TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
[By Telegraph.] [Fkom Our Own Correspondent] • Wellington, This day. The Reefton Conciliation Court sat to adjudicate in the wages dispute between the Consolidated Company and the Miners Union. After several hours' sicting the following decision was given:—The rate of wages is to be fixed at: Miners, 9s per day; truCKers, surface and battery hands, 8s per day ; and shift bosses, lis 8d per day of eight hours. The Bench recommended the officers of the Union to call a meeting of members aud agree to accept the finding of the Beard. The Wellington Racing Club's receipts for the "year was £8,542, of which the " tote" provided £2918. Tho amount of stakes was £8,785, leaving a credit balance of £694 profit on all meetings during the year, notwithstanding wet weather at two of them. Dunedin, This day. Walter Clarke, 42 years of age, single, a rabbiter, was drowned in the Taieri river at Hyde yesterday. The body has not yet been recovered.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 117, 10 September 1896, Page 2
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162TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. Hastings Standard, Issue 117, 10 September 1896, Page 2
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