THE LABOR QUESTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 219, 23 July 1879, Page 2

THE LABOR QUESTION.

To the Editor of tht Waikarapi Daily. Sir—" Troppa dispustare la verita la errare," (sic) which translated means " Too \ much disputing puts truth flight." I must * confess that I felt, in vulgar parlance, " floored" on reading G. Whillikins' answer to my letter of the 4th July, in your issue of the 14th last. I felt completely awed by the grandiloquence of Mr Whillikins, felt like I should never write another line, and mentally called myself a precious fool for ever attempting any such thing, especially when my adversary quotes Latin by the yard, and apparently knows Roman and Greek Mythology by the yard, and speaks of French cookery with the judgment of a thorough epicure. After a bit of reflection, however, pity took the place of awe—pity for the man who, with such knowledge, such keen satire, and such flights of fancy, still is condemned to swag it, and be content to fare on mutton, &c. I also noticed that in his sudden flights of fancy and vivid imaginagination, he had totally lost sight of the arguments put forth in my letter nor tried to repudiate them; but perhaps his.favoj rite fruit tipple in the shape of Oliquot (which, by the way, is a fruit drink generally supposed to be real grape wine), has muddled his brains and accounts for his rather meaningless wanderings, in which his grievance towards tin pannikans appear to be the most prominent. Ignoring the rest of his critical letter, till some more leisure hour,—l am, &c., W. H,

In the Sydney Evening News, of Juno 30th, we find the following:-"Many years ago William Greonacre and Sarah Gale, Ins paramour, were tried in England for the murder of the wife of the the male prisoner named, The ovent created intense excitement at the time, time, the act of which the pair were accused being one of the foulest deeds rocorded in the annals of time. The man was hanged, but the woman, though convicted of murder and sentenced to death, escaped with her life. It could never be proved whotlier or not she aided in the actual commission of the murder, but that she was distinctly an accessory after the fact was shown by her having been in Grcen??F S company when he was arrested on %4 way to the Regent's Canal with a bag in his hand containing pieces of the dead woman's body, ala'W. H. Scott, the Sussex street murderer. Sarah Gale, since her arrival in Sydney, whither she was transported, became eminently respecta- ) ble. married, and assisted her husband in J business. At least one man who saw her in he dock, and remembered her remarkable face, lias often gone into a certain shop, in a leading thorougfare, to study human circumstances 1 The shutters of all the shops in that thoroughfare were up the other day. The occasion was the funeral of Sarah Gale.' If a small boy slides down four flights of stairs on his head, a small piece of candy will generally cure him; but just let his mother waft her old slipper across the base of his trousers for the space of a second, and there is not enough balm in Gilead to sooth the agitation. Elopement-running a forbidden race to reach the goal of repentance.