Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1894. How to meet the Unemployed.

Manawatu Herald, 31 May 1894, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1894. How to meet the Unemployed.

♦■ Evr. v3ody must sympathise with men wanting work and being unabie to obfain it, but the present miserable manner of mooting the applicants appear to us eminently unsatisfactory. • The Government, has a clear duty before it which it unmistakable shirks.' It is absurd and unfair to attract all the unemployed towards the large centres, as it is creating a vagabond class and it is also imposing on/the charitably-in-clined inhabitants. We ought to need no shelter sheds, no work houses, no mixing^. the .re£ne(jtable unemployed with the professional loafer and sundowner. Tlie! tempo-, rarily unemployed in" 'each' district should be retained there and given ..work, and tlia .Government-should long before now have suggested a scheme. It is useless to abuse the landowners for not making work, as. tfeey are taxed .as heavily^ as their returns from the land cau stand, and it must be admitted that labour has not spoken with a gentle voice about this class ; they do not even now, as a " Typograph " in Monday's Post writes " I trust we will see the Land Tax doubled and extended," and, some the .j&QneVolenfe Home in Wellington asserted that "the *quatterg sericl us down to our Government to keep us." These labourers, we may remark in passing, evidently think that it is anybody's duty but their own, to keep them. These arc, a sample of the undesirab.le class it, is well to keep apart from the : Tespechi'olo- unemployed. We believe that a solution of the difficulty is easy enough if we look to the local bodies instead of individual sot tiers. At present if we pauperise the claimants for work, such as is now being done in Wellington, Government assist. A case has just occurred by which the in-* habitants and city find £1,200, and are now asking the Government for an equal amount, under the Charitable Aid 4 ct - I£.this intervening body was to-be dispensed with, during this winter, aud pound for pound granted to local bodies for works.undertaken to keep,,*espectaj>ls per.jefiflSttttvwbrk,' the stq^dy march- Jo Wellington would-be stopped, and much useful work would be accom - pUshed. The Government ..assert they have aj large surplus and therefore'want of means will not be a good excuse to urge, and we believe the expenditure they would be called ! upon to make would be no more

v ■ • ' = - ' than they will have to incur in any way, and the advantage to the recipients would be much greater.

