THE WAYS OF THE WORLD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1525, 14 December 1886, Page 2

THE WAYS OF THE WORLD.

The Timaru Herald has nob yet had (he grace to correct the false report it spread with regard to Olaridgo. It caused-much grief in 'Clariflge’e household,: and if ; ,the Herald had been guided by manly instincts it would have made some reparation for it. It reported also that the school concert would take place on tbe 16th- instead of the 14th, but it has since contradicted this, and said it happened through a “ clerical error.” A “ clerical error ” must be made by a clerk. Then who is the dork ? An editor is not a clerk, a reporter is not a clerk, even the peripatetic quidnunc is not a clerk. Then, who in ,thunder Js the clerk that made the been putting the Queen’s English to most extraordinary uses lately. But perhaps “ That small unlettered . self-knowing soul” thinks that "From igoranoe our comforts flow The only wretched are the wise.” The Ashburton County Council has been calculating the pros and oors of the unomployed question, and have made a curious discovery. They have found that a job of work which could have been done for £4O cost £9O to do with the labor of the unemployed. Those who 1 want more immigrants in this colony to as to bring down the price of labor ought to reflect on how much they have to pay in tbe shape of taxation to provide useless work for the unemployed. It would also be better to pay a little more for homemade articles than to pay ten times as much in tbe shape of taxation to. keep the unemployed! That there is depression in America where there is Protection is the great: argument frequently raised. Listen to this : —“ One of the largest American manufacturing and exporting fifrs, writing by the last mail to an Auckland firm, gives, the following,fore-, cast:p.f business: VEuiinesshas greatlv itUv proved in this country, with the prospect of a very great boom beginning with 1887. It probably would: not reach its (height until 1889 Everything indicates a commercial prosperity such as we have not known for the last four years. We have more orders for tbe spring of 1887 than we have ever' had in any previous year in our history at this date/ ” : 'I-'': ■ V I repudiate all claim to originality'as regards the following " A widow married a young man, and 1 her daughter,married his father. By the widow’s marriage with the son she became her husband’s grandmother, consequently great grandmother to a son, the issue of this marriage. Now, as the son of a great grandmother most be a grandfather, or great uncle, this boy must be his own grandfather.” I am glad to notice that the Waimate Times has been enlarged, and can now claim to be the largest bi-weekly in the colony. This is the result of the local people giving it a hearty support, as evidenced by the fact that seldom or never a Waimate advertisement appears ia the Timaru papers. The people give them all to their own paper, with the result that it has been enlarged. Recently the Waimate Borough Council called for tenders for advertising, and the tender of the local paper was fat higher than the tender of the newspaper adventurer. The Council decided to give it to the local paper, although they could have got it done cheaper in Timaru, and the result was the local paper has been enlarged and improved. I congratulate the Waimate Times on its Buocess, and trust its shadow will never grow less. Com O’Lanus.