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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5386, 2 July 1878, Page 2

We listened with pleasure yesterday to the addresses delivered upon the occasion of the opening of the Working Men’s Club Exhibition. With regard to that of his Excellency the Governor, we feel sure that the report of it which we are able to give to-day will be read with interest, and may be studied with profit, by all the true workers in New Zealand. It fell naturally into his Excellency’s subject to touch upon the relations of labor and capital—a delicate subject at the present time in this colony, when class hatred is being evoked for party purposes, and the “poorer classes ’’ are being taught to regard the monied men and the employers of labor as their natural enemies. We join cordially in the Governor’s expression of hope that the feeling which has been engendered in other countries, of antagonism and .envy of labor towards capital, may not exist in New Zealand. If we are saved from such a calamity it will be by means of the instruction and better knowledge acquired by the workmen in such institutions as this their club, and by the interchange of ideas which it will foster, aided now and then by such lessons of practical good sense as were so gracefully and so eloquently given yesterday by her Majesty’s Representative. Mr. Hutchison, as one of the trustees of the club deputed by the committee to explain the character and design of the Exhibition, was happy in his illustration of the advantage of the cultivation of assthetio taste and of combining gracefulness of form and beauty with utility in all our surroundings. Mr. Brown was practical and clear, and gave an exposition of the reason why the handiwork of machinists and engineers was not more fully represented. The fact of the difference in the cost of obtaining a patent for a now invention here and in America is notable. A full report of the whole proceedings will be found elsewhere. We hope that the countenance and patronage of the public will crown the labors of the committee, financially, with the success which, in every other point, they have already attained and deserved.