EIGHT HUNDRED MILES IN SEARCH OF WORK.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1970, 21 February 1885, Page 4

EIGHT HUNDRED MILES IN SEARCH OF WORK.

Tin Tv 1 } Xcws of Dou 'niter '2.1 says- — U the Woolwit.ii Police Couit jistcidny, Jolin Mack, 4(5, was charged ■with bigg ing fiom door to door. He had the ;»]',)' til nice and manner of an in ttlhgent woJ»imj man, and his cisc ex (,bd much sjmpathy in Court. When t lUcn into custody he thanked the con sta ilt f>>i arios"ng him, and said that lie wiilied lie Ji.id been s eht to prison si« wicks ago Tins ho lepeated to the M i/i-tiate (Mr liil»n>), adding, " Prison must be. very liad if it is worau tlnnl line liad to endure, for I li.ue wal-.ul SOO miles in seal oh of work, day altei day all alike, never earning a penny, and vny near starved." — Mr Balguy ; And so you may go on for n fioiuand miles longer, A man who is thiow'n out of woik just now has very little hope. Why don't you go to the wOlw 01 khouse ?— Defendant : The workhoiidc is not for an able-bodied man like in-, able and willing to work. Besides, 1 am only one out of thousands of men out of woik all oxer the country. All the woikhoii^es would not hold half of us. I saw hundrels and hundreds at the docks this morning fighting for the chance of an hours 1 work. — Mi Balguy :If I discharge you, what will you do ?— Defendant : I don't know. I was thinking of going to Portsmouth and then on to Cardiff, tor I see in the papers that there arc some works about to begin theie.— Mr Balguy: Have yon tncd the new docks at Tilbury? Yes, mi ; I walked down to Sheerness and called .it Tilbury on the way back, but there were a hundred men waiting for every one wanted.— Mr Bdlguy : You are a Scotchman, arc yon not? — Defendant : I .im, sir. — Mr lUlguy: If a Scotchman cannot get work, nobody can. (A laugh in com t.) Don't laugh. It is not a joke, but a fact, for Scotchmen as a rule are industrious and persevering.— Defendant : 1 has en t wanted work much till now, and I tho'ight I had a chance at Woolwich, as I worked for the con ti actor aS Ik-cktou gaswotka 10 yeais ago. I teally don't know where to turn ne\t. I am nearly done up. My feet are too sore to walk, and I haven't had a meat meal for two months. — Mr Balsjuy sent one of the officers of the court to make some eurjuuies respecting the defendant, and the answer being satisfactory, directed that he shonld be piouded with some fowl, ami gate him a few shillings to help him on his way. Uudei the headm:? of " Home Goodness Still Left in the World," the following appeals in Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper ot J-inuaty 4th :— The man, John Black, for whom ini|.iiiies had been made by benevolent pet sons, consequent on his distressing story of a tramp in search of woik, piesented himself before Mr Balguy J at Woolwich police couit on Monday, and stated that he had seen in a newspaper at lidding that he was wanted. Mr Balguy said that he liad a number of letters offering employment and assistance, and a sum of 20s sent by a rraident at Halifax. .Some of the offers of employment were permanent, and one offered to pay his railway fare and >rive him £1 a week with board, which seemed a very tempting one. Another was from the contractors for some nevr gas works, and several otheis offetcd to take him on at once. Black said the gas works fteemerl most in hid line, as he was used to hard rough work in the iron country. Sergeant Gilham said the gas woiks was a building job, and would be only temporary. Mr Balguy then handed a bundle of letters to Stigcditt Gilham, ami asked him to make o.it . i list of the situations available and lot iilack see it, make Ins selection, and Lome again. He. also told Black that he might have the 'iO-> or part of it, and, as )'c sjid a tiifL would sufhec for the pro(•cut, give Jinn 2a Oil. Klack warmly thanked the iiia^iatiatc, vilio aaid his j tli inks weie rather due to the Press and j tne pu'.iir-, who had shown some of the goodness which was still in the world.

