The Patea County Press, (With which is incorporated The Patea Mail.) "Be Just and Fear Not.” MONDAY, 29th MAY, 1899. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 52, 29 May 1899, Page 2

The Patea County Press, (With which is incorporated The Patea Mail.) "Be Just and Fear Not.” MONDAY, 29th MAY, 1899. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Capt. Edwin wired at 1 p.m. to-day as follows Frost to-night, and low tides. The lady’s umbrella advertised as lost in Friday’s Piusss may be obtained at this office. List of present entries for Messrs Nolan* Touks, and Co.’s Kakaramea sale appears elsewhere. Mr E. P, Blake invites tenders for falls ing about one hundred acres of bush. Tenders close at noon on Saturday next, 3rd June. Wo notice by our New Plymouth exchanges the death of Mr D Wilkie, formerly of Manutahi, which took place on Friday last at bis residence near New Ply* mouth. Mr Wilkie, while in this district, made many friends, who will bo much concerned to hoar of his death at the early age of forty years. Ho was for some time Lieutenant in the Patealtille Volunteers, and to the various social institutions of this town always gave most willing support and endeavours to ensure success. lie was a speculator, and for a year past nothing had "been coming his way hut expenses. One day his daughter informed him in an unfeeling manner that if he did not give her a diamond bracelet worth at least illso she would elope with the coachman. “ Gome to any arms, my darling child !” he exclaimed, as the tears of joy coursed down his wrinkled cheeks —“ come to my arms !” “ Bat shall I get the bracelet ?” she asked hesitatingly, “ Of course not,” lie smiled delightedly. “ You get the coachman, I owe him eight months’ wages.” Unequalled and Invincible Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds, 1/6

Blind swimmers can, on hearing a noise in any given direction, not only swim absolutely straight to the point whence the noise proceeds, but when left to thems selves their steering is just as accurate. A municipal body in Ireland was re* ceutly responsible for the following lucid notice:—“ From the beginning of dark every vehicle must carry a lighted lamp. Darkness begins when the street lamps are lighted.”

There was only one railway station in Loudon when the Queen came to the throne; the Greenwich Eaihvay—Deptford to London Bridge—-was opened a year, or two before Her Majesty’s accession. For many years after tha opening of the line an announcement was placed on the well of a tavern near the line informing sightseers that it offered a ! good view of the railway.’ During a recent discourse at tho Hastings Presbyterian Church, the Eev. Mr Johnston spoke in strong terms of the evils associated with dancing. He said that any person who professed Christianity and indulged in dancing was nothing but a downright hypocrite. We cannot agree with the rev. gentleman, and fail for the life of us to see what harm there can be in this innocent pastime. If there is evil made out of it that is another matter. Wc know of several clergymen who at* tend dances regularly, and we think it just possible the Eev. Mr Johnston might get used to it if he could waltz fairly wslL

News to hand by the last San Francisco mail states that the Pope is suffering from great depression, Ddring a recent service he asked one of his personal attendants how many in tho congregation he (the attendant) thought really rejoiced in his recovery. Thou he added despondingly : —“ What mockery it is—this thanksgiving for my recovery. I shall mb live a week.” The exclamation was followed by a long and alarming fainting fit. A recent letter from a Vatican official quotes the Pope as saying since his last attack; ‘’When I die I shall not give much trouble to the doctors, nurses, or servants. lam only skin and bone, and my life will go out like a lamp pvhic'u hus no oil to feed it.” Church officials in Eomc think that is just the way the pontiff will go to his rest, and that he, is nearer the end than is believed.

Tbe death is announced at New York of Mr Allan Wright, who was regarded as tbe most expert compositor in the Australian colonies. Ho was a native of Auckland, and went to America about fourteen years ago. The New York Evening Journal, which describes deceased as ’ one of the widest known and expert proof readers,’ states that "Wright died in the Bellevue Hospital from the effects of knock out drops, (presumably drugs) administered with tbe object of robbery, it being known that* Wright usually carried a large sum of money upon him. He was seen last in company with two men, and suddenly collapsed, whereupon his companions decamped. Wright was found unconscious, and died there. He was of years old, and was employed by the Winthrop Press and other first-class publishing bouses. He spent the greater part of the day previous to his death at the headquarters of the Typographical Union, of which he was a member, chatting with his fellows. When he left he was perfectly sober, and had his bank book with him.

The death of Aliss Mary Jane Janett Turner, of Blackburn, England, which occurred in March, at the age of 85, severs the last personal link (says the London Daily Telegraph) in an extra ordinary romance in which the distinguished colonial legislator and author, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, was tbe principal actor. The episode involved questions of abduction, criminal prosecution, and a special act of Parliament. Her sister Ellen, the heroine, who was heiress to considerable property, was at school at Liverpool in the early part of 1827, and under the pretence that her father was very ill she was taken away to Manchesler by a person representing himself as a servant. There she was joined by Wakefield, who told her that her father was ruined by the failure of a bank, but promised if she would marry him to give him £60,000 tosave'him from imprisonment. This she consented to, and the ceremony was performed at Gretna Green. Hearing of her abduction her two uncles followed the couple to Calais, and brought her home. Wakefield was subsequently prosecuted at Lancaster, and with a brother, who was implicated, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, and the following month the House of Lords passed a bill annulling the marriage.

Woods’ GreatPeppermir tCure for Coughs and Colds never hj, i/6 and 2/6.