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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 60, 11 March 1871, Page 2

Matrimonial Statistics. —If you were to tell me of any " long, unlovely street," as Tennyson says, in which there are seven hundred and fifty-three married men, I could tell you pretty accurately about the relations of domination that exist between them and their wives. There are six hundred who are entirely managed by their wives ; there are one hundred and fifty foolish ones, who are always wrangling and jangling for the mastery ; and there are only three who manage their wives without beating them. But then these three are nearly always away from home, being captains of vessels. ■—Contemporary Beview.

An Aucklnml pnper says that it is not generally known that, lying near the Waipa river, there is an exceedingly fine hard grit kind of sandstone, very suitable for the manufacture of grindstones, scythe stones, &c. The same paper suggests that the Government should take steps for the establishment of the industry.