NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2271, 28 June 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[Per “Times” Special Wiee.l

Work for the Unemployed.

Christchurch, June 28.

The unemployed delegates have returned from Wellington, and report that Government promises the following pay at the Weka Pass railway : —Wet or line, married men, 28s per week ; single men, 2fspcr week ; provision to be supplied at Is 3d each per day; firewood, Hd per day. They also promised to"commence another section of the Albury line. Grain Traffic. 14,i‘)80 bags of grain wore- carried on the Christchurch section of railway last week. Insurance Rewards. Dunedin, June 28. By a lire at Portohello the New Zealand cilice lose £2OO ; by a lire at AA raitabima the Norwich Union lose £3OO. Football. At a large mooting of footballers it was decided to form an. Otago-Bngby Union. It was also icsolved that as the cost of Hie visit of the Otago players to Wellington bad not yet been repaid by Wellington, until the AVellington team play in Dunedin, the AVellington Union has no right to expect another visit, and that it is not desirable to send an Otago team to AVellington until the AVellington Union have visited Dunedin. It was further resolved—“ That, copies of these resolutions be forwarded to the Canterbury Union, and that they he invited to send their team to Dunedin this season for an interprovincial match,with a proposal that this be an annual fixture to be played at Christchurch and Dunedin alternately.” A 2ffice SVEotUer. At the City Court the -Bench ordered a criminal prosecution for child exposure against Mrs Ferguson, wdio figured in the recent divorce cases. She left her infant on the door of the house where Ferguson had placed his own children. Two Fishermen Drowned.

Charles Peterson and William Smith, lishermen, are- reported to have been drowned tit Sand-Ply Bay during Saturday’s gale.