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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 883, 19 February 1878, Page 3

Seevant Giel's Pbovtdent Society.— Theie is a servant girls association ii. this city, says a Southern contemporary. A lady recently endeavored to re-engage a servant girl who worked for her two years ago, and gave excellent satisfaction but she resolutely refused to come, though she acknowledged she liked her former mistress as much as the latter liked her. The lady urged her to give her reason. for refusing a permanent place with one whom she acknowledged she liked so well. Then the girl said that she was a member of a ring or secret society of servant girls, each of whom was pledged to bring from her employers a given amount of provisions—meat, or flour, or butter, or soap, or something—every week, and, in return for this, when out of employment, the person to whom these articles were given supported them until they found, or she could find for them, another place.—And the girl refused to re-enter the employment of her former mi-trens because the lady had been to kind to her thai she could not make ui her mind to steal anything liom her. Snii»£<e niuiuiiMj& on race meetings afolioWi-. —"I'toile go to races from ma j and diverte motives. Some Jor a holiday. Soine to win tome one clue's money, 01 ritk the lobrng of their oisn. bume foi excittnuni. A lew lrom pure iove oi hoibe racing, tsome to give an airing t< then* wives and children; otheis to Lakitheir eel-hearts; others because it n the piojex tha g. .But there j« one thin" we uo not biing ourselves to btl.eve, it it thib—that men encourage race meeting, because it tends to impiove the breed oi hoittih. Thib is a leaeon *e have heAiu given by many. We thin* men breeo good horses became they letch more money than bad horse*; tnd » gout. likely to inn mote nioi.ey on aii event than an indilleient one. I'eojli neeu not be undei any aiarm that by re luaiuiug away from a race-meet tiic