NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4443, 20 July 1887, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Jinx 19. A fire broke out in Mr Johnston’s store, at Otahuhu, at 5.20 a.m. to-day. The store was totally destroyed. Mr Johnston’s dwelling-house adjoining, Mr Jackson’s butchery, and the Post and Telegraph office were also burned to the ground. The telegraph instruments were saved. The insurances have not yet been ascertained.

Another conflict has arisen between the Northern S.S. Company and the Seamen’s Union. The Company has given notice of a reduction of wages, and that no overtime is to be paid for. The men on board the Wellington having refused to agree, have received notice to leave. The Seamen’s Union have resolved to fight the company, and a general strike is anticipated. The insurances on the Otahuhu fire are as follows ;—Sun office, Mr Johnston’s stock £7OO, private dwelling £l2O, furniture £SO ; New Zealand offices, Mr Johnstone’s shop and dwelling £2OO, cart shed £3, Post-office £3O. Mr Jackson was not insured.

A two-roomed cottage at Te Papu, Onehunga, occupied by a man named Morris, was destroyed by fire this morning. There were no insurances. WELLINGTON, Juix 19. A charge under the Cemeteries Act, against Messrs Morris and Son, undertakers, for exhuming the body of a Chinaman without a permit from the Colonial Secretary, will be taken on Friday. The City Council have decided to strike a rate of 3d in the £ for hospital and charitable aid purposes.

At the Police Court to-day an elderly woman named Ann Parker, an umbrella repairer, was charged with the larceny of a silver watch from the body of Charles Yalientraitor, which was picked up in the harbour yesterday. The accused said that she certainly saw the dead body on beach, and she picked up the watch. Inspector Browne said that the body was yesterday washed up on the beach at Ughaurauga, and the watch was seen attached to deceased’s waistcoat. Some little time afterwards the watch was missed, and accused having passed by, suspicion fell upon her. She was arrested and brought to the police station, but, when searched, the watch could not be found upon her. In the meantime she had gone t» her home, and afterwards her daughter brought down the watch, which she had found in her back yard. A remand was granted. A tire at Upper Hutt destroyed a twostall stable and cow shed, the property of Messrs E. and A. Rawsons. The buildings contained two chaff-cutters and a quantity of chaff. The loss is estimated at £2OO. There was no insurance. DUNEDIN, July 19. At the inquest on the body of Thos. Chevalier Robinson, the evideuce tended to show that death resulted from apoplexy. One witness stated • that deceased, who had been hawking papers about thestreet, was at one time a captain in the 90th regiment. He was a native of Kent, and his father was an army surgeon,