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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1831, 12 May 1886, Page 3

A Gymnasium and Boxing Club is abou’. to bn instituted at Marlinliorougli iu the Town Hull. Practice nights will be twice a week Thursdays and .Saturdays. The promoter ; are now actively arranging all the necessar.’ matters appertaining to a successful establishment of the institution. An exchange says : —Four shillings a day is regal'd e 1 »s alow rate of wagee with ns, hut our forefather would have reckoned it a munificent reward for the; ■ labor. The feilowing rate of wages paid in the ancient days of “ Merrie England ” are sufficient to startle n i • I the present time “In the year 1352, 25th Kdwaid 111., wages paid to haymakers were Id a day. A mower of meadows 3d a dsy, or 5d an acre. Keapeis of corn in the first week of August, 2d; in the second. 3d per day, and soon till the end of August, without meat, drink, or other allowance, finding their ow i tools For threshing a quarter of wheat or rye 2id ; a quarter of harley, brans, pesa, and oats, l\d. A master carpenter 3.1 a day, other carpenters 2d. A master mason, At per day ; other masons, 3d, and I heir servants lid per day. Idlers 3d, ana their * knaves 1 id- Thatchers 3d per day, and their knaves 1 id. Plasterers, and other workers of mud walls, amt their knaves, in like manner, without meat or drink, and this from Easter to Michaelmas; and from that time less, according once upon a lime a certain man got mad with the olitor and stopped his paper. The next week he sold lus corn at four cents below the market price because lie wasn’t (s.sted. Then his pnqierty was sold f..r taxes, beeause he didn’t read tire delinquent notice. He was arrested and fined sdol for going hunting on a Sunday, ami he paid 3dol (or a lot of forged notes that had been advertised two weeks and the public cautioned not to negotiate for them. He then (*aid an Irishman, with a foot like a forge hammer, to kick him ail the way to a newspaper office, where he paid three year’s subscription in advance, and got the editor to sign an agreement to knock him down and rob him if he ever ordered his paper to be stopped again. Such is life without a newspaper.