News in Brief.
. ♦_ It is reported that IrfLienssi has laid aside from work over 100 employees at fcha Addington Workshops. A telegram fro^n Auckland statea that the Colonial Sugar-refining Company yesterday reduced the price of all sugars by ten shillings per ton, and arid treacle by sixpence per case. Cft'lery, Glassware, Dianerware, ate, lent out oi hire, for ba is, weldings, etc, by FlebfjW Bros, O.sh Supply Stores. &11 hireagp to ba prepaid. Tha General Manager of Railways has been advised that twenty five American looomotives, twenty three of which are from the Baldwin Worka, are on board the steamer Knight of Sb Georga, which left New York for 3Sew Zealand on August 13, Old age pensioners, of whom there are 17,058 registered in Viototla, are dying at the rate of 32 per week. In the short time since the system waa broughc into operation, it ia computed that the original number of recipients is reduced to 16,500.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5453, 23 August 1901, Page 2
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158News in Brief. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5453, 23 August 1901, Page 2
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