The Patea Mail. Established April 14, 1875 Be Just,and Fear Not MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1886. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 131, 22 February 1886, Page 2

The Patea Mail. Established April 14, 1875 Be Just,and Fear Not MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1886. NEWS OF THE DAY.

In Wellington tho temperance parly have won tho day in one ward, publicans in two, and moderates in one. A reward of £IOO is offered for the conviction of the persons who set fire to the Government schools at Hokitika. Lord Caniugton has declined to grant a dissolution of the New South Wales Parliament, and tho Ministry have decided to resign in consequence. 'Hie Cable Company have agreed to the terms offered by New Zealand Government, provided tho subsidy is payable for 6 j years instead of sf. Lay bourne and Co., produce merchants, of Auckland, are arranging with their creditors. Liabilities, £16,000 ; dividend expected, 12s 6d in .£. The son of an Auckland butcher, named McNaughton, was (brown from his horse while racing with other boys. Result : Spine injury, and concussion of the brain. Another little boy, 6 years old (named George Fish) was drowned in the Wanganui River on Friday afternoon. At latest report tho body had not been recovered. , Dr Grabham, Inspector of Hospitals, made bis usual unexpected visit of inspection to the local Hospital on Friday, and ('it the completion of his round gave the steward great credit for the general appearance and clean state of the wards. Who’s afraid ? The Wanganui Herald says —At the Masterton Borough Council election lately, Cullen, a hawker,beatFeist, storekeeper, ex Mayor, and an old Councillor, by 28 votes. The Councillors arc terribly disgusted at the result, and threaten to resign, Cullen says if they do ho will run tho Council with the Town Clerk single-handed. Tho Rev Mr Tudor assisted tho Rev Mr Whit chouse in the morning and evening services at St. George’s Church yesterday. The evening service was only scantily attended, which is to he regretted, i-s Mr Tudor preached a most impressive sermon on the necessity of living a daily Christian life, as compared with a iceclcly semblance of Christianity, choosing his text from 1 Cor., IX—24, and Ecclesiastes IX—lO. Tho ordination of the Rev. James Neville, of Waverley, takes place in the Presbyterian Church, in the township, mi To-morrow, at 3 p.m. Mr Neville Inis lately received a call from the Presbyterians in that district, and lias already become very popular. "We expect there will ho u large attendance at the ordination, The annual tea meeting in connection with tho Church takes place in the evening in the Town Hall. A young man nam 'd Daniel Scown mot with a painful accident on Tuesday last, which has so far resulted in his being brought into tho Hospital on Friday. From what wo can learn tho young man was driving a horse and dray, belonging to Mr Mai chant, from Manutahi to Whakamnra, when his leg slipped between the wheel and the dray and received a very severe wound, (ho leg from tho knee to tho ankle being completely flayed, and the thigh very badly bruised, Tho wounds were at once dressed by Dr Buckby, and tho young man made as comfortable ns circumstances would permit. Some Southern papers are dreadfully angry with us for calling attention to the bad relative results shown by tho Canterbury and Otago railways ns compared with those of the North Island. They rail at us with a bitterness which is excessively droll, seeing that our sole offence consists in bringing before tho public (ho official returns of the traffic on tho public’s own railways. It is not our fault that the Southern lines show so very badly in the comparison. On the contrary, had our advice been taken, and a rational tariff mainlined, tho same lines would have boon among the most profitable in tho Colony. Cut our Southern friends cannot cat their cake and have it too. If they insist on having unreasonably and unprofitaldy low rates, they cannot expect their lines to show well in the published returns. So far from exulting over the falling-off, we deplore it deeply, for it means a heavy drain on (lie whole Colony to make good the deficit, and we in the North, who have to pay our share toward making up this loss have nothing to set against it, while our Southern friends have the advantage of cheap carriage at the expense of the rest of tho colony. They do not protend to dispute tho plain facts that tho Cantoi bury-Otago linos exhibited a falling-off of £42,000, and the rest of the lines an improvenn nt of £46,000. They only revile ns for directing attention fo this serious matter instead of comfortably combining with other journals to hush up so unsatisfactory a stale of , affairs. But grumble as they may, wo shall nevertheless persist in exposing what wc consider to be a grave danger to the colony’s progress, prosperity and credit. —New Zealand 'Times. ‘‘Yon Don’t Know their Value.”— ‘‘ They cured me of biliousness and kidney complaint, as recommended. I had a half bottle left, which I used for my two little girls, who the doctors and neighbors said could not be cured. lam confident I should have lost both of them one night if I had not had tho American Co’s Hop Bitters in my house to use. That is why I say yon do not know half the value of American Hop Bitters, and do not recoin I mend them highly enough.” See I