THE LIME-KILN CLUB.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2682, 24 August 1887, Page 2

THE LIME-KILN CLUB.

' At; dis age an 1 date a good deal am bain* said about dooty,' said Brother Gardner, as he looked up and down the . aisles and signalled to Samuel Shin; to gtuf' Botne.body'B hat into" a brbken r |iane:in the'alley window.' 'lt you goto one church you y'ar it am. your dooty to look out fur de heathen; at another you am charged to hev m

eye out for de poo' • at a third^^ ra held responsible fiir all the in your city; at o fo'tb else, and you'll return home wid ft-, burden on your back weighin' ■■■&s< pounds. I has bin figerin' up on Its dooty biznesH, and I has come, to lo followin' conclusions:- '- 1. It aiuyouc duty toobey de laws • 2, It am your dooty to provide fur jour "faoiily,',and take:|eer ob ytfur savings, : ;,./■: _ ' •';-" ''_' "' 3, lib honestly, deal-Rquarely, and pay.cash down; .. • 4." It aniyofir dooty tb'support what* eber is good an' condemn wbateber is , Outside of the above no man Or woman need worry. If d« Lawd ted ine.to Worry ober d« heathens W Africa h»'d|ev arranged it fur "me to lie bo'n at Capo Town or Zanzibar, an' he'd bev'given/memo' luug power, aa' mo'- cash. ■ If it was intended dat h|l de : sinners iu Aniarica should ba saved die •Satan wouldn't tejhbin 'lowed to- invent so much wiolmiea. If it war' expccktod.dat I should band out a dollar tfMwery pusson in distress, it would hev- bin fixed dat I should :findagqld'minoiu my back yard. I hev dißkiyeretl, in figerin' oa dese thing?, M people : wbo am so much about wickedness at home 'gieoerally forgjvto pay deir honest debts jJat Ide'-'poople who preach da bov de least concep•Bhhri'ofitr,lu,defuch6rl shall seek to.airn.tw.o.dbllara per d-iy j keep out o'debt: squaf-'up de grocery ebory Saturday night'; sweur to de proof on de witness -stan'; keep up my pew rent; celebrate Waßliington'H birthday, an' hev a dollar'in my pocket fur ani laborm'man who niaym-iet wid ml? fortune. Dat's g*ine to lm my dooty," .■.THE SHEARER'S UNION. ■

As the rules of tho Shearer's Union are 'exciting considerable interest among thfl flockownors in this Colony, tho following from the Pastoral-Times of Victoria will be of interest :—"Em. ployers of labor during the shearing season, are not'eq much dissatisfied .with the desire; of the men tOMnbine together, 48 with the absuSrrules thejr have- prof ulgated. Originally the idea wag to; combine with a view to regulating tlio rates at which BKearingwartobe done, but some of the advisers among introduce a •rulewhicii praotioaily places a shed j under the- compete control of the the employer to;the |iositioo>ofjan ornamental non--■entity-- the .protested, agap| the Union -under" such opnmskajffies, andVa itand 'has-b^nv-taken against it. • Kea|y the' vvlioleTef the gi-aziers in this' district-,have/declined to reoognise it, 'theoohseciuenceil that,the business of the. Union-is:almost as a standstill. The'menr also,; are becoming alarmed ■at the outlo6f, 4 an,d are enrolling them* selves under Mold conditions.: irre« : speotive of the'rutes of the union, In some case? of j, which .we the:men- register themselvesW one. name as members of .the union and undertake shearing at shods under another.; In the Wentworth district tlje Union;iseems- to have' collapsed ehMy.';'-At|rs'l:the rules dictated that.jheiheareiiwere tobo e'mplbyed through/ the low agencies only, but ibis; hasheehfound unworkable there, Wd-the'tole has-been relaxed so as to .allow the jrjen toeogage how they like. they should in. •form tbe.unibn; of- ftheir movements. Many ofihe emplo|ers of this district have their list; -already full, and in some to employ . men connected-withihe Union." ,i#k