WAVERLEY.

Patea Mail, 25 November 1880, Page 3

WAVERLEY.

The Mail has over 80 subscribers between Whcnuahura and Waitoiaru. BRANCH OFFICE OF THE MAIL, Wednesday Evening. The debate on Monaichy v. Republicanism was concluded last Thursday by the Mutual Improvement Society. When the show of hands was taken, it appeared that the advocates of Monarchy had carried tho day. Mr Scott gave a brief outline of Mr Proctor’s lecture on the moon, which was well received. It was decided to resume the meetings in April next year ; and a strong committee was formed to arrange an entertainment for the opening of the autumn session. Land Sale. —The report of some laud having been sold to a Wellington linn, which I seo noticed in your paper and in a Wanganui contemporary, seems to bo another sell. I have heard of a hotel proprietor sighing after sections on which to build a large hotel. Now the Wellington firm, in despair of finding an open space* tries to buy out one of our local storekeepers. Still, the fact is there is no rush here after sections. The place is very dull, as is every small township ; the present storekeepers continuing in business on the faith of times mending. The new corner must bo strong in hope but charity leads Tno to the conclusion that some reporter has been in the company of one of our villiagc fossils about tbo race time, when discussion turned on things as they ought to be ; and that by this time there is another version of the same story. Mr F. R. Jackson’s sale will be hold as usual on Friday. As there Is a large number of entries and grass is abundant, we may expect a good sale and fair prices. We have heard lately about a Wellington linn erecting a store in Waverley. Now if anything will tempt a man to try bis luck in a small township it is the cleanliness and tidiness of its appearance. I should recommend that, at tho next meeting of the Town Board, some steps be taken to enforce the cutting of gorsc fences, which in some parts of our township reach half across the streets. Why the resolution of tho Board with regard to fences has become in such cases a dead letter seems a strange freak, but it is not the less a self-evident fact. At the Patea Races last week, M,Woolston, of Waverley, provided a good luncheon in No. 1 booth.