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Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 243, 21 December 1894, Page 2

WITHIN THE COLONY.

NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

P«r Pro* AmocloUob.

Wellington, This Day. Mr Barrell, of Mangatainoka. has been appointed a Justiee of the Peace. The appointmeut of William Fraoer ae Sergeanl-at Arms to date from December, 1894. is gazetted Eighty-seven fresh appointments ae Justices of the Peace are announced The returns a* given in the Gazette show the arrivals in Xovemnex were 2b17 and departures 1270. At a special meeting of the stewards of the Wellington Raring Club, to day, it wag decided to adhere :o the refusal to trant h permit to the Taretahi-Carterton Racing Club to bold a meeting on the Slot January next. The Time* says that in all probability ’ Mr H. J. B’.ow will undertake the seersi taryship of the Railway Department in • conjunction with hi* present office of Cn- | der Secretary for Publie Works. The consecration of Dr Wailw os the new Bishop of Wellington tones plaee on | January 25th. , Messrs Brough and Boueicault have j made a donation of £6O to the Wa.rarapa Relief Fund. ' The extension of facilities for the transmission of poet cords will take plr.ee from Ist Jan jary. Hitherto only cards of GoI vernment pattern or cords issued by pri--1 vote persons by special authority of the I Postmaster-General could be used, bul ' the new regulations provide that any card, i provided it of the name size «5 x Sid.), , and not thicker than the eord« issued by the Post Office, may be prepaid by mean* I of an adhesive stamp for any place in ! New Zealand, the Australian colonies, or • ;he United Kingdom. Entirely plain - cards may be used, but for tfar present cards for other p’acee must bear the some 1 printing as the Government cards. After i the seme date letter cords will be told at all Post Offices. These cards, which afford double the writing space of the ordinary post cards, and which con be elos«Hi against inspection as secure!▼ os an 1 ordinary letter, will be sold at lfd eaeh • for town, inland, and intereolocial rireu- | lotion. For the South Sea Islands an I additional ♦ 1 postage will be repaired, I and for the United States and United | Kingdom and all other places an addi--1 lional penny. Gi* boons. This Day. Jes’ouej was at the bottom of the native t raged v. A party of natives were emg.ag ;in their whore, and because the wife j mentioned the name of another man ia , ner song. Ena Matawhau. wl en they had | gone, stabbed her in the stomach and i breast. He then went off to a pah three I miles away, obtained a gun. and shot kim- ! self through the head, dying immediately. ' The woman lingered several hours aid then dyed. Ena was a notoriously bed | charaeter. and some years ago he narrowly missed killing a European settler, whom, i m a fit of rage he struck ea the head with j a heavy rail. Pitre din. This Day. The barque Firth of Forth, whose wreckage it was feared had been east ashore at Preeervauoa Inlet, am red safely to-day. The infant daughter of a man named Becyertr wan drowned in a well at the parents' residence in North East Valley. Auckland, This Day. A fire broke out at the Auxiliary Asylum at Avondale, wooden buildings, half a mile , distant from the main Asylum. Patients : to the number ef about a hundred got out Mfely. Later. The fire at Avondale Asylum resulted , in the complete destruction of the Auxiliary I buildings. The damage is estimated at | from £BOO to £IOOO. Dr Beattie. Aasistint Medical Officer, received somewhat I serious injuries m the way of burns, while 1 ;ke patients of the Auxiliary to the number I of about 120 were saved. Latest. Tha Asylum fire was discs* ersd in the 1 bathroom shortly after the reps rat: or of those who had been taking pert m a denes. The warders did what they could »e step the domes from extendirg. while the female attendants, after the removal of tho patients, busied themselves iu saving tho furniture. The service* of the fire brigade were not available being engaged at a fire in town. The patients are none the won* for the disastrous occurrence. All left standing wae thirteen chimney »:aaa* Many of the staff lost s great quantity of their belong.age. llad there beer, a plentiful supply cf water on the first discovery ef tho fire the lose would have been comparatively email. A* it nos it is a mercy no lives were lost. By tha fire in Titt street Lester's fruit shop and Moore's < halters* were burnt to the ground. Letter's wae insured for £450 and Moor* *s foe £SA) ia the Coamfcdal l mon. Brodies Family Hotel and the Foresters* llall adjoining wen* considerably damaged. Tlie former wa* insured for jIT'AO hi tin* Norwich, and ih# latter for ATSU) m the National. At 2.20 a.m. a fire again broke OQI in tin* Family Ikxol. I'itt simn. The brigade had gone to the asylum, it being thought tin* fire had been »-.gpressed. The hotel was completely gutted.