NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1890, 27 October 1913, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

' (By Teie?ffrapk.—Press Association.) i - < . « TV/O SHOPS BURNED. -Jj! ' WOMAN CARRIED OUT "UNCON- I I SCIOUS. > Wanganui, October 26. b 1 A disastrous firo broke out early this (I ' morning in Roberta's buildings, in ®j Victoria Avenue, and, as the result, two i ' shops ill a two-story building, occupied ' by Mrs. Broniff, drftpor and fancy g ' goods dealer, and Mr- Trownson, basket- p ( maker, wero completely gutted, nothing (( being saved. Mrs. Broniff was tho only c< person sleeping on tho premises, and e< ' she was carried out in an unconscious G condition, suffering from tliG effects of smoke and shock. She was taken to j the hospital, where she i 3 progressing slowly. The insurances are not avail- ' able. AUCKLAND'S NEW BY-LAWS. 01 Auckland, October 25. n1 The City Council has adopted by-laws > requiring proprietors of theatres and all 1 places or entertainments to number the ?' seats and restrict the sale of tickets ac- a corclingly. The council has also adopted a by-law <L requiring _ verandahs in a large number of tlio principal streets to bo suspended * without posts. PRISONS' BOARD. fn Christchurch, October 25. is The Prisons Board mot in the Lyttel- 59 toil Gaol to-day, to consider the cases of prisoners there, paying a visit in tho f, afternoon to Addington Gaol, where the 0 f women prisoners are located. m DAMAGE BY FIRE. ' Christchurcli, October 26. P e About 3 p.m. on Friday afternoon a two-storied seven-roomed house, owned by Mrs. Paul M'Coll, of Green Park, was totally destroyed by firo. Tho insurances were £200 on the house and £70 , on tho furniture. An outbreak occurred on Saturday afternoon on premises in Colombo Street occupied by Mr. J. H. Sherwood, stationer and fancy goods dealer. Tho Be flames got a fairly good hold, but tho . maior portion of the damage done was de by smoke. The building belonged to ft} Mr. John Beverley, and was insured for M £375 in tho Commercial Union, and hu £375 in the Now Zealand Offico. Mr. tin Sherwood's stock was insured for £1000 n in the Xlnitcd Office. nr j — del FIRE IN AUCKLAND.. ' th - Auckland, October 25, \vn This afternoon a lire was discovered ISI in a six-roomed house in Mount Kden, cln owned and occupied by Myra Lodge! a ] Tho neighbours, seeing smoke, gavo tho Tlti alarm. The house, with practically all ITc its contents, was ablam throughout, scl and was soon reduced to a- smouldering I Tic heap of ruins. Tho origin of the out-J for break is unknown. The building was in- i log sured in tho Phoenix Office for £450. wit There was no insurance on the contents, Th wliioh aro valued at £350- [ Ch