A CAUSE FOR THANKFULNESS.
We happened to be in the Council TTaH on Saturday when two stout, decent-looking young feflows, immigrants by the Pomona, stalked into the chamber and handed to Mr Scandrett a note from the Barrack master stating that they wished to obtain labor from the Corporation, They spoke rather indignantly, and said that when they left Home, where they had had a farm and horses and cattle, they did not dream of having to take to such work. They had communicated with a friend at Hawke’s Bay, whither they intended to proceed, but, as they did not believe in idleness, they wished to get something to do until they heard from him. They were wisely advised to remain where they were, for they might go further and fare worse, because (of the many districts in the colony there was not one in which they would have better or more numerous chances of getting on, if they would only have a little patience, than {Southland. In reply to a question as to whether they were married, one of the young men exclaimed, with a sigh of profound self-gratulatiou, “No. Thank goodness! bad as we are, we’re not that bad yet. ” Not very compliother sex, is it?—‘South-
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Evening Star, Issue 4107, 26 April 1876, Page 4
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208A CAUSE FOR THANKFULNESS. Evening Star, Issue 4107, 26 April 1876, Page 4
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