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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4952, 20 April 1891, Page 2

The meeting of those willing to support the Prohibition candidates ivill be held in the hall of the Young Women's Christian Temperance Union in Eden-street, and not in the Coffee Rooms, as previously advertised. At the first meeting of the Sydenham Licensing Committee, the Rev. Mr Isitt (the Chairman) implied, in reply to an inquiry, that applications for conditional licenses for Lancaster Park, on the occasion of sports, would not be granted. The Rev. Dr Macgregor, of C'olumba Church, preached on Sunday week—both morning and evening—at Naseby. In the evening the church was crowded, when the Doctor (says the Mount Ida Chronicle) preached a very powerful sermon. The Doctor engaged to hold the following services yesterday: Gimmerburn 11 a.m., Eweburn 2.30 p.m., and Naseby 6.30 p.m. In the course of a visit of inspection made by a representative of the Wanganui Herald to the Wellington Woollen Factory the following colloquy occurred: —"I'm glad to see the sexes nearly equally employed," say I to Mr Woods when we get outside to travel round to the tentering-room. " Which do you find the cleverer?" "Oh," he answers, camiily enough, "women make the best weavers. Weaving is women's work, you know." "As to that," I reply, " a woman's work or a man's either, is that which she or he is best qualified to execute." "You'll have to be careful, Mr Woods,'' interjects Mr Barber, "this lady is a Woman's Rights advocate." " Don't mind him, Mr Woods ; but tell me, since women make the best weavers, do you pay them as well t as you do the men?" "Of course we do." "Then they earn more wages?" "That depends," he answers cautiously. " Some of them earn more ; but there's many a thing a man can do that a woman can't. When they do the same work we pay them the same wages." " That's all we ask," I respond. "We want equal justice, and no more. If I can do, and choose to do, a man's work, don't tell me that my sex entitles me to a lower rate of pay." This is putting the question in a nutsliell. There can be no objection to the employment of females at any work that suits them ; but there must be no employment of females simply for the sake of cheapness. Whether males or females be employed, they should be paid in accordance with what they earn. If this principle were once recognised, there could be no such trouble as that which arose through the employment of cheap female labor by Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs.

The following are the liabilities and assets in the estate of G. M. Aldrich : Liabilities : Oamaru —E. A. Atkinson, 8s (id ; Colonial Bank, LIO4O 6s 4d (L3OO secured) ; Bruce Christie and Co., Ll3l 19s Sd ; James Craig and Co., L 4 Ss ; T. C. Dennison, L 52 12s t)cl ; John Jack, L 7 4s ; Lintott, Skeet, and Co., L 175 18s Cd ; J. and T. Meek, LI 10s ; Oamaru Mail, Ll3 14s ; North Otago Times, L 8 9s yd; N.Z.L. and M.A. Co., L 122 19s lOd ; H. Newton, 17s 6d ; N.M. and A. Co., L 3 ; Borough Council, LI 15 3s lOd ; Harbor Board, Ll4 12s 6d ; South British Insurance Co., L2 0s Sd ; H. Watson, LI ISs ; A. Colville, L 45 ; S. Bryce, L 6 7s 6d ; J. Vernor, LI 19s Gd; B. Mollison, L 6 ; J. Bulleid and Co., L 6 7s 8d ; A. Frascr, L2 3s; Dr de Lautour, L2 ss; Hislop and LI 2 10s Sd. Invercargill— J. Anderson, L2 2s 6d. Dunedin A. and T. Burt, L 3 ; R. B. Dennison, LS 13s 3d ; Kincaid, M'Q.ueen, and Co., L 7 19s 6d ; Mills, Dick, and Co., L2 10s ; Sargood, Son, and Even, Ll4 6s. Melbourne— Gantz and Co., L 4 4s 3d. Napier—H. Napthali, LI 18s 3d ; T. A. Culwell, L 9 16s 7d. Wellington —E. Reeves and Co., L 226 4s 9d. Total, L 2247 14s lid. Assets: Stock, L 627 17s 4d ; book debts, L 165 ; cash in hand, LSB 6s Id ; bills receivable, LI2O 7s ; _ mill property and machinery (valued at L 3756, and mortgaged to the Otago and Southland Investment Company for L 3350), L 406 ; 1 Bank of New Zealand share, L 5 ; 10 shares Co-operative Store, LlO. Total, LI39S 10s 3d. Deficiency, LS4B Ss 10(1. Secured creditors : Otago and Southland Investment Company (mortgage on machinery and mill property), t L 3350 ; Dunedin City Sinking Fund Commissioners (mortgage of section 62, block 25, Dunedin city), L 1250. Mr George Sumpter (through Mr R. Davies) reports the sale, by auction, on Saturday, of 22 acres of land at Otepopo at L 7 8s per acre, and 1 acre in the township of Herbert, at Ll2. The essay to be delivered by the President of St. Luke's Mutual Improvement Society on Thursday will be on " Imperial Federation," not on " Enthusiasm,as previously stated" The Mount Ida Chronicle says :—The newjerseys for the Prospectors have arrived, and may be had on application to the secretary. The colors are maroon and gold, and look very well. The jerseys were manufactured at the New Zealand Clothing Factory, Oamaru, which firm we can recommend to other football clubs, for besides being of really excellent quality, the jerseys have been supplied at exceedingly reasonable rates. Whilst the Dobson - Kennedy Company were performing at Foxton the other night )says the Blenheim Express) an obstreperous individual made his way on to the stage, defying checktakers and doorkeepers, and announced his intention during the wake scene of "drinking tlieShaughraun's health." Mr Kennedy (Con) arose from his supposed death-like slumber and carried out the flaxmiller amidst howls of laughter. We are informed that a distinct improvement has now taken place in the condition of the lupus patient in the hospital since the administration of Dr Koclvs tuberculine. We understand that another patient is to be treated with the tuberculine. Daily Times. Flaxmilling in New Zealand seems to be under a cloud. In the Manawatu district lately a mill which cost LIBOO was disposed of for LloO.