The Patea Mail. Established April 14, 1875. Be Just, and Fear Not. FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1885. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 20, 29 May 1885, Page 2

The Patea Mail. Established April 14, 1875. Be Just, and Fear Not. FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1885. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ada Mantua is to the fore ns usual, and as is her lime worn custom, lias supplied us with names and addresses of the principal winners in her lust event, also with names and addresses of the gentlemen who comprised the committee. They were all gentlemen of good standing and reputation in the city.

The Pungarehu correspondent of the Taranaki Herald telegraphs ;—“ On Sunday the Maoris levelled Frenchman’s sod fence, and erected a Maori tie-up across the Parihaka road. The fence on Government section 36 still remains, and two tie-ups still exist on the Cape road. These latter.were reported to Mr Ballanco at Pungarehu by the deputation.” The Star says ; —The heaviest hailstorm which has been known on the Plains for some years visited Manaia on Tuesday evening at about 7.15. For fifteen minutes heavy hail poured down upon the roof with deafening force, and threatened to destioyjhe iron roofing ; some of the hailstones being-fully as large as marbles. The ground was whi te Tor n rl y. a n hour after the storm.

The Wanganui Chronicle says that “ for breadth of intellectual grasp, combined with sound practical ability, incisive criticism couched in language vigorous but unadorned, rugged honesty of purpose, and fair and square treatment of his political opponents, Major Atkinson stands out in the foreground as the leading statesman of New Zealand. In his able and exhaustive speeches of Friday and Saturday last, at Hawora and Patea, he touched with a practised and experienced hand upon all the leading questions of the day, and we venture to say made each and all more comprehensible to the average understanding of the people than they have been during the whole of the Parliamentary interregnum. ” The problem how to save money solved.—All first-class drapers at Horne and in the colony have found that exhibiting goods in windows docs them incalculable harm. The losses sustained by goods fading is something enormous, which the customer of course has to pay, The goods after exhibition in this manner, never possess the freshness and pristine beauty which new goods ought to possess. Ladies have found out that to their cost. Ladies and gentlemen have also found that by far the Best, Cleanest, Freshest, and Cheapest Draper s are those who do not exhibit their goods in windows. I hese drapers find they can carry on their business at far less cost, and consequently at far less profit. The well-known Direct Drapery Importer, Mu B. A. Adams, has adopted this system of no window dressing, and the customers will find that it is done entirely in their interest. Customers will find the goods arc cleaner, fresher, and consequently by far the cheaper than window dressers can possibly do them, as Ins working expenses are considerably reduced, and what lady would like to wear a bonnet or a mantle after considerable exhibition in a draper’s window'. [Advt I