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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 905, 11 March 1879, Page 2

The distress in the Old Country is keener now than it has been for the Last 30 years. 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 property has become sadly and rapidly depreciated in value. All this is'more or less the outcome of foreign competition. This is the evil that every country should guard against. Let the people of New Zealand take warning. Let them study their own interests and avert such crises by enoauraging local industries. We

can make our own woollen goods, iron, boots and shoes, &c. 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 ; although a method of properly doing this may not be discovered for many years, that iron will before long be manufactured in the Colonj'we have no doubt. To us, as a district, the third industry is of more direct interest. We have no longer any necessity to send out of the district for boots and shoes. Messrs. Houghton" and Pocklixgtox manufacture them here as well and as cheaply as they can be done in any p:»rt of the world. Protect your own interests by seeing that you buy boots gjvl shoes made by Roughtox and Pockuxg.tox of the New Zealand Boot Factory, Thames-street*— [Advt.

LATE ADVERTISEMENTS KAITANGATA RELIEF. THE OLD OLD STORY, Under auspices of Young Men's Christian Association, THURSDAY EVENING, At 8, in New Tees-street Hall. Admission, Is, Members of Association, requested to aid in disposal of tickets. G3O GENTLEMEN interested in the formation of a HUNT CLUB are invited to MEET at th© Empire Hotel, on MONDAY, t«e 17th INST., at 8 o'clock. G. GREENFIELD, 6G5 By request. NO. 3 BATTALION, O.R.V. A SPECIAL PARADE of the Headquarters Companies will be held TO-MORROW (TUESDAY)) EVENING, at S o'clock. A full attendance requested. WM. J. STEWARD, Major Commanding. NO. 3 BATTALION O.R.V. fTIHE ANNUAL INSPECTION L by Majob. Withers will be held as under : - - I Battery Artillery, JNo. 1. Rifles, Grammar School Cadets, and Citizen Cadets WEDNESDAY, 13th MARCH, at 8 p.m. Hampden RifIes—THURSDAY, 14th MARCH, at 8 p.m. Otepopo' Rifles FRIDAY,' 15th MARCH, at 8 p.m. WM. J. STEWARD, 634 Major Commanding. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TIMARU RACES, 11th and 12th March, 1879. RETURN TICKETS will be issued at SINGLE FARES from all Stations to Timaru, on 10th, 11th, and 12th INST., available for return up to and including 13th inst. W. M, HANNAY, Acting Commissioner of E ail ways. Commissioner, of Railways' Office, Chriatohureh, 7th March, 1879. 652