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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1266, 28 April 1880, Page 2

Matters are looking gloomy with the unemployed at Windsor. The railway works are not yet recommenced, the preliminaries for appointing the men not having been arranged. Yesterday morning about a dozen men visited the hotel and asked for bread. The hotelkeeper;had none to • give them, but told them that they might help themselves to some the " property of Mr. Breen, of Ngapara, which were being pitted in the township,- saying that he felt sure the owner would not object to their doing so. They took advantage of this permission. These men arrived on Monday morning by train from Oamaru and Ngapara, and how they fared during the night nobody knows, for they had nothing but bare tents—not even straw to sleep upon. The Inspector did everything in his power to help them, which was unfortunately not much, beyond telling them that the men on the ground would be told off in gangs to-day, and that the works would then be recommenced, They had, therefore, only to fast from Monday to "Wednesday, and relief would come. Rather cold comfort. These few facts, amongst many of a similarly distressing kind, give aji emphatic answer to the inquiry of the Minister for Public Works as to whether it was really necessary that the works should be recommenced in order to assist the unemployed. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day as folio ws : —Bad weather is approaching from any direction between north-west and west and south. A further fall of glass and an increasing sea will take place within 12 hours.

We regret to learn that Mr. Lindsay, headmaster of the North School, is at pre* sent incapacitated through indisposition from attending to the duties of the school. The Borough Council of Hampden will hold a meeting on the 30th inst,. at 7 p.m., for the purpose of " hearing and determining claims and objections duly lodged ill regpeot of the Burgess List." The meeting of the Waiareka Road Board called for to-day lapsed, owing to the paucity of the attendance of members. At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, before S. E. Shrimski, Esq., J.P., Annie Carrington, for having been drunk and disorderly, was cautioned and discharged. David Cameron, who appeared for the second time, was fined 10s with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment for having been drunk and disorderly. It is stated that three prominent members of the Coursing Club will shortly be called upon to appear at the Resident Magistrate's Court to answer a charge of coursing hares out of season.

A select quadrille assembly is announced to take place on Friday evening next, at Mr. Taylor's hall.

An announcement in another column notifies th£Vt licenses for the Ah ur i f i district will in future be issued by the Court at Maerewhenua, and that it will be necessary to lodge applications with the clerk at Oamaru, instead of at Naseby. We refer those interested to the advertisement for further particulars.