SHIP BUILDING FOR THE COLONIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 214, 31 August 1876, Page 2

SHIP BUILDING FOR THE COLONIES.

The Edinburgh correspondent of tbe Otago Daily Times furnishes the following interesting piece of information: — The Australian colouies in general, and New Zsaland in particular, seem to be getting their names up among the Clyde shipbuilder.. About sixty gentlemen, most of them connectod with the Colonies in question, dined together in the Royal Hotel, Glasgow, on June 2 Sir Jsraea Fergusson occupying the chair, lv the course of the evening, Mr J. Darling stated that no less than sixteen steamers, representing a money value of £500,000, are at present being built on the Clyde for tbe Australasian Colonies. Mr William Denuy, of Dumbarton, in the course of a speeoh which he made, etated that two-thirds of the tonnage now buildiug in bis yard was for New Zealand, and, from the reports he heard from the Colony, he believed that the orders from thence I would enable the shipbuilders to pass } through the period of depression, the duration of which he calculated at another year and a half, after which there would be a return of prosperity. The depression had been caused, he saiJ, by the shipbuilders over supplying the world with tonnage. Mr Denny's views, it is stated, were fully endorsed by other gentlemen present, '

P/rofessor Salq concludes a recent letter to the, Otago Daily Times thus 1 : —One w&rd Wore: The masters that v?e have, how are they paid ? Is there in this! prosperous ; settlement a more: s D ?| e arl^ Vtwdb % thaorthatqf a school mister ? And % is there any profession which requires higher qualites in the men who undertake it ? Is there any i business which requires half the cultivation, tha patience, the kindness, the^hhjh moral character, which is required and expected from the most miserably paid class of men amongst ua? Not one. A day or two after Mr Wakefield's flpeech which so enraged the people of Wellington, the following paragraph appeared in the Argus: "It ia currently reported that tbe Fire Brigade intend to practise shortly in the neighborhood where Mr Edward Wakefield lives." whole of the specie which went down; in the Schiller (£60,000) has been recovered; except about £1600. A cook at Cupar, in Scotland, has thrown up her situation on the following grounds:— l. That the Bible is read in the kitchen on Sunday nights; 2. That followers are not allowed; and 3. That 3be does not get. out on Sundays. The question at issue between the aggrieved S.rvant'and her late employer came before the Small Debt Court at Cupar on Friday, when ihe cook was sued for £2 10_. damages for leaving her place .without Justifiable cause. Aa regards the reading ot the Bible in the kitchen on Sunday evenings, the Sheriff held that it waß not for him to decide whether the practice ought or ought not to prevail; but he gave it as his opinion tbat visitors could only be entertained by servants at reasonable hours. On the question of the cook's " Sunday out" tbe Sheriff was silent, but he held that she was not justified in leaving her place under tbe circumstances, and awarded 10s damages with 75. costs. This case will no/ioubt excite considerable interest in the kitchens and pantries of the United Kingdom, and, viewed from a religious aspec\ it certainly involves a great principle. According to the recognised rules of domestic servioe, the kitchen is the cook's alone, " from the turret to the foundation stone," and 100 one has a right to warble even a hymn in it without her permission.

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