NEWS OF THE DAY.

Patea Mail, Volume X, Issue 1315, 2 March 1885, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Borough Council holds its regular monthly meeting to.night, and the Connty Council meets on Thursday at 11 a.m, Messrs Quinlan Mander and Co.’s next sale in Patea takes place to-morrow, and Mr Cowern’s Lincoln-street sale on Wednesday. • The alteration in the railway time-table, together with the special fares, for the Wanganui races appears in another column. Our sporting readers will notice that Vanguard’s discussion on the forthcoming Wanganui Cup closes on March 4th, so that intending investors should hurry up. During the month of February there were three patients admitted into the Patea Hospital and four discharged therefrom, leaving at the close of the month only two patients still under treatment . Ada Mantua ,is again to the fore, and having completed her consultation on the Dunedin Cup, has opened one on the Christchurch Great Autumn Handicap, particulars of which will be found,in our advertising columns. The subscription dance on Friday last was a most unqualified success, the terpsichorean votaries turning up m masse and good floor, good partners, and goofl music being the order of the evening, perfect enjoyment was the natural result.

We would call attention to the advertisement appearing in another column calling- a meeting of intending shareholders of the new Building Society for Friday next. As this is the last opportunity shareholders will have of seeing the proposed rules before they become law, we should recommend all interested to attend.

.As thrashing time is now “on ” it might be worth our farmers’ while to call at Mr Taplin’s and see what can be done by machinery in the way of cleaning seed, as a quantityof grass seed just imported by that gentleman will well repay the time spent in examining it, if only to see,;wbat is done by first-class machinery under watchful care. ;

Mr John Morton, of Waverley, who some time back met with a nasty accident by a fall from a horse, was fortunately insured in the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company, and has just received a cheque for £l7 as compensation. The local agent, Mr Fookes, informs us that settlers in that district are largely taking advantage of the favourable tables lately issued by that Company. We would draw our readers’ attention to Messrs Max D, King and Co's sale, advertised to take place in the Co-Opera-tive Society’s store at Hawera, commencing at 11 a.ra, on Wednesday next. As this is a thoroughly genuine clearing sale, the goods are to be sold, and from the short time the Society has been in existence, the goods must of necessity be new, so that purchasers of either large or small quantities should not allow this opportunity to pass unnoticed. We are glad to inform our readers that the remarks made in this journal some weeks ago re Railway Refreshment Rooms, has already borne fruit, the rooms being let to Mr R Willis for two.years, so that the reproach of having first rate refreshment rooms but no refreshments will no longer be applicable, as from our knowledge of Mr Willie, we can assure everyone that cleanliness, civility, and economy will be the future motto.

At Messrs Nolan, Tonks, and Co’s sale at Manaia on Thursday, the. yards were full, and all but three pens were sold at the hammer. Bighteen-months-old heifers brought 34s ; weaners, from 14s 6d to 22s ; 18-months-old steers, £3 2s 6d ; empty cows, £2 13s 6d to £3 Bs ; forward bullocks, £5 14s 6d ; lambs in wool, 4s 6d to 6s 6d. A few horses brought average prices. At Opunake on Friday, there was a larger attendance than usual. Eighteenmonths heifers brought 355; yearling steers, 375; forward cows, £2 13s 6d ; cows and calves, £2 16s,