PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510. Monday Evening, July 10, 1882.

Patea Mail, 10 July 1882, Page 2

PATEA MAIL Established 1875. CIRCULATION nearly 600 COPIES. Average circulation last year, 510.

Monday Evening, July 10, 1882.

Delivered, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings by mounted messengers —at Hawera by 7-30 o’clock, at Norm an by by 8-15, at Manaia and Waimate Plains by 8-30, and Southward at Waverlcy (for train) by G o’clock.

Wakatn left Wellington at 10 p.m. last night, and was due to arrive at 3 p.m. to-day. A School of Dramatic Art is being formed in London, at the instance of leading actors and dramatists ; and it is intended to have a competent staff of teachers for instructing male and female aspirants for the stage in elocution, gesture, dancing, fencing, and perhaps modern languages.

The second and final competition for the late Mr Dallam’s medal takes place on Friday next, at Waverlcy. The Alexandra Cavalry hold it at present, beating the local team hy 12 points on the first competition held about two months ago. The conditions are that the team making the highest aggregate in the two firings is to be the winner.

Sir Julius Vogel is expected to reach this colony in the next steamer from Melbourne.

“ Observed” letter on Mantahi school affairs will appear in next issue. Rev. Lloyd Keating preached in the Hawera new church yesterday. Service at Patea was conducted by one of the lay readers, Mr Horner, whose manner of reading is clear, appreciative, and fervent. Few amateurs could read better.

Among the earliest lambs in this district, Mr I). Smith, Patea, has two. The Harbor Board’s meeting is postponed till next week, the chairman being in Wellington respecting the petition for land compensation.

Owing to the late heavy rains in the back country, the Waitotaia river was a good deal swollen on Saturday. Mr Lister, the constable who is to be stationed at Waverley, arrived on Saturday, so that order and regularity should now prevail in that township.

Government have now taken Wednesdays in addition to the usual days for business; this being an indication that the end of the session is not far off.

A prayer for Ireland has been adopted in the Church of England in the Diocese of Canterbury, to be used in churches during the continuance of (roubles in Ireland; als'o a prayer for use in families. The church prayer beseeches the Almighty to appease (he tumults in Ireland, and heal the sores thereof ; also “ to deliver ns from bloodguiltiness; preserve us from secret conspiracies and open violence, from hatred ‘and malice.”

A larceny was committed in Patea on Saturday evening, A man working at Whennakura, named Henry Dray, went into the shop of Mr Donnelly, tobacconist, and purloined a pipe. George Ewings, groom, saw him take it, and gave information. The police followed him to the Central Hotel, searched him, found the pipe, and arrested him. He was brought up at the Court to-day before the R.M., and committed to Patea gaol for fourteen days. Creditors in Mr M’Kittrick’s estate meet again on Wednesday to hear the trustee’s report. He has paid £75 for quarter’s rent due June 30, by overdraft, and has also paid LBOO on Mr Christie’s bill of sale, by giving to the bank of N. S.W. a note on demand (to be hold over one mouth), signed by Mr Dunn and the trustee. The debtor denies having any interest In a farm at Whennakura.

The Bankruptcy Act. —A curious point of law, about which as usual doctors differ, has been brought under our (Hawera Star) notice. A trustee in bankruptcy having publicly notified that all claims against an estate must be rendered within fourteen days, received a number of proofs of debt. At the end of the term he is informed that several claims have not come in. He is anxious to wind up the estate, and proposes to do so, but first consults his lawyer, who says, “Oh; yes, yon can declare a dividend and wind up the estate, but you do it at your own risk. The Act fixes no limit of time, and if yon fail to pay any creditor bis share, yon render yourself liable.” _ The trustee mutters something forcible about the law’s delay, and goes on his way wondering whether the framers of the Act intended any estate over to be wound up.