Mr Timm Finnigan.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 81, 9 April 1904, Page 2

Mr Timm Finnigan.

OUT OP VVUIUC. There was "joy in the ship" „„ Thursday evening, or ralher laughter in the Council Chamliet, when the following leller was nn.l by the Town Clerk, purporting to he an application for the post of assistant engineer at the waterworks : New Plymouth, April Ith, ;001.— I'o our City Pat hers. Gentlemen,--Hearing you rdcp.iro the service of an amateur engineer ns assistant at the waterworks, 1 grasp the opportunity of applying for the sain,., I canjlrive a audlor-oar, in fact, anvtliing on wheels ; the only tiling that ever beal me was trviiig singlehanded to drive a pig to market, ; in that I came off second-best. In my young days I learned the noble art of self-defence, and 1 would make a lirst-class man in a row. I have been to the South African war, and it left me nil her delicate; but give me a week. 1 mean JL2 a week, and 1 will loss the old 'tin for the house and farm. 1 have no references—! never stayed long enough to get one—but 1 can write one or two after I get tliu job. I neither smoke nor drink, I choose tobacco, a man of few words. If I don't succeed in this I'll take a trip to the St. Louis I'Miifftion. t would send my photo, but I never had one taken, If you see me once, you will know me tignin. 1 should 'be salislied with one boss, provided I pick him out for myself ; it illicit save future (rouble. I'll take the job on one condition, and that is. keep I lie Mayor on the job,, anywav (ill he gels (lie £2011(1 in. I agree lo help collect same, time lo count as overtime.—Yours in anticipation, TIMM PIN\IG.\N T , Mechanical Engineer. Pinni((an did not gHi the position.