INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 106, 15 April 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.] THE GOOD TEMPLARS. Opunake, April 14. The Grand Lodge Session of the Good Templars opened on Friday. Representatives were present from Dunedin, Port Chalmers, Rangiora, Tuapeka, Ashburton, Hokitika, Otago Peninsula, Invercargill, Christchurch, Vincent, Wellineton, Wanganui, Egmont, Selwyn, Hawke’s Bay, Banks’ Peninsula, and Tiinaru. The business of conferring degrees was gone through, and in the afternoon a deputation from the Blue Ribbon Army waited on the session with an address of welcome. Various reports were laid before the meeting and considered, and there was a good deal of discussion on the portions referring to temperance work, temperance literature, and the support to be given to Mr. M. W. Green’s Local Option Extension Bill. A soiree held in the evening was largely attended. EXTENSIVE FIRE AND LOSS OF PROPERTY. A house, the property of F. Dunlop, was destroyed by fire. The building and furniture were insured for £550 in the Union Office. Auckland, April 14. A fire broke out early yesterday morning at the shop of Messrs. Whitcombe, baker’s, Ponsonby. The flames were discovered in the bakehouse, which, with the stables, was destroyed. The machinery was insured for £l9O in a local company, but the buildings were uninsured. ANOTHER FIRE. Westport, April 15. The wall paper in one of the bed-rooms at Barker’s Criterion Hotel caught fire from a candle left burning when the proprietor’s children went to bed. Half-a-dozen rooms were gutted before the fire was got under, and the whole building and block had a narrow escape. The hotel was insured in the South British for £2OO, and in the New Zealand for a similar amount. MR. WHITAKER AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. Hamilton, April 15. Mr. Whitaker addressed his Waipa constituents at Kihikihi on Saturday night. There was a large attendance. Mr. Whitaker warmly defended the financial policy of the Government, but said he would oppose the Government on the question of increasing the railway tariff rates. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried.

SCALDED TO DEATH. Invercargill, April 15. A girl, aged four years, daughter of Mr. Powell, auctioneer, accidentally fell into a bath on Saturday evening, and got very severely scalded. She died last night. ANOTHER LARGE FIRE. Yesterday morning a large block of wooden buildings in Taylor-street, between Stock & Co.’s and the Supreme Court, were burned down. . The fire is supposed to have originated in Yule Co.’s drapery store, which with the premises of Allen shoemaker, and Bailley chemist, were totally destroyed, although some stock was saved. The building formerly occupied as a Supreme Court, and now let to Scott, carpet-maker, was also destroyed, but the contents were removed. The fire was with difficulty prevented from penetrating the Supreme Court windows. The origin of the fire is unknown, no one having been on the premises for 26 hours before the fire broke at all buildings were old. The following are the insurances so far as known : Bailly, £750, in the Northern, £350 in the Colonial, £350 in the Hamburg Magdeburg. Zules stock, £l,OOO in the Northern, £l,OOO in the North British, £5OO in the Royal, £5OO in the Colonial, £5OO in the Norwich and £5OO in the Union. The stock was valued at £7OO. Two other £5OO policies had been allowed to lapse. Alien’s stock was insured for £260 in the Royal.