Pumping and Drainage Question. Thames, May 23.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 52, 31 May 1884, Page 6

Pumping and Drainage Question. Thames, May 23.

The question of increased assistance to drainage operations was brought up at the meeting of the Borough Council last night. Opinions were expressed that in any rearrangement of the contribution the Council should insist upon the whole matter being placed on Buch a basis that the bodies which supply funds for the maintenance of pumping should have control of its expenditure, so that frequent threats of stoppage should not be made. The May oi 1 said that prospecting operations had not until now been carried on in the proper direction. Mr Speight said it was matter of current rumour that the present threat of stoppage was made in an endeavour to coerce the Prince Imperial Company into amalgamation with the Cross. After disoussion, a committee, consisting of the Mayor, Messrs McGowan, Speight, and Bawden, was appointed to report upon the whole question.

"Ladies' maids has their feelings like other folk." A week or two ago (says " Truth") some of our best-known Peeresses gave her maid a month's notice, accompanying the warning by a smack on the face. The maid said nothing at the time, but brooded over her wrongs. On the day that her month was up, after she had received her wages, and her boxes had been placed upon a cab, she went upstairs and commenced to "do" her mistress's hair. Having deftly fastened it to the back of the chair, she calmly proceeded to administer a series of slaps to the somewhat highlycoloured cheeks which were ready to her hands. Then, with a low curtsey, she took herself off. "I have," says Mr G. A. Sala, in the " Illustrated London News," " seen a good deal of husbands and wives in my time, and, if I have any faculty of observation, it has generally led to the conclusion that the happiest marriageB are those in which the bride, when she comes to the altar rails, has in the way of the world's goods precisely what she stands upright in, and no more,"