ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 271, 21 February 1879, Page 3

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

(Collated from our Exchanges.)

Mr Henry Broadburst addressed a trades union meeting at Hanley recently. He denied that trades unionism was: responsible for the depression of trade, and eaid organisation among the ; working classes had worked wonderful changes for the better in their condition. Trades unionism had done a great work in educating workmen, and one of its first principles was to enforce the duty of helping one another. Mr Broadhurst quoted Mr Robert Giffen's statement that the capital' of the country had increased between 1865 and 1875 by £2,400,000,000, enough to pay the national debt about three times over. . Working men were therefore more than justified in asking for an increased share in the wealth of the country. He asked capitalists to carefully think over this question, and keep the working class satisfied, instead of driving them to extremities. He urged the working men of the country- to give more attention to political questions, and to take opportunities of emphatically condemning the policy of the alien who was now at the head of the Government.

A new Steam Navigation Company is being , formed in Holland with the object of establishing a direct ; transit between Amsterdam and London via the North Sea Canal. The Amsterdam traders have made a calculation of the average exports, yearly* from their city to England alone, and they have found them to. be as follows : —IOOO head of cattle, 8000 calves, 90,000 sheep, 2442 tons of cheese, 187 tons of cereals, 8698 tons of refined, and 1679 tone of unrefined sugar, 1330 tons of tobacco, 332 tons of woollen rags, 1247 tons of tallow candles, and 1100 tons of oil and rape seed These exports, at a freight of 15 per cent., represent a total of £26,099, and hitherto the freight has found its way either into English hands or into those of the Botterdam steam boat companies. The promoters of the new Amsterdam Navigation Company make known in their prespectus that during the last six months the exports from Amsterdam to England have represented a freight of over £13,000.