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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6245, 18 June 1890, Page 3

The following will play for the Timaru Football Club in their match second fifteen v. the Colonials on the 8.0.A.A. Club’s grounds to-morrow : —Eaymond, Christian, Collins, Hall, Durbridge, Bouron, Gardner, Kenny, Maine, Malcolmeon, Mueker, E. LeOren, Aviaon, Drummond, McKinnon. The following team of the Timaru "Rifles will represent the privates in the shooting match to-morrow, officers v. privates : privates Humphries, MeNab, Pearson, Stokes, Bussell, Eobertson, Jos. Ellis, J. Ellis, W* Ellis, Griffin, Brown. The match will commence at 2 p.m. sharp, but arrangements have been made so that those unable to fire at that time may go down at 12'o’clock.

On Thursday evening the Eev. E. D. Cecil will deliver at the Congregational Church the first of three or four popular lectures for which arrangements will be made at short intervals. The subject is to be “Notes of a recent trip to Britain.” In dealing with it the lecturer will introduce description of interesting scenes, personal experiences, and the results of his observation of the present religious and economic position of the Old Country, The chair will be taken at 8 p.m., and the lectnre will bo varied by the musical selections and solos.

The Hawke's Bay Herald, condemning the entrance fee of £2 10s charged by the Wharf labourers’ Union, which is to be raised to £5, says:—“ We believe that a union of labourers is a good thing, as we have said, but only while it exists for the benefit of labourers as a class. To that end the union should seek to enrol all possible members, and consequently keep its entrance foe down to a nominal figure. Otherwise, instead of it being a combination for the benefit of labourers, it is degraded to the level of an association for fostering a monopoly to benefit the few at the expense of the many, That the union may bo right in objecting to a man working formless than the current rate of wages is more or less defensible, but to exact of a poor devil, who can hardly buy bread, a fee of £2 10s to be allowed to labour is tyranny and oppression of the darkest and most repulsive kind.” The following from the Post is stated to have happened in Wellington:—“A baker discovered that ho could'profltably bake broad and sell it for cash at 2Jd per loaf over the counter. He did so, and a large demand ensued, but he was soon informed by the merchants or millers from whom he bought his flour, for cash, that they could no longer supply him unless be raised his price, as if they did they would lose the custom of others in the trade. This difficulty, however, was got over by supplies being obtained from other places. The baker bad a relative in another part of the town, whose wife kept a small grocer’s shop, while the husband was employed in a mercantile house. To extend his trade, the baker got the grocer to sell bis bread at the reduced price, allowing a small commission for doing so. Xhe bakers appealed to the grocers, and together they appealed to the mercantile firm, the result being that the emplojS was given his choice between shutting up his shop altogether or reigning his situation, his employers expressing regret at having to offer him the alternative, as if they continued to employ him, and he continued to sell at less than the established price, the firm would lose the custom of the trade generally. The employe had to go.” Th's is in keeping with tendency of the lime, which is self-preservation by co-operation.

A correspondent of the Press says the State must arrange to relieve the Charitable Aid Department by providing a Stale farm or some remunerative employment for men able to work, though net able-bodied, or the Department from want of funds will have to stavo off many of the poor appealing to them, and the number of mou starved to death by our way sides, or driven to gaol for a livoli. hood, will be greater in the future than they have been in the past, and in the past they have been not inconsiderable. The Charitable Aid Department as at present would have enough to deal with those who cannot work nt all.

“An agricultural labourer,” who had written a letter on small farm settlements to a northern contemporary, who criticised it severely, replied as follows:—“ Referring to my former letter, and to that part in which I advocated the2o*acro system, you said that it would create a state of things to be seen in France, where the occupiers of small farms arc but slaves to (he soil. To that statement I would submit that we should be bolter off in that condition than we are now. We know that it is the lot of most of us to be slaves j therefore it would be bolter to be slaves to the soil than to be for the best part of our lives slaves to our creditors and stationowners, to finish up our days in the Refuge. Another point. You say that the Maoris get plenty to eat and plenty of clothes, but their condition of life is not a desirable one. Quite so; we do not wish to adopt their mode of living, but if they get plenty to oat, and plenty of clothes, they are certainly bettor off than a great many belonging to my class at the present time. Sir, how often do poor children have to stay at home from school, and on Sunday can attend no place of worship on account of having no tidy clothe® or bools ? I can assure you that it does not end there. The parents also are debarred by the same cause. And is it for this that we left England? Is this bettering ourselves P I say it is a sin and a shame that such thing 9 can bo in a young country.” There is an express waggon in Christchurch now which seems to belong to a company, which is not a joint stock company, or to a firm not bound by any agreement of partnership. One Koesters, a baker, " who has left the colony,” sought to borrow money from one Stranngan on the security of this waggon. Mr Stranagan refused to lend money, but bought the vehicle for £lB, and then rented it back at £L per week for 20 weeks, at the end of which time Koesters was to have the right to buy it for £L. Mr Stranaghan does not “ lend ” money at 7i per cent per annum, in the course of his proceedings ho makes a distinction —where there is no difference, except that he saves registering a bill of sale. Koesters, with what appears to bo unusual honesty on his part, paid rent for the waggon to the amount of £l6 10s. This was not paid at the stipulated rate of £1 per week, the payments being spread over eighteen months. Mr Stranagan was not a “ hard nail.” He, however, began to fear than he would get no more, and instructed a bailiff to seize the vehicle, " wherever ho could find it.” The bailiff carried out hia instructions by taking it out of the possession of one Fullan, in the streets of Christchurch. Pullan bad bought it at an auction, and paid for it. Mr Pullan sued for the return of his waggon, and during the hearing of the case it came out that a Mr Q-apes had also purchased the waggon from Koesters on similar terms to , those made by Stranagan, and he had neither waggon nor rent. Mr Hoft, one of Koester’a landlords, had seized the vehicle as Koeetoi’s for rent and had it sold by auction, whence it became Pullan’s. Mr Beetham decided that the waggon was Pullan’s rather than Strausgan’s, so much more so that the latter must pay the costs of the suit.