FIRE AT INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8685, 23 January 1890, Page 2

FIRE AT INGLEWOOD.

LOCAL BRIGADE GONE OUT. Word was received in town at 3.30 p.m. to-day (Thursday), by telegram, that Mr Henry Brown's sawmill at Inglewood was on fire, and asking the aid of the Fire Brigade to extinguish it. Captain Maher and several men left in a brake with some fire appliances for the scene shortly after receipt of the news. Mr Brown had one insurance of £300 in the Northern office, but this he let run out only the other day. The other insurances are' not known.

A representative government made responsible at short periods of election, produces the greatest sum of happiness to mankind. A great scandal exists st Bologna in regard to its staple sausages, which have lately been fraudulently made of diseased horse meat, mixed with pork. Foreign importers refused to take such stuff, and the the city's brand in this speciality now stands below par. William O'Connor, the American oarsman, has sent a challenge to Stansbury, the Australian sculler, to row him in America for a stake of £500 a-side. O'Connor is willing to allow Stansbury £75 for expenses, and the Australian is to have choice of water. A serious accident occcurred in a football match at the Training College, Winchester. A student named Cheesman was was violently kicked that his spine, it is feared, is injured, and but little hopes are entertained as to his recovery. The college play the game under Rugby rules. Here is the report of a conversation between a London theatrical manager and one of the ladies of the ballet: — " What do you mean, miss ? You are tipsy ! " The girl admitted that she had t>een " seeing some friends off at the station." " This is disgraceful — impossible ! " said the manager. " Whoever heard of a vestal virgin in a state of intoxication ? It's worse than immoral — it's incorrect!" "Please, sir, I'm not a vestal virgin. I'm a priestess of Bacchus." •' Oh ! very well, then, that's a different thing; but don't overstudy the part." Barnum has written a letter to one of his agents, a portion of which is published, as follows : — "Our American methods have carried everything, and my ' greatest show on earth ' is not only the craze of London, but the whole of Europe. They never saw such a tremendous show. As soon as the chart allocating the seats was published the box-office was besieged by the representatives of the nobility, aristocracy, gentry, art, science, and the professions. There never was anything like the furore created. And why should it not be so ? Of the English people, as a nation, I can truthfully say they aje slower to enthuse than Americans, but they hdve really gone into wptacieg over our great show."