THE COMING WINTER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2634, 17 March 1894, Page 3

THE COMING WINTER.

TO THE EDITOR. S IK ._As I was coming through Geraldiue the other day I met five boys. I asked them, " What are you doing" I ■" Nothing." I thought to myself " What are our boys and girls going to do" T Canterbury is nothing but a flower garden. There is no work in it. Some time ago a mau said to me he knew were there was a gold reef. ,We went up and Baw the gentleman that owned the land. We got his permission, but we had no funds, so I wrote to Mr Rhodes, asking him if he would see the Minister of Mines. Mr Rhodes, like a gentleman, wrote to me; he said he had seen the Minister of Mines who would not do anything. We have a good Government now, and what they ought to do is to employ a few practical miners among the hills; give ithem enough to keep them in tucker, and if Canterbury could fiud a good gold reef things would take a turn for the better. I was up at the Albury coal mine some time. ago. There is some good brown lignite there. Now if they were to put a diamond drill down 200 feat there is coal there as good as Greymouth or Newcastle". It would keep the money in Canterbury. Now, Mr Editor, it seems to me that the people of Canterbury are like a lot of school boys; there is no push in them. 1 believe this winter the cry of the unemployed will ring on our right hand and on our left. The Government will have their hands full. I went into a butcher's shop the other day for a shilling's worth of mutton. I said" Is that all you are going to give me.' 1 can buy a sheep at tho sale yardu for a shilling." 2sow I think od per lb for mutton is too much. I would advise the people to go to the sale yard and buy their mutton, and when the butcher calls say you don't want any. I bought a loaf of bread, and asked, " What i 3 the prico of broad now " .' He said 5d cash and Gd booked. How out of every ten loaves of bread .sold in Geraldine there aro 7 loaves go on tho book ; that means Gd, for there is no cash in Geraldine, so I said to the baker" They cau get good bread in Christchui ch tor 4d a loaf." He said, <•' All the bad flour goes there, and the miller is getting all the prolit now."- If I was to go to tho Witter h« would say tl»e baker is ij-ttiug

all the profit. I would advise all the women to get a bag of flour and if they have no noney stick it up in the ledger and tell the bakers you don't want any bread. I think some one is getting the profit. Wheat is Is 8d per bushel.—l am, etc., No Name.