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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 18 November 1880, Page 2

Mr. Shrimski, M.H.R., was a passenger by yesterday morning's train from the north. Our travelling reporter, who was also present, informs us that en route he rehearsed his political creed to a number of gentlemen who had the pleasure to be in his company. His discourse was interspersed with a dissertation on penny-a-lining, in which he referred to our morning contemporary, so it is understood, in anything but complimentary terms. What has onr contemporary done to offend Mr. Shrimski? It, like ourselves, has been exceedingly kind to the hon. gentleman. But the noteworthy portions of nis remarks were those which treated of political matters. For instance, he emphatically expressed his disapproval of the present system of giving employment to the "unemployed" on public works, and advanced a3 one of his rensons that the working men of the Colony had been too ■well treated—that they should have provided for a rainy day when they were in receipt of 153 or 16s per diem ! He did not inform his admiring audience exactly when and where working men had received such a princely wage; but we suppose he will be prepared to be more explicit when the proper time comes. As we before said, yesterday he only rehearsed his political speech. The very full report given of the Agricub tural and Pastoral Show, to-day has necessitated the publication of a supplement, which will be found to contain a number of interesting items, including a quantity of telegrams crowded out of our last issue. The Rev. Mr. Ryley, according to our contemporary, expressed himself in the following common-sense manner during the course of a speech which he delivered at the annual meeting in connection with the Kakanui Presbyterian Church, held on Tuesday last in the Athenteum, at that ! place :—ln speaking of things in general, he adverted to necessary reforms in daily life, and seemed desirous to impress upon ! his hearers Carlyle's tribute to " The great I power of silence." In allusion to a recent eriricism on New Zealand, Mr. Ryley said it i was the most glorious country under the sun for those who did not disdain to take things as they found them, and steadily strived to improve what was amiss. The pioneers of every laud havo always been obliged to rough "it, thus smoothing the way for their kid-gloved successors. Seventeen I years ago, when the district was but 'sparsely"populated, he lived in a sod hut, consisting of a but and ben, and had the inestimable privilege of carrying his own mutton home on his shoulder from the paddock, where a friend had killed it, and which he afterwards dressed tu mode. He had frequently iu.it his way in swamps, and had to trust in some degree to the instincts of liis horse, and yet he looked back to those days with pleasure. In conclusion the rev. gentleman said that from his experience both at home and in the Colonics, he eouM aver tha'j morally and spii-itur-Ily the colonists would compare favorably with any eLvss iu the mother country, and that it the temperance principle prevailed, the entire population would derive la.-rl.iug benefit, and .soon be freed from the incubus of a national debt.

Cricketers takine part in the match tomorrow—Banks and Law v. Oamaru C C, — are reminded that Hodgson's 'bus will leave the Colonial Bank corner at half-past 11 o'clock sharp for the cricket ground.