LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1165, 29 June 1894, Page 19

LATE TELEGRAPHIC.

Auckland, Juno 27. ! At 6 o'clock to-night a lire broke out at Hazard's, gunmaker and fireworks manufacturer, Queen street. They were packing, in an upper story, a large order for fireworks for tho national fete at Tahiti on 12th July. One got accidentally ignited, ; and the rest exploded in succession. Tho employees got out by tho back way. Mr I Hazard's head was scorched by the flames. Tho estimated damage by fire and water is .£SOO, tho stock being valued at .£IOOO. The insurance was :—Royal, £250; North German, ,£3OO. The Auckland Museum authorities have purchased, for .£l5O, Major Fox's carved house at Maketu. Mr Cheeseman and Judge Fenton have gone to Maketu to tako it over. The house is the best known and most elaborately carved of the kind in the Colony. Chuistchurch, June 27. At the Police Court to-day a shopkeeper named Adolph Schlesinger was fined 5s and costs, for selling a copy of tho New York National Police Gazette, containing printed matter of an indecent nature. H. Saunders, hotelkeeper, for having sold whisky diluted with water to more than 25 dogrees under-proof, was fined 20s and costs. Mr Cooper, licenseo of tho Garrick Hotel, died suddenly this morning, presumably from apoplexy. At tho Supreme Court to-day, P. J. Henley, auctioneer, atLeeston, who mysteriously disappeared on May 30th, was adjudged a bankrupt. Dunedin, Juno 27. The Clutha wholesale licenses were under roviow before Mr Justice Williams to-day, but the hearing will last a couple of days. In tho Supreme Court to-day, argument was taken in an application for an order directing that a writ of certiorari should issue to remove into the Supremo Court tho certificate, granted by Mr Hawkins, S.M., on the Bth June, authorising tho issue of a wholesale license under tho Act of 1881 to Roderick McKenzie, of Balclutha, hotelkeeper, in order that the Court might, if it saw fit, cause tho said certificate to bo quashed. The argument turned upon tho construction to bo placed on tho various sections of tho Alcoholic Liquors Sales Control Act, which in course of hearing the Judge described as a trap for the unwary. Judge Williams reserved his decision. At a meeting of tho Chamber of Commerce it was resolved to recommend that power bo given to tho Harbour Board t# increase the harbour improvement rate to the maximum amount of Cs per ton, and that the proposed ad valorem rate bo not approved. It was also decided to recommend the Board to take into consideration the advisability of seeking power to levy a rate on the district, to bo arranged with tho objecf of eventually extinguishing tho export rates. Gisborne, June 27. Robert Little has been committed for trial on a charge of wilfully setting fire to stables in Lowo street. Invercargill, Juno 27. Percy St. John, of the Brisbane Pantomime Company, was fined the maximum penalty of .£1 to-day for holding a rational concert in the theatrei'on Sunday evening. The police remarked that the law was defective, as it offered a premium to persons to break it. The Bench agreed, and said the penalty fixed was too light.