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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 882, 24 January 1891, Page 2

A man named James Borley, shoemaker, of Newmarket, Auckland, aged 72, fell off the fer/y steamer Britannia, on Wednesday, at the railway wharf, it \e supposed in^a fi(^. He was rescued m a boat, but ,^ied-; the f»a|ne evening m the hospital. &;i \ i ..'} -■'. .-■:.• Messrs JS§ aw, |obineon and Co.'s ncr advertisemiEint m .&no|j&r colu^an isworth perusing. 'JPrapery is beingsoll by them m many Cttsea »t one^iourthlthio fair and legitimate value. It is one of the cheapest honsss m Christcriuroh, and those of our country readers who wish to purchase cheap and good-ljines cannot do better than to give the above well-known firm a call. There are now about 600 men. on the new gold field m Perth, where two nuggets of 140qz and AOoz have been found, and it is reported that another of 208oz has been unearthed. The fiflld is overcrowded, and only half of the meT are doing well. One par'y of threomen have died from thirat^oq the Aaiiburton fie I -.•,_ and another' party-4'B tui*ing. Tin 1 folipwi^K blio va Uio good attenU ance at the "tiaosthh Scs'Ofil during tlu P'lßt year :~Certin?a'<H : . ot merit. --ClaH^ I. : William Jefttirv nt. vcr ininß^rl a day , !Vlart<are[ Bibx'-tt not a = sent HiOro thatfi^e htilf-ilayn. CUhs II, : Henry Tiioiop- • sou, not abnent more than five half-dayn. Class 111. : Elizabeth Brawloy, not absent more than fire halt-days; Sydney Lawrence, not absent more than five halfdays. Ciaes IV. : Robert Rodgers, not absent moVe than five half-days. Application has been made by the leading tradespeople and others m Lyttelton to hold an interview with the Railway Commissioners for the purpose of trying to arrange for tne re-employment of th« Lyttelton "r^i^|y casual hands. These men, it is urged, had befor* the strike, th* option of joining the Railway Union angetting wprk,< and failing that they had to go without work. ; They are, it is pointed out, the principal sulEerera through tb» strike, though >they had nothing to do with brihgingiKdioyc^ *;..*.