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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 7491, 1 June 1885, Page 2

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(UNITBD PRS33 ASSOCIATION.) . Otari,. May 30. A fire broke out Here at 5.30, this morning, by which the stores of Messrs Cockerel! and William Smith were destroyed. Very little of th> goods were saved. The insurances are—Building £2OO in the National and £IOO in the South British; stock, £2OO in the National, £3OO In the London and Lancashire, £3OO in the New Zealand ; billiard table, £IOO in the Northern { furniture, £SO in the Northern. CHBISTCHCBOH. f May 30k Mi? Montgomery, M.K.H. (or Akaroa, will I address his constituents on Thursday next. Thomas Howe formerly time keeper on the Lyttelton Railway, and eight other} employes, are charged with defrauding Government by means of Blown giving the others credit for doing work which they never performed. Exdct amount of defalcations ate not known. It is believed to be some hundreds. Howe was arrested in Wellington, and arrived yester* day. f Nine late employe* in the Railway service at Lyttelton were charged to-day before the Resident Magistrate’s Court with conspiracy to defraud the Government, The men were remanded till Wednesday next, as one of the principal conspirators had not yet been arrested. Auckland, May 80. Mr Charles Bright .has commenced lecturing here, under engagement to the Rationalistic Association. He does not intend going South. John Ayres, Jeweller, charged with, breaking and entering Levy and Hart's premises last year; and stealing therefrom £IQB worth of jewellery, was to-day discharged by the Bench without a stain on hia character. The Young Men’s Christian Association have accepted the designs of Mr Burrows, out of twenty, for new buildings to cost £6OOO. .Dunedin, May 31. John Altken, settler at Woodaide, was found drowned on hia farm yesterday morning. Mr D. R, Hay has accepted a challenge from the Canterbury Club to play a chess match by telegraph between teams of eight or ten a side. Gisborne, May 30. Mr John Thomson, 8.E., of New Plymouth, has been appointed harbor engineer, with a talary of £&00 a year, Marion, May 30. Mr Riley, an undertaker* of Bails, died this morning through inhaling the effluvium from the corpse of a well known Parawanui chief, Kawana Huni», while placing it in the coffin last Tuesday.