CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 28, 6 November 1885, Page 19

CHRISTCHURCH.

(From our own Correspondent.) The Premier, who has been addressing admiring crowds in yonr <Hty, has been praised here for bis politenees to Mr. Rolleston, and blamed for his boast that Otago did Dot suffer as much from the parts of economy as the North leland. I fancy that this heinous offence will hare been forgiven him ere this time by his constituents. I notice that Mr. Stout was very eloquent in hia praißes of the Land Act, which he declared to be the best land law in the world. That " l *^! ) ! "£° r ""ay ° ot - Bat whatever the value of a land law, it ought to be made eufficiently known far and wide to prevent mißff 8 * v * exam P le > * h ea r< * of a case the other day. Not long ago «n Irish farmer realised, and came out here, in the hope that he would be able to step into a bit of land just after landing, and call it liVv™* ™ Passage, and the passages of his wife and little ones, cost him £150. Bat with the pleasine prospect of freehold in a new, Tieorous and rising country, the hardy, plucky son of Brin thought little of the expense. Wnn £30 in hie pocket he looked every day towards the country which was to provide them all with the homes and careers so difficult to get in their own country. Landed in Lyttelton, our traveller climbs the big hill, and looks down on— do bis eyes deceive him?-a country neb, certainly, and beautiful, attractive be>ond ordinary desire of man, in the green splendour of the spring, but parcelled out, and set. led, and occupied. When he went to the proper quarters, with sinking heart, to make inquiries, he found that bis paradise was not here. There mi f m £T y BUch in other P artß of the Colony— Mi. Stout, ana Mr. ttallance, aDd many other great men cay that there a T e '~i >U . t what Bi B nifipß that circumstance to a man who is stranded m popular Christchurch city without the means of travelling, all his little store melted in bread and shelter for his little ones, and lucky indeed, was the poor man to find work, which though intermittent, keeps the dread wolf from the door. This man is, I learn, a perfect tiger at work, most strong, most reliable, and no doubt, when times impiove, will rapidly grow independent, after all realising the dreams which glaidened the sweet hours of his voyage to these shores. But, if the Ageut-Geueral's department bad done its duty, or been provided by Parliament with the money necessary for that source, this disappointment would not nave occurred, the man would have been better instructed about our country. The question arises— Are Irishmen kept as well posted as the canny Scots, or their neighbours south of the Tweed, or even the people of the German fatherland. This is also a case wbich Ar. Uayden s system would have assi.-te I, if in force. An advance of half his passage money would have given this industrious, capable farmer £75 to help him in getung on to a farm. *. * .| he , Lvm Perß.P erB . 3n'on have ha<l to give way hereafter the lock-out, out if they have been beaten in tho field of business, they have •cored in the field of letters. The secretary has written a good defence of hid Union. Wby do the shipowners combine, he asks, to seep up wages ; why do lawyers, doctors, commission merchants, and others combine ? If it i 9i 9 right f,,r tuem, why not right for to lumpers who need more protection than any of these ? Tde plea is very just, and very unanswerable. In this wicked world, if men do not^o. k to their own, their own will take unto itself wings very