TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10239, 22 December 1894, Page 6

TELEGRAMS.

(i?KB UXITEB PSIES3 ASSOCIATION.)

Auckland, December 21,

Tho Fruitgrowers' Union have arranged advantageous terms with the Union Steam Ship Company £oe freight coastwise and to the south. At 20 minutes past 2 o'clock tbig morning a Gre again broke out at the Family Hotel, the Ere brigade having gone to the asylum, it having bsen thought that the fire had baen suppressed. The hotel was completely gutted, but no further damage w»s done to the Ifaiesters' Hall. Lester's stock, it appears, was uninsured. Moore wn insured for £380 on the stock in the Strait g Company. Markham, who owned 1> sWsaiid ltfoote's premises, was insured for £930 iv the Commercial Utsion. Only the rooSns of tho Foresters' Hall was damaged.

Wellington, December 21.

Ministers were ia Oftbinet again to-day. Tho Hon. Mi1 Saddon left by the Rofcoru* this Bvening, and tho Hon. Mr M'Kenzie goes to-morrow.

A number of shareholders of the Woollen Company held a meeting to-night and endorsed the report of the committee, recommended, that the services of Mr '". K. Macdonald, former chairman, should be obtained as director, and suggested that the t'olli'wijig, together with him, form the beard: — Messrs Johnston, Barber, Gibb3, Hutches, Warburton, and Zclirab.

Invkkcahgill, December 21.

Eiordan and Hyde, tUo men acquitted of burglary yesterday, wera convicted of vagrancy, and sent to gaol for tbxaa and one month respectively. Both are police suspects.

The Kinemoa, wtich tailed from the Bluff yesterday evei\ps for the Auckland Islands, is also going to visit the Antipodes ami Bounty Islands, as it is thought the barque Keumoce, which left Melbourna for London ou the 9th April, miy have been wrecked on one of the islands, as she has not bean heard o? since.