CHRISTCHURCH.
This day.
The fifteen g-;m puzzle has at last been put to some satisfactory use. The gaoler at Lytteltou has given it to tho Maori prisoners. Thoy are quiet. At a meeting of railway employees a telegram was read from the Minister of Public Works, the purport of which was that the Government in the first place did not intend to apply tha ten per ceut. reduction on the Amberly men, but that they some time ago issued instructions to the Commissioner to assimilate the rates of pay to those of the outside workmen, but through a break in the telegraph these measures could not be arranged in time, and the ten per cent, was therefore taken off as a temporary measure to make up for it. As no notice was given the Government would not insist on this reduction tor the present, but a revised scale of wages would be issued. The meeting determined to do nothing more in the way of a strike until they had recoived the revised scale of wages.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3647, 3 September 1880, Page 2
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175CHRISTCHURCH. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3647, 3 September 1880, Page 2
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