NEW ZEALAND.
S® 'FIRE* ' (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. A 1 lire oru, Sunday afternoon ’destroyed a house in Grey Lynn, owned by Thomas Lees an’d Son, : and 0000-“ nie'd by Arthur Edmonds. The house was insured for S4OO, aw'd tho furniture for £300,. the latter in the Northern, SLY-GROG, ' DUNEDIN, last night. On Saturday evening Sergt. Ghesing, with a party of constable®! raided G. A. Neil’s Provincial Motel at Port Chalmers, and found live dozen bottles of beer, two bottles, of champagne, and ten gallons of beer, a teg almost empty, and half a dozen empty whisky, bottles. The liquor found was removed to the Police Station, and a prosecution for, slygrog selling will follow, in ’due course.THE LAND COMMISSION. WELLINGTON, last nighti It is understood that Mr James Memerrow, ex-S u r, vey or-G-en e ral be appointed Chairman of the Land Tenure Commission, vice Mr IV. S. Reid, .who has resigned through' ill-health.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1379, 14 February 1905, Page 4
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