A Few "Thats" on Current Events.

Otago Witness, Issue 2200, 30 April 1896, Page 39

A Few " Thats " on Current Events.

TO TOR EDITOR.

Sir,— l subjoin a few thoughts on current topics which may be worth the consideration of your readers :— That it would have been more in the interests of farmers had the Milburn Lime and Cement Company reduced the price of lima to as to bring it within their reach Instead of taking a few farmers down to Edendale to show them what they already, knew. . ... That tha Government would be better eraployed in devoting their energies to finding and fostering markets for the products, of ounoil, instead of running round the country at the ratepayers' expense, 'ranting against capital,' and stirring up strife between employers 'and employees, thereby doing their best to prevent those who have capital at their command from investing it in any industry in which labour has to be employed. That it would have been wiser on the pact of the temperance party to have inquired into the true facts of the case before attributing the flourishing state of the finances of the borough of Balclutha to the effects of prohibition. Had they done so they would have found that immediately prohibition came into force the Balclutha Borough Council increased their ra' es 50 per cent., and went in for retrenchment by stopping all works and giving all their employees a month's notice, reinstating only those absolutely necessary to carry on the business, with the result that the funds were conserved, and of course accumulated. That when next the Railway deparment run a special train they should provide for a double system of checking, to that the omission on the part of one of their employees to deliver instructions to the men in charge of a train will not lead ito a collision. — I am, <ftc., An Old Colonist. The coal export from We»tport last week was 5993 tons.

It proposed to form another volunteer infantry corps in Nelson, to be composed eE old boys of the Nelson College and Bishop's: School.

An agitation against Sunday concerts b going on in Palmerston North, and on Thursday night a deputation from the Wesleyan, Presbyterian, and Baptist Churches, headed by the Rev. Mr Thorny* son, waited npon the Borough Council ,and asked that stops be taken to saopress auah . entertainments. The council, after "discussion, ' decided to write to the Wellington City Council and inquire as to the oourse adopted by it la tbe matter.

It is a fitot, said a Christchurch divine the other day, that stuff o»lled Woods's Greafc Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Ik ia sold by all Grooerfl and Ohemists-3