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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1717, 26 May 1886, Page 4

• Recently a very disastrous fire liiroke out m the Convent of UrsuIlihes at. Lncken, where a number of lyoung girl* receive their education. ■When the ahum was given the fire kind made srith progress that the only ijiing to be thought of was the rescue HP the sleeping iiimates. They had ■pstrcely time'ro p'Jt on any clothes, fed terror-stricken made their escape Ktjf-claf^ m that bitter cold night, ■inning along. the road, some to their Krents bouse*, some they kuow not Erither.' The neighbours kindly mtve them shelter to all they could nd, but some po .r girls remained all ■gbt shivering m the Royal Park. Happily no lives wore losf. Of the Httvttnt nothing remained but the ■ro Malls. The fire is .supposed to Hye originated m a room where Havings were, stored. . - ■ is BPldq'm that a sailing ship exchange) is m the .position she can boast of having made so Hja passage m these days of ra^id frequent, steam communication England and New Zealand she has 6utst> > ipped her advices, New Zealand before her of lading t^ent on for speedy deby steam. Yet to the four— ship .Yanduara belongs that She arrived at Auckland. a passage of 77 days, and on her charterers (the N.Z. Co) "were not m possession particulars respecting her and consequently nothing could towards reporting the ship the Customs. A few days '.arrival the i»ecpss»ry papers hand, : being m the mail i*eby the' N.Z. Shipping Coms.s Kaikoura, and nftrr her the agents were enabled to her manifest and enter the inwards. charge was invesii. the King-bridge (Devon) recenUy, when Alice Mitservant, wasch-need poison m a pudding for cousuint'tion by the pti'ladies' school' at Paignton. It that . the prisoner, who to leave, had placed mo me or rsfc poison m tho on. dinner J>eing served was (inscrvcd ro give off f'urripy, or, as some of tliy de.scrib»d ii, it hur.st It wa" .'proved thnt the where the phosporus was 'that sl.'e liad had charge of The Magistrate said was a very serious one, her for trial, agreeing heavy bail, fur her tejls us that when treated with nitric ronamidobonz- . are formed one yielding and >hould impress this mind* of their children.