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[Pbk Press Association.] WELLINGTON, To-day. Through the good offices of Lord Glasgow, the British Admiralty has extended to the Porb Nicholson Yachb Club (Wellington) the privilege of flying the blue ensign of Her Majesty's fleet. This is the fourth club in the Australasian colonies that holds the privilege, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney each having a club possessing a similar honor. H.M.S. Katoomba, with the disabled warship Rapid in tow, left this morning 'for Lyttelton. A return from 46 of the principal telegraph offices for a period from the Bth to I3th June (inclusive) gives the following results :— Ordinary telegrams 23,808, value £1054 { urgenb telegrams 1530, value £143. Compared with the business done at the same offices during a period of Ist to 7th June (exclusive of Sunday), there is an increase in the number of ordinary telegrams of 10 per cent. , and an increase of 64 per cent, in the number of urgent telegrams. The total revenue from both ordinary and urgenb telegrams decreased by 1 per cent, compared with the May period. CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. Mr Thacker, who arrived in one of the first four ships that came to the colony, died at Okaia's Bay on Saturday. The Prohibition League has carried a resolution against certain appointments to the Commission of the Peace in Christchurch, on the ground that the pew Justices are directly interested in the liquor trade. NAPIER, To-day. A fire broke out at seven o'clock last night) in the premises occupied by Peter Gillespie, tinsmith, in Emerson street. The upper storey was thoroughly gutted before the flames were subdued. The insurances are : Kui ding £490, and stock £170, in the United ;,offioo and furniture, £250 in the Northern Assurance.
Wawn's Restaurant and a small adjacent buildiug occupied a shop were destroyed by firo at) Hastings this morning. .The branch agency of the Napier Telegraph was damaged. The insurance on * awn's building was £125 in the London Liverpool and Globo, and on. the Telegraph offioe £100 in the Alliance,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7656, 15 June 1896, Page 2
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332INTERPROVINCIAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7656, 15 June 1896, Page 2
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