SOUTHLAND

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 17 April 1901, Page 18

SOUTHLAND

The Wdllacetown Junction Hotel, alaige two-storeyed w ooden building, was destroyed by fire at an early hour on the 9th." The licensee, John Robertson, lnd £650 on the furniture in the Nev. Zealand office. lhe National office had a, mk of £300 r,i the furniture Mr Robertson estimates Iks loss at £500.

Mr Robert Crawford, formeilv of Port Molyneux, was found dead in h:h bed 111 the "house of his daughter. Mis Andei«on, at the Bluff, on Wednesday. He was on a visit for the holidays fiom Dunedin. He was 78 ye v's of age, and airived at Port Chalmers by the Serilld in 1859. Mr Reginj'M Day w is appointed secretary to the Routhhnd Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on the 11th at .t of £156 per annum. There were 17 applicants for the position. The boaui's finances having improved dining last year and the puncipal hospital's, demand being £1000 le^s it is probable that the late will be reduced. A petition is in circulation at Inveicargill and is being rapidly signed calling on the mayor to submit a proposal for a poll of the ratepayers for the adoption of rating on unimproved bailie-. When the proposal was submitted tlirpe veins airo it v;i> defeated through the requisite "number ot iaiepa\ers not going to the poll. Ihe present action is due to the amending act of last session, which enables a bare majority to settle the nuestion.

The completed Invercar^ill burgess roll contains 1816 pame^, an inrrea c of 800. Prob'ibly double the latter number failed to exercise their rights ot registration.