WAVERLEY.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 450, 6 August 1879, Page 2

WAVERLEY.

(From our own Correspondent.) The Rifle Volunteers paraded as usual on Saturday for drill. The men are improving' fast, and if they stick to it, will in a short time be really efficient drills. They are the proud possessors of a bugle, but have not a bugler yet. A gentleman in the town, who understands the noble art of sounding the calls, has kindly undertaken to teach a young volunteer, and for that purpose asked him to his house to practice. In the middle of the last lesson, the following letter was handed to the instructor from his next door neighbor—“ Is this to continue. Am Ito be perpetually annoyed by an infernal din calculated to cause.'the inhabitants to desert pandcmoniusm. Is my delicate organisation, my koen perception of time and tune to be for ever subjected to these rude shocks? My system must succumb eventually, and you will be liable to be tried for manslaughter. Cease, then, your persecutions, or in self-defence I shall be obliged to call in the guardian of the peace to suppress you and your colleagues. Quiet means I have tried without success. You have treated my repeated warnings with contempt. Now, therefore, am I strong in my purpose. I will obliterate you ” The reply sent to the above was more expressive than parliamentary, and consisted of tljree words only, requesting the retirement of the writer to a place where,- probably, bugles are not known'.