NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 19 August 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

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Hotel Burned Down. Christchurch, August 15. On Saturday afternoon, while Pox, proprietor of the Zetland Arms Hotel, and most of his family were away at the races, the building took Are in the linen closet upstairs, and the whole place wks gutted and most of the furniture and stock burned. The building is the property of Fletcher, Humphreys and Co. It was insured for £875, equally divided in the Imperial and North British, £IOOO on the stock and furniture in the Imperial, half reinsured. The Zetland Arms is one of the oldest wooden hotets, and had been ordered to be rebuilt at the last annual meeting of the Licensing committee. Charge of Murder. Napier, Aug. 19 A single woman named Elizabeth Smidt, aged 27, in service at Hastings gave birth to a child on Saturday. The infant was subsequently found smothered in her bed. The mother admits that the child was alive when born. A charge of murder of the infant will be preferred against the woman. Fire in Wellington. Wellington, This Day. A fire broke out this morning in a boarding-house in Boulcott Street, owned by Compton Estate and occupied by Mrs Young, in the upper part of the building and was , destroyed. The house was insured in the Liverpool, London and Globe offices for £3OO, and the furniture for £l5O in the New Zealand. Railway Servants. The meeting of the Petone railway employees held to consider the question of being brought under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, was opposed to the idea on account of the loss of present privileges which they would entail. No vote, however, was taken. Escaped Prisoner Captured. Wellington This Day. James Wilson, who escaped from a prison gang on Thursday, was recaptured this morning on Miramar Peninsula. Constable Glass who was on foot bailed him up and was struck on the head by Wilson with a tomahawk, which rendered him unconscious. Mounted Constables M’Leod and Hammond witnessed tbe occurrence from a hill and gave chase. Hammond presented a revolver at the prisoner who then surrendered.