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Waikato Times, Volume 2507, Issue XXXI, 4 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Tin-: Otago Daily Times has made enquiries into tho statement that the Government pay artisans higher wages than private employers do, and, as a result, finds that precisely the reverse is the case, as the Government appear as a rule to be paying a lower rate of wages than private employers, only one class of work—that of surfacemen and platelayers—being more highly paid than outside. It gives a tabulated statement to prove this. A certain bishop preached a sermon in Lent from the text, "All flesh is grass." The next day he met his coachman in the garden, who approached and as if he wanted to ask a question, "The top of the morning to your !" said Terence. " Did I fairly understand your lordship to say, ' All flesh is grass,' last Sunday ?" '• Yes," replied his lordship, "and you're a heretic if you doubt it." "Whist!" said Terence. "Niver a bit of doubt; but I was only for askin' your lordship if, seein' as it was Lent, I might be havin' a small piece of bafe by way of asah-d?" A young woman, living at the Place de la Nation, Paris, has «jubt adopted a novel mode of putting an end to her days. She filled her small bedroom with flowers, and when her mother went to call her in the morning she found her dead. The following address was delivered by the manager of a theatre in Ireland, there being only threo persons in the house: — Ladies and gentlemen,— As there is nobody here I dismiss you all. Tho performance of this night will not be performed, hut tonight's performance will be repeated tomorrow evening. I