MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 6 September 1920, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

The less of wages to many Wellington employees through the recent stoppage of the supply of electric power and gas will be found considerable when all figures arc available. Hands in clothing factories were among other innocent sufferers through the dispute. The clothing factory proprietors, hov„\e;-. have decided to par half wages to all employees who were rendered idle, so that the loss by enforced idleness A nugget of gold weighing .'.To/, and north about £l-5. was found at Kuinarooka (Victoria) on August Kith by I’eter Hansen, a farmer. The find wn-* made in a cultivation paddock, and wa-un-arthod by a plough. The ground ha.- been under cultivation for -So years and the country was not previously auriferous. 1; was thought that the nugget had been dropped there by aborigines, and tits is strengthened bv the existence jn the locality o f the remains of an aborigines' camp, which had been preserved by residents. “The hand that rocks the cradle wrecks the world,” to misquote a wellknown -aving. may lie a piece e! cheat* cynicism, but the women in the present case has without doubt wrecked her husband’s billet (says the ‘Otago Duilv Times”). “Do you know why one of my men is away from work this week?” asked the employer. “No,'' said the newspaper man; “why?” “Because his wife lias gone to the Christchurch race.-, and lie had to stop aud mind the children, ” replied the cm ployer. When the sporting wife re turns from Christchurch her husband will be free from his domestic duties, and will have the opportunity to seek another job.