TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 February 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PHR PRKB?i ASSOCIATE pa.] UP GOES THE PRICE OF CATS' MEAT. HAAVERA, This Day. A local stock buyer has received an order from the Continent for frozen horse meat. "ONE MORE UNFOItTUNATE.'' AUCKLAND, This Day. The girl .Florence Marks, who call eel at the Salvation Army Homo on February -Ith in male attire, and became ill at the <V>or as tho result of taking what was believed to be perchloride of mercury, died in the hospital last night. FIRE BRIGADE COMPETITIONS. W ANGAN UI, This Day. The Lnited Fire Brigades' competitions started to-day in Cook's Gardens, in splendid weather, Results: One mail ladder, Oamarn first, Hawera second. Invercargill Railway third. Roslyn fourth. .Spit fifth. Dunedin City sixth. Seventy competed ; time 7 3-ssec. FIRE AT A MILL. . WELLINGTON, This Day. Odlins' lumber 111 ill and joinery department, in Taranaki street was badly damaged by fire this inon:ing. When the brigade arrived the j flames were bursting through to the joinery department. There was 110 wind and the fire was confined"to that department. Ihe loss is estimated at) .£20(10. There was no insurance. KgsCTa<t3B»3MßHl» l "_^ l ' j