LATE TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 29, Issue 1522, 30 December 1898, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

(Bit Ewcctwk* Tkleor\«i.) BY OUR OWN." :KR3;'ijjfHEJIT. (Received at 10.30 a.m ) IMikedin, December SO. ANOTUER WKI.UNGT"N rillE. Another serious fire took place in WVllington ypfiterlay morning, tw., furniture factories am! a large dar|wry <*Ul»Miro«nt nemff destroyed. The fire brigade worked heroically, and succeeded in preventing the pre from doing much .lamage to the Ur-<i huildmga adjoining. The stock iu Smith's t est * b,is, " n «nt *"« insured f..r £14,.100, but he estimates las hiss at £7tKH) over that amount. The stock iu botn furniture factoiiea was t!n : n»iire>'. FROZEN MKAT. At the annua! meeting <if th« Canterbury frozen Meat Co. the report recommended payment of a dividend of 5 per cent., making a total of 9 per cent, for the \var. Th« totals of the stock dealt with during the yp f. we .^ 279, ~ 4 Bhee P' 373 .»30 '«»»>''*. 71 cattle, 122 pigs. CHRISTMAS CRRKTINUS. The Post aud Telegraph De|iartnumt had an exceedingly busy time during the Christ, mas holidays. During the four days fr»m the 21st to the 24th Pecemlwr no fewer than 1,754,470 letters, Iwoks, newspapers, and parcels, .•were handled at 17 of the chief offices in the colony. The telog»<ums handled at 17 of the chief offices were 62.154.. SCICIDK. John Hicks, 45 yesrs of age, committal suicide iu a most deliberate manner at Rotorus. Tne body was found haugiug by the neck in an old stable. Decease.) had evidently mounted a partition in the stable tied a rope to the rafter and put a n«ose round his neck and thrown himself from the partition. He -was a steady man but a martyr to rheumatism. .