THE LABOR MARKET.

Evening Star, Issue 4191, 2 August 1876, Page 4

THE LA BOR MARKET.

1 have recently noticed in yonr columns C.fetteys fyomwarrous correspondents MiscnS : - amg-ib© propriety.of giving a banquet te Mr - Adam, to recognition Of his services in the •auseof immigration to New Zealand. ** Old Identity ” abused Grant for his somewhat exaggerated/letter .to a Belfast paper, j!r di}aaoterißi|i£ it. aa.aatrocious libel on ‘ 'l)U''Od^]a^ t ,: > qr .ot similar import, while he, in the same breath,' perpetrated ~fcl_pmst mendacious libel on Scotland by fthtingithat farm servants, there could;-net jfetbi*tohep?Bjheat moie than once a-year, r vjz;; at Christmas. ' I don’t’ know - whether “ Old Identity ” evier was-a farm servant in . .SSothtod, but, ; if So, he must have been in a locality,, and could easily have r , : „jbettprpd,.Jbiin s elf by removing to another - my. experience m ifiy® [different counties, ’ ■ «ndon te»; or. a j dozen different farms,, for periodsof frotn-six months to two years; on taoh, that we had meat or its * equivalent te’ce evety day, and, on sbm^farms;-twice day throughout the yeSr. ’• "When 4 *old Identity” next accuses others of untruthfulness, perhaps he will be careful to stick a little closer to tbe truth himself. > As tp. Mr Adam’s title, to. tdaei empty honor V a banquet, ! have nothing to. say . ex;oept this’t-that there are numbers;here whom no person of common-honesty, sagacity, and Colonial experience would have induced to ’ aid,-Jko., •' • - Scotia.

Dunedin, August 2,

, To the Editor. SIR, —Numerous. letters have appeared in your columns- of date on; the misrepresentation bf immigration agents, notably Mr Adam; V Gld Identity ” ris the champion

■idr the.defenceand I beg leave to compare ' -a few of his statements. He mentions'the : * humble labored at HOmev toiling from six in the meriting till sixin the evening-in slush and rain— is there no rain and slush in New : Zealand ? ' He scorfis the ploughman’s brose X Kaye 'seen many stalwart specimens of . . tojpn reared on brose that our lean colonials witn their beef three times a; day. Would bear. np< comparison with. Married plough- • RaeßU' With their little incumbrances, cannot . .shtaio. employment here. .. With regard to

artisans, therefore sufficient in the Colofny before free immigration commenced, and shere prp.ipovc four .tjimes the number reK' . iflajrgd,. and many are verging on staroitioH. ■ With, prop^;management-: the, Government • might employ them all.—l .m, &c., ■ .1 ;-; r ; ni .j■■ ■■.: I>B«XrrED. Dnnedin, August 2. . - ■;