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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 17, 3 September 1897, Page 5

There are three things which a good wife should resemble, and yet those three things she should not resemble. She should be like a town clock — keep time and regularity. She should not be like a town clock — speak so loud that all the town may hear her. She should be like a snail— prudent, and keep within her own house. She should not be like a snail and carry all she has upon her back. She should be like an echo — speak when spoken to. She should not be like an echo — determined always to have the last word.

We have much pleasure in calling attention to Mr. O'Dea's advertisement in this issue, which will be found on another page. Mr. ODea has now been practising his profession as architect in Wellington for some years and many of the most noted improvements in buildings which have taken place there within the last decade have been carried out from plans prepared by him, which lor elegarce of design, stability, and completeness of detail are unsurpassed. Any of our readers who intend building would do well to communicate with Mr. ODea who will be pleapcd to furnish plans and specifications as instructed,