NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1643, 9 January 1906, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(P«r Press Association.) Auckland, lad night. Mr Henry Lambert, chairman of the Imperial Investigation Committee, who arrived by tho s.s. Manuka from Sydney, was met by Mr Kensington, Under-Secretarv for Immigration, who will accompany Mr Lambert on a tour of the colony. Mr Lambert proceeds to Wellington via Kotorua and the Wanganui river. Invercargill, last night. The Southland bankruptcy returns show 17 adjudications against 21 in the previous year. The liabilities unsecured amounted to £8471, and the secured to £5429. The assets unsecured are £3050. The amounts paid iu dividends, excluding preferential and secured was £230. Hawers, ast night. The Oeo hotel was destroyed by fire at 2 o’clock [on Sunday morning. Within 20 minutes of the fire being discovered, the building, an old twostoreyod weather-board one, was entirely consumed. Mr Alfred Martin, the licensee, Mrs Campbell, the housekeeper, and the latter’s three children, narrowly escaped in their night-clothes, all being moro or less injured. The insurance on the building is £3SO in the National and on the general stock .£215 (office unknown). The hotel was owned by Mr George Watkins, of Epsom, Auckland. The s.s. Ilapiti, which stranded at Patea, owing to defective steering grerjand propeller, has been refloated The vessel is undamaged.