LATE TELEGRAPHIC.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, April 15. It is now certain that the total Exhibition attendance will exceed 600,000, or more than the total population of the_ Colony. Up to the present, including to-night, when 5064 were present, the total has been 590,305. The closing ceremony on Saturday night is sure to be largely attended. - Christchurch, April 15. A very large meeting in Tuam street Hall to-night, under the presidency of the Mayor, passed -resolutions affirming that night shopping was an unnecessary custom, which produces innumerable evils to the detriment of employes in retail shops, and expressing sympathy with the Early Closing Association in their endeavours to close shops at 6, and declaring that a legislative enactment should be passed to close shops at 6 and compel employers to give employes a weekly half-holiday. The Dean of Christchurch, the Revs J. Fiavell, C. H. Bradbury, and L. M, Isfft, W. P. Reeves, W. B. Perceval, R. M. Taylor, M.H.R.’s,addresßed the meeting.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8965, 16 April 1890, Page 5
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162LATE TELEGRAPHIC. New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8965, 16 April 1890, Page 5
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