WELLINGTON.
Last night.
The Government are engaging 150 men for road works on the Waimate Plains, married men to receive 28s and single men 21s per week. They will be provided with tent, and, with their families, will be sent free; they will be supplied with rations at Is 3d per day, and can leave when more remunerative work offers.
This day. A man named John Conolly, telegraph operator, was charged with imposing on the Relieving Officer by obtaining halfacrown and spending it in beer, and was sentenced to 4 weeks hard labor; on another charge of imposing on a trades* man he received a similar sentence.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3486, 26 February 1880, Page 2
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107WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3486, 26 February 1880, Page 2
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