b May ' 0 Pringle, c Eead, b May ... 14 Coutts, c Baggett, b Eead ... 11 Petch, b Dixon 2 Arundell, c Kitching, b Taplin 8 Jacomb, b Barabel ... ... 21 Homer, not out 8 Dasent, c Kitching, b Eead ... 1 Extras 5