LATE TELEGRAMS.

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 13, 8 November 1904, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

[By Wire.-AUCKLAND, Tuesday Morning, 8.33 a.m.]

Disastrous Fire,

A fire gutted the shop of Mr. Morgan, hairdresser, Revel 1-street, Hokitika, totally destroriug his stock. The latter was insured for £IOO in the Imperial. Other buildings effected by the fire were insured for £4OO in the Manchester. Drowning Accident. While a lieutenant and five men of H.M.S. Penguin were engaged in survey work near the island of Kawau, off Auckland harbour, last Thursday, their boat w T as caught in a squall and overturned, apparently all the occupants being drowned. The following are the names and ages of gthe viotims : —Lieutenant Edden, 24; Joseph Power, leading seaman, 25; Joseph Brooks, a.b., 19 ; James Richardson, a.b., Albert Grant, a.b., and Ernest Pusey, a.b., all about 23. A Big Blaze. A Nelson telegram received to-day stated that the major portion of the village of Collingwood was burned down last night, including a number of stores, a hotel, etc. Only three or four houses •on the beach were saved. The fire started in Stallard’s bakehouse. Telegraph communication was interrupted, owing to the destruction of the post and tolegraph office, but a temporary office has been opened at Parapara, whence the special messago. Mining Fatality.

A man named John Dahl, working in the Waihi mine, on Monday was killed by a fall of stone, death being instantaneous. Huge pieces of quartz, a ton in weight, fell, crushing his head and shoulders.