The Governor has appointed Mr Easelden, S.M., a Commissioner to enquire into the allegation of unnecessary delay in making the inspections required by the Public Health Act of the steamer Jlonowai and barque G, M. Tucker in Wellington last month. The muddle at the time caused a great outcry. The following telegram was received from Christchurch yesterday : —A tenroomed wooden boarding-house, occupied by Mrs M. Grant and owned by Thomas Kinsaid, was gutted this morning. The insurances were £SOO on* the house and £'2so on the furniture, both in the New Zealand Office, The uninsured property of sis boarders was destroyed,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 211, 12 September 1901, Page 4
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