CORRESPONDENCE.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Wβ cannot undertake to publish letters copies of*which have been sent to any other journal. Correspondents desiring insertion of their communications should therefore aond us a statement that they have not been aud will not be forwarded to any other paper. THE LABOUR MARKET. TO THE EDITOR OF THR PRESS. Sib, With reference to your local in this morning's issue, " Labour Market," you arc wrongly informed or improperly informed. The work at present is of such a nature that anyone eeeking it- will have to spend several weeks' earnings in advance in procuring necessary tools, and as the work will terminate in about three weeks, it offers nothing attractive to the hard-up labourer. I hope your informant himself is misled, and should advise ciuuon in these upimportant inatten as tending in the direction of common sense and humanity. The distress is real amongst labourers, and hardly requires aggravation. —Yours, &c , Common Sense. ; December 24th, 1895. TD THE EDITOR OP THE PRESS. Sir,—Mr William Pawcll's letter in Thursday's Press would lead one to believe 1 that the expert workmen employed ai ' " Riversleigh " were working at an unfaii 1 price. I bag to inform Mr Powell that tin priced paid were (and are) actually iv excesi of those asked by the expert workmen them ' selves. " The Proprietor " and his manager hen are at the present moment unacquaintec * with the prices that are paid. 1 I caused the local mentioned by Mi \ Powell and the advertisement, in anothei 1 column, to appear, and neither the proprietoi nor his manager will know of them till thej see them in your valuable paper. I inserted two advertisements in each o the morning papers for workmen wanted a Riversleigh, and if either Mr Powell or hi 100 staunch workmen had applied bo mc '. would gladly have placed myself gratuitously at their service. My office is central am x my address well advertised. More workmen will shortly be wanted ' and I shall be pleased to sea Mr Powell ii . reference thereto, though I have had ny '. time unprofltably taken up, to a very greai extent, by men that would nob work al j Riversleigh at prices they themselves fixed —Yours, &c, Otto Liesice, Aeent for the sale of the Riverileich Estate Christchurch, 27th December, 1895.