OUR WEEDY WAYS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 396, 21 May 1880, Page 2

OUR WEEDY WAYS.

To tIC Editor o , th , Akaroar Male.

Si, rrj —lwer much pleazed sum weeks agone te see as 'ow our paths and gutters was a bein' put tidy—no less nor three men bein' imploied hall at once. But this henergy it 'pears were too much to last; for I sees a irishman's been aworkin' all by hisself ever since the fust week. Wen they 'ad three'on em on the job, wy they got along like winky ; but the feller at it now 'ull be able to turn an' start agin at Wackly's by time he's finished up at the west hend—which 'es now at Hanning's, the tutcher's. Your paper says as 'owthe Chareman o' the Works Cornittee (which O'llilely is 'is name I botaves), was bordered—fancy Wackly a bordering of Pat! —was bordered to knock on: the labor,' as bein' too expensive. So hit seems 'c sacked two labrers, but stuck to th' irishman. Bravo, Pat! But ware tho savin' comes in twix imploying ono iriehman for three months, or three hordinary men for one month, I doant see ; but I do see that Mietor O'Rilely'a contreeman, from

bein' one o , lh' unemploped fur a long time past, 'as dropt pretty tidy on to 'is legs at last. The Worthy Chareman, like nieself, cleerly doant onderstand TEE ROOL O , THREE.