CRICKET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 69, 27 January 1879, Page 2

CRICKET.

The Carterton-Taratahi and Greytown Clubs played a match at Greytown on Saturday in which the latter were victorious, heating their opponents by 30 runs, The bowling was the best feature in the play of the Carterton team while Greytown showed up well in that which has been a great want in their Cricket —viz,: fielding, which was on this occasion good. The following arc tne scores : Geeytown. V. O'Connor, hit. wicket, .. fi J. Maguire, h Edmunds, .. 6 I). O'Connor, b Kayo .. _., 0 T. S. Eonaklson b Kayo '.. 0 W. C. Cull", bKayo .. ~1 J.Hathaway,bKaye ~ ~0 C. Board,bKayo ..'. ..7 W, J. Salmon, c and b Kaye ~ 0 (J. Palmer, b Edmunds .. 10 J. Hawkc, not out .. ~0 J. MacarabKaye .. ... 0 Byes ~ .. ...43 Leg-byes 3 Total ... • .. ..84 Carterton-Taiumhi. I. SteelebCuff .. ... ..1 J. Jackson c Hathaway. ■ ~ 4 F. HilsdencHathaway.. .. 1 E. E. Edmunds, b Cuff.. .. 7 G.H. Lister-Kaye,bCu(f .. 1 L. Mix, b Cuff .. '.. .. 0 • L, Stewart, e Cuff ... ..10 G-. Jackson, b Ha'wke .. .. i W. Bishop, cllawke .... 0 S. Wickeiseu, b Epualdson .. 5 / Greytown wait in for a second and had four wickets down stumps were drawn. dflB^HH

ARCHDEACON THORPE ON EM-'I, PLOYERS AND EMPLOYED. ' f

(from the Eceiring. Pcsl.) In tho course of. his sermou at St. Paul's Church last night tho Ven. Archdeacon Thorpe spoke at some length on the duty of employers 'towards the employed, addressing his remarks to •'the greatest of all employers —the public." Ho referred to the heavy strain on the shopmen and clerks who wore for six days in tho week worked fax- unduly long hours, ofton receiving very insufficient salaries, aud pointed out that the public, as the : customers of the shopkeepers, could materially aid the early closing movement and, as tho shareholders in hanking.and other institutions, could seo that a sufficient number of clerks was employed, so that thoy might not have to work for hours after tho doors were closed. Overwork naturally led men to seek for stimulus, and they gradually became frequenters of public-houses, and yielded to the other numerous temptations around., It was his solemn conviction that half tho evils that sapped young men's life and happinesn arose from the want of provision for tho real recreation of mind and body. The public also could stop Sunday trains, and so give the hard-worked engineers and guards their day of rest. It was said " Ob, but they are not obliged to work; no one is obliged to work on Sundays." This was nonsense, A man wanted a livelihood—ho was only capable of filling one situation—that situation involved Sunday work. Archdeacon Thorpe also referred to the question of the payment of employees, saying that employers took too little account of the responsibilities they imposed on those they employed, The public were tho worst sinners in this respect; the public servants were paid barely sufficient io support them; they were required to live respectably and '' keep up a position;" they were loaded with money which was not theirs, and were afforded all maimer of opportunities of appropriating it,; and then the public wondered because one in an evil hour yielded to temptation. It was no excuse to say that no man was obliged to go into an oliico-he had been brought up as a clerk, and must work for a livelihood, If an overcharged boiler burst and killed half-a-dozen men no such shallow pretext as that the men were not obliged to work in the factory would bo allowed. It was for the public to set the example to other employers, and pay not only for brains and sinews, but'abo, and chiefly, for responsibility. Never was there a more self-seeking age than the pre.ent, and colonial life, in which everyone was hasting to be rich, fostered the evils to which he referred.