THE RELIEF WORKS.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 46, 22 August 1895, Page 2

THE RELIEF WORKS.

The following further contributions to the Unemployed Kolief Fund are acknowledged ; —Previously acknowledged, J3760 I§3. W. F. Shortt, £1 Is ; employes D.I.C , £& Gg ; employes Grey Valley Coal Co., £2 ; Chin Ting, £1 Is ; G. Evans, 451 ; Maipr-Qeneral Sobaw, £2 2s ; James Mowat, Ml Is j em. ployo's Union S.S. Co. (office), £1 10 a; Mrs, Levin, £8 ; Mr. Morshead, .£1 1 total to date, £782 16 a. TO-NIGHT'S CONCERT. After the extended publioity given to the arrangements during the past week, it U now only neoessary to point out that the benefit concert in aid of the funds for £hp relief of the unemployed takes plage .tonight, at the Opera House. A crowded dress circle is practically assured, andpn th,e great bulk of the publio, who have not yet had an opportunity of snbsoribinjr to the fnnds, rests the onus of filling the other parts of tho theatre. The Committee desires to epeoially tbank the following gontlemen for their liborality to the concert fund i— Mes3rs. Blnndell Bros and Direotort of New Zealand Times, advertising ; Messrs. M'Kea and Gamble, Whitcombs and Tombs (Ld ), Brown and Thomson, and Edwards, finsBell, and Co.,, printing programmes, posters, tickets, and stationery; (Mr. H. Fielder, furniture for Btage ; and Mr. G. Conlson, stage hands, ushers, and tioket-talcers of the Opera House for their servioes. IBT TILJQftAPH.— PBISB ASSOCIATION.] Chuibtchubch, 21st August. The funds available for the relief of the unemployed in the oity amount to only about £91, lnsufflo'ent to pay wages for the remainder of the week. Ihe 90 men employed were accordingly discharged to-night, and abont 40 of the most deserving ones will be re-engaged to-morrow.