SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(FROM OUJt OTTS CORRESPONDENT.) DUNEDIN. June 11. Mr. Page, of Wellington, goes to Melbourne by the Ringarooma to arrange for a football team, playing under Victorian rules, to go to Melbourne during the Exhibition. The team will be comprised of two Otago and ten Wellington players. They will be absont for five weeks, Victoria will pay all the expenses. The hicar publishes an extract from a private letter by the mail, stating that the distress among the industrial classes at Home is fearful ; but the Government refuses to acknowledge it. So great is the desire to escape, that from 500 to 000 applications are received daily by the New Zealand Agency from persons desiring to emigrate to this Colony.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 981, 11 June 1879, Page 2
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121SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 981, 11 June 1879, Page 2
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