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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 477, 31 May 1880, Page 2

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Ifkom ouk own correspondent] WELLINGTON. Saturday. : 11 is likely a caucus will be held during the coming week to decide who will be leader of the Opposition. Business in the Legislative Council yesterday, after reading the speech, was confined to the presentation of reports, petitions, &e., and a notice of motion relating to the comfort and convenience of members.

i A man named White, while working in ' a cutting in Main-street this morning, t was killed by a fall of earth. On being ' dug out his body and face were disfigured j beyond recognition. He was a widower ' with five children. _________, To the Editor of the Walrarapa Daily. Public Works, Opaki. 1 Sir,—l wish to draw your attention to 1 a few disadvantages of the unemployed ' here, We have been told we would be paid the same wet or dry, or in Bickness; 3 but yesterday we were told by Mr Mason J that he had been speaking to the Minis--1 ter of Public Works, and he (the Minis--3 ter) told him we should get sick in our ' own time, On the 13th it was showery, ! but not sufficiently heavy, according to J the ganger's view, to stop working. I : got a cold, which was aggravated by \ sleeping in a damp tent. I managed to 5 work last week, but had to leave off on 1 Tuesday last, having great pain in my 3 side, and being unable to use my right } hand. lam allowed neither a doctor"or ' medicine, and am told that my time will ! not count while ill. When I left England ! last year I understood that work 'was plentiful here for all who wished to work. But one of the principal features of this 1 Colony which the paid agents held before the view of intending immigrants was , its salubrity. Perhaps the Government wishes to alter the sick and death rate to J something like the back-sluma of the large towns of the old country by the ' advantages which they offer to the unem--3 T. L, / [The Government are, we believe, losing | by the labor of the unemployed. If so they are not bound to do more than ■ they are doing.—Ed. W.D.]