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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3139, 27 August 1892, Page 6 (Supplement)

The Christchurch Press says:—Another Canterbury man writes from Melbourne!: — " We are now rather ' booming ' charity There is doubtless an immense amount of. distress to relieve. Funds have been so generously Riven that the unemployed have left the country districts and are coming into town to he fed. Of course it is difficult to organise a large relief fund without there being some leakage, but charity has been extended to a limit which is not likely to be again lvpaated. There are sevoral schemes for relieving the distress, one of them being to settle people on the land, and I hope before next winter something in this way may be done. The strike at Broken Hill has been the last straw iu our present depressed state. The directors allege that there has been more loafing in these mines than in any other work done in the colonies; in fact, that some of the miners have deliberately laid themselves out to do as little work as possible so as to involve the employment of a large number of men. In fact the miners have insisted on two men bsing employed to do one man's work. Under the circumstances, the directors have felt that it was imperative that the work should be done by contract, but they are willing to pay for this on a very liberal scale. There is a very large quantity of lnv grade ore to be worked, and in view of the heavy full in' the price of silver it is impossible to pay ' boom ' wages unless a fair measure of work is done in returq therefor." I