LABOUR STATISTICS.

Waikato Times, Volume 2188, Issue XXVII, 17 July 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

LABOUR STATISTICS.

Steps are to be taken by the English Government to insure the publication of full and accurate labour statistics. The arraniroine-it to do this wax spcurel bv Mr ftr.idl niirh in the Home of Commons on M iroh 2nd, 'md the speech rawb bv him on th.it oc<- t-ion attracted uo litrlo attention. In the co-itse of it he remarked th.it there w^re only threi* wty-* of settling 1 trade dispute — 1, strikes: 2, locks out; Hnd thiid, »irbitiati<m. The whole of thn tndes unions of today were ngtiinst ih<* fir«t two, many woikmcn were njjuin-t ih" third, hecius-i they hid |no sta'is" i--s 1 to which to appeal. After showinir Pi" origin ofsiinil.tr statistics m ■ M is-aehu-otN. ln j went on to say th it '• the t-tati-t C* wlii'-h ou^ht to b« collected wore su"h a.* woullshow ainoiiL' other things, the (hi»a"t"r of the various industries of th > Unite 1 Kingdom, the numbb' j r of p'V o;b, ami the am mnt of omit.il employ* din pa - h, whether tho-p indu tries were inc^easinir or diininshinjr. whether any iudiftry was ronfided to a partinuLir lo alitv, an<l if ho why; the hazardous < h iractrr of cert iin industry with thp -irteridant losses of life and litnh, and f>i'*|.ne9 ; th'> condition- under which the labou ers held their dwellings: the wajres p.iid in eacli industry, .md particuLiis as to any contraventions of the Pin/sk Acts. The statistics c •llect'^d should aKo show to whit rounrries it wis wi<e f) emi«jrrite, and w Int. tndes and industries were speci.illy suitable to each." In answer to a Uiat the matter should be refenel to a nolect committee he said: — " Jj^bonr que-tions were not'n such a condition as to render delay advisable. Hitherto the people o : this country had been law-abidinsr, patient, willing to Mibmit to authority, and to wait for reform; but he would remind the House that therp was an orator more potent than an}' — the orator of hunsrer. If that orator were allowed to spe ik in Übour difficulties this country would be in danger of finriina: itself one day in the condition in which ninny European nations werp.*' The motion was agreed to without divi-ion.

The fashionable young man will be clothed s-> londly this season that yon can hear his pant* in the Summer. A woman was brought before the police magistrate ami asked her age. She replied "thirty-five." The magistrate :"I have beard you give that same age in this court for the last five years." The woman : " No iloubt, your honour, I'm not one of those females to siy one thing totl.vy and another to-moirow." "It is all very well," siid Mr Bcecher the other day, "to say that to the pure all things are pure, but the fact is men and women are not so pure that they can afford to dally with scenes and suggestions which, whatever you may please to any, are calculated to inflame the senses." Perhaps there is some good sense and some good morals too in thit. We are rather inclined to believe with Mr Ruskin that only so much of the human body cm be decently painted for common inspection as is customarily ,'seen without offence to public decency. If this be so, one cannot see why those Luge numbers of art-loving people who are really pained and annoyed by the nude figures at academies should not be protected— why, in short, there should not be a nude room —regarded by je-,thetes as the sanction .sanctorum of art, and by a good many un-ajsthetes as a moral chamber of horrors. " I can see no objection whatever to that," said an irreverent cynic the other day, " except that the room would be so inconveniently crowded !" Ye«, my son, it is pos3ibl« for you to live to the enl of your days, performing successfully every diy the rare feat of keeping your mouth shut at the right time, of never uttering a sentence until you have first weighed it carefully in your mind, revised it, and adjusted it accurately to existing conditions of tffings. Yes, you can do that. But 6hen, you won't do anything else. No, my boy, if you do that always, you won't do one other lingering, solitary, lonesome thing in all your life. You will have time to do nothing except to think what you are going to say and how you are going to say it, and then by the time you are ready, and open your mouth, the man you are going tos.iy it. to will have grown weaiy of waiting and gone away. — Buvdette. In the county of Wicklow, tho garden of Ireland, the late Dr. Trench when Archbishop of Dublin, had a charming villa residence on a height overhangiug the village of Ashford, and not far from the Devil's Glen. His (4 race had latterly become at times slightly absent, and at a banquet in that neighbourhood, the Archbishop received a nudge from a friend who felt so privileged to remind him not to lot a speciality delicious entree pass. Archbishop Trench, mistaking it for a hint to say grace, at once stood up, and in the solemn deep-toned voice, so peculiarly his own, delivered hi nself of an impressive thanksgiving. More than half of the rjuraes had yet to come ! On another occasion, soon after he resigned his Archbishopric, Dr. Trench went to dine witn his successor ; and, the familiar room making him fancy himself at home, he said, during a pause towards the end of dinner, across the table to his wife, '» My dear, I fear we must pronounce this cook auother failure !"