LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1645, 6 January 1882, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[new ZEALAND EUESS ASSOCIATION.! Dunedin, January 5. At the Supreme Court to-day the only case of any interest was that of John Gordon, chained with a breach of the Fraudulent Debtors’ Act, 1878, in having filed a declaration of insolvency, and having subsequently, with intent to defraud his creditors, failed to fully and truly di-cover to the trustee the sum of .£320 on his property. The facts were that when (he accused filed he stated his assets to be only £5 worth of wearing apparel, but within a month afterwards he gave .£320 to an hotelkeeper, to keep for him. This was in March. In September he was arrested for drunkenues, when he had £197 in his pocket and a gold watch. He was found guilty, and sentence was deferred. LARGE FIRE AT INVERCARGILL. Invercargill, January 5. A tremendous conflagration occurred here last evening, resulting in the destruction of a large amount of valuable property. Jt originated, it is believed, in a shop on the western side of Dee street, oecuupied by Mrs Hannah, and rapidly spread to t lie. adjoining buildings. The fire broke out at ten o’clock, and at midnight when the telegraph office closed, the following buildings had been destroyed. The City Butchery, occupied by T. Campbell Mrs Hannah’s grocery stole; the Hibernian Hotel ; Mr D. Ruche’s grocery, wine and spirit store ; an unoccupied building known as the Led Lion Hotel ; M'Claskey’s bootshop ; llanan’s Temple of Science • W. Brown’s drapery store, and Cooper’s jewellers shop. At midnight the fire was still raging with unabated fury, and in order to save the remainder of the block, strenuous efforts were being made to pull down shops occupied by J. Rogers, tailor; W. Paterson, bootmaker, and A. Ilaeside. pastry cook. Later. By 1.30 tliis morning the fi e was got under sufficiently to insure the safety of the White Swan Hotel, which was several times in imminent danger. A wooden building between it and Hamm’s Temple of bcience was cleared to a large extent of its contents and partly demolished before the flames crossed the roof of the Temple of Science, a substantial brick structure. The insurances are as follows: North British, £I4OO (a portion of which was re-insured), distributed as follows : £IOOO on Roche’s store, and £4OO on Hanan’s Temple of Science ; Hanseati i, £l5O on Roche’s stock; Transatlantic, £3OO on the Hibernian Hotel; Colonial, £7OO on stock and furniture of Hibernian Hotel ; £3OO on Roche’s stock ; £IOO on the Temple, of Science ; £l5O on Raeside’s building ; total, £2150. Northern, £l5O on Raeside’s simp ; Liverpool, London, and Ghdie, £2OO on the Hibernian Hotel, £IOO on Campbell’s butchery, £BOO on Mrs Wilson’s stock and buildings. New Zealand Company, £IOOO on Roche’s building and smclc, £3OO on Hamm’s stock, and £SOO <ni Brown’s (draper) stock, total, £IBOO, of which £3OO was re-iusnred in the Colonial. S-nuh British, £l5O on Roche's buildings. Total insurances so far as known.