Fire.
[Per Prcsaß Ab&ociatiow.l PALMERSTON, June 8. Tha Empire Hotel, Ashurat, waß burned down at 3 a.m. It waa occupied by W. Sheehy. When the fire was discovered it had too great a hold to be extinguished. The insurances ara JB9OO in the Phoenix, Palatine and Standard, and the loss iB .£4OO above that amount.
A Highland proverb says that "the hill the Macalpinea, and the devil came int the world at the same time."
The number of public lampß lighted nightly in England and Wales is somewhere about 300,000.
Nearly 18,000 soldiers leave the English army every year.
The largo Austrian railways have recently taken to uso field telephones, which, without interfering in any way with telegraphic messages, are connected with the telegraph wires at any point along the line, and used for Bending verbal communications to the stations. Something very much on the same principle obtains on the Viuoenneo Eailway in France, wbdro the operatois are able to use tho telegraph wires for tbe purposes of either written or spoken messages merely by the
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5279, 8 June 1895, Page 5
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176Fire. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5279, 8 June 1895, Page 5
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