TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1051, 16 January 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Serious Fire. Auckland, To-day. Two houses in William street were deatroyed by fire at three this morning. The fire broke out at a two-storey dwelling house, owned and occupied by Mr Robert Kelly, moulder. The fire was discovered by Mrs Kelly, who awoke to find the bedroom filled with smoke and the dames illuminating the apartment. With difficulty she roused her husband, and together with their young children they effected their escape at considerable risk. The house was insured for L 250 and the furniture for L 75 in the Imperial. The adjoining house, owned by Mr P. Fergusson, baker, and occupied by Mr Alfred Ellis, was to-ally destroyed. It was insured in the New Zealand office for Ll5O. Mr Ellis was not insured. Charge Against a Salvationist. Wellington, To-day.

At the Salvation Army meeting last evening Detective Walker arrested a Salvationist named Harry Goodwood, on a charge of rape, on the sworn information of a girl named Ellen Paine, who alleges that the offence was committed in the d 'tnain last Friday night under the following circumstances :—They had met that evening at the Army meeting at the Temperance Hall The complainant, who is a single woman and a recent arrival in the colony, is in the service at a place at the Kyber Pass road, and the accused after the meeting volunteered to escort her home, and suggested, as the nearest road, they should go through the domain. Miss Paine, who was not acquainted with the lonely character of the route, consented to go that way. The offence is alleged to have been committed in the domain on the road home. The accused, who is well-known in Auckland, is a sailor, about 30 years of age, engaged as a driver of a donkey engine on the Queen street wharf. The captain says he had constantly attended at the meeting, and was formerly a mem* her, but for some months he was not recognised, owing to his general misbehaviour. He had been turned out of the Good Templars lodge lor misconduct. The girl is unknown to the Salvation leaders. She is a recent arrival, and only casually attended. • “ .

A Now Company. The prospectus ‘of ‘ the Raiqo Colliery, Whangarei, is issued. The capital is LlO.',OpO in shares of L 26 each. Shipwreck. The cutter Agnes, Captain Berg, ownej at Kaiapoi, has been totally 'wrecked on Manai island. The crew escaped with great difficulty. The vessel was boqqj Ml Hay clock.

Dixqct Steamship. hftvb Wen * receivej that the Shaw £aville- Albion Company's chartered stpamer Florida, 3,138 tons, was to leave uondon for Wellington and Otago on tho 10th January.

Gold. Dunbwn, To-day, Lut night’s escort brought down L 25.000 worth of cold. A Home Vessel. The Sonkar (Uoptain Croker). 98 days out, was brought into the harbor last Bight. She brings 20 Shropshire Down ewes and three rams. Two rams died on the voyage.