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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 438, 18 January 1890, Page 3

Jinks—Winks must be doing finely. He tells me he has a country house and a city house. Blinks—He has. He takes care of my country house in winter and my city house in summer. “I hear that the doctor has given Griggsby up.” “ Yes, he wouldn’t pay his bill. Usher—Are you the head man with this minstrel troupe, mister ? Mister—No ! I'm the end man. ■» You can no more judge a man by his daily walk and conversation than you can a restaurant by its front door. Chicago girl—Oh, auntie, we’ve just been out shooting at the target, Boston girl— I succeeded in perforating the bovine optic three times in succession. Durability of Kauri Timber. —As show ing the wonderful durability of heart of kauri timber we may draw attention to the following: —Mr John Gordon, J.P., of Otahuhu, has forwarded to an Auckland paper a photograph ol the house; of Mr Thomas Paton at Epsom. On the back of the photograph is the following note “ Eden Hillj Epsom, Ist July, 1889. The residence of Mr Thomas Paton, who arrived in the colony of New Zealand on the 14th March, 1840, in the good ship Westminster, Captain Mollison. This wooden house was built in the year of our Lord 1845, on a scoria foundation three feet in height- The architect was Mr William Mason, and the builders were GeorgeMcVay and brothers. The timber used was the best of kauri from the Manukau. While effecting a few repairs, and erecting a new verandah three weeks ago, in order to ascertain the durability and condition of the ground plates and joists of the flooring, I instructed the carpenter to get under; the flooring of one of the rooms, through a manhole originally constructed for the purpose, and he reported, after replacing and securing a few. wedges that had got loose, that the timber's of the house were as good and sound as, the day the house was built, and that there was not such goud timber to be found in the Auckland market at the present time.”