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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 963, 24 November 1882, Page 2

MrP. G. Mace has an advertisement in this issue asking the Burgesses to support his election to the Borough Council. The Hawera Cricketers j'eaterday defeated the Armed Constabulary team at Manaia by five wickets. Scores A. C. 30 and 58 ; Hawera, 38 and 51 for 5 wickets. Mr O. E. Hugo, a Phrenologist of some repute, is now lecturing in Wanganui, and will shortly pay a visit to Patea. A wag has suggested to us that he should examine the “bumps” of the two rival candidates for the Mayoralty, and tell the ratepayers which, is most fitted for the office. A train conveying Chilian soldiers from Pisco to Inca was recently blown up by a toroedo laid by the enemy, and seven or eight soldiers were killed. The Italian Consul at Pisco, who hapened to be a passenger was captured by the assailants, and 1,00,000 dollars demanded for his ransom. An Italian man-of-war has gone to Pisco to look into the matter. A commercial traveller named Brooks was committed for trial at Bow-street Police Court on the 14thInstant,for threatening to murder the Prince of Wales unless he received money from him. The threat was contained in a letter- to Col. Teesdale, the Prince’s Equerry. The prisoner is considered a lunatic. He claimed that he had served for several years in the array. Mr James Smith, of Greenfield, says the Daily Times, has given a friend of his, resident in Wanganui, some information with regard to shipments of mutton per Dunedin and Mataura. That by the former yielded per lb net, that by the lettered per lb. 'ln the first case the exact sum realised for each sheep, including skin and taljow, was £1 1 Oid, the carcases averaging 701b each ; in the other 19a was realised. Mr Smith adds: “ We sold 2000 sheep to Dunedin butchers, the same weights, at 15s a difference of, say, OU the average, 5s 6d m favour of the exporter,” Mr Smith also says : “I am afraid to think what the price of fat sheep would have been hete this last season without the freezing. Probably best wethers would not have been worth more than 10s to 11s. I may just mention that I took £SOO in shares in the Refrigerating Company, and I need hardly say that they do not owe me anything, besides having kept up the price of sheep sent to Dunedin market.”