THE PATEA MAIL. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1875.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 8, 8 May 1875, Page 2

THE PATEA MAIL. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1875.

Wo arc compelled, through the pressure of other matter, to hold over our leading article. By an advertisement in another column it will be seen that tenders arc invited for the erection of a school-house and master’s residence at Wairoa. This will supply a much felt want. We beg to call attention to the valuable sale of freehold property this day, by Mr W. Dale, at 2 o'clock. After which, a lot of sundries will be disposed of, without n-sorve.

The new Church of England minister (the Rev Mr Dasent) and family arrived in Carlyle yesterday. The rev gentleman will no doubt commence his duties tomorrow, and so relieve the Rev Mr Kennedy, who has been anxiously awaiting his arrival.

The Wairoa Telegraph-office is now in course of erection. The building trade generally is looking up in this rising township, as no less than throe public building’s are about being erected, viz,, —tire Tele-graph-office, Presbyterian Church, and school-house.

Some very necessary work is about being coramencec on the Unthanks road, near the school-house. A culvert is to be constructed adjacent to the Pound, and some forming and cutting executed. When this work is completed, the road will be rendered lit for traffic during the winter. We are pleased to learn that pheasants are on the increase in the district, several having been seen within the last few weeks. A brood of Californian quail was observed the other day in the Manutahi gorge, and the sweet notes of the skylark may now occasionally be heard in the same locality. We believe the formation of an Acclimatization Society would be attended with beneficial results. Wc trust to sec our suggestion acted upon. A rather peculiar circumstance occurred in the billiard room of the Albion Hotel on Tuesday evening last. The marker, we understand, was in the act of putting out the lamps, when one them went oif with a loud report. On looking about, he discovered the wick on the floor in a blaze, having been shot right up to the ceiling. There is no doubt if the explosion had gone downwards instead of up, the result would have been serious. A meeting of the Patca Cricket Club will be held on Tuesday evening next, at the Albion Hotel, to take into consideration the advisability of forming a now ground ; and also to elect new office-bearers. We beg to draw attention to a slight mistake that occurred in our last issue, in the advertisement calling tenders for fencing. It should have been for the erection of nine chains of fencing, instead of two. Wc would remind the members of the Institute Committee that the next meeting takes place this evening, at the Albion Hotel. The dealing of Mr. Commissioner Parris for laud with the natives of this Province, under the Public Works and Immigration Acts comprise 103,550 acres acquired ; surveyed and under negotiation 82,250, under offer, from 50,000 to 100,000. As it is all capaple of continuous and profitable occupation, the permanent and large increase of our population, is now a question only of time, done more than anyone else could have done in the lime, anq with the difficulties lie had to contend with.

Mr. Waldin’s Criterion Hotel, Upper lint, has been disposed of to Mr. Harris, junior, for £3OOO. The new proprietor took possesion of his purchase yesterday. The “ Singapore Times ” states that an inquiry has been ordered by Government into the case o, the surbivors of the British ship, Euxino, who, it will be remembered, drew lots and killed and partly devoured one of their companiono a few hours before their rescue by a passig ship, They had been at large there, butinconscducnceofthis order, were arrested on a charge of murder. The case has not yet come on for hearing before the Police Magistrate, it having been adjourned. The men will be defended by counsel. More purchases of first-class horse stock have been made in Melbourne for New Zealand. Presto, by Panic out of Louisa, lias been brought by Mr. Holley, of Canterbury, for shipment to New Zealand. The “ Australasian ” says : —“ He is a horse with great size, power, and fine action, and if used with half-bred-mares, should soon make a name for himself at the stud as a sire of upstanding carriage horses. He is a well-bred horse too, almost own brother to Melbourne, the latter being by Panic, out of Myth, by Kelpie, out of Miss Louey, Presto’s Granddam. As a racehorse, but for an accident he would have been quite at the top of the tree.” We also notice that Mr. Holley has bought Marmion, 'by Panic out of Barbelle, by Peter Wilkins, who will be shipped in company with Presto. The prevalence of the measles (says the Melbourne Lender') has given rise to a controversy about the expediency of settling apart a day of national humiliation and prayer, in the hope of staying the visitation. The Wanrjanni Chronicle says : —A coach and railway carriage building establishment will shortly be in full working order. The necessary buildings are being erected at the rear of Mr. Robertson’s steam saw mills in the Avenue ; and the steam power from the latter manufactory will be utilized in driving the machinery connected with the former. This is an entirely new branch among the number of trades at present represented in Wanganui,

The Wanganui Chronicle says ;—“ There were registered at the Thames during the month of April, 43 deaths. Of these 39 were infants, and 4 adults. Three of the adults were the result of accidents, arid do not come within the death-rate of April. The principal causes of death were measles, and debility after measles.

