TELEGRAPHIC.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 24, 23 November 1872, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

[SPECIA.Ii TO THE BAT OP PLENTY TIMES PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Great Fire in Auckland. Government Buildings Destroyed. Damages, <£*so,ooo. . . ... _ Auckland, Friday evening. A terrible fire occurred yesterday. ** yesterday morning amongst r ai . e l of Sa * at Scherff ’ 8 store, Fort-street, spreading to Bucholz’s store adjoin.then°® destroying whole block, comprising five stores known as Webb’s Buildings. c .r“ 0 l ,ghted s P a rk3 from fire fell upon roof of oustom-house, and remaining disregarded fired Te S leiaoh n p f Wh °5 T , deßtro * in g the Customs, Qovlm£e„fofflc“ e ‘* t ‘" „ i Tb ti Provinoial rec ords, a large number of valuable documents, and maps from the Waste -Lands Office, were saved. Great prevails against the Fire Brigades tor permitting the Government Building to ignite, & ~ p k e rivjd Kire Brigades were quarrelling during e progress of the fire in a most unseemly manner about precedence- J are not less than fifty thousand !n the Provincial Council, Hurst delivered the financial Statement, which shows revenue to be m a very poor state, hardly sufficient being now obtainable for departmental expenses. debated estdmates wero passed without np, _ Wellington, Friday evening. Xne independent of this morning suggests that a New Zealand Order of Merit ”be established to bestow badges for heroic actions. ~ _ Dunedin, Friday evening. Messrs Keynolds and Bathgate, M.H. R’s., and iiishop Moran, are passengers by the Nebraska. Reynolds leaves to attend Inter-Colonial Conference at San Francisco. At the wool sales to-day prices ranged Hid to Gallagher, a prisoner in the gaol, sentenced 50 lashes for insuborbi nation. Brogden employs 500 Chinese on the Olutha railway. He has sent to China for more, to employ on the lines throughout New Zealand. Wheat market firm. Fionr, good sale at £l4.