NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 8 June 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

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Disastrous Fire.

Auckland, June 7.

At threo o'clfack this morning theKaponga Anna Hotol, Coromandal, was found to be on j fire. When the brigade arrived the flames had got a good hold of the lower portion of the building. The inmates got oat'of the building though all were sleeping ufostairs. King's temperance boardinghouse 28 feet away, soon ciught fire, and tbia large building was quickly one mass of flames. Willing hands /had beon to work getting out the furniture, and the greater part was sayed, j The insurances are—On the boardinghouso buildingi £2BO in the Sun and £l4O in the North {Queensland; outbuildings, JEIOO in the Victoria; and furniture £350 n the NorwiclA Union. The Kapomga Arms Hotel is suppossd to be insuried in the Norwich Cnion. There is no insurance on the slock or furniture in the potel. Sivk at Cororaandel f Auckland, This Day. JohnstonJs Hotel and King's boardinghouse at C&romandel were destroyec 1 by fire inclndinig the contents of the Hotel. King's furn iture was saved. .Licensing Bench, j Gisbornb. This Day. At a meeting of the Waiapa Licensing Branch to-day, Sergeant Siddelb presented} a detailed report on every house in i he district. He complained that in outlyirig houses little ■/

attention was paid to the comfort of travellers, the sale of drink being first and the only object. He urged that in quite a number of places better houses should be insisted on, and remarked that the common thing here of licensed houses that are unworthy of the name, is the changing of hands, and a large sum being paid for the goodwill. If the goodwill is worth such a lot, tbe least the public can expect is that a decent house should be provided.