A \\ hitkh in a contemporary dredge 1 the backs of Im be-s with (lour ab they wrie leauug the hivrs in the mniniui.' duniiiia vciy dry time, doing this by preconcci ted airangements witli a ft lend who had a fine clo\er-field in hlooin foity miks. awaj'. The fiiciid wiote back directly, " Tliere are plenty of your v, Into ] icket bees here in the clover." Among the legacies of a recently deceased testator were the dividends of £100 Reduced Tlnee per Cent. Annuites bequeathed to a lady so long as the tc-tfitoi'3 young black cat should live.

A Candid Cvnuidvtk. — At the Ifaitlcpool (Koj/land) Jlos|,jtal meeting recently, an amusing incident took place in connection with the appointment of muse to tin 1 institution. One of the applicants stated in her letter :— " lam of medium luiglit, and not handsome." The Chairn.au: " Just listen to that, gentlemen. '] lie woman says heiself blie is not haiulsome." (Langhtei.) Her portiait, which B'ie enelnseil, fully boie out her stateincut It was nan led round amid imich li tighter. l)i. R.ivi]iug« : "I think it in ndvisible to base a good-looking muse, it i!> lmieh more pleasant for the patients." (Liuglttfr) The Major: "It would make 'em sto[> in longer, doctor." (Rei«\ id I lighter.) The woman* candour, it was thought, was so refreshing that she <lf"-er\ed the office, and it was ultimately decided to appoint her. Ki\DS'hvs to Horsks.— Strangers in Pans arc surprised at the beauty and Bi/e of the omnibus horses, which arc irnaiiably kept in splendid condition. The} are well fed, carefully treated, and never overworked. Each omnibus has ten horses belonging to it. These ten hordes go out exery day ; thus during the fouiteen houis' seivicc, the hor&cs arc changed fi\e times. Being thus catefully managed, their strength and speed end in o dtiung long years of sen ice. To pict-f rvc this stiength great caieis taken. At the foot of euuh of the hills that discioify the surface of the itrcetd of J'.iri-. — ttieie arc thirty-one of thtso hills — an extra hoise is always in waiting to aid in dragging the heavy vehicle up the aiuent. Nor is the inoial side, so to (•peak, of the horses' tiaining neglected. The paim, once formed, are never s-'paiated, aave in case of accident or bieknes* ; they occupy the same stall ami feed fioin the same manger, divided )>y ,\ petition i-ito two compartments. They thus become nhnost a unit in gait, movement*, and impulses, and being always diucii by the same coachman, tlnj get to understand peifcctly his words and motions. Their docility and Miptrior intelligence fully reward then owueis for the extra caie and kindness bhown these gia^cful creatures.

The Bad and Worthless arc never imtlatiri or coiuil 'oft lint. This is e'pocial'y true of afninily medicine, and it c positive proof that the remedy innl/itid i 3 ot the highest value. As soon ns it had lven tested and piovid by the whole wtii ld tint Hop Bifleis was the puitit, ht.st and the most valuable f,.mily nnd.unc on euth, many imitations sptmi</ up and begin to steal the notices in which the pri°s and the people of the ormntiy had expressed the merit* of H B . md in c\eiy way trying to induce siifFiinmj invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the ci c (lit and good inino of H. B. Many others started nostiuins put up in pimilar atyle to 11. \l , wtli vaiiously devised immes in wmuh the woid " Hop" or " Hops" v.eie tisril m a wav to intliiee peoples to believe tiny wi'ie the same as Hop Bitters. All btidi preteuiud remedies or cures, no in ittcr wli.it then style or name is and c-.poci.illy those with the Moid "Hop" or '• Hops" in then name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or eounterfcits. Beware of them, loucli none of them. Use notiling but genuine Ameiican Hop Bitters, with a h-inch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule's name blown in the glass. Ti list nothing else. Diugi^ists and Chemists are warned fliM.n^t dealing in imitations or counterfeits.

