WAVERLEY.

Patea Mail, 20 July 1880, Page 3

WAVERLEY.

[> RO M OUR CORRESPONDENT.] BRANCH OFFICE OF THE MAIL, Monday Evening. Mr F. R. Jackson’s usual monthly sale was held here on Friday. There was a very limited supply of stock for sale, and the attendance of buyers and others was not so large as usual. The prices realised wore considered satisfactory, and all the lots changed hands. Church Business. —The members and adherents of the Church of England are putting forth efforts to raise subscriptions in aid of their Church building fund. These appeals are being well responded to, and where money was not forthcoming, its equivalent has been made up in gifts, which are to be sold by auction. It is wonderful what can be done even in these hard times, when the object is a good one, and canvassers are earnest. Town Board. — A special meeting of this body was held on Saturday evening. The principal business was to decide upon the class of fence to be put up on the domain. To give the ratepayers an opportunity of expressing their views on the matter, a public meeting is to bo held.

“JUST LIKE HER MOTHER.” Jingling Johnson, the travelling coffinmaker, writes as follows:—“ When I asked old Johnson to Give me his daughter he said, ‘ Take cr, and my Blessing’—it were hall he had to give at the Time having just purformed the fashunable serimony of going throu the Oort—‘ And you will find or,’ he remarked, 1 Just like er mother.’ When we -where married I took cr Omc to my new lean-to, and I thought to himprove the Occasion by pointing bout the himportauce of a Wife’s Implicit Hobedxence to the Will of er usband I liargudcd the pint sucesfully I thought for some time Untill at last she rose from or seat Exclaiming, f It’s hall rot.’ I said that I shood at hall Times find means of Enforcing my hauthority as a. usban. ‘Yon will, will you,’ said my Amelia, and lifting hup the Bellows and swinging em Around she said, ‘lm going to he the Bos of my Own Lean-to, just like m 3' mother.”

on my Head thousands of sparks shot from mv Hies as Ireckollected the words of er poor Father ‘ You will find er just like er Mother.’ ”

NEW INVENTIONS- ; Glass is being tried, in London for railway sleepers and also, for rails. As illustrating the increased use attained dy paper as a-ma-terial for the construction of railway carriage wheels, it may be mentioned that a joint-stock company has just been started in the United States with a capital of £1,000,000, to push this novelty in cotton-pulp. The works will be built in Chicago, and the location, on the line of the Chicago Eock Island and Facade railroad, south of the *city limits. The plans of the buildings are already prepared, and show that while due regard has been paid architectural symmetry, they will be concrement for the uses for which they are inte aded. The average life of a paper wheel under tnxeks of locomotive engines ranges from 500,000 miles to 1,611,880 'miles, and under dining and palace cars from 791,000 to 168,336 miles,