NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 August 1901, Page 4

N EW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(PUB PKKSS ASSOCIATION.] Raid on a Chirtesa House. Wellington, This Day. Last night the police made a raid on a Chinese gambling house in Haining street and arrested four occupants for engaging pnk-a poo lottery. At the 'Magistrates Court they were each fled- £1 and cost-.. Joe Quick, keeper of the house was lined au additional £1 and costs, Severe Gas Exp'osion Auckland, August 5,

Mrs Keane. When Mrs Keane and the family were about to retire she was met by her sister, Mrs Sylvia, who exclaimed, “What a terrible smell of gas! There must be a leak in the gas pipe.” _ Mrs Keane entered the room to look if the burners were turned off, and had scarcely raised the candle above her head when an explosion occurred which hurled her on the floor and set fire to her hair and clothing, also to that of Mrs Sylvia, and set the whole room in a blaze. Mr Keane was going out of the hack door when he heard the report, and turning back was met by the full force of the flames. He rushed into the si. ting room, tore down the curtains and blinds, and succeeded in extinguishing the fire. The two ladies were seriously burned about the hands and face. Mr Keane is also badly burned. The sufferers are now in a fair way to recovery. The explosion was so violent that seventeen panes of glass were blown out and one-half of the French door opening from the sitting room on to the verandah, was completely torn from its hinges.