BtriIOTIIU. <>X PIUSCr^S 81-VTKHK — Tlic Coiut Ciiculdi announces that the (Jiieun gave, her concent on Dec 30 to the engagement of I'iince Bciitnee with I'iiiico liuny (it lialteubuig, tluiil '-on L'linui A!e\,ui(ha ot He&se. The l'n u us tlic jounger hiotlici of Pi nice ! mus of R.ittenbnig, who is manicd to Ihe Qucen'b giand daughter, J'iiiiccss Vtt toi i.i ot ilu so, ami of the Piincc of I>uli^itiii. Tho Qupvn'a cjiiscnt to the iinmnge is on tlte tfuulition Inat tlw\ shall lesidi' in Engl.unl ami in clo^proximity to Her M ijesty. Tiio tutnic son-in-law of tlic (^iitcn, who will he coiiU.iUy welcomed in the 1 nul of hisadop tson, istwentv sin ye.usuf Jije, \i,\.\ mt'luen bom on October ."», IS.IS Ke l.s a eoimn ot the Giantl l>iilve of Hus<«, wlio man ied the lamented Piinuess Alice, and was left a w idowei ii\ jeara ago. ]s<it tenbeig, from which the family takes its title, is a Miiall town in the (Jr.uid Duchy of Hesse. A Berlin telegram says :—: — The news of the engagement is received here with geneial sympathy and good wishes. More than ordinary intciest is taken in the event on account of Her Royal Highness' close relationship to the German Crown Pnncess. The general satisfaction is, however, not unmixed with regrets at the Prince's intended departure fioin here, as he was a favourite member of Beilm Court society. Prince Henry has been for the last two years lieutenant in the Guards Corps, the crack Prussian cavahy regiment, to which his elder brother, the Prince of Bulgaiiu, is still attached as major-general.

Thk DfciMthssiox ix E\(ji.vm) — Tlie following instructive commentary upon the distie-is prevailing in England is taken from the Home News juat to hand :—": — " The agricultural and comniprciol depression now prevailing in England may be said to have lesohed itself into a fight of Chanty against Starvation. Never was misery so severe, or helplessness more complete ; jicvci was the hand of the; bountiful mote liberal, or the organisation for the re lehef of sufTeiing moie conscientiously developed. It the exiting distiess is not as widespread as that created by the cotton famine '20 yen is ago, it is in mauy quaiteis as deep. In e\eiy town from the East end of London, throughout the Midlands, to far Noith of the Tweed, thousands and thousands of families arc huddled in fimutureless rooms, hungry, u.»ld, hopeless. On the Clyde, on Tyne-side, at Jarrow , at at Gateshead, at Aberdeen, at Glasgow, at ijtinderland, and at a hundred other centies of industiy, men with iaigc families to support have been unah'c to get work now for noaily twelse months, and it says much for the t Ji t if fc of the working clashes that many have until quite recently staved otf the hour when an appeal to elniity become inevitable, solely by their haul earned sa\ irgs. What the condition of the country would be at tins moment but for its Chaiitabfe Oigauiaations it is impossible to conceue. At places line Jarrow thousands of childicn are fed and families relieved out of the funds of the Local Committee ; in Newcastle £1000 a mouth goes in relief; in Sunderlaud over £7000 has biui raised for sunilai purposes And these ate only a few instances of the noble tffoits which chaiity is making to withstand the starvation of the masses

A Fact Worth Knowing. Aie you sufffiinjj with Consumption, Coughs, Sevcie Colds settled on the Bieast, I'liciniionia, or any disease of the Tin oat and Lung-. ? It so, to your Druggist and get a bottle of Bosehcc's German Symp. The people aie going Mild over its mic< eh*, and Dmggiatb .ill ovu our country arc wilting u» of its wonderful cures among their onstomcis. It has by far the largest sale of any remedy, simply because it is of so mm.li \aluc m all affections of this, kind. Ch tonic ensos quickly yield to it. Druggists recommend it and physicians prcsenl>e it It yon wish to try its Biipeiior \irtue, get a Sample Bottle for (sd. Large size bottle :U Od. Tliice Oo^es will icHcve any ea^c. Tiy it.