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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1769, 3 September 1874, Page 3

Triu" following ii from the * Brae*, Ilernld.—"lifcnt juet,npfr, to the gentle- ( man irho condescend! to edit this papor, and 1 mpplied for, knvo of abienaa for a few monthf. Jlf fjivl th»t,was,'all right, I qojild go ;, .Ami, ip^d,. lus porininiptx' lterer^to; Write; another, line' pf,wbnt he! fa* pteiiidfidetipus-1 Wtb ttrm Wf*-r6tir' lAWtlSw^'tikeß^tori how I should arrange about gotfiing biy pay-! mant remitted to nia' whilst I was away.; Tho Editor »oid. • Payment! And have you' the inf^Ul^heek to ask fo^ paymeri;, whilst, tou will bo doing nothing ? I said to the; ISditor, 'Sir, I hare clipped from yourj esteemed contemporary, the Wnkatip Mail,; the following pa»pnge, which I think suits my; little case to a Tj' and I handod him this— ' Absence by l«nro is oquiralent to attendance • d.urAng icssion. Mr. Pjko is jentitled to rcoeire payment in full, as if he h»d continued ■ in his sent during tho whole of the session. \ .Tho amount of tho honorarium, though tho> session vra* to be an unusually short one, hadj been increased to £150. Mr. Price can claim that amount.' This bus b?en written in, answer to, some ( jaquircr^ ,jfbp had asked; whether Mr.'Pyko'was'to get His honorarium,; afterhaji^g,only.tttfcende.d fourtosn^ days of' tho.'seciirfn; athd'haylng during thit iinie^ttlrft 'qaeJUon'tb the f'Pr*mier ro thb "payment ofl mcmbersi I looked itt the EclHoP,*i he re»dif, and thought I lia'd Kirn. 1 Bh't I'.hkd 'not.. He said—'The countrj may be a fool, but; tho boss of this paper-is not. Bo work, no 1 pay, young man.' And for this reasen you', will probably hateT'sfeme more of my-writing! n»xt week."

Somb light into the mystery of Grecian | bends has been thrown by a factory girl's I letter to tho Melbourne Age. She sayi:—j " Mesirs Beath, Schioss, and Co.'s employees; say-they cuanot-earn the money they aro said! to do without taking work home and working; iourcrfiTo hours when they get thtre, some-t times more; and some of their machinists', to) earn anything lik« wages, are obliged to do the; same. As regards some of the factory girls i being able to earn £2 per week without 1 taking work, h6me," they.' cannot it j. But let their employers stand at the door, or any-! where they like/ and turn/Up the girl*' pan-';1 niers or dresses, aad see what their Grerian! .bends aro; composted. of-r-cojßts^TCßtff/troufOri, wtiaterer rocation they; mayifoUgw^parhaps ihey will then know whether the hands take home work or n0t.",,. „