SLAUGHTER MEN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2010, 20 February 1907, Page 3

SLAUGHTER MEN.

AVELLINGTON, last night. A new agreement has boon drawn up, and will probably bo signed by tlio slaughtermen ami freezing companies in a few days. In this it is provided, the riion explain, that 23s per hundred shall bo paid for killing, and two shillings an hour will bo paid for waiting time. On Saturday from 12 o’clock until 4 p.m. will be paid at tlio rate of time and a quarter. Otherwise the ngrreeiuont is very much the same as tlio award which recently expired. ORDER. OF RKCHABITES. NEW PLYAIOUTH, last night. Tlio thirty-fifth annual Council of tlio Now Zealand Central District of the Independent Order of Reeliahilos opened this morning. Fifty-eight representatives" of tents all over the colony were present. The rules, ;.s revised by the district officers, were adopted. The report stated there were now 31 malo and live female tents, with 1675 adult members. The district trust funds at present are: Funeral, £BIO7 14s fid; sick pay fund, £1514 13s 6d; benevolent, : 6s 7d; contingent, £204 15s (id; juvenile, £96 9s lOd; total, £10.140 19s 6d; total tent funds, £26,337 16s, added to district funds, making £■>3,484 0s lOd; total increase, £2559 13s Gd. The report was adopted, also the juvenile branches report, showing 366 luebors and funds £3lO 16s Id. A committee was set up to confer with the Auckland District delegates to consider the question of amalgamation, and report to-morrow. The entrance fee to tlio Order was reduced to 2s Cd.

VICTORIOUS BAND. AA’ANGANUI, last night. Tlio Garrison Band returned from the Exhibition contest to-night. They were most enthusiastically welcomed homo, there being at least three thousand people at the railway station. Speeches were delivered by the mayor and member for tlio district. A torchlight procession was held, and music rendered by the City and Pipe bands. CHRISTCHURCH NEAYS. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. CHRISTCHURCH, last night The constablo at Coalgato reported to-day that a young man named Rosevear has ’been drowned in the lake at Lockwood. Tlio decomposed anil unrecognisable body of a man is reported by Constable O’Grady to liavo been found in the plantation at Rakaia this morning. The case is apparently one of suicido, as part of the head is missing, and a rille was found lying by the side of the body. Ivy AA'arner, the young woman who was taken to the hospital from Southbridge on Sunday night, suffering from a severe wound in the throat, self-inflicted, still lies in a dangerous condition. A tliree-year-old child named Clarice Baxter was accidentally drowned at Southbridge to-day.