THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOOK P.M. Resurrexi THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3351, 18 September 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOOK P.M. Resurrexi THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1879.

Ik yesterday's issue, in speaking of the Tillage settlement; scheme, we took occasion to refer to the depression that exists in the labor markets of the South. Not only is Wellington and Dunedin affected, but also from Chriptchurch comes the cry from half a thousand stalwart working men of " Give us work." An obsenrer looking for the cause of this universal depression will not take long to trace out its origin. For the past half-dozen years the South has, in common parlance, been " going ahead," by the aid of large sums of public money spent on public I works, consequently no dearth of E employment, and subsidised by a large concurrent expenditure, agricultural and other industries hare flourished. We do not wish to speak unkindly of our fair Southern provinces, but it is evident that their progress has been more apparent than real, when the suspension ot a few public works causes the wide-spread depression now existing. In the Northern provinces circumstances have made the people—especially the working-classes—-solf-reliant. They have learnt to depend on their exertions to procure them work, instead of coDgregating like a flgfikirff sheep on tho first ■MHfltfHHplfft aad touchingly I^^Hj^^^^Np^alfrnal Government j^^mpd ajauloilnent for them by making L^Hnj^^Br *'mt ra^wra J> at]d by saving IHpPfro^Pltarvation, earn their eternal Platitude. When, for instance, a Thames j miner is out of work, if unsuccessful in getting employment as a wages man, he will manfully set to work, and on his limited resources try his luck at prospecting, or perhaps move to some other goldfield where labor is more plentiful. The development of the resources of the North has been slow, but it have becu sure and steady, and her prosperity is consequently loss likely to retrograde. We maintain that it is the forcing of our people' to depend on their own exertions that has enabled (the North to sail unscathed through, the wave of commercial depression which recently swept across tho colony, leaving its traces in all the large southern cities.

In last Thursday's issue we stated that Sir G. Grey could not resign until the parliament met and a speaker had been elected. There has been considerable discussion on this point, and the matter was referred to the law officers of the Crown. The following telegram, howe^sv ,jskoff» the situation ;■—" Wellington,

17th September, 5 p.m.— Win. McQulloufih, Esq., Thames.—l find that I cannot lawfully resipn my seat until a speaker has been appointed. Probably on Wednesday next I shall bo able to resign. 'I will not lose an hour in so doing after the appointment of the speaker.— G. Gbky."

At the request of a number of persons Mr McCulloutfb. wrote to Mr Brophy, Immigration Officer, Auckland, for further information re the nominated system, and in reply, that gentleman has sent a number of the forms required to be filled up by persons nominating their friends, and other information upon the subject. Anyone applying at the Star Office can be supplied with formi and peruse the instructions sent by Mr Brophy.

We would draw the attention of our lady readers to Mesdamel Schofield aud Moore's advertisement ia another column.

A little boy named White, a son of one of Messrs Price Bros.' employes, met with a serious accident yesterday afternoou. He was" on the tram way-crossing in front of Mr Rensbaw'ai shop and did not notice the approach of a train of trucks, and the wheel passed over his left foot crushing it badly. Mr P. E. G. Woodward, who was in the vicinity, promptly picked up the boy and had him conveyed to the Hospital, where Dr Payno attended to him. The accident necessitated the performance of the painful operation of removing some of the fragments of bone, and the plucky little fellow stood it like a brick.

At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Harbor Board, held last evening, the only business was the opening of tenders for the erection of the gridiron. The tenders were as follows: —Butler, £83 8a 4d (accepted); W. Adams, £93; Smardon and Dobbs, £99 19a 8d; and Hanlan, £97. The, meeting was then adjourned till Monday evening.

WEhavafoacknowledgethereceipfcfrorn the Telegraph Department of an amended list of telegraph stations, showing the hours at which they are open both for ordinary and press messages.

Me A. J. Vincent, of the Telegraph Department, has, we learn, received instructions to proceed to the head office. Mr Vincent has been here for some years, and attended during that time to bis duties satisfactorily.

At the R.M. this morning a Kerikeri native was brought up ou a charge of being of unsound mind. He was remanded for medical examination.

The Cricket Associations of Sydney have decided to assist in. sending an Australian team to England next year.

MESSES Haek^tt, Morgan, and Scott, directors of the National and Provincial Bank, were arrested by the police yesterday in Melbourne on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the shareholders of the bank by the publication of fraudulent balance-sheets.