LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 18, 24 October 1879, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

?•. (PEB^BESS AGENCY.) Wellington, Thursday, 7 p.m. " • A deputation of the unemployed waited on the Government, and asked that free immigration be restricted to female servants; that public works ' be commenced for the purpose of affording employment ; that the land laws be placed on a more liberal basis, to allow of land being taken up on deferred payments ; and that free -'passages be provided to parts of the Colony where work was more plentiful. All the Ministers were present. The Premier said the present depress sion waa only temporary, in conse* quence of over speculation during the past .year,- and of the scarcity of money, together with the bad harvest in the South Island. No doubt in a short -time things would be much better., The, Government further «. stated : Vfj)fy|£ .tenders were being called for more works on the "West Coast g,.,^aHw£y;'and- they would endeavour to make it 1 a condition with the con- ' t tractor to employ as many of the un- ;"•• employed as possible. Mr Bolleaton Bait* he would put the wires in motion the. Colony, to . ascertain 'where work was most plentiful, and would afford facilities to enable the unemployed te reaoh places where * work^could be obtained. He said I^Uiey were bringing down a bill to ' provide for the settlement of the people on the land on as favorable a basis. as possible, recognising that to be the only permanent means of ' "qfrfi&ting such a condition of things as that now existing, though it might not afford immediate relief for pressing necessities. 00 m^'iitrQt'^SiSmM 'reports-— Adelaid e '"' flour, £16 Wb^o £IB^ Colonial, £13 'to £li', 2s 9d; bran, 9d; - wheat (fowls 1 ) 4s 6d; maiae, 4s 8d \

. pollard, 6s ; potatoes, per ton, £1 ; I bacon, 9d ; hams, lOd ; cheese, Is '■ . butter 9d ; oatmeal, £15. I Frederick Smith was charged to- . day with personating a woman, by ( wearing female attire. As the . offence appeared the result of a [ stupid frolic, the Magistrate sentenced prisoner to six hours' hard , labor, with a caution that if the . offence were repeated, he would get t a serious term of imprisonment.