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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1612, 19 January 1886, Page 4

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(united ,press 'a&socjation ) * Wellington, Monday, Mr H. Gordon, Inspector of Mines, has been elected a Fellow of the Geological 1 Society.: ■ The city, valuer's total valuations, for-, general purposes, for 1886-87 is £245,966, ; showing an increase of £16,000 over' the ' previous year. . * ' Nothing has yet been done respecting fhe removal of the site for the Central Prison. , The Samoan chiefs' had another interview wjith the Government this mbrnAdmiral Tyron has inspected some Of the forts around Wellington, and. will this afternoon visit the sites on which it is proposed to place guns. Chbistchukch, Monday. The residence of Mr Robert Allen, of Lightband, Allen & Co , at Opawa, had a narrow escape ©f being destroyed by fire, caused by ■ some person unknown lighting the tussocks on Aynsley's hill' The orchard and plantation round me bouse were much damaged. The loss is over £100; ' . '' t The New Zealand Shipping Company have received advice of the. departure of the steamship Aorangi from Plymouth on January 16th, at 1 p.m., for Port Chalmers, via Tenerifife and Cape of Good Hope. . ■ . : HoKiTiKA, Monday. A cottage owned by Mr Ramsay, saddler, was destroyed by tire this morning. Tlie inmates saved very little but their clothes, and the children had not time to dress. The building was insured for £100 m the Victoria, but the furniture was not insured.