DUNEDIN.
Yesterday
The miners at Walton Park Colliery, who are on strike, assert that best workmen can only make 9s or 10 per day of twelve hours. The annual meeting of the local Free Thought Association was held to-night. Mr Stout was reflected president. Their tea meeting takes place to-morrow,, when Mr Pratt, the president of the Christchurch Association, will delirer an address. The Athenaeum subscribers met to-night to consider the question of. turning the institution into a public library. The committee, recommended that a poll be taken, but the meeting contented itself with merely passing resolutions that a public library was desirable. This day. At the University last night Mr Stout on behalf of the subscribers presented to the institution a subscription portra.it of Mr John Hislop, Secretary for Education. A movement is on foot to obtain the portraits of Sir Jno. Richardson, and Mr j Macandrew, for the Univeraityihall. j
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4469, 2 May 1883, Page 2
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152DUNEDIN. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4469, 2 May 1883, Page 2
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