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FIRES UNDER. CONTROL. Australian Press Alsu.—United Service ' SYDNEY, .Jan. 10. Welcome relief to-day from the groat heat was brought about ny a cool breeze from the sea. Ihe highos reading to-day was eighty-one degrees. 'l'he majority of the bush and scrub fires are either extinguished or under control. A FIRE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY', .January 11. A fire occurred in a thickly-congest-ed area in the vicinity of the City Fish Mart to-night. A three-storied building occupied by a Chinese, .Mow Song, as a produce store, was seriously damaged and the contents ruined. Firemen discovered a Chinese employee, Charlie Young, on the top floor almost overcome with smoke in liis hunk', and brought him to safety down an escape. NELSON’S APPLICATION REFUSED. APIA, Jan. 10. An esparto application was heard to-day ill the High Court of Western Samoa on Ibehalf of Olal Frederick Nelson, formerly Legislative Councillor of Samoa, for leave to serve a summons and statement ol claim out of Samoa and in Now Zealand, upon General Richardson, the former administrator. The cause of the action alleges the deportation to lie ultra vires and invalid. Judge McCarthy refused the, order on the ground of concurrent jurisdiction in New Zealand, ’and as both parties there were bringing the' ease in Samoa it involved avoidable expense.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1929, Page 6
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