VERY LATEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3508, 12 May 1890, Page 2

VERY LATEST.

The Weather at Tinui(nV TELEOItAPH, [Prom Our Own Correspondent.] Tinui, Monday. Heavy snow and hail fell here during last night, aud at six o'clock this morning the thermometer registered 86, Pah. The hills around are all covered with a white mantle, and the cold is excessive. .. ■ Death of wi Old bottler. Marion, Monday, L, C, Richards, an' old settler, was found dead in bed at the Bailway Hotel yesterday. A bottle of bird poison, parti* emptied, was on the table near him, and it is supposed he drank tho poison duriug the night by mistake.

The Cable' Steamer." ! Wellington, Monday, In conseqnonco of the heavy southerly weather, tho Scotia was unable to go out last night, and is still in the harbor waiting the first opportunity to pick up the cable, The detention of the steamer is rather a costly thing for the Government, as they are paying her £2lO per day while in tho harbor,'and £250 outside.

STILL THEY COME! More Unions. Wellington, Monday, At a mooting on Saturday night, tho Tramway and 'Bus - employed formed a union, that tbo length of a days' work be fixed at nine hours for guards and drivers, and ten hours for grooms,overtime to be paid for Sunday work. .Resolutions are to take effeot in June,

The storemen in the city also formed a Union on Saturday night, The TeKoott Case. Wellington, Monday. An appeal by the Government against the quashing of the order enjoining Te IJooti to find sureties of tho peace, is being argued before Justices Eichmond, Denniston, and Williams this morning, Maritime Council.

Wellington, Monday. The Maritime Council was this morning occupied revising the rules adopted by the West Coast. Coal Miners' Association.