THE Otago Daily Times. ”Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1863.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22328, 31 July 1934, Page 3

THE Otago Daily Times. ”Inveniam viam aut faciam." DUNEDIN, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1863.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO.

. ,_ . We cannot share in the gloomy vaticinations of those .who predict that the great, Lancashire cotton trade is doomed,.,and paralysed beyond hope of revival. The American war will not alter the national commercial relations of states, however effectually it may disturb the distribution of political powers. It will not revolutionise the wants, the habits, or. .the" tastes of the world; It will neither destroy the power-lbtims of Manchester nor extirpate the cotton plant from the fields of Carolina and Virginia.

. . . Emigration has not been accepted as the true Solution of the problem of Lancashire : distress; whilst, at the Same! time, the evil effects of maintaining a large population in chronic idleness by the distribution of charitable funds are coming to be sensibly felt. Scarcely leas to be deplored than the extinction of cotton manufacture itself would be the extinction of that sterling independence of character, that self-sustaining power, which is the proud distinction of the. British artizan. ' Speaking even from a' colonial point of view, we are by no means sure that it would be for the advantage of the colonies to have an enormous emigration promoted by the wholesale shipment to Australasia of the cotton spinners of Lancashire and their families. • .

The proposal of Her Majesty's'Ministers to employ the operatives at present out of work in town improvements in the northern counties is one that appears in every way judicious. These men may not indeed be strictly speaking the most effective workmen that could be engaged for draining and other sanitary improvements. But the labor assigned them will.be essentially useful in character. It will enable the operative to render, a real and tangible service for his moderate wages. It will substitute wages to? alms; and whilst doing the utmost that can-be done under the circumstaaces to prevent the demoralisation and sustain the healthy stamina of the working classes, it will help also to preserve ope of the necessary conditions of a revival of a principal branch of industry and trade.

One death has occurred among the passengers on the Victory, lately from Glasgow, who are now stationed at the Quarantine Ground. The deceased is a man named Dickson, who was rather advanced in years, and who had been in indifferent health throughout the passage. . . . To prevent misunderstanding, it would' be well if some intimation were made as to what is quarantine and what is not. All that is known to the- public is contained only in au appendix to some old harbor regulations, now out of print, and these have, on the face of them at least, no application.to persons resident on Rabbit Island. They relate only to ships, and are so worded that it may be questioned "if even the Board of Health have not technically committed a broach of them by removing passengers from the Victory. . . . The commission of Presbytery appointed for the settlement of r ministers south of the Taieri River met within the churches of Inch Clutha and Kaitangata to moderate in a call for the filling up of a vacancy in these churches. The meetings were held on the 16th and 17th instant, the Rev. Win. Banuerman of Clutha preaching and presiding. In both churches it was moved and seconded that the name of Mr Reikland, preacher of the gospel, be inserted in the call. .

The clerk was instructed to transmit the same to Mr Reikland, presently officiating at Riverton, for his acceptance.