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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 892, 24 February 1879, Page 2

The distress in the Old Country is keener now than it lias been for the last 30 yeara. Ten thousand workpeople have been deprived of the means of support through the closing of gigantic manufactories. Not only have operatives been thrown out of. employment 2 3r0 P er *y nas become sadly and rapidly depreciated in value. All tMs; is more or less the outcome of foreign competition. This is the evil that every country should guard against. Let the. people of Nev Zealand take warning. Let them study their own interests aad; avert such crises by encouraging locaJ industries. We can make our own woollen goods, iron, boots and shoes, &e, For the first purpose* factories are already in existence ; as regards the second,, numerous vigorous attempts have been made to transform the Taranaki, iron sand into a marketable commodity j although a method of properly doing tea* may not be discovered for many years, that iron will before long bo manufactured in the Colony we have no doubt. To us, as a district, the thircl industry is of more direct interest. We have no longer any necessity to sen,d out of the district for boots and shoes. Messrs. Roughton and Pocklington manufacture them here as well and as cheaply as they can be done in any part of the world. Protect your own interests by seeing that you buy boots and shoes made by Houghton and Pocklington of the New Zealand Boot Factory, Thames-street. — [Advt.

LATE ADVERTISEMENTS TOWN OF OAMARU;, ASSESSMENT COURT: Under Rating Act, 1876. -jVTOTTCE IS HEREBY GIVEN that -*-™ the business of this Court will be taken as follows : TUESDAY, 25th FEBRUARY— Severn Ward, at 10 a.m. Jetty Ward, at 2 p.m. WEDNESDAY, 26th FEBRUARY Thames Ward, at 10 a.m. High Ward, at 2 p.m. T. W. PARKER, R^, Judge of AasesamenA. Courfc.. Dated 24th Feb., COMMERCIAL BUILDING SOCIETY, mHB usual FORTNIGHTLY MEETING -*-• fpr receipt of Subscriptions and Repaytents will be held in my Office, Tynestreet, THIS EVENING, from 7to 9 o'clock. JOHN CHURCH, 503 Agent, 5T From Gasworks Cottj Spaniel PUPPY.—Ss Reward." A Two-roomed COTTAGE in Aln-street J easy terms. Apply to GEORGE SUMPTEF.