BIG FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1913, Page 7

BIG FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE

SUBLIME PORTE ESCAPES. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, CONSTANTINpPLE, Ist July. Forty houses have been burned down '. by fire. The Sublime. Port© narrowly, escaped destruction..

WELLINGTON'S POSITION .HARBOUR BOARD AND DEPARTMENT > CENTRAL AND TE ARO SITES. * The proposal of the Government to acquire an area of the Te Aro reclaimed land and the question of the necessity for a new central railway station in Wellington were brought before the Brime Minister (Hon. W. F. Magsey) and the Minister of Railways (Hon. W. H. Herries) to-day by a deputation representing the Wellington Harbout Board and the Chamber of Commerce. The deputation wag introduced by the Hon. A, L. Herdman. The point for the Harbour Board Wai made by the chairman (Mr. R. Flet* cher). The land which the Government proposed to take, he said, had been re* claimed over a very long period by the board for the purpose of assisting the finances of the board, and to enable It to provide the necessary accommodation. The total area was about niheteen ncres, and a recent valuation by> Messrsi W. Muir and J. Ames put the value at £161,000. The Government proposed to take nine and a>half acres. They recog* nised that the Government would prob> abiy pay a fair value, but the board desired to keep it as an endowment, and as a source of revenue. As to the proposal to erect a goods shed at Te Aro, he urged that if the trains had to be broken up at Thornden it would either cost the merchants move for the carriage of the goods and the longet district to Te Aro, or, if the extra charge was not made, an injustice would bo done to the rest of the eoun* try. It would cost the Government ft considerable amount tt? purchase the land, and, if money was available, ft would be more f profltable to employ it in the development of other parts of the country— say, the back-blocks of the Wairarapa. "We want you," he said, "to leave us alone to carry out our policy on our own progressive lines, for tho welfare of the city and the port." Several other members of the deputa* tion also spoke, on the same lines, the point being made that if a gooda elied is erected at Te Aro it will mean the running of more trains along Jervois-quay, which is becoming increasingly congested, and that at present there is a loss of £5000 a year on the running of the lino to Te Aro.