This is how the Tlmaru Herald views Sir George Grey’s proposals of reform : —“ It ,vas a shrewd saving of Johnston, that nothing that is odd lasts long. He spoke, of course, of literary productions, but the maxim applies with equal truth to every department of thought. Men’s minds, especially Englishmen’s minds, are not readily jerked from one object to another ; or, if they are led suddenly from their channels to some unaccustomed one, they soon abandon it and return very nearly to their old courses. When, therefore, Sir George Grey proposes, as a regimen for existing or threatened politicel disorders of the colony, the abolution of the gubernatorial office, and the creation of an elected Secretary of State to personally advise the Queen on colonial affairs, he is, W6 are convinced, carrying originality to the point of oddness, and injuring the better matured parts of his proposals by the irrational clement contained in this one. Neither Parliament nor public will seriously weigh the merits of this singular suggestion, or rather, if it should ever be brought forward as a feature of a policy, it will tend to subvert the whole of it, by drawing away attention from more pratical aiid more necessary measures.” We observe that Captain Underwood, of the steamship Albion, who interested himself most kindly on behalf of the widow o'£ Captain Rouse, has been not less active on behalf of the lost crew of the Gothenburg. When last in Melbourne he paid over to the Relief Fund the sum of £124 Gs, collected by him chiefly in New Zealand ports. Not less than £43 2s 6d of the amount was subscribed by the officers and crew of the Albion. A fireman on board the Albion, named Neal McLean, also paid over to the Victorian Seamen’s Union, a sum of £l7 10s, collected by him in the ports of this colony visited by the Albion, for the benefit of the sufferers by the wreck of the Gothenburg.

There is much speculation in political circles as to the probable fate of the Ministry during the next session. Tire general impression appears to be that a dissolution will take place previous to the disposal of the Provincial resolutions ; we think this exceedingly likely. —Waikato Times.

A great deal of scandal is said to have been occasioned in Melbourne by a clergyman having kissed all the pretty girls in his congregation with what he appears to term as the “ holy kiss of love.” We (Taranaki Herald ) learn that all the bridges between New Plymouth and Patea arc to be painted with hematite paint, and a representative of Mr Louisson, who has a contract for the job, is now here to make arrangements for the commencement of the work.

The London correspondent of the New Yorh Herald says : —“ Lives there a. man with soul so dead as never to have heard of Professor “ Holloway’s pills and ointment ?’ These curative medicines have been constantly advertised for the last twenty Syears in every newspaper in the world, the result of its publicity being that the Professor has realized an enormous fortune. He and his wife are now well stricken in years, and they have no children. So he is spending his money in beneficence. Believing—possiblyfrom the large sale of his quack medicines—that most people arc mad, he lias built an asylum for the insane at Virginia Water, near Windsor, at a cost of about £IOO,OOO, and he is now about to erect at Egham a university for ladies, on an estate which he lias just bought for £25,000. The professors will be engaged to give the highest education possible to women, and the scheme will cost £150,000. This Mr Holloway once asked Dickens to write one page of matter mentioning in some way or other Holloway’s Pills. In the envelope containing this request was a cheque for £I,OOO. Dickens, who was greatly annoyed, put envelope and contents into another, loose, find returned them by the messenger, saying there was no answer. I had this from Dickons’ own lips.

Several London journals have published leaders on Mr. Vogel’s Polynesian schemeThe “ Times ” and “ Despatch ” are highly laudatory of his political career, but the “ Economist, ” ranking as a standard authority on finiancc, is adverse to the Polynesian scheme.

A company has ’been formed in Invercargill for the making of paper, and operations are to be commenced forthwith.

According to the “ Tablet,” some time towards the close of the present month, Bishop Moran will deliver a lecture on i; The Bankruptcy of Liberalism.”