The Evening Mail. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1878.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 775, 5 October 1878, Page 2

The Evening Mail. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1878.

The Secretary of the North Otago Rifle Association informs us that Mr. Shrimski, M.H.R., has consented to act as delegate from the Association at the Conference to be held in Wellington on Tuesday in reference to the formation of a National Rifle Association. Sub-Lieutenant Moms, ,cf No. 1 Company, will, we believe, attend the jJ.onietvmce as delegate of the V olunteers of the district. So far as we can learn there is now little doubj that a very powerful National Association will be formed. Reference to our Advertisement columns will show that the following alterations have been made in the running of trains between here and Dunedin, also on the Maerewheniu. and Ngapara branch lines. The first Dunedin train will leave here at 0.40 in place of 6 50 a.m., arriving in Dunedm at 12.10. The train now leaving at 3.45 p.m will leave at 3.40, and arrive in Dunedin at w.3r> p.m. The'trains now arriving at 8.45 a.m and 5.45 p.m. will arrive at 5.40 and 0 p.m. An extra train, principally for goods, will also ue put on between here and Dunedin. The Express, and ilao the trains between here and Timaru, will run us usual. The Maerewhenua mominw train leaves at C.45 instead of 0.55 a.m., ami leaves Maerewhenua at (5 p.m instead of 5.50 p.m. as at present. There was a very good latendance last evening at the Volunteer Hall, when the entertainment provided by Madame Cora au.i Val Vose passed off in the usual satisfactory manner. This afternoon a matinee for the benefit of children was given, and was largely attended. This evening the company wiil appear for the last time, when a number of valuable prizes will be given away. _ it a meeting last night it was decided to calf the new Cricket Club " The Excelsior Cricket Club." , Prior to the commencement ot yesterday s races, Mr. Alex. Thomson disposed of his horse Endymion, the winner of the Maiden Plate, to 'a Christchurch gentleman, at a good round figure. Endymion, we believe, goes into Mr. Ray's stable. The monthly meeting of the Committee of the North Otago Benevolent Society will be held at the Secretary's office on Monday evening, at 7 o'clock. The United Children's Service will be held in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Beth young and old are cordially invited. In consequence of this united'meeting there will be no afternoon service in the Primitive Methodist Church as formerly announced. We are glad to be able to state that Mr. John Reid (of Elderslie) intends to offer by public aution, at an early date, a very large proportion of his magnificent estate, in farms to suit all buyers. The word Clydesdale was by error inserted in our report of the horse show of yesterday instead of Chrystal. The miners have met in what is known as the 2S-chain tunnel of the Waterworks. About 24 chains have been driven through Oamaru stone. About 93 chains have oeen driven in the race section, leaving 3S to be done. Six chains of the pipe outlet have also been driven. . , The first .of a series of evangelistic services under the auspices of the O. Y. M. C. A. will commence to-morrow, at the V olunteer Hall, when the Rev. ..Tunics Kirkland and Mr. Duncan Wright will preach. The monthly meeting of the Committee of the North Otago Society will be held at Mr. Earle's Rooms on Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. The indepen* «nt tone which pervades the writings in the Age are worthy of commendation; bitf the able writer who tills the editorial chair ox that paper will we thank, agree that there in a- wnde distinction petwecn independence in advocating the cause of real justice, and that independence which, in exposing a wrong supposed to have been done Tbo one class, impose* » greater wrong upon another. Our remarks arc called forth by an article which has appeared m tue Age commenting upon the conduct oi the Guthrie and L&raach Woodwaro Factory Company. Judging from, its past acts, the Age is not one of those papers that would seek to immolate employers of labor, regardless of fairness, upon the altar of forking men. A\ e believe that it would just as soon champion the cause of one as the other, upholding principle rather than class. It would S-ot, in order to increase its popularity and support, willingly have recourse to expedients In which not even a microscopic atom of good to anybody is to be discerned, but m which abounds injustice to everybody concerned. The Age says that the .Guthrie and Larnach Company invited its employes to attend the funeral 'of the poor fellow wlio was killed a few days since by a piece of wood mat hew from one of the factory saws, because tile sorrowing management desired to see all clue respect paid to the departed. The Age

roes on to say that the employes marched to Werson's "Bay, and in doing so s;ot ■■' wet and weary," and that on the Saturday Allowing the two hours lost were deducted Torn their wages. We presume that this severe writing is the result of misrepresentation by somebody. The fact is that at the men's special request the works were closed for two hours in order to enable them to attend the funeral of their late fellowlaborer. If the manager of the company closed the works voluntarily—and that is what the Age asserts—even although he may have deducted the two hours' pay from the workmen's wages, it would have been an act of extraordinary consideration and liberality. But the works were closed at the special request of the comrades of the unfortunate workman who met with his death ; and, we think it must be confessed that, taking into consideration the magnitude of the factory, the immensity of its operations, and the largeness of the capital invested, it would be unreasonable to expect the company to pay the three hundred men for the time they lost at their own instance, in addition to closing the establishment, which alone entailed a loss of at least thirty ov forty pounds. What would the shareholders of such a company have said had the manager of the company have acted in the manner pointed out as the proper thing by the more sentimental Age ? It appears to us that the sympathy of workmen similarly situated to those of the Guthrie and Laniach Company cannot be said to reach a very high pitch if it would not lead them to sacrifice a few shillings in order to show it. \Ve would not think much of the mourning of men who would only mourn at other people's expense. There must have been some mistake. ' The employes of the Guthrie and Lamach Factory would never have been guilty of so much meanness, and that both the company ano; it» manager (Mr. W. Guthrie) are liberal is borne out by the fact that the former subscribed L2O and the fatter LlO to the fund to assist the widow of the poor fellow the last attentions to whom have caused the un : pleasantness to which we have referred. We understand that the Rev. J. Hobbs, oi Nasebv having effected a Sunday's exchange with the Rev. Mr. Grime, will take part in the morning service at St. Luke s Church to-morrow, and that either he or the Rev. A. Giftom will keep Mr. Grime's appointment at Malieno at 3.30. The Waitangi Tribune says:—"lt if highly satisfactory vo find that Mi\ Studholme purposes cutting up that fine piece: oi land near Robinson's, VVaiho, Messrs. Dennison and Grant advertise hi another column for tenders for the ereefcior of 3. bridge over the Waiareka, at Corrie daje. _