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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7178, 2 June 1885, Page 2

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■♦ [PBB UNITED PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, Monday. Messrs Owen and Graham's wholesale warehouse, Queen-street, was discovered to be on fire at a quarter to 8 o'clock this morning. It originated in the basement of the Btory used as a packing department. The flames went up the lift to the fourth story, which contained ailks, fancy goods, &c. This was completely gutted. The fire brigade got the fire under in half-an-hour, but nut before the whole building was completely drenched with water. The loss is estimated at £30,000. The insurances on the Btoek are as follows : — New Zealand office, £3000; Hanaeatio, £1500; London and Lancashire, £1000 ; Hamburg, £1500 ; Viotoria,' £2000 ; Fire Association, £2500 ; Union, £1000 ; Standard, £10,000 ; Norwich Union, £4000 ; Northern, £3000; National, £3000; London, Liverpool, and Globe, £3000 ; United, £1500; South British, £2000; Colonial, £2000; Manchester, £1000; Mercantile Union, £2000 ; Imperial, £3000 ; total, £40,500. The building is insured for £2000 in the New Zealand office and £1000 in the Norwich Union. Thunderbolt is to be shipped to Melbourne to take part in the Cup and Derby. It is rumored that he has been purchased by Mr H. W. Lance. John Nairn, aged 70 years of age, an inmate of the Old Men's Refuge, cut his throat with a table knife yesterday, and died at the hospital this afternoon. The Eotorua leaves , the Manukau with the southern San Francisco mailß to-morrow, morning. The outcome of the Inquiry into the • >< ,< ;~ iV- *

collision between the Macgregor •''and' ; .|;t 'sWr the Wellington is that the certificate. Of - '.'41 3 the mate, Stephenson, has been bub- J^SiS pended for three months. ', \- : 'k .'^ SMI News comes of the wreck of 'the neyr, " "'■ : -i W® Auckland schooner Olive at the -Island^: '•'•'>.^ffH She wag owned , by Messrs M f Ax'tKur- : . -.'•■HVfl and Co. There are no barticulrrs to "^ "'"^M naocl. . ..... '-T^-Mii '•"-, -V# A number of gentlemen, in Auckland^ '-i~*S, have purchased the patent rights in : .T^!i New Zealand of La Monte's gold-saving ; • |^f apparatus. The first furnace will be ?■;• ;' ; >^ erected at the Thames goldfielda within I'll four months. •' . . • ',J- ,■-; '';V : :;i|| Havitkra, Monday. ./. .'-■■',*. A man named Richard Faville wag v i \) || arrested on Saturday night on the charge T ;. !, :-^ of arson at . Oeo. Paville had been;; ';':•. turned out of an hotel for being, drunk '-^ and disorderly, and soon., after the 2 "■■ ? i'M occupants of the house had gone to bed ?!?,?! a large box containing some inflammable '„ -ri , £• material was found to be burning close* <> ; :^^t to the outside wall of the house '(a '■ iisl wooden one). Pavill was discovered Vi ;3| crouching behind a fence near the 'v.;;^ hotel. He was brought up before the, j :i;|| Bench at Manaia this morning and 1 V'f'l* remanded. . . ".-f-:;fyl-?]| Wellington, Monday.- .' r '-^m The Government have received acor- >';>?| munication from the Cable 'Company; ;'j~ L: ! v-^ asking them, jointly with New Soiitir "s-; ]M Wales, to continue the subsidy .to the.' V- ,%$ cable between Australia and New, ; Z6a-. i : * £J land for a further period df ten yeaw. 5 }'I The New Zealand Government haVe ] : 'A expressed a strong inclination to die- ,:*. 1 -% continue the subsidy, contending thit' 1 : >] ;p as the line is now finished those" using^-'-N-f it should be made to pay;, they are,, -■ -X!

