Capitai. and Labor. -The labor question in Fiji, judging from the following, which we lake from the Hji limes, is gellii g complicated : —‘ Things are progressing with tl e planter, and here is every prospect t-at before long he will h vea high old time of it with bis laborers. Auiongst a number or Ra men engaged on a Windward p'ani*■ ii*jn was one wiio acted as chaplain of (began", one Saturday this man failed to turn out with the others. Noticing his absence from the field, his employer, went, to look tor him, expecting to find him sick. Instead of tin's, he found him lolling on a mat - ia Ins bur-, b'owi g a fragrant cloud from his seluka, ev dently in the rudest of rude health, but apparently lost in pleasant abstraction of mind. 1 What, in the thunder are you (loins there?’ w s the irate plant,crV not over polite inquiry. ‘Go away and don’t disturb me.’ was the dignified response ; ‘ I am composing my sermon for Sunday ’
Thick Heads, heavy stomachs, bilious conditions—Wells’ May Apple Pills—-aoti-bilious, cartimitic, 5d and Is. M><Beß, Mow and Co, Sydney, General Agent*.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1131, 7 August 1883, Page 1
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191Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 Temuka Leader, Issue 1131, 7 August 1883, Page 1
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