NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3552, 3 October 1898, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Frees Association. CANTERBURY HORSE PARADE, h p . Cj'itiSTCJtpßOit, Cjctober 2. There wi.s r. slight dt" - '«yso fn (hototal numbers shown at tho annual iitrcc parade, but an increase in draughts, in which there were 20 ontries; carriage and roadster sires, 17 entries; and thoroughbreds, seven entries.. . ,FIRES. CirnthTonnruhf, October 1. A fire at midnight gutted a Uvo-rooinet) house in Madras street owned by Henry Morrow and untenanted at the time. The insurance is £2OO in the North British Company. Dunedin, October 2. A fire was discovered to-day in the offices of the Colonial Bank buildings, occupied by Messrs Deleon, Orawshaw and {jo.; bdt not much damage wds donS; The fire had evidently been burning since Saturday afternoon.. BEQUEST FOR AUCKLAND. Auckland, • etobor 1. Mrs Helen Boyd, widow of Mr George Boyd, pottery manufacturer, has died, leaving legacies to relatives and friends, and to the Museu n a number of busts, figures and works of pottery artj to the Art Gallery marble busts, figures, pictures, and £2OO to purchase pictures by artists resident in tho colony ; a nuidber of outside vases for the Albert Park, and -SIOOCI to purchase statutory for the park; and the residue, of tho estate for tho support and education of orphans in some orphanage in Auckland.