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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2256, 29 March 1886, Page 2

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United Press Association. Auckland, this day. At the Brigade parde 22 corps, reparesenting 1000 men, paraded. Tlio Liberal Association passed a resolution "that 8 hours should be fixed by statute as the extreme limit of a day's work in the colony in any occupation, and all business places close at (i p.m.. and that to prevent industrial depression, and to provide abundance for re-produc-tive works at fair wages for tho unemployed, the Government should issue stato bank notes for a sum equal to half the estimated amount of taxation voted by Parliament. The notes to be legal tender for all debts due, and taxes, and convertible at pleasure into Government bonds, bearing interest weekly. The employees, at the Boot Factory gave a week's notice on Saturday. Dunedin, this day. In the libel case Stewart v Wakefield and Roydhonse, tho jury were unable to agree, and after waiting three hours, the Judge took took the verdict of threo fourths, All issues were answered in favor of plaintiff, giving one shilling damages, they unanimously recommended a rigid enquiry into the management of the Christchurch hospital,-the question of costs to stand over.. ' The Premier will probably address the citizens of Invercargill, Mr Larnach, Professor Black, and Mr Usher resident engineer, leave on Monday for the West Coast. The body of a laborer named McGueent was found hanging from a rafter of a buiding in course of erection. He had been a patient in the Hospital, and there is no doubt he committed suicide. ' CHHisicHUECH, March 27. At a largely attended meeting to consider the action of the Charitable Aid Board in dismissing Mr and Mrs Ritchie master and matron of the orphanage, a resolution was passed that the Board° had acted unjustly and harshly in the extreme as no opportunity had been given to Mr Ritchie of rebutting the charges preferred againßthim. It was decided to request the Board to resign. Yesterday an unnoccupied six-roomed cottage in .Gloucester-street, belonging to the Rev, J. Yukariah,, and insured in South British for £4OO was burnt down, the fire having appeared tp B tarfc ia two Places, IncendiarisiDwsuspeotfed.