INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
♦ ■■■ - ' . (PZB PBBBS JSSOOimOV.) - Auckland. November 27 The firet W«ol ealea of the season for the Aaokland' dtetrfet we?o held to-dey by Messrs A. BacMond nhd floor, Hunter and Nolan, and G. T 3^ Blnney aud Sons. There wai. • large at'eu^APoe of buyers, larger m fact tfaaa for tea >*$•** P***< *nd as. th» competition wee keen the nrle?s ' 'realised weia very aatisfto'ory, Indloniog a general rise of about liporlb, Thay ringed as follow* : — Lorgwoola, 7^ l o 7JI ; h if-breds, 81 to 8fl ; m.riAo, 9d Wellington, November 27. Thomas Jamlesoo, »n employee of tbe <9omaierolal Tract and Lraa 00., vraa fioed >«d oet-, for failing to allow the piosocator to aoe tbe regiilor. On a . similar charge the dtreotora were fined le and cbofe. Anttho* fi:e w»e discovered at tbe General Post Office baildinga between t&ree and four fj'clock ycatorday morning. ;Tbe eight watchmen discorered one pf tbe : ißU.Vtoons In tie Instrument room la » MjfcOijlderlng ot»te and extfDgu'sbed iba jfica 'Iby dashing a couple of backets of weter «jon it. He tben fcaod that a {{gbted tkgaretta bad been thrown into the spittoon, which wes of wood, and that tthe B»wdnst In the vr3bbl had baen burned «nri the whole framework hid been .charred. The officers ol the Dtpartmant •re vetfoant io the matter, which will be i i»uY jaoted to an official enquiry. .Mil 6 F R!ch*rdeou is lying dangee- : iIT, and tbe Son iut Rlohardaon has (been wtltgjapbed for. (iEEYMODTH, Noveober 2T. '•' ' >b>y a fire this morning m Bonndary «rt*eet eever»j topees were destroyed, bat <be Jr.mvge wax confined on one s!de> by tte *• Ajrgns' 1 tffiaa »&iipn the other by Hannah's boot shop Tha following buildings were destroyed :— Bfeb, jeweller and w.Ttobmoker'fl shop ; Butler's OotameroUi hotel, a two-storey bulldln? ; North's fancy goods store ; Kelseya grapery; DornV, boolm«korV; ZicharUb, tnirnbi'olter and jawelicr ; Brlroblty, tin- = smith*; and Thomas Garth, tabacoon(»i Very Jitila waa saved from any place, and tnott lost all. The Commercial vras injured for £600, and the farnltare £300. :• other inaarances are not Vsoertrlndd.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2289, 28 November 1889, Page 3
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338INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2289, 28 November 1889, Page 3
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