DESTRUCTION BY FIRE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 186, 8 August 1907, Page 8

DESTRUCTION BY FIRE.

[?BE3B ASSOCIATION.] GISBORNE, Aug. 8. A ten-roomed house owned by Mr R Little and occupied by Mrs Dalley, was deployed by fire this morning The insurance on the building is £400 in the State office, and on the furnilure and effects £250 in the Standard. A lodger was painfully scorched in escaping.

The guarantors of the proposed Hastings electric tramways syndicate, at a meeting held yesterday, appointed Mr F. Black, electrical engineer, or Wellington, to give a report and estimate of the cost of installing a tramway from Havelock to Frimley. The priests visiting Blenheim in connection with the annual convention of the Mariat Order are as follows — The Very Rev. Father O'Shea, V.G., Te Aro, Wellington; the Very gey. Father Power, Hawera; the Rev. Fathers Golden, Kaikoura; McKenna, Pahiatua; Walshe, Lower Hutt; Maples, Petone; Ainsworth, Newtown; Maloney, Thorndon; De Lacn, Otaki; Creagh, of the Redemptorist Monastery; Cab. ill, Carterton; Schaefer.- Otaki; Yenning, Wellington; Herring, Wellington; Kelly, Masterton ; Herbert, Newtown; McDonald, Wellington; Smythe, Nelson; Kimbell, Te Aro; the Very Rev. Father Holley, Blenheim; and Rev. lather O'Sullivan, Blenheim. The visituig priests, after, having been- driven around the district, left for their respective parishes by the four \o clock train.

Why fesl so dull and lifeless when it's your liver that's out of order. Take Tamer Juice. 6

The draping of the interior of St. Mary's was a feature of the solemn memorial service this morning. The Latin inscription, " Requiem Aeternam Dona ci Domine et Lux Ferpetua Luceat Ei," surrounded the auditorium, while numerous texts having relation to the impressive service were hung in black and white in different places. The Gregorian music of the mass was'of a high order, and that of the Absolution particularly so. The Gregorian chants are now being reIntroduced to the services wherever possible at the instance of the present occupant of the Papal Chair.

Tussicura, for coughs and colds has stood the test of time ; procurable all chemists and stores.

The Garrison Band's social, held last night in the Town Hall, was fairly well attended, and the dancing was Very --much enjoyed. Besides the large orchestra that played, the Band itself rendered two waltzes and, two sets of lancers. Mr Rothwell had provided one of the choicest suppers ever tasted, and full justice was done to it by the patrons of the dance. Judging by the favourable comments in reference to the " going," the floor of the Town Hall must be improving.

At 9 o'clock this morning rain was falling at Auckland, Kawhia, Thames, Cambridge, Taupo, Castlepoint, Cape Egmont, Wellington, Blenheim, Farewell Spit, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, Bealey, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Clyde, Queenstown and Balclutha. What wind there was was mostly from the northeast; twelve places, including Blenheim, were calm. The sea in the Straits was moderately smooth.