EFFECT OF THE STRIKES IN CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2835, 13 September 1890, Page 2

EFFECT OF THE STRIKES IN CAMBRIDGE.

Thk majority of the inhabitants of Cambridge will be heartily glad when the strikes are ended, for nearly everyone has suffered inconveniences through them. We advisedly say the majority, for the other day we heard a farmer say : " Blow the Union Company's men striking! I wish the beggars who run the West Coast cattle steamers would strike for a couple of months ! That would make our cattle worth something." He evidently does not go with the majority. When the strike commenced the supply of coal in Cambridge was very small, hence there has been a big run on ti-tree, and oven the dispised pinus insignis has received attention, while old heaps of fine slack coal that have been years in accumulating have proved a blessing. The general opinion is adverse to the boycott, and not a few have bf.en the " cuss words " we have heard launched at the heads of those who instigated it; while, on the other hand, they have been prayed for, as special prayers were offered up at the Anglican Church last Sunday for a, solution of the difficulty. The Rev. C. H. Garland, at St. Paul's, spoke strongly against the boycott, and stated it was a direct opposition to one of the main clauses of the Magna Charta, which clause he read to his c-ougregation. At Trinity Presbyterian Church, the Rev. W. Evans delivered iino of the best discourses that he has given for years, taking for his text " Is there no balm iu Gilead V Is there no physican there?" He said the text was usually applied in its spiritual significance ; as originally spoken to the Jews it referred to their national troubles. Hβ then applied it to the present strikes, and reviewed the various remedies proposed by social reformers. Ho spoke most scathingly of the boycott, and proceeded to show that the principals of Christianity rightly applied would ainically solve the problem and bring the, greatest welfare of all classes.