NELSON SYNOD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 978, 28 November 1890, Page 33

NELSON SYNOD.

(peb press association.) Nelson, November 21. Injbis address on the opening of the Synod the Bishop of Nelson referred to the events of the year, and spoke of the appointment of Bishop Julius. He said he would yield to no one in loyalty to the General Synod, and though he could say much in contravention of what had been said, he would forbear. He also spoke at great length on the labour difficulties and the movement for the re* duction of the hours of labour, which he viewed with favour. He hoped a happier time was in store and that men would be less and less of machines, and that the exactions of competition would not be so much the cause of a reduction of wages as stimulants to the inventions of laboursaving appliances. If there was also a willingness to make a good use of leisure thus afforded, this should be regarded as a new talent to be nsed for good. He urged that here the advantage of a union came in, for, instead of their only possessing the destructive powers of striking, etc, they had an almost unlimited power o f advancing culture and progress, their members so elevating their moral and sooial standing, and increasing the market value of their work.