TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 March 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[per press association.]

FIRE AT A FREEZING WORKS.

Napier, This Day,

The North British freezing works were the scene of another fire early this morning. Tho outbreak started in the offices and sproad to the freezer. The former are totally destroyed and tho latter so seriously that it will need re-building. About thirteen thousand carcases of mutton were destroyed. Fortunately there was a light easterly breeze blowing, otherwise tlie whole of the structures would have been razed. NELSON HOTEL FATALITY. Nelson. This Day. The Royal Hotel, a three-storey wooden building; in Bridge-6treet (owned by Dodson and Son; E. Cann, licensee) was gutted early this morning. Flames in the back portion spread so Yapidty that some inmates only had time to escape. Later on a boarder named Frederick Bloomfield, aged 57, a native of Australia, was missing, and after a search his charred remains were found on the floor amongst the joisis. The insurances on the hotel amount to £600.

BAY OF ISLANDS PETITION. Whangarei, This Day. In the Bay of Islands petition case, evidence showed that thirty voters turned up at Karakanui on election day, but no returning officer arrived; also that had a polling booth" T)cgii provided 56 people would have voted. Hemana, who said he was a chief, deposed that a man at Karakanui made attempts to obtain a deputy returning officer, without avail. It was too late then to go to any other booth. Only nine voted at Karakanui at tho at the 1911 election, because nearly all went to a wedding at Port Albert. Other witnesses gave corroborative evidence. GOOD RAIN IN~s6uTH WAIRARAPA. Carterton, This Day. Heavy rain fell in the whole of the South Wairarapa district this morning—the first in some parts for about six months. BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. New Plymouth. This Day. By a street collection and 6ale of a Belgian flag yesterday Stephenson's "Humpty Dumpty" Company raised £160 for the Belgian Relief Fu.hd.