DAMAGING THE COLONY.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 367, 20 June 1884, Page 2

DAMAGING THE COLONY.

; — ft — , The i Otago Trades and Labor. Council^ with aj warning circular -to English Labdi Unions, have set a ball rolling vfbich it will be very difficult to"" stop;" says the London correspondent of - the Dunedic ♦ Star.'! One .can. scarcely., take up^ ;a pro» vincial paper nowadays. ..without) seeing ; the matter ajUyjded . to , from, .#n .alarmist'grppjai of view, Floods of correspondence hav< been \et loose on the , Press, from returned failures who ; could ■ not 'get 6H in <;; New Zealarid, , and .who blame . $kQ ' Qolpnj for it?. .They jail, .ioin in. , the, sanju "icuelsjoo " cry-^"- The pla£e is overd'dne? During, the x last ; : fewl 1 days I .have, beei especially struck with,,,the ainpunt jo: rmisch^ef that has already been- achieved Smallj capitalists are being "rapidly : scaiet a-way.j Mr Kenna\yay aays. so, Captaii Ashbyi says so, and the brokers say so wnilstf I myself happen to have come acros: two cases. They were young men, sons of i Scotch gentleman farmer, and;^orth /I^OOO, Two iponthP SgP they resolved to go out t( Otagp to try their luck there. Every thing! was settled, when one of them cam( across' the^ Trade" and . Labor Counbil'scir cularsinthe Leeds 'Mercury. 1 He showec it to his brother,-" and, after -talking -th« matter over, they made up their . mindi to try Canada instead, Il;e otlier : evferij»g ] mft one of the broth ert op£ at dinner,- and heard; the wbple story, naturally made me smile. "Ahj" said he, Hit's all very well for you to laugh; you know th« country; and can gauge & circular like ! that ,at its itrue value, but we dp; not. It seems an insane thing for us to risk our little all in » Colony, that, according to the inhabitants themselves, is already suffering from depression, which may become worse." The only paper! Lhaje seen whjch see,ma to-see,f;hmugh the circular- is the' 'Birmjcgh^m- : one. 1 ' Tfiia journal, the ' Post, 'r'say?: "This is -th^. B ort of resolution and censure which' 'trades eouncji]^ in every country where they have found; a home themselves are always sending to England. There is no settlement 'where there fare only two mechanics in which they do not protest against the arrival of a third, and declare that^tjie, labpr market is overstocked. »li the wbjle. Jft jk «iany. l paseß newenterprise, wliich mean's the greatest demand for labor, is prevented because labor is kept awayj when it ought to be enticed by the public. , This New Zealand resolution speaks of the policy „' before, carried out ' by the Government ; but they do. not say what Government, whether their own pr. the English. 1 his ambiguity is misleading."