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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3035, 23 October 1888, Page 2

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Not to lie Cauglitr Ohristohiirch, October 22, ' Murrayy who escaped from Addington Gaol is still at largo, .] Death of fui Octogenarian^ ■■X i Dunedin, ; ,Tuest!ayr;. Mrs Gillies, mother of Judge Gillies did this mbri)it)gj:aged 8?. Reducing' the Price of Gas, .m ~:i! j.CiiPjgTouußcu, October 22. : A letter te received from the: Gas Company offering (lj' to; reduce or abandon meter rates as soon as the Company can pay 12 per cent: (2) To maintam the price of gas at, s7s 6d per 1000 ft; and to supply street lamps at £4 • is per year for a ' term of three years; The Council declined the proposals/but referred the matter to a special Lighting Committee to endeavor to negotiate,' : " • The Sweating System. ." t CuiiisicHUitcH, October 22, Further enquirios madewith regard to tile sweating system here show that though matters are not so bad as in Dunedin, girls and women ( are paid wages >vliicii se ; e|» inadequate io support them, . For trousers iiuisliers the rates paid : barely enable the women to earn 10s per week by \vorkibg till'lato at night, 'One'establisli' ment has, it.is said, taken a contract for making ! nieii'S' Suits— finding, trimming, and lining—for 20s t eaoh, work which a lekdiiig cannot be. done, for less ; than 10s if fair wages (ire paid,' ' '" ; ' •

~ j ( ., __ Auckland,.Tuesday,.;. ' Haj'lci* " and - ' mcMaboh were brought,before theiCourtj in connootioii with tlio outage at Onehunga pter,woi'ks, alleged that on two previous occasions deliberate-attempts word inaicle to destroy, the reservoir, in.pnOjCase,the bottbiiV beitig injured apparently by an explosion of dynamite. . ...

-The AUegedlriceiidiarism-- ' ; 1; -BlenheimV Octobor 22; j f • Detective Herbert has investigated the "circuiiistaiiciis of' tbe alleged iucendiarjsm, and is satisfied tbat;,it is a case of hallucination, Drowifi g.Case ,at OhaagaI . ' ' Ferry, I

: Recovery of the Body,. • • Wellington, Tuesday, _ Tlio police liavo received informs tiou from of the mail,. James G&aiiJiJ frowned in Ohangit Bivev v ori. ,the ,11th inat., lias 1 been l'ecoyeYeßr Airfequest will be bekl I'to^ay.rilt. appears v tlebfehsed took, (lie mpngf.fordj.and his horse got into quiriksands/ . ' ' Biekueim, "October. 22, i ■ -The 'uiiniiiali to amalgamate,'' aiidblitaiu an enginp the men fiflm suspense, ;aa f the 'gold ii\ t|io Mtes'evjdoutly; lies deep,- •'