WELLINGTON.
This day.
Arrived: Faeroa ship from London, 97 days out, passengers all well.
An apprentice named George Freeman, aged 13, a half caste native of Christchurch, while engaged at the main chains fell overboard and was drowned. All endeavors to rescue him were unsuccessful. It is supposed he was struck by the main sheet block.
A deputation of the unemployed waited on the Premier this morning, He held out no hopes of giving employment near town ; what they wished was to get them up country on the land. However, if the deputation would supply Government with information as to trades of the unemployed, they would endeavor to get them employment on public works throughout the colony at subsistence wages.. ' •'■;,'•. " •'., . . .• •• . -.
The Customs revenue for the quarter amounts to £46,089, in the corresponding quarter of 1879, £40,734.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3592, 1 July 1880, Page 2
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136WELLINGTON. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3592, 1 July 1880, Page 2
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