CHRISTCHURCH.
Saturday.
At the Public Works Office, to day, two hundred unemployed signed the list of applicants for work. Eighty passes to the Weiara extension hare been received •from head quarters, and thus distributed. Others will be used during the week,.and an opportunity will be given to the men to erect wharen for their families.
Mr Austin, Government Engineer, pro ceeded to Dunedin to arrange a scale oi wages for those employed on public works which will be made uniform throughout the colony.
Up to the present only 732 dogs have been registered in Christchurch, or little over half the number of last year.
This day
I. Ivess, proprietor of the Ashburton Mail, = has been committed for trial for libel on a solicitor named Crisp. Bail was allowed on his own recognisances.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 15 March 1880, Page 2
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