DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3348, 15 September 1879, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Saturday night.

A deputation of unemployed waited on the Mayor to-day to urge that employment should be found for 600 men. The Mayor promised to move the Council in the matter, and do all in his power to find employment. A monster meeting is to be held in the theatre on Monday.

The remains of Mr and Mrs Robert Wilson and their children, and the four persons unclaimed by relatives or friends, who perished in the late fire were interred in the cemetery to-day. The procession was one of the Jargest ever seen here, and tho crowd in the cemetery was immense. Archdeacon Edwards and the Rev. Mr Rosely officiated at tho graves. The Wilsons hare a brother, a draper, in .Wellington who never communicated with anyone here with reference to the fate, of his relatives. Such callousness is severely commented on.

A deputation representing the unemployed waited on the Mayor this morning, stating that a large number of skilled artisans were quite unable to obtain employment. They were prepared to do any work. The.Miyor said the Corporation would do all in its -power to provide work. The Harbor Board would commence a half-tide wall in about a fortnight. The Windsor section of the OamaruLivingstone Railway wai commenced, and it would give a great relief. A public meeting of unemployed will be held on Monday night. ' ' .

Arrived: September IX, Wellington from Wellington, Tararua from Sydney via East Coast, Star of the South from the Bluff.

Sailed: Mary Campbell, brigaatine, for Greymouth; Hudion, barque, for London; Maori, for Timaru; Bobycito, barque, for Newcastle.

(Peb Pbess Amnct.)