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    • CONFUSION V&JZY MUCH CONFOUNDED.
    • A CA UTION TO REFORMERS.
    • A GOOD RIDDANCE.
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      Somewhere Off The Spanish Coast, Feb. 7,...

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      as A I am frightful writing rush , graduall of water y . telling The on leak the has fires got . its The way contractor , and is , fai says rly we to had the boile better r , then adjourn " all to the the fun deck of , for the when fair beg the ins water . " gets 5 . 10 a . m . shamefully No reasonabl , and now e hop seems e of to safety have ! the The specific Poojah gravity is behaving of yellow of soap the , as sea if it were the middle indifferent , or at as the to whether bottom . it Have floated just on the caug top ht will make something not a raft be , , about . comfortabl the y boats ^ room ^ for and half " all of up us . " in I the am boat sure . I there shall - * * * * - <* * * « a am white Have afloat flag made on , I the it think . best All the raft I price can I could see , a of foot knock the above Poojah water in is ten something to minutes leeward . . on It I is seats composed , a set of of skewers three doubl , and e a bases dumb , - bell chess . up There board is , also two a garden bit of onl a " spar perfectl , " which y sea- worth am very y article glad I have broug got ht , with the me double , as it bases is the , especiall I can see y , the rolling life-boat heavil which y when onl they y contains meet anything the captain like and a sea the . pump . Fortunately , I have a good many passengers with me . *¦ ¦* tinuall So 7 ne y . thing Another is swimming sea . A after garden us , seat but gone we lose with sight Hamlet of it on con it - . taki It , however ng notes , behave now—but s well more at present in my next . I . find some difficulty in ******** It There is the h is yaena no mistake ! And about he is certai the some nly t gaining hing swimming . after us .

      February 1% 1870.] The Tom Aha Wk. 67

      February 1 % 1870 . ] THE TOM AHA WK . 67

      Confusion V&Jzy Much Confounded.

      CONFUSION V & JZY MUCH CONFOUNDED .

      We Alth Are Very Ough Much The Inclined ...

      we Alth are very ough much the inclined Telegraph to O think fficial th s purit at the down derangement to tr ** weather , and , throughout in many cases Englan , absolute d which cessation took of place telegraphic last week communication , was rather rities owing than to a proper to the want eccentricities of organization of the on atmosphere the part of . the Unfor autho - - tu admit nately it , what cannot ever be other said to soft be practical impeachme in nt the Government handling of may any point service , requiring factthe - dead a disp lock lay at which despatch matters and arrived intelligence on Tuesday , so , in things last wa telegrap s foreseen , hic and enabled foretold them b to y form those an whose opinion experience on the sub of - ject but . No yet doubt the uniform , in time rate , things of one will shilling settle down has been satisfact rather orily a , tariff have failure , , as the than yet p , laces been otherwise without about ; the for the while onl radius y lines the hav sixpennny open e b , een have simp distances doubled ly inacces which their - patient sible at — any at all price events . However , for a time , we . suppose we must rest and be

      Query For The Cab Interest ;—Is It Low T...

      Query for the Cab Interest ;—Is it low to call out "hi ?" \ _ .... . l .. 11 .. 1 . . ..,. „ ... , ¦ — ... _ . _„ ,.. . ^^^ . . i- — . . ¦ _ . .-

      A Ca Ution To Reformers.

      A CA UTION TO REFORMERS .

      A Case Came Before The Court Of Common P...

      A case came before the Court of Common Pleas last week vexed which question as good as as to decided their ability for Mr to . Childers dismiss Government and his party clerks the vice who . have The accepted defendant permanent , one Mr appointments . Winkley , was in a the clerk Civil in . Ser the - office damages of the on the Crown ground Agents that for he the was Colonies wrongfull , and y dismissed he claimed by the defendants , the " Masters " of the office . The facts were these office : in — consequence Some time ago of there a clerk was having some been unpleasantness found fault in with the for 14 th - not February having a arrived valentine until was one draw minute n and past sent ten to , and Mr . Brown on the , the clock order Chief . was On issued Clerk this , , that b in y which way in future of he a the repartee was clerk represented s to should the be p as leasantry at a the -walking office , an the at nine great instead inconvenience of ten , whereon that this the would defendant be to him protested , and express , urging - - ing his regret that if compelled to come at nine in the morning he taken would back b obli Mr ged . Brown to tender to the his laintiff resignation with . the This endorsement letter was y p , " after Mr . this Winkley a truce ' s resi was gnation declared is accepted the . obnoxious " However order , shortl was y rescinded , and Mr . Winkley heard ; nothing more of his threat of Gaze resi tte gnation referring until to the an troubles article appeared in the office in , the when Civil the p Service laintiff

      was turned called to him upon . He to restore however his contended own letter that which the letter had been was his rerefused to give it up , , and was , thereon dismissed . Unfortu- , ruled nately th at Government the Office of clerks the Crown , at this Agents stage for of the the Colonies case it was was not and a that Government the contract department existing in between the proper the sense clerks of the and word the , p strong " loyed Masters ly ; advised but " even a under settlement simp these le one , circumstances , and as between it was ultimatel emp , Mr loyer . Justice y arranged and By em lcs - compensation ch that Mr aracter . Childers a juror from should a for his little loss last be more of place emp withdrawn cautious loyment and a , hundred . . Mr If This . a Winkley clerk should pounds who receiving reall by has y way make no of a being permanent reduced position , what in may the not Civil a bojid Service Jide , can Government win , his case official for effect in the Court of Common Pleas if he is driven to take his ****** been stand assumed by the law that ? the At clerks the Admiralty have no legal we believe position that , and it that has , notwithstanding the competitive examinations they may have passed them , , and the their " permanent long service " appointments at low salaries that hav with e been a awarded view to world future at increase a month of 's remuneration notice . , they may be cast adrift on the never That doubted the assumption nor have the was clerk absurd s themselves and untenable but it we have reassure them in , these troublous times of retrenchment ; may to find line that at the which law of even the Cabinet land still Ministers holds good must , and stay that their the progress re is a so — nal the injustice line which . divides administrative reform from gross per-

      A Good Riddance.

      A GOOD RIDDANCE .

      We Are Glad To See That The Kelly Divorc...

      We are glad to see that the Kelly Divorce Case has come to an Lord end Penzance at we last have , a having nd heard in a been the satisfactory last confirmed of the manner reverend by the ; the Full bull jud Court gment for . Lord We of suppose Penzance distinctly informed him , in reply to his inquiry y , , that their appeal lordshi . Distressing ps' decision and was revolting final , as and cases that in he the had Divorce no further Court gross usuall and y are brutal , the trial oppression just terminated , that the laid public bare have such watched a story the of the stages unp of leasant the cause impression with little left patience on their , minds and now by that the it repulsive is over , partiall details of effaced that most by the trying unmitigated of all ordeals satisfaction , petty tyranny and enjoyment , is only a which rage laug frantic at hing they the expostulations - have stock operation experienced as well of as the are a law at caution futile Mr , , . However Kell . onl y ' y disp , tend thank lay to of make goodness impotent him , ,

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Feb. 19, 1870, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_19021870/page/5/