WELLINGTON TIME.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2005, 3 June 1868, Page 6

WELLINGTON TIME.

(To the VAUur of ih" f)TA<:o I >ati,v Timct.)

Shi—To a new comer, hardly up to tho Provincial and (Uwral Oovernments' controversy, Ilie opposition to (ho cstfil)li«]niicnL of a uniform time throughout iho Colony deems somewhat ntrnn<?o ; hut I fliipprme'tliorc mtiat bo a deep and important principle underlying the; time question, which T am too obtuse to comprehend, canning, however, an aversion to tho filti'ra'ion on the part, of tlie powt-rfs (Provincial) thai. he. : l>ut to many tlio refusal to fi'lopt. Wellington time appears an exceedingly childish hunincmi, exhibiting a veHy Hpirit, more calculitod to make lIH ri(licuji)ii.'i titan rcKfoctcl. T, for oho, cannot for tho life of mo see what possible diflurenct) it '■»" miiko ; nw\ the oppoHih'on in the! more «inf;nliir, as I atn told that, for yearn past, tlin workiiij? day of eicjht liours hn« bi>cn regulated in winter l-y a time cln<soly approximating to Wellington time—that, is, tho Bell has been rum', ovory morning and evening Boino ir» niiniifoH earlier than Duncdin. mean time, in order that tho day's work might >o pot through by daylight. I have bet 11 indued to make those remarks by observing Hint I could barely see to work in the aarden thin evening at a quarter to live, and tho idea struck me j that the oK servant "f Wellington time would be a great, convenience in the winter sermon at all cventß, and harmless in tho summer.-—I am, «6c., Daylkjiit. Dunedin, Ist Juno, 18(58.