COLLIERS' STRIKE AT SHAG POINT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1317, 26 June 1880, Page 2

COLLIERS' STRIKE AT SHAG POINT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL. Sir,—You have inserted a letter from the party-signing himself " Veritas." If he had left out the fifth letter in his name I could have understood such nonsense. He warns the publio about an explosion, and yet a candle will not burn. If the air is so bad, why do the men want to stay and work in suoh a place, when the country is open to them 1 If " Veritas" will, like a man, sign his own name, if not ashamed to, I can then deal with him.— Yours truly, W. H. Wiluams, Manager, » TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL Sir,—-As lam a milkman, that is, lam engaged by a dairyman to sell and deliver his milk, would you, or some of the readers of the Mail inform me if I am by the law held responsible for the quality of the mi!k my employer sends me out with; and I should also like to be informed what quailtity of water the Act permits to be in the milk. lam led to ask these questions owN# to proceedings I was witness of in thu Oamaru, Courthouse, on the 21st. Vyptyro two bright samples of New Zealand justice, A young girl, or rather child, was prosecutoci for selling milk alleged to have 5 per cent, in it. This child must either be tho aomui or daughter of the guilty party—if there is any guilt in the matter, Mr, Editor, is it law or justice to proseoute the servant, A policeman meet* i* ohild with a hilly of milk in the street, on a wet morning—buys twopenoe 'worth of milk—and proseoutes the child should a traoe of water be found in the milk, Some time ago some Duneim milkmen were prosecuted for adulterating their milk. One who had 18 per oent. of water in his milk got off. It was stated in Court that in a pint of milk or 1G ounces, there was 13 ounces and Q drachms of wator. If there is this quantity of water, and if tbo Dunedin Magistrate decided fairly, I should like to know what is the correot English name of the deoision of the verdant justico in Oamaru on the 21st inst. in the case of Sarah Jones.—lam, etc., Paid Milk SsWW,