however, in communication with : the 'y..~',jv* Sydney Government on the question. ■.;/:! The Victorian Government have asked j :\ i'^v the Government of New Zealand tb.-re-Vf-V;^ duce the charges on the cable \tJL6i&gf»;?y\ the New Zealand lines to '6d -■'■p.er' IP ."-; =" ; ''j & words, but the Commissioner of ,Tele-f ?;.;,? f.", graphs haa declined to accede to r the *S.pfi request. , '?- 1? -> The Government have decided to? .i;^ 1 grant free passage by the Bteamer to'i, ' ' the delegate of the Napier Chamber of Vv; 1 Commerce who ia proceed ing to SainoStOv^ \- reporfc on the requirements and the' "open^^|; ing of trade with Samoa and the othet^t;* ■_ neighboring islands. Sir Julius Vogel^ -" is also communicating with the oh'am4^>V''^ bers at Auckland, Danedin, Cnrißt-|fll-L ohurch and Wellington, offering^imiia^l^l; concessions in each case. The offer/^R%i:; conditional that the reports of dele r gateijfi|:l are not to be considered of a *confid6n-|jJlt£ tial nature, and must be published onipp return. '. ' \ • : -'^vJf GiiEYMoijTH, Monday. . >;fM, The Coalpit Heath miners have ,beeji^|* on strike for the last week/ . It was ||g\ thought they would go to: Work thio ; M;| morning, but no one rolled up when tHo^|; whistle blew. The men have been paid 8s per ton hitherto, but demanded ||| The company offered 3s 6d. The ni^n^| then asked that the mine Bhoulcl be^.'W worked, on the "cabling" system, -by ?Tf| which the men should arrange to change '?;,? their places of working every three ;■ months. The manager objeoted to , taking the power out of his hands in - regard to working the mine. '' The / 1 : directors supported the manager, and , ' > will close the mine if the men refuse the! ; : offers made. It is still supposed that _*• the men will go to work to-morrow or. 7 ! r. next day, as they are divided in opinion .: on the matter. In consequence of the { ; strike the Taupo has been delayed since last Thursday, and the Murray had to ; be sent North with only four trucks of : coal. The Maori, the Charles Edward, < and the Timaru are now waiting for coal. The Koranui will come in tonight, but there is no coal for her. The Taupo is not expected to get away before , <■ to-morrow. ; Although the spring tides are unusually low there is 15 feet of water on the bar and a wide channel. . ,• , Chbistohuroh, Mondayi At the Resident Magistrate's Court ; this morning, before Mr B. Beetham, R.M., Herbert Allerdale (or pffendalejL ' alias John Williams, was charged wiuj^. burglariously entering the shop o£ Mr William Jenness, at Wellington, on the night of May 2P, and stealing. therefrom' watches and jewellery to the value, of about £800. Inspector Pender £aid . that, with the permission of the Bench, he would abstain from saying much about the case at present. He assured the Bench that part of the stolen property had been traced to the possession . , of the prisoner, and the police were in- . . vestigating the matter further. He applied for a remand till Thursday, when he would produce all evidence that - could be obtained, and then ask for the prisoner to be further remanded to r Wellington. His Worship remanded the prisoner as requested. A woman named Johanna Moore was committed for trial to-day under a charge of larceny, the circumstances of which are peculiar. It appears that two ladies were at the Christchurch railway ■■ station last Saturday and went to a private apartment, in which one of them left her purae containing over £20. The accused entered the apartment just after and pocketed the purse. She did not give information to the police or the railway officials, but hurried away in company with a friend. The lady having missed her purse, and remembering where she had left it, suspicion was directed to the wo r hian Moore, who was called back by a constable. She did not then tell him of her find, and it was only when directly asked if she had found any money that she produced the missing purse. Mr Boetham, R.M., considered the case to be just on the borderland between larceny and no larceny, and left it for a jury to determine whether there was any intention to steal. Duktedin, Monday. The city licensing committee havijr^ refused all applications for midnight / licenses. The principal hotels got ° eleven o'clock, and others tea o'clock licenses. A six-roomed house in Union-street, occupied by Mr A. Maggett and owned by Mr A. J. C. Baber, was burned down this morning. The furniture wag insured in the Victoria office for £150, and the building in the Norwioh Union for £250. The cause of the fire was . through some clothes which had been placed before the kitchen fire to dry igniting. At the inquest on Stanley, who fell . through a skylight at the City Hotel, a verdict of accidental death was returned, with a recommendation that a clause be inserted in the city building regulations requiring that skylights should be' guarded by iron bars at sufficient distances to prevent anyone from falling -'• ' through. Some time ago the Caledonian Society wrote to Mr Gladstone drawing his attention to the provision made in the Land Bill of last session for Highland, crofters, and asking his influence in : making the scheme a success. By the last mail the following reply was received from Mr Gladstone's private ' secretary : — " lam desired by Mr Gladstone to acknowledge receipt of a reso- . lution of the directors of the Caledonian •: • Society of Otago, of which a copy was enclosed in your letter of the 29th of Janwary last, and lam to state f or the '>"- : "■-• information of the directors that he willj/fc*^ communicate on the subject with tho^e/^; of his colleagues who are specially); :•• charged with the duty of dealing mth7;>'|.'i the Highland crofters question." -^>; ; g;j;|u^ At the meeting of the City.Cpuncil^;S this evening the question of re-organi|^;^ ing the fire brigade was considered^a^lil^E^ in committee it was decided to mak^?thP|^| brigade a paid one, and have a^ sjij>||in|i^|: i tendent, two branchmen,'ancl.^lo,'^g.Bij^^|® members, The Council haye^ hox6v4r,^^& At the inquest held,^^pnlttisfbja'^^^^H Donald. Sincltar, who died from ipjnn|^^

Received by a fall on board the Te Anau p -T>n the 20th ultimo, a verdict of acoi"f dental death was returned. ; The Chamber of Commerce have decided to accept the offer of the Government to send a delegate from the Chamber by the Jessie Niccol to the South Sea Islands. \ Messrs Dowse, Philp, and Gourley, tfo handicapped, have forwarded to tne Dunedin Jockey Club their resignations. One of the reasous for this course is the abuse to which they were subjected at the laßt meeting by one of the stewards in the presence and with the interference of other stewards. Invercabcull, Monday. A boy three years of age, named Aylmar, had a narrow escape of being killed on the Winton railway line this morning. The train had pulled up to embark a family, and while they were on the carriage platform the engine started suddenly. The jerk threw the child off between, the carriage and the van, but the guard, with commendable alacrity, managed to pick him up before the van's wheels reached him.