NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1756, 1 November 1905, Page 43

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

AUCKLAND, October 30. A fire destroyed a two-story house at Mount Albert owned by Mrs Woods and occupied by Mrs Jenkins. The building was insured for £2OO in the Phoenix Office and the furniture for £2OO in the Royal Exchange Assurance Office. NEW PLYMOUTH, October 30. A fire at Waitara at three o*cloek this morning totally destroyed an unoccupied shop and dwelling owned by Mr W. D. Webster (New Plymouth); also a building owned by Mrs Baker (New Plymouth), aud occupied as offices by the Waitara Borough Council, Clifton County Council, and others. The adjoining buildings narrowly escaped. Mr Webster’s building was insured for £250 in the Law, Union and Crown office, and Mrs Baker’s for £l5O in the North British Office. The contents were saved. PALMERSTON, October 30. The Premier, replying to a telegram from a member of the Chamber of Com. merce, eays it is the intention of th® Government to have competitive provincial displays at the New Zealand Exhibition. He hopes each provincial district will exert itself to do justice to the scheme. A similar procedure was followed at the St. Louis Exhibition, and proved one of the most attractive features there. BLENHEIM, October 30. The total for the twenty-sixth week of the New Zealand egg-laying competition, ie 2510. and the grand aggregate to date is 46,050. The weekly average per pen is 25.10. The highest layings for the week' are: —Marlborough A and P. Associtttion’s white Leghorns, 37; M. Shaw’© white Leghorns (Blenheim), 36; Hickman’s brown Leghorns (Balcairn), 36; T. West’s white Wyandottes (Feildmg), 35; A. Snodgrass’s black Orpingtons (Masterton). 35; L. Clouston’s black Orpingtons (Blenheim), 35. The order of merit in the grand aggregates is:—H. Leger’s white Leghorns (Levin), 750; Brooks’s white Leghorns (South Australia), 697; A.-and P. Association’s white Leghorns, 653; M. Shaw’s white Leghorns (Blenheim), 632 Hockey’s brown Leghorns (Nelson), 631; J. Hodson’s white Leghorns, 623. There are about 80 hens in a broody condition. The weather has been unfavoiirable. • CHRISTCHURCH, October 28. At Rangiora iust before 8 o’clock this morning, an elderly man named Charles Bonham, a labourer, was found lying in Ashley street, apparently in a fit. Ho was taken into a house near bv, and a doctor who was called in found that he was suffering from strychnine poisoning. He was subsequently attended to by two doctors. At three o’clock he was still alive, but in a critical condition. Th© man purchased the strychnine in a local chemist’s shop about a week ago for th© purpose, he said, of poisoning rats. H© is a widower, his wife having died reCGntlv CHRISTCHURCH, October 30. A young man named Peter Bryson, a resident of Wright’s road, Hillmorton, near Sunnyside Mental Hospital, was accidentally shot in the body by a pearifle on Saturday. He was in the act of washing a dog in his garden when a bullefc from a pea-rifle, fired by some boys in a neighbouring garden, struck him and penetrated the right lung. He was taken to a hospital immediately. CHRISTCHURCH, October 30.

The Board of Governors of Canterbury College at a meeting to-day adopted a recommendation of the college committee that a sum received from college students by way of special fines for recent breaches of discipline should be expended in purchase of books for the college library. It was decided that owing to the inability of the Inspector-General of Schools to accede to the request of th© Board to undertake the examination of High Schools, ,this year, ordinary examinations should be dispensed with, and arrangements should be made for examinations required for the allocation of prizes. Feeling reference was made to the death of Captain Hutton. The following motion was adopted:—That the Board, of Governors of Canterbury College desire to place on record an expression of their profound sense of the loss suffered by the college by the death of Professor Hutton. As Professor of Biology, lecturer on geology, and curator of the Museum, Professor Hutton served the college for twenty-five years with great ability, and the Board feel that their sense of his great attainments and their esteem for his memory will be shared by the whol® community. DUNEDIN, October 29. On Saturday final preparations were made for an important change in the Industrial School at Caversham. In future girls only will he kept at th© school. Mr G. M. Burlinson, superintendent, with the boys at present in the school will leave this week for the Central Institution at Levin. There was a large gathering to say farewell to Mr Burlinson. The chairman of the Board of Advice, after referring with regret to the departure of Mr Burlinson and th© boys, read a resolution which had been placed on record acknowledging the great success which had attended the work of Mr Burlinson and his late wife in the management of the school. He went on to say that the Board had repeatedly protested against the change which it had been decided to bring about in the schools. The advantage of the present system had been proved, and he failed to gee what good purpose would be served by changing horses in midstream. However, it was hoped that the new system might prove a success. Presentations were then made to Mr Burlinson and the principal members of the staff. DUNEDIN, October 30.

Tbo tourist Department has made arrangements for the erection of a commodious diningroom at Beech Hut, on the overland route to the Sutherland Falls and Milford Sound. A party of workmen is on the way to erect the room. John Blackwood, aged 64 years, was found dead in a house in Union street early, this morning. Death was apparently due to haemorrhage of the lungs.