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Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 76, 21 September 1865, Page 8

Wanted, a Wife.— A Down Easter advertises for a wile in the following- manner —" Any gal what's got a cow, a good leather bed and fixings, five hundred dollars in hard pewter, one that's had the measles, and understands tending children, can have a customer for life by writing a billy dux, addressed Z - ft- and sticking it on to Uncle Ebenezer's harn hine side, jining the hog The total number of passengers carried to and fro on the Brighton Company's new Epsom Line on the Derby Day was 52,498 j and the number on the London and South Western was somewhat i less.

(To the Editor of the Bruce Herald.)

Sir — Passing along the Main-road the other day I observed several heaps of stone lying on the side, and evidently intended for spreading on the road between the Gorge Hotel and the Royal Oak. As every one acquainted with the road knows, this was one of the best metalled pieces of highway in the district; but, sir, if the stuff 1 saw lying broken at the side is put upon the road it will be so no longer. The good metal will be covered with a coat of what I must term claystone, which will be reduced to powder within a month, and converted into mud by every shower of rain after that. It is precisely the same sort of metal (?) which was first spread on the Saddle Hill road, and similar to that put on the road between the township and the south bridge last year. In forming a new road a coat of it may be good as a foundation on which to spread blue metal, but the idea of covering a good metalled road with such useless stuff is absurd. Surely the Road Engineer, Inspector, or whoever has charge of the road, will not suffer such a thing to be done ? To do it is to throw away money, and to make, not a bad road good, but a good road bad. Yours, &c, DIAMOND-CRACKER.