YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 972, 7 August 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

INTERPROVINCIAL. [per press agency.] The Unemployed in Auckland. Auckland, August 6. Among the resolutions passed by the unemployed was one for tho stoppage of free immigration. The Trade and Labor Council, composed of delegates of the various trade societies, have determined to have a public meeting in support of the agitation of the Dunedin artizans in favor of material required for railways being manufactured in the colony. The City Council took on forty men at day labor to-day. The following are the names of the football team to play Dunedin:—King, Henderson, C. Dacre, AY. Robinson, E. Burgess, Warbrick, Nolan, Gudgeon, Mercer, Kerr, Carter, J. McKay, Coldbeck, Shakspcare, AY. Philson. Emergency men—Mowbray, C. Burgess, F. McKay, Yates, Orchard. New Coal Mine Opened. Geeymoutu, August 6. The Greyraontb Coal Company reached the 16ft. seam' in their shaft on Saturday night. The coal is hard and of excellent quality. [from tile correspondents op the press.] Timaru, August 6. At a meeting of tho Chamber of Commerce to-day Mr Archer was appointed chairman and Mr Sutter vice-chairman. Rules similar to those of the Christchurch Chamber were adopted. A resolution was brought forward, asking the Minister of Justice (o inquire into the proceedings of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Timaru, as published and commented on in the “Herald” on August Ist. The subject was eventually referred to a committee. Trades Demonstration. Dunedin, August 6. Both tho “Times” and “Star” speak approvingly of Saturday’s demonstration. The former cordially supports the resolutions, saying : —“ It is because we firmly believe the protection given to industries by this colony, by 16,000 miles of water carriage, is and always must be amply sufficient, without any further protection, that we can so completely agree with the proposals. To give a preference to native industry wherever it is possible, is clearly tho business of the Government. By ‘ possible ’ wc mean wherever locally manufactured goods can be manufactured and sold to the public at an equal or lower rate t han that at which they can bo imported from borne—wc mean all this, and not one little bit more. If our foundries and so forth cannot contend to advantage with those of Birmingham, having at their back the enormous advantageof position, then the sooner they are all shut up the better. They can and will contend with foundries at home, and any Government which did not give distinct preference to work turned out in the colony would be neglecting its duty to an extent which ought to imperil its existence.” Tho “ Star” points out the distinction between giving a bonus and protection. The former not only is allowable, but would be highly advantageous, and all national work should be manufactured in the colony, even if at a slight increase on homo prices. The latter denies the assertion that no skilled mechanics or artisans came out except under misrepresentations. It says:—“ It is quite possible, and very probable, that some of the sub-agents exceeded or misunderstood their instructions, and to make up numbers stretched a point in filling up descriptions in the contract tickets of intending emigrants, but that many free passages were obtained by the misrepresentations of the emigrants themselves is a fact which cannot be gainsaid. Certificates were found so unreliable that angry correspondence upon the subject took place between fiir Julius A r ogel and the late Agent-General, especially in cases of certain chronically diseased persons who held first class certificates of health ; not to mention the well known affair of tho Asia and other vessels where the immigrants held certificates equally satisfactory as to character, and were described generically as domestic servants and milkmaids. AVc are no defenders of maladministration at home or abroad, but we cannot admit that the immigration policy is responsible for tho depression of particular industries, with which all ordinary care has been taken in no way to interfere.”