CHRISTCHURCH FIRE

Evening Star, Issue 18331, 19 July 1923, Page 12

CHRISTCHURCH FIRE

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A Ohristchurer Association tel&snim stales that the insurances on.ho Whiteombe and Tombs premises are :—Building. £27,500, stock £40,0C0, furniture and fittings £5,600. No estimate of the damage lias yet been made ' INSANE MURDERER ESCAPED. An 'mekland Association telegram stales :—William Anderson, aged thirty, who was committed to the Mental Hospital on January 5, 1921, after the murder of a man named Teller, escaped at 2.30 tins morning, and is still at large. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. BOSTON July IP.—Arrived : Eastern l'lanot, from Brisbane. SYDNEY July 19.—Arrived : Canadian Winner, lroiu Auckland. DOCK STRIKE : A .SERIOUS POSITION. LONDOV July 13.—There has been a serioius extension of the. dock strike cm Merlevside. Several thousand men struck at Liverpool, and the working of the Athuitx liners and deep-sea cargo boats has been stopped. Coastal and .services have been sm.pei.doa Jhe Joreign fruit trade at Covent Garden and the meat trade at Smithficld are praclicady at a intimidation of the carmen, it was found piecessm to c'ose lha Floral Hall. Covent Garden, where imported fruit is auctioned Xady largo quantities of Co, tinental soft trmt, have beeii rendered unfit for consumption, due to slew discharge at the Londo ock therefore thousands of packages an, being discharged at l'olhstone and despatched to London.—A. and N.Z Cable LATEST CABLES SYDNEY July 19— A vigorous rat campaign since the fatal plague case was reported has failed to disclose any infected lodents % _ July 19. Tlie Minister of Labor describes Sir John biniou s statement hi the House ot Commons regarding Queensland unemployed as ridiculous in tlo extreme. The registered unemployed in Queensland at amount to 1.0 per cent, of the total employables m the State, while GrK Assembly the State Tre»«re, atatcd that the rev« for the financial yea, showed a surplus of £340 000. histead of £30,C00 ~s estimated. The railways, for the first time m many years, had produced a surplus totalling £3O 000 ,i Pni , n ,l ,f CALCUTTA, July 18.-AI tho tea salt* there was a good demand at previous rates for all grades excepting the poorest.-A. and *./, Cable. KILLED BY FALL OF:COAL. Andrew Baker, aged forty-seven and single, a coal miner ™* ™ this afternoon at the Morgan seam, Liverpool Colliery, by a talL.of-c0.i1.-GreymoiUh tolegram. THE STOCK EXCHANGE. Sales on 'Change this afternoon :-\Vadns, 25s l Jd (two parcels). INSUL"fN TREATMENT TO BEGIN Our Parliamentary Reporter telegraphs that tlie Minister ot Health states that arrangement have been made for commencing the administration of insulin in New Zealand. Professor M'Lewl, «£ J oi-outo -Jw the sv tv ot treatmen=, stipulates that it shall be available* to metabolie peciai ts oiV New Zealand Jm not facilities for undertaking the manufacture of a preparation of this sort on a commercial scale,