NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9256, 4 December 1891, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

FIRE IN AUCKLAND. Auckland, December 3. This morning, at five o'clock, a fire occurred in the premises, in Lower Queen-street, about to be opened by Messrs Wmgate, Wigg, Annsenne, McAllum, & Co., ironmongers. The building was completely gutted. The insurances on the company's stock are— £1000 in the Union, £500 in South British, £500 in' the Sun. The value of the stock is between £3000 and £5000. Repairs were being effected to the shop by Mr Grandison, tbe contractor, who had an insurance risk with the firm of £500 in the Royal on his ' tools, &c, the value of which is about £150. EXHIBITION SCHOLARSHIP. Wellington. December 3. Mr D. H. Jackson, of University College, Auckland, has gained the scholarship offered by the Queen's Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851. The scholarship is worth £150 a year, and is tenable for two years. TURN OF THE TIDE. Dnring last month the arrivals in the colony were 1900 and the departures 750, leaving a balance of 1150 in favor of the colony. NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE OV JOURNALISTS. At a meeting of the Wellington branch or the New Zealand Institute o£ Journalists on Tuesday afternoon, several new members were elected, bringing the membership of the branch to nearly fifty. Mr R. Price (Napier), Mr W. H. J. Seffern (New Plymouth), and Mr E. A. Haggen (Woodville) were elected country members of the Committee. It was proposed that the next meeting take the shape of a social at which a paper interesting to journalists will be read by one of the members. DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER. Mr John Knowles, formerly Under Secretary of Public Works, died at half -past one o'clock this morning, aged 68 years. He has been ailing from weakness of the heart's action. NARROW ESCAPE. Dunedin, December 3. A miner named Robertson, working at Pomahama, had a miraculous escape. He was working with a nozzle on the face of the mine, when about 30 tons of stuff fell and almost completely covered him. The nozzle was flattened, which caused the hose to break, and in a providential manner washed enough earth away to allow Robertson to crawl out. He could only get a few feet, however, and remained there for 21 hours before being discovered. He was in a bad state, and had to be conveyed on a stretcher . by some twelve men over a rough country for fifteen miles to Roxburgh. Robertson is 54 years of age, and unmarried.