LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1616, 1 December 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

[(Per Press Asiooiatioa-)

Christohurob, last night.

At about 1.30 o’clock this morning an eleven-roomed house in Carlyle street, -Sydenham, occupied by Mr G. E. Christensen, and owned by Mrs Pope, was i destroyed by fire.’ The house was used as a hoarding-house,-and there were three or four boarders in it at the time. Nothing was saved, and several of the ocoupants had to escape by the windows. The furs nitnre was insured in the Manchester office for £l5O, and Mr Christensen estimated his loss at £7O over the insurance. The building was insured in the Menobester offioe for £3OO.

A crowd estimated at about 5000 filled the Colosseum ; Ska ing Bink to-night, when Mr T. E, Taylor replied to the speaoh delivergl by the Prem’or the previous evening. Tbe proceedings were very livelyj and the earliest part of the meeting was noisy, bat became more orderly as the speech proceeded.

Westport, last night,

Captain Leeob, ex harbormaster at Westport, passed away to-night, at the age of 09. Deceased took the first vessel, a little steamer named tho-Nelson,'aoross the Hokitika.bar. He was harbormaster at Weetport for about SO years..

WelliDgtOD, last night.' The Rev. F. W. Isitt has telegraphed withdrawal of his candidature'for Motueka, as on acoount of Mr 0. Kelly going to the poll there is no necessity for the New Zealand Alliance to take steps to ensure a licensing vote: being taken, . , A poll on the proposal to adopt rating on unimproved values in Miramar borough was taken to-day: The voting was, for 117, against 45- As less than a third of the electors recorded their votes, the poll | was abortive.