Australian Telegrams.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1673, 29 June 1875, Page 4

Australian Telegrams.

!;BJ§ FIRE IN ICING-STREET, lip.;' EXPLOSION OF HTDSOGEN. HI ! A fire oecu-rs" on the premises of Thomas '«» | Duke and Co., King street, ten. merchants, Hlf ' "which wen 1 totally rifst.roveil with the stock. ['Ml' ' The premises of Francis ami McPherson |1!P:;. were much tVima'^'d by w;iU;r. Duke was jSi|v ■ insured for £K5,000 in the following ofDces : »( , Australian Alliance, London, Lancaabire, |j|o National. Novfchern, anH Victoria 'jfi* On Monday niglit, whil«t two men (Smith mHtf and Milliott) were ceneratiug hydrogen gas ■(H . for lime lipht at the rev of The Theatre ,'*;]' Eoyal, an explosion took place. Smith was \Wf\ killed on the spot;; Milliott was] badly ]%'■•' injured Both men were blov?n through an ■If iron roof a. distaucs of twelve ftet. ijf1, Barrett, for the murder of i.is wife, at HI Carkton, hits been sentenced to death ; but, ■3| > : a s a stront; recommendation to mercy has wM". i been mude, i': in likely the extreme uentonce H|P will not be can ied out. mltii' The cofferdam at %he n«w wharves aft the Hb| South bank of the Yatra gave way with a l|i ) | fresh in the river, which pus about 100 men B|j J ■ out of pmplovrr:e;7 t. •|ij Miss Baton Las reaisned her mathematical Bp i position in tb« Ladies' College, to tofte a Ilii lucrative appointment ah Ch]is;:ehu<eh ) is'ew ■|f | McE'.veii's (wholesale gr-ioerp) liabilities If jl' j amount t;> £90,000, of whu'.h £58,000 i-; owing Ij'jj' | to die Coio>a:il Bank, unsecured. Bfifl "^ke Government have arranged with a f'r ] company for 'continuation of thy Fran- %%* cipco temporary sen ice for four months. ■*■ | The Post and Telegraph-office, Sofafaln, t%f i has beeji burned down. E|; 5 The Adelaide Government propose spendBljll £60,000 on education, exclusive of the JjJ amount required for buildings.