A GOOD REPLY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2151, 21 November 1885, Page 2

A GOOD REPLY.

At the annual dinner of the Canterbury Agricultural Society, Mr OlHyier made a speech in favor of protection, and said the best thing for the colony to do was to create industries, so that tho population would be increased, and our local products locally consumed. To this Mr Grigg made the following telling reply Ho could not help thinking that the gentloman who had proposed the toast was not a sheep farmer, otherwise he would not have spoken so lightly of the expenses a farmer was put to before getting his prfldnce tq market, ' Mr Ollivier had seemed to pooh-pooh the movement calling upon the shipping companies to reduce their, ohargo for freight upon wool; but when he (Mr Grigg) told them that tho reduction would amount to 12| per cont., they would-see that the oxtra charge amounted very nearly to a rental. Had Mr Olliver been a sheep fermer, he would not have advised the looking to .New Zealand as tho market for produce. He (Mr Grigg) could not concieve anyone putting forward such an idea seriously, for it meant the existence of twenty others for every one producer of wheat. New Zealand was essentially a virgin country, and a producing country, and her settlers must get as much as possible out of the soil, As to fostering industries which were to live on the labor of the most" industrious class of settlers, it was a baseless vision. He would scorn the idea, which could not be to the interest of anyone present to encourage, Tq say that they must pay for everything they wanted 20 per cent, advance, was unwise, ungenerous, and not justified by any principle of political economy (Applause), The BCjoner that idea was swept away, and they were prepared to fight the battle, the better. Tho gauntlet had been thrown down, and he said : "Let us take up the glove and fight it out" (Applause). He was perfectly satisfied thdt if they had the slightest idea of thei^real position, the settlers of Now Zealand would not endeavor to live on each other, but to .produce as much as they could, iii order to receive sold for their produce, and so become wealthy as a community (Applause). ■ v

DIDN'T KNOW HIS WIFE,

. ".Do you know this : woman ?" asked a lawyer of a ne?ro who had been summoned to testify before the court,' " Yes Bar, I knows her." "Do you' know her very intimately . Wo sail, kain't say that I do." '' How long have you known 'her ?" " Wal, I got er'quainted wid her short . time before I married her." "She's your wife then?" " Yes §ah, sorter." " Thought you did not know her intimately ?" ' v " Dat's what I jackerlatod." " I don't understand then how Bhe can be your wife." "Wall,*yor see, Bar, she b'longs ter de i ehiiroh, desingin' s'ciety, de Sisters o' de Sacred Broom, de Daughters o' Ham, an' two wliut or three little sideshows, Er 'oman as is kep' so busy, sah, ain't got no time tor fool er'roun' home."—Arkansaw Traveller.