The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3889, 16 June 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1881.

We fear that we are on the eve of another of those " unemployed" howls which periodiqally resound through the centres of population in the colony. Our Wellington telegrams show that the unemployed movement has already cornnaenced at the metropolis, and as stories of distress are coming to band from O.tagd and (Canterbury, we are in expectation of hearing Dunedia and Christchurch re-echoing the cry. Wellington ;is generally the first to ieel the pressure of hard times. It has no, genuine resources worth speaking of, and, indeed, almost lives on the salaries paid to the extensive officialdom which barnacles the seat of Government. Ifc is thus, therefore, that the Wellington community as a whole feel the effects of the ten per cent' reduction most keenly. The harvest causes a plethora of work in Canterbury in the early part of the year, but as a rule hard times commence when the grain laden ships are leaving Lyttelton. Otago likewise feels the pinch of the shoe from various causes, and Auckland appears to be the' only district in the colony which will be: able to get through the winter without a growl, which is the more to»"be wondered at when it is considered how little public money is being spent throughout the province* The real cause of the immunity of the north from these periodical fits of " hardupness " is that we have had long to v depend on ourselves, while other provinces have been given inflated and spurious prosperity through the uiijust expenditure of the borrowed millions. The unpardonable pampering of the southern provinces is now working out its own punishment, and Auckland, the :inuch despised and down-trodden Cinderella of New Zealand, is wearing the giassslipper of.steady prosperity.