LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16186, 24 July 1923, Page 7

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

(per Press Association.! BLEMHEIM, last night. A lai'ge .dwelling house occupied by Mrs. A. M. Michalanney was two scene of nn outbreak of five. Three adults and three children made a hurried exit. Four rooms were gutted. The furniture was a total loss. The insurances on the house was £6OO in the Phoenix office, and there was a cover of £3OO ill the Commercial Union on t!je futftildre.' •John f rice, 70 years of age, a, retired laborer, who had bepn cQfinq§q to his bed with a cold, was found on. KfHwte. hanging from a peg behind his bedroom door, with a rope round his neqc, Wh<jn. found he had been dead for so% M^rs. Two men were before .Iwr €aart charged ' with the illegal mrovab of opossums. It was alleged against Henry Chettick and Joseph August that they took opossums without license, removing them out of season. It was stated the movements of the tccuaed had been closely watched by rangers employed by the Acclimaj isntjon Society. A number ’of opossum ttiips H been found which had been set by to accused. It was difficult to detect fenders in such enses and heavy lirieswere asked for if a conviction were redded. The Magistrate agreed that snutMnes were useless, as largo profits cold be made from the practice. Accuse!were fined £25. ' ; TJMARU, last rtftt. A public mooting called V the Mayor was held this afternoon m the purpose of considering steps deal with a possible influenza epidemh The district health inspector’s reports that seven pneumonic infiuenzni cin»feh(id been notified in July apd thpto hadfcan two depths. The whoio question <>!he organisation of a system on themes of that employed last epidemic wafilscussed, and an executive was appttid to have, all details in rcadineii f 6f jttauguration at the shortest no-ice. •