DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4804, 2 June 1884, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

This day. At the open air meeting of the unemployed, Mr T. Bracken, M.H.8,., said he had telegraphed to the Premier on Saturday, asking.that temporary work be given immediately, but the Premier had not had the courtesy to reply. The Mayor Baid he had also telegraphed to the Premier this morning, expressing his great surprise that no reply had been received to his former message, and that a matter of such moment demanded an immediate answer. Large numbers of. unemployed besiege him for work, and he said at the Council meeting he would endeavor to induce that body to provide temporary work. The prospectus of the Otago Co-opera-tive Farmers Society with a capital of £50,000 pounds shares has been issued.

In the Campbell v. Kennedy and Sievwright case, Reid filed a defence in which he says he acted to the best of his judgment in order to save what he could of the plaintiff's means; that she perfectly understood the transaction, and signed the deed after mature consideration, and that £9,000 was paid to her by an order on Kennedy.

The Government offer the nnsmployed work near Moa'giel, on the railway works. At tho Magistrate's Court to-day, Mr Carew fined a witness, Hugh Mitchell, who failed to answer to the subpoena, 40s, or 48 hours' imprisonment. The fine was paidi