NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 766, 15 March 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By TcleEraph—Press Aisoci&tloflJ • -♦ — ' FIRE AT HAMILTON. ' THREE SHOPS DESTROYED. Hamilton, March 11 A fire at East Hamilton early on Sua* day morning resull-cd in the total destruction of three shops, two N 'of- which' belonged to Mr. W. Dey, and were used as a general store and post office hy their owner, and the other occupied by Mr.-J. White as a general fancy good! store. The fire started in Mr. White'd place at i a.m. : The buildings, being old 'wooden- ones, wore toon consumed.' Tlie firemen were powerless to prevent the spread, of the flames, as there is.no water service on the east side of the river. Mr. Dey's shops were insured in the New Zealand Company' for . £104 the stock for and the stable for '<£50. Mr. White's stock was insured foi •£250 and the shop for £100 in the Guardian office. A curious' coincidence if that Mr. Dey was local agent for thj New Zealand Company, ana Mr. Gar* diner,, the owner of . Mr. White's shopi for the Guardian. . UNLICENSED HOTEL BURNT. • Dunedin, March 14. The SraolifY Hotel, jit Seacliff, which! , is now unlicensed, was burnt down shortly after .midnight, on Saturday. The building was insured in- the Atiaa office for. .£4OO, and in the New Zealand for ..£IOO. Mr. Berry was tfro occupant. • . : ■ IA HAND AT POICER; Napier, March H. The magistrate characterised as a da< liberate attempt to .swindle, a oase 'ini' which James Johnson "took down" » Maori in a railway carriage for- £15 or .£l6, on' the show of a poker hand. A fine of £10 :and costs was-imposed. , SKELETON ON EGMONT. New Plymouth, March 11 The : skeleton of a man was discovered on Mount Egmont yesterday. It- is be- ■ lieved to be that of a young man named A. King, who was lost in May, 1905. King was a new chum, and was on a farm' near Eltham.. MR. A. w; HOGG, M.P. : ' Masterton, March 11 Interviewed .this morning, Mr.'A. W; "' Hogg stated that there was no foundation for the rumour that he intended to contest a seat in the Auckland ' district in the interests of .the Labour party. ! He could not think of leaving a constituency like Masterton, which he - looked' upon as, his political birthplace, - and where he had been returned by such" , a great majority at every contested eleo- " %• tion. It : would be most ungrateful . fci desert a . constituency -like that, and h* had - no intention of doing bo. NAPIER EISTEDDFOD. Napier, March 11 The Musical and Competdtions Societies* ' syllabus 'for the competitions for August include four separate contests for choirs. The total prize money amounts to £200. p GIFT TO NAPIER HOSPITAL. • Napier, March 11 ' The chairman of the Napier ■■ Hospital Trustees .announced: this' afternoon he had reoeived 'intimation that .an en-.-dowmerit' of' land,- valued at about £400, had been-given for the benefit of the chronic sufferers' ward, but he could not yet mention the names of the . donors, - FEVER-STRICKEN PAH. Wanganui, March 11 . . Mr: Radcliffe, : a'settler in the vicinity ' ,of Jeriisalem, up the river, reports'that' ' an outbreak of typhoid has occurred in the Kaorii-pah'at Jerusalem.* Six cases 'have, occurred up .to j the t 'j;presenV{and several deaths have ■'taken x place. •