CHRISTCHURCH.
May 14. A large number of labouring men left for Sydney in the Arawata yesterday. A subscription list is being circulated here tor a testimonial to Mr Shaw, of Wellington Lunatic Asylum fame.
A difference has occurred between the bricklayers and their employers. The former demand a Saturday half-holiday, and dispute tbe refusal of the latter to grant it knocked off work at one o'clock to-day in a body. The total number of sacks of wheat now awaiting shipment in Lyttelton is estimated at 250,000.
The goods traffic through Lyttelton tunnel during the year ending March 31 amounted to 496,087 tons. Mr Federlie, who was sent down by the Government from Wellington to interview the Industrial Association relative to the establishment of the silk industry, has visited Akaroa, aud induced a number of residents there to take up the subject and put sufficient land in cultivation to give it a fair trial. Mr Federli thinks the valleys and bays of the Peninsula are just the places to rear silkworms.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3083, 14 May 1881, Page 3
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