DUNEDIN.
Thia day.
The Hong. Dick and Oliver in reply to the unemployed petition that it is.not the duty of the Government to attempt to regulate the wages, said the rate provided by the Government is shown by the sum paid for rations to be sufficient to support workmen and their families, and as the terms are being thankfully accepted in other parts of the colony, the Government can hold out no hope of different terms being given in Otago. 4i Last night. Ail the papers litre call ou the Voluu-
teer authorities to institute a searching "enquiry into the charges against the Southern Volunteers, and make examples of the offenders.
The result of Chiniquy's meetings here was that £890 was forwarded to Canada in aid of bis Misßion.
The Government decline to give the Otago unemployed different terms to those thankfully accepted elsewhere. Their,,demand was for work at seven shillings per day.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3517, 3 April 1880, Page 2
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153DUNEDIN. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3517, 3 April 1880, Page 2
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