TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2255, 17 October 1889, Page 2

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

(PBB tßHfla A8S00IATI0W.) \ ! The Price of Meat Dunedin, Ootobar 17. The batchers have raised the price of 1 beef » penny, and that of mutton a halfpeony. Fire. The drolling houae of Jatnea Chambers, at Watpakl, was burned down last night, the building and furnttore were (mured •n the Honth Biitlih for £300. The Exhibition, The Eideraiie Sionnnhlp Company has donated £50 to the Exhibition fondi, Mas Mary Moore, on London, has taken 40 a bares.

Bread and the Bakers. INVjBBOAEGix.t, October 17. There has been a good deal of correspondence re the prioa of bread and alleged light wtight The price of bread here is higher than m Dtmedin or Auckland and it is. now ass rted that m soma oases joorney men bakers have to work (inclndii.g Sunday labor) ninety hours a week which one oorreapondeut describes as " muvdorouß toil." It is also stated that Bom© bakers receive thirty shillings a week, or lot a than flveponce an fyoqr. It lias been eusgested $h;ifc a co-opqrative bakery should be startod. Ship for Home. Pokt (Jhalmbks. Ootober 17. Sailed— Waltaogl, ebip, Oapt. Leemaq, for London, via Lyttelton. B.ei oa.rßo from thin port oontlsta of 196 bales rabbit. aklnp, 7C6 baleo fl x, 7 b*)e« basils, 16 oaaks talloir, SJ o«oka hardware nnd 150 drams glycerine. Ship Arrived. At tho headß, Olan McLeod, birqae. t:om New York. ■ '