Messrs McMillan. Rhodes iV Co. announce i that they five uo.v ofi'erina " something relirfhablo." They appear to be correct, judging by the list; and likewise the show they make in their window: 'j l hej,'oods~nre from the best nianufpchirevs and have been iinporte'u direcc, so that low prices can be accepted for them, such as are particularly .noted in the advertisement. The dissolution of partnership of Messrs Hennessy, Westwood & Co. has been arranged, and. Mr Pliilip L.ennessy—has taken over the business. We. were shown yesterday a very nice piece of work by Mr A. Walsh. It was a hall hat stand prettily shaped and the pegs formed of bullocks horn 3 nicely polished. We understand thaf MerWaiterRobinson secured Jhe tarnittoei ' work was i»?Bj;eteditabij,ex«oated. ''/'&£ The island of Pootoo, 6n the eastward edge of the Chusan Archipelago, in the Yellow Sea, is a sacred place of Chinese Buddhism. All females are Carefully excluded, the dogs and fowls being all males. Women only are allowed to come on pilgrimages to the temples. These are facts ps much as the scarcity of eggs in that locality must be. ■ It is stated by the Post that all ,the railway workshius ate to tie put tijjon live days a week's Work. It is proposed to erect a memorial, in the shape of a suitable gravestone over Harry Laing's grave, says the " Amateur " in the Sydney Jlsferee. Our correspondent's letter "Anti-hum-bug" is a surprise to us, as we had no idea we had suoh lunatics amongst us. We have all along, Good Templars as well, been objecting to the too frequent use of spirits, and now sorrowfully we learn that some persons are trying to run an illicit still, in a manner of speaking. To those who pretend to practise the " magic art " and thdse who fire dupes to attend had. better lieed the words of Mr Martin, the S.M. of Wellington, in Hackett's case. He said " These thing 3 have sent people to the asylum since I came to Wellington. I have had to investigate eases of alleged lunacy, and have a great number where I have been able to trace the effect to the dealings of so-called. spiritualistSi i! • ■ The two Hacketts were committed for trial, bail allowed, and Inspector Pender decided to offer no evidence on the other charges, and they were dismissed! A Russian Seddonovitchikoft' has been found out. The cable news says the Czar has again taken the matter of appointing and dismissing of civil servants into his own hands, because of the favouritism which lias been displayed • Would we had a Czar. Messrs G. Harper and T. W. Maude were struck off the rolls of barristers and solicitors of the Supreme Court by the decision of the Court of Appeal. Rumour says that Nelson Bros, are willine; to rrect f roc/ing works at New Plymouth, and that members of the Harbor Board are prepare;;! to grant a site at a nominal rent. The exquisite cathedral of Antwerp is one of the finest in the world, but is so surrounded by houses whose backyards abut on its very walls that the appearance of the structure is'ruined. At the Antwerp Exhibition the great feature in the way of novelty is a" castle in the air, floating gauzily by the aid of monster gas envelopes 900 feet from terra firma. A "movement for erecting a monument to Mr Gladstone in -Leeds has been decided on by the Liberal party of that city. What form the monument will take has not been decided. Fine white marble in a compact ledge, 100 ft. wide, has been discovered on the Rio Verde, (50 miles north-east of Phconix, Arizona. It is said to be equal to best Italian marble. The other day, in a neighbouring town, a pretty young lady was sent by her ma to buy a couple of French rolls and a turnover at the nearest baker's shop. A difficulty was occasioned her by the appear, ance behind the counter of a particularly nice young man. which caused her to fear • to-. utter her order in the usually abrupt "fashion. She wanted the bread and tart, .and being highly educated, paused a moment, and then in her most subdued manner asked for the latest small cake of bread baked after the French fashion, and a tart whose cover has been caused to change position. The' poor man was completely dazed, and had not the wife of the proprietor arrived and obtained the order worded in ordinary fashion that young lady would have had to go empty away. ■ A"' gentleman, not r a Good Templar, writes us : — " Talking of teetotalism, I see they are having a lively time over prohi- . bitory legislation with regard to liquor in 'the State of Maine. The police who tried to enforce the laws have had to take refuge .in a swamp where they will no doubt find abundance of temperance fluid to cool their ardour. They doubtless are anxious to give up spirits, but what their opponents require of them is to give up the ghost. That is, of course, the last, thing they will do,. .In f apt this event should prove to our extremists in New, Zealand that it is desir able that moderates should have a little :" local option " in this" matter. It is impossible to dragoon people into temperance as Governor Till man no less than our own temperance reformers are bound- to find out* Referring to the cable announcing the success of Mr Lasker at chess, the following account, taken from a recent London paper, will be of interest :— Steinitz, although by no means a brilliant tournament player, is admittedly the champion of the world at "single" match play, and there is no one so likely to wrest, the laurels from the veteran as the young Prussian master, who, although only 24, has been carrying all before him in Europe during the past three years. Lasker has been styled th*. new Morphy, and considering his youth and the unique success which has so far attended his efforts the title seems not undeserved. Not that his style of play resembles Morphy's ; the young champion belongs to the new school, which affects closeness, and solidity of play, but with his quickness of eye and his mastery of the board he can go as near to being bjrilliant on occasion as any master of the game, with the possible exception of Blackburne. For nearly,3o years "Sleinitz for his part has jbeen alflgtire intfie chefes world,- and since 1872 his supremacy has been unquestioned. . : 'At a meeting of the North Island members of the New Zealand Flock-book Association the following gentlemen were elected a Council for the North Island : — Auckland, Messrs S. T. Seddon and .7. Wallace ; Hawke : s Bay, Messrs Jos. Williams and A. McHardie ; Manawatu, Messrs G. Wheeler, R. Cobb and .1. G. Wilson ; ' Wanganui, Mr J. W. Baker; Wairarapa I and Wellington, Messrs W. C. Buchanan, 1 A. Matthews and J, Stuckey.