GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 July 1924, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WAIROA, July 25. A fire broke out at about 12.30 this morning in a shop owned by J. R. Ross (Napier) and occupied by Simon Hanoi, fancy goods dealer, which was burnt to the ground; also an adjoining shop and tea room's (Jebb’s), owned by J. Mayor. Both were very old wooden buildings on the Marine Parade. A concrete block of shops adjoining prevented the fire spreading further The insurances are : Raffol’s stock £IOOO in the Commercial Union Ihe estimated loss is £IOOO above the i M, a - V0 ’ s was insured for £6OO m the South British. Jebb's stock was not insured, but was mostly saved.

WELLINGTON. July 25. ~ At the .Magistrate’s Court, Albert George Jait, a seaman, who was a passenger on the Ulimaroa, was fined i-iuo. or three months’ imprisonment, lor importing nine and a half pound tms of opium in a form suitable for smoking CHRISTCHURCH, July 25. Bad was refused by the Magistrate this morning when Gertrude Grace Bell, a. married woman, was again remanded on a, charge of unlawfully using an innti lament. The police said the patient was dangerously ill WELLINGTON, July 26. A five broke out in Sussex Chambers, four-storey building opposite the Post On ice. late last night. It apparently started on the second floor in a suite of rooms occupied by Messrs Oamoron .Fell, accountants, or else in the adjoining rooms of the Cunningham Carrying. Co. The fire was confined to this portion, but the offices above ai d below suffered severely from water and smoke. The building itself was owned by Hon. Mr Izard, and insured for £12,000.