The Caulfield Cup.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 161, 17 July 1886, Page 3

The Caulfield Cup.

The Unemployed in Adelaide. A deputation interviewed the Commissioner of Works to-day and requested the payment of higher wages to' the men employed on the reclamation works on the Ttiver Murray.' Mr Turner replied that! employment would be in the nature of eaith works, I ntr motions had been given to pay ->ur>h a rate for piecework, that the men could not fail to earn a fair day's wages.' They would see that the Government were placed in a strunge position, aa they had to find employment for all comers, and to prevent imposition they hud to fix a low minimum rate of wages. With piecework at Is. 2d per cubic yard a good working man ought to be able to earn a fair day's wagefli In fact there should be no difficulty in an experienced man shifting from Q tdT cubic yards per day. Nearly 6s. peE-day had been the nominal wage paid" at the Murray.

Ten Days on a Burning Coal Shij). By the last American mail news has been received of the burning of the b»rqug Jorsaltarer (Captain Stocsen) at sea during a voyage from Newcatle to Honolula, with a cargo of coal. The vessel left Newcastle on the 20th Februa.y, with 1010 tons coal on board, fine took fire on the 14th April, and wa* abandoned ten days after. The crew left the ship in two boats, and mada for th« Sandwich Isles, where they were picked up by the barque J. F. Stow, bound trom l hina They were transferred to' the ship Kate Davenport, and landed at Honolulu. During three days the crew were in tpe boats they ouffered great hardships.

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