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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1095, 24 February 1893, Page 28

Messrs Heginbotham and Emeny’s tender of L 26 10s for asphalting at the Te Aro School has been accepted. The other tenderers were: —Mr Taversham, L 27 ; Messrs O’Brien and Carswell, L 34.

On Monday next, the 27th inst., Messrs Abraham and Williams, of Palmerston, will sell by auction the whole of the stock on Mr A. Fredsbsrg’sl farm, on the property fronting Reid’s line, about three miles from Bunnythorpe. Particulars of the stock to be sold will be found in our advertising columns. Representations have been made from Otago to the Minister of Mines that there is a number of miners working there without miner’s rights, and recommending that the police should be instructed to hunt them up. The Minister has absolutely refused to do anything of the sort.

According to a statement made by the Chairman of the Benevolent Trustees yesterday the establishment of a Benevolent Home has had a deterrent effect upon loafers who applied for casual relief. He had had repeated applications for such relief, and had referred them all to the Home, where none of them turned up. Mr Lancaster thought there were plenty of people quite the reverse of loafers who would hesitate to enter the Home. They were not all loafers who applied. The Chairman assented, and the matter dropped.