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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1028, 22 August 1883, Page 4

The following is from tin? Timaru Serald: —That 5 much-abused and welladvertised class.<sf’ere" t res, servant girls, 118 oisually Credited with getting” or dttempting to get the best of their, mistfeasis. ■■ A case which' recently occurred in Timaru shows, however, .that whan, it i# a and not a mistress who is in charge .ofjthe, hausehpld, tabhaamay' be tumba. There are at present fii Timaru a number of .people, including, We believe, two families, living together on the cooperatireiprtnoiple, the head’of one-of the Being,. the. holder of the.. purse strings. Kecantly he engaged, a servant girl at 15s a week. A fortnight passed, and then “ Bridget ” asked for her Hard- ' earned wages, ,-r The; master ihanded Her two hilf-crQ.wnsj. Bridget, asked if this was 4f on account.” ‘‘Oh account! No!" replied the master “ that isyour wages.” But I engaged for 15s a week,” exclaimed 1 Bridget; ■ Ic ' So you did," said the mltfttr f, *hildTVe only deducted 12s 6d a week out of that for your board. ” Exit Brlcfpt. . , ■^ELfe VJ i, iR6uGH pif Cohns!”—Ask for Wells’ ** Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, buniohi. l Moses, Moss and ■ Co., Sydney, General Agents. .3

'Publication IN THE PRESS, AND WILL shortly” be published, “OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS,” BY ALFRED SACNDBK 3. This Boob, written by an old New Zealand colon! t, will be found to contain the moat modern and complete information npou the Breeding, Rearing and Management of every description of Domestic Poultry; suggestions for 'the improve-) ment of Poultry Shows ; all that iaknowq about the nrinciples to be observed in the mating of Breeding Stock; and some; well defined rules for selecting, ’With certainty’; the moat economical and beneficial ‘dC* soription of food for any animal, from a baby to a mouse. It will show the d>est aort of fowls to keep, and the rules for aeleotion them ; ; apd,.W h > lßt ; ,copdemning aha mischief of many common tbe crUfe--, , practices, it will, point pjit-iow to keep poultry with certain profit, m brilliant