THE ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1534, 14 November 1883, Page 2

THE ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS

.. Says the Lloyd's Weekly News:— They are more than half-a-millioh of orderly, provident, intelligent men, They sent 425 delegates to the Nottingham meeting on Whit Monday to discuss their interests. They have upwards of five millions of accumulated capital. Their reveuue last year was £lH2fiH, and they.paid within the year more than halfa-million in sick and funeral benefits. Last year the order increased by 43,917. Having .transacted their business, the Oddfellows banquettedunder the presidency of Lord Carnarvon, who said that the members of these friendly societies "embraced tho finest and flower of the working wen of England." He remarked that the Oddfellows represented principles of self-help, manly independence, common organisation, self-denial, thrift, friendly intercourse, and the union of classes, These are virtues in the citizen which the State should leave to grow untouched. Out of such lodges, unities, conferences,, and congresses, habits of self-restraint are springing apace—and affecting the advance in temperance of which the teetotal societies claim the authorship, M.Gardy, one of the tutors of tho Sultan's children, having the rank of captain aide-de-camp, was drowned a few weeks s ago;at a.boating;party. An imposing funeral took place,.atthe expense of the Sultan, who commanded all the high officials of the Palace to be, present, : ..m,.-;.- .>.-:■■ i.■■:■.:•:.. >On August''.l9 Miris -Anna'" 'jftjky weight; 62, of Mark Hallj hear Mariow|' Essex, a lady much respected in the : district, died from the sting of a wasp which had got.,into, her pocket, "She received the injuryon her little finger, and died from tho pain in half-an-hour