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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 6, 1 June 1883, Page 18

If we must make iron in this country in competition with English labour it is very clear what must be done. The labourer must take less wages. In other words, he must not think of a savings fund. Then, like the English operative, he must eat less meat and use inferior food. And then his wife must dispense with all the little comforts that make home happy ; and then his children must be imprisoned in the cotton factory as soon as they can walk instead of going to ccbool ; and then he must finally become almostas soulless as the machine he guides. But the labourer protests again3t such degradation and ihe farmer against any diminution in the consumption of his products : and humanity protests against the whole scheme as a step backward, and as shocking to the Christian spirit of the age.— Trenton, N J , Iron Convention, 1849. Of the 500 criminals in the Southern Illinois penitentiary, 115 were drunk at the time their crime was tsmmitted. In 1882, 181 Jew3in Vienna, it is reported, became CatH^ftw. Mr. J. Remfrey, representing an English {syndicate of great wealth, is in Columbia, 8.C., looking after investments for hia company. He has submitted a proposition to the Sinking Fund Commission for the purchase of all the land owned by the State lying on the Santee River. He stated that if he could obtain from the State an agreement they wonld send the surveyors at once, and if the results were satisfactory they would pay down the money for the property immediately The intention of this company is to drain the vast territory ljing on these rivers for purposes of cultivation,