NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6076, 13 July 1897, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

(Per Press Association.) Timaru, July 12. . A fire broke oat in the spinning-room of the South Canterbury Woollen ' Mills *\ > at B'3oi to-night. An employee using a lighwd oandle accidently' set fire toa yarn on one of the spindles, add. all the yarn ou the machine was at o&cekblaze, Tbe fire spread up to t(ie rdof, " soon got under. by fire is compaijativglv. BlkhtjJw^tfefldattteh f itig machinery is very as'the ' whole of the floors were noddled. The ':' machinery will nearly all, have to be tain a down. Tlie fire is a serious one far the town, as about 90 hands will be thrown out of worl: {or weeks.. It is also sstieuß for ) the proprietors, as it is in the middle of tbe busy season and ihny will bo unable to complete the orders on band. Tbe insurances on the mill and machinery are £6600 in the North; German and £4400 in the Phoenix.' These sums have been re-insured in several offices! the names of which are not obtainable to-night. AUCKLAND, July ISI The inaugural meeting of the New Zealand Institute of Mining Engineers took'place to-night, when Mr H. ftordon, president) delivered an instructive address upon tbe progress of mining in New Zealand. He stated that tlie success _of the Institute had been astonishing. Tbe response to the inaugurating committee's invitation resulting in a classified membership of nearly 80. Twenty bushmen were despatched today by the Labour Bureau to work on the Government road through the bush at Ohura Valley, south of the King Country on the line of the new road, to conneot Stratford and Waikato. Yesterday a Maori named Eaewhanake Jiving at liatirohi, Otorohanga, burned down his whare. His wife just escaped, but he himself was badly burned. Constablo Hennings had to get the man out of the burning building. The native was arrested on a charge of lunacy. Among the passengers by the Westralia from Sydney is the Rev. Mr. Campbell, who has returned from London, where he initiated a company for carrying out the hy'perphosphoric process of saving gold. He will proceed to To Arouha to erect the machinery at once. July At the Folioe Court to-day, Bichard May, charged with unlawfully being on the Ellersfie racecourse, was remanded till Tuesday, bail being allowed in. sureties of twenty pounds, Cheistchuhch, July 12. At the inquest on the body of the man who was found m a fit in the street, and who nfterwnrds died ia the Hospital, a verdict of death from meningitis was re* * turned. Th 6 deceased has not yet been identified. Don edin, July 12, Elizabeth l ane Borthwiok died suddenly at Waikouwati yesterday, Tha , cause of death isuuknown. i , ' Nelson, July 12. Tno committee of .tlis Agricultural and P isbral Association lua resolved to pnt pfi' its show from the 3rd Novamber to leftist of December. Wellington, Jiily 18. A number of informations have been' laid a/;ainst several prominent firms for breaches of the Faotory Aot (or not keeping proper entries in their books and sub-letting work on sweating teraiß. , A breach of promise case is coming on here in which a Wellington woman sties a member of the Christchurch Police force for damages.