INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 204, 9 September 1879, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[PBESS AGENOT.I Napier, Monday night. So far as the returns are in, the following is the result of the election : — Sutton 469 ; Russel 450; Maney (Greyite) 428; Buchanan (Greyite) 411. Several returns have yet to come in, but they will increase the majority. Otaki, Monday night. Western Maori election : Hoani Taipua 115 ; Major Te Wheoro 0. Wellington, Monday night Sir George Grey left for Lyttelton this afternoon in the Penguin. He intends to return next Thursday by the Tararua. . -, Tuesday. A Gazette extraordinary published last night notifies that although Parliament was convoked for the 17th inst, it is further prorogued till the 24th inst, when members of both Houses are to meet for the despatch of business. The ship Rakaia, 98 days from Plymouth has just arnred with 296 immigrants all well. There are 75 for Hawke'e f Bay 'and the remainder are for Wellington. CHBißTCHtmcii, Monday Mr Neilson, the well-known sporting man was assaulted on Saturday at the Rolleston station by Mr Brown, a surveyor. The latter was fined this morning £10 for a breach of the Railway Regulations. A man named Murphy was fined 20s for disturbing a Mormon congregation on Sunday evening. Dunedtn, Tuesday. The following are further particulars of the fire:— The list of injured are— David Conway, who jumped from one of the storeys of the building, and in addition to being burnt was sererely injured from the fall, and had to be removed to the hospital; Maggie

M Catthy, who jumped from the top storey, was caught in a sheet, and the injuries are not likely to prove fatal. Another young Woman, name unknown, who jumped from one of the back windows, fell "heavily, aud was considerably injured, as she struck agaiust a projecting part of the building while falling. She was also taken to the hospital. Two of Mr Robert Wikoa's children arc known to bo severely injured. Ib.'y were badly burnt, and in jumping down sustained further injury. One of them sfruck a parapet in the fall, aud then fell on to the pavement. The extent of their hurts is unknown, but it is feared one case will prove fatal. Altogether six persona, including one man who died from the iiijiuies have been taken to the hospital. These include Mary M'Arthy, servant of Mrs Wilson at the Registry office, Con way and Thompson, who got out of the back of the building and who were greatly injured about the back, and two of Mr Wilson's daughters liotb of the latter are seriously injured -trom a comparison of the various statements made by the survivors it would appear that while the whole of the inmates on the lower fiat escaped with only slight burns, from the upper storey about 17 succeeded in effecting an escape. Of these 10 let themselves down by means of clothes Hues. Among this number were Anthouy Callan, Charles Ure, and John Dean, the latter having been cook at the restaurant, lhree escaped by means of a ladder, two w "e Drought down the staircase, and two fell down from the exterior of the building. Of the latter, one, a man named Thompson, was killed. A man, the two Misses Wilson, and a servant girl named Margaret M'Arthy, all of whom escaped, were more or less burnt. One of the Misses Wilson is severely injured, and on enquiry at the Hospital it was stated that she is in a very precarious condition. Mr Walters, proprietor of the Octagon Cafe, states that on the night previous to the fire thirty persons were sleeping in the building, the majority being on the top floor. Shortly before 12 o'clock he retired to bed The whoie of the inmates of the house had prior to that gone to their apartments. On hearing cries of " Fire "he immediately secured egress by a passage leading from his bedroom to the archway. On looking up to the top of the building he saw flames issuing from the upstairs windows of the cafe, and in the right-of-way he saw the body of a man lying, under circumstances which indicated that in lumping from a window on the top floor he'had been killed. Mr Waters estimates his losa at £800. He is unable to assign any reason for the outbreak of the fire. Auckland, Tuesday. Sir George Grey's Central Committee will despatch voters by special train to the Waipa polling. Mr Whyte in the Waikato election had a majority of 30. The elections at Onehunga and Waitemata are proceeding and the return of Messrs O'Rorke and Wood is considered certain. The belligerent northern natives have agreed to live at the villages, and not go on the disputed land. No poll was demanded for Rodney, Mr Farnell agreeing to accept the show of hands as final. Rewi is reported to be much annoyed because through his late accident he was unable to record his vote for Te Wheoro.