50 PBRCENT BELOW COST PRICE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 608, 13 April 1876, Page 3

50 PBR CENT BELOW COST PRICE.

fli^—lhe people of the Waikato nmsfr v be foolish -in-iced if they can be led to believe tbafc bankrupt atook can be told cheaper th»in »ny other. The trustees of ajjy b.hkiMipi'i ■estate will naturally dwpaen of a to the boas advantage ai wholesale Roods, and 1 it will, -ty it, always fetish 'wholea-tlei'priees current, or Euglieh inToice price with f • eiebfc, commission, . &c, added. 'If tbe goodi are suitaibl« for the local market importers would nntuniHy prefer having them at once, and bo inclinod oo that account, to gi™ «* #n * tr^ e mor « *han they ' could import »hem for. If bankrupt •took then can >be- sold, I will not **y cheaper, bat for lti» > money than any other, it can only bo because tin goods themselves are in nonae way inferior. But in truth, tne -"Bankrupt .itock dodge". ie getting lomewhat stale, exsept in nniophiitic*tedcountry districts. At. one time «t home a good busmen »«• done by packmen going-rays-tfcriouily to private houses in country dwtricts with »Uki, UM, and other goods, which as they •aid, they were prepared te sell>»t remarkably 'low prices bec*a«« they hai been smuggled. 'Tneie g ->od» w«r« §p«cially prepared < for thi ■ ■ortbf market, and I need not iajr, though gold ■ nt lower pnoe« than ' by rntpecttblt tradeemen >irere ( motneaf theiame Talue for th* money at ■-the goodt of the httw at the higher figure. «• BinkfUpt Stock Sale*" are in the trade now < exactly w bat the "•mug.gled goodi 'dddge" wai *»t ihome iome yeurt ago, • i imply « means of »pu»hing bu«ineiß*t the expense of the comumer. Arid, feiiyallow me to euggett to your readers i that there i« f* r *>°°. muc h inclination on the » paH of tome per*om in Waikato bo run after • cheap'goodßjlittl* reflecting that -while they are " often tictimUed themielrei in pnrchaiing an . inferior article they are' impoverishing the du»trict and themtteltei indirectly by lending their -' biftineis out of the Waikato insUad of keeping ' the money < dironlating amongit the community .in which they K* e « whether it be Hamilton or 'ijambridge, Ngaruawahia or Alexandra. We • are all dependant one on another, au'd each man'i protperity or the rerene, reacts from the store- - keeper to the settler, from employer bo employed, -»nd from the latter back again to the gtore'kespar in a continuous circle. Srery 'pound abstracted from the fore* of this " metallic curiemt" pouing from one to the other, sent to Auckland, or paid out of the distuot, is to much . monetary vitality loifc to vi all. Nor *will thot* who adopt this practice, if they ' will only look fairly into the matter, fail to acknowledge that they are doing the. local 'business men an injustice. They forget that tho good* supplied them by an Aucklurid tradesman are paid for in cash— often before delivered — while the satie parties dealing with • looal r't wletman would takethrve, six, and unless unmercifully dunnel often twelve months cre'iit. I don't believe tba!, in themtjonty of cases those piirate persons who deal out of the district, would find, if they only coimt»d up freight, paoking,'O»rtago, and other incidental expenses that the goods oome to hand to them one penny ehnaper than if they bought them from the loc*l tradesmen, while, to a oertairity they are indirectly injuring the district and themselves, m I have before, pointed out Selling at 50 per cent discount is not attended with loss 'to the teller but to the oustomer. The men who make : Ihs.^e " alarming sacrifice*" of themselves art amongst the sharpest of their class and' the cr»--dulous <Histom*r is the real vrotirn. He may not «c» it at the time, but the goods will soenor or later— -sx>ner ■ more- often than i later— n.ake htm fully aware of the facto— l am, Af,— Om WHO IXIUBVM 10 KtIFUG IHI MOJHTJKITHI i)l«jgi unUfcjn Aj)ril 12 h, 1876.

Thi Trriii o* "Rittkbnb." — Our renders will scarcely have forgotte n .the Qwston Perry scandal, in which a r« reread bigot, tli* rector of the parish, refused to allow a Wesley*n clergyman — "-flchismwtia .preacher" ww euppoM ho would have termed him — to inscribe on hw child's gravo-stone that «ho w«* th« daughter of the " Revered" Mr Skeets, Wesle.ian Minist r. To Us in New iioalanfl, where, tw a rule, the Wes•le>y»n clef^v aro a'fur smperior nnd better educated class of mori than tlioee «f the English Church, this «eems truly absurd. NeTertbolosa, this piece of priestly intolerance was upheld by the Boolofliaitical'Courts. We are glad, howover, to barn from our latest English files thut the Supromo Court of Appeal has determined that the title "Reverend" i« only a "laudatory ndjactive," and not an «xclu»ire poi«s»ion of the Establishod Ohurfib. The ridiculous action of thi» rector of Owiton Feny, «upparted by tho Buhop of Liucolu, is thus rebuked, and the Wetleyan minister allowed 'to. cull himself tho Her Johu Skeefs upon the gr&rQ stone of his daughter. THr Thime3 UwratPioTiD. — It •eem» we were ■ri(jht in itatinf that th* ory of diMirew at tho Thames had been greatly exaggerated bythe ProTincial party for the purpoie of ♦mbarntiing the ' Colonial GoTernment. Tho ' ' Coromandel Mail" alludinfir to tint aJleged want of employment at 'Qrahamitown, enjo : — "La't month, 4t a time wheuit was said so many men >were out 'of emiployment at the Tltamea on advertisement was mitjrted iv the " Adyertiser" and the " Coroman>del Mail" calling for tonder3 for 1 drmug 60 fe«t at the East end of the Black Reef of the Union Beach mine. Yet, and notwithstanding the lime wai extended for eonding in tenders not a man came from ths Thamei to look at the work wanted to bo done ; nor to giye in a 1 price. Heally this ebowa that tho'unem- i ployed could not be in »t«tb deiperato circumBtance». The men now driTing at the East end of the Black Eeef aro earning from four to fire pounds a woek per man, and to employ a oom-mon-place expreiaionarenotburttingthemaelrei. Tho complaintj of the unemployed o»m», we fear, from the idle and dissolute. Your genuine miner and digger u tho proudest and most independent of any clua of men in the world who life' by tho strongth of their muscles and the sweat of their brow?. We hftYe men in ■ Coromandel — indeed we briiete the yery larger proportion ■of them- who would almost tooner perish than beg for alms and a free passage to tome other place, became they happened to be ttut of work for a ■ time ; and of the same miteriAl the miner* hi Coromandel is composed, to is it, we truly behere, with tie same men of the Thames. 'In a country euch as is New Zealand at the proseot time where the cry from nil piwti ia for bone and ,thew ■ and &inue at high wages ; and in a country ' too where living- it comparatively cheap to other countries, w« think the cvy of the unemployed at the •Thames does not come from the pith and 'tnarrrow bf the population lmu« there, but from rcen who prefer the public house to the pick or lounging on a benoh to dnring in a tunnel or sinking in a shaft.