WAVERLEY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11637, 8 November 1887, Page 2

WAVERLEY.

(FBOM OTJE OWN CORRESPONDENT) Wavebley. November 7 The Wairoa Eoad Board hold their monthly meeting on Saturday last. Present — Messrs Murray, fJiddell, and Symeß (chairman). The miuutes of the previous meeting wera read and confirmed. — The treasurer's balance showed a credit of £51 Is 2d,— Correspondence was read from the Proparty Tax office re balance duo on ao. count of cativeland ratee. From Messrs Smith and Co re deviations of roads. From receiver of land revenue; Patoa, with schedules of amounts due re deferred payment moneys. From Treasury with vouchers for payment of part grant re Ngutuera Valley Road. From Mr Andrews re transfer of sections in Waitotara to Mr Haaalin. From Mr Finnerfcy with report on Putahu Koad.—lt was resolved, That Mr Finnerty prepare the necessary plans and specifications for Putahu Road deviuHon. . — Tho following transfer w.^ u^rwed to : Mr Andrews to Mr Hamlin, sections 6 i. • {I 10, "Waitotara township, —Mr Syuiua gave notice of motion for next laoelingr, Thcfc tlo board tak-3 the necessary fcteiM for cUridiag tUd distei^ «jtfe*.

ye subdivisions with seven members or six subdiveions with six members.— MeSßrs Muldrooh and Black waited on the board re sundry matters. It was decided to authorise the chairman to arrange the matter of Mr Hutohiaon's fence and Mr Black's compensation. — The following accounts were passed for payment: —Messrs Smith and Co, £4 7s 6d; F. P. Fookes, ;G9 7s; Property Tax { jQgtoe, £22 17s; D. Diokie, 15s. -"*' The meeting then adjourned. Nominations for the triennial election of members for the Patea County Council closed on Monday last, when the following were nominated for the "V»averley Biding: —Messrs W. Symes, W, E. Morgan. J.Eiddell, jusr, George Johnston, H, F. Mason, A. iSttachan, T. H. Nichcleon, J. Lupton, G, S. Bridge, T. W; Fisher, J. Lomas, and D, Fleming, Of this number five only have to be elected for the Waverley Siding. The poll will be held on Wednesday, 16th instant, and the ratepayers should not forget to roll up on that day and vote for the best men. The members elected will remain in office for three years.

A good story (says a London correspondent of the Argus) 1b told of Miss BelenHenniker (no relation of uhe postal reformer), who is -widely known for k«r social activity and great personal bulk. You may judge of her stoutness when you know that she* can only sit in ths front rovr of the stalls at a theatre. One day she was conversing with ■ some of the numerous young men of fashion,. who are local y known as " Helen's babies," concerning the normal relative dimensions of the human form j one of them repeating the usual artistic patter, such as: ■" Twice round my wrist, once round my neck —twice round my neck, once round my waist." 11 Yes," interjected Helen, " and twice v round my waist —what's that ? " " Oh, that," was the reply, "why that's once round the park." The round of tho park (Hyde Park) is about two miles and threequarters. *.JL characteristic Parisian drama took Jpaoe the other day on the Boulevard Port Royal, A man of Alsatian origin, named Bistelhueber, who had been separated from his wife for a considerable time, .owing to misconduct on her part, was walking along the Boulevard when he suddenly saw her J before him. She was accompanied by several men, whose pppearsnee plainly demoted their disgraceful profession. M. Ristelhueber's passions were aroused vehemently at finding his degraded spouse flaunting about among such scoundrels, and drawing his swordstick, he rushed at her. Seizing < her by_ the hair, he stabbed her thirteen times in the throat and body. One of the wounds severed her carotid arte:y, and death was instantaneous. The woman's Corpse was carried away by some of her companions, while the others fell upon Bistelhneber, and had nearly killed him when the police came up. Ristelhueber is a well-to«do-man, ftud has several workshops in which lamps are manufactured. Ihe surgeons who made the post mortem examination of the woman say that she was stabbed all over the boiy, and that any one of the wounds would have been sufficient to cause her death. A curious innovation lately adopted with brilliant success in the primary schools of several villages and small towug of Franca is the enrolling of the children i>i carefully. organised bands for the destruction of mischievous insect 3 and snull beast?, and the careful protection of small birds and usefoil insects. One afternoon in fach :/Hree-k the school marches out iuto the open conntry,.under the leading of the principal, armed with every thing needed for the carrying out of the carefully explained programme, and operating uud^r iheeye of the haad-master or head-mistress,, who explains to the little people, with the aid of coloured engravings aud of an examina* ■tion of 'the creatures themselves, the and the useful families of , insects, &c, teaches th<jm the names and y qualities of birds and the smalt animals that fire in fields and woods, and incites the ' band to the destruction of tho mischievous species and the preservation of the innocent and useful ones. The achievements of each child are recorded every week iv a book, and at a public meeting of tho country sse held every month various rewards — honourable mentions, medalß, and prizes—are distributed, to (he iatenao satisfaction of those who ieoeiva them. It is said that the eood effects . are already visible. ' Business cai'es render a stimulant essentially necessary—Wowi's £ chwapps is the Btimulanfc that should be taken.