INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 189, 22 July 1884, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Association.] Auckland, July 22. The cabmen and the Tramway Co. are at loggerheads, the former being ordered to remove from the Queen Street cabstands to make room for the tramcars but declining to do so. Saturday afternoon cabmen obstructed the tram line, and one of the cabmen threw a stone at a car and was arrested. It is stated that the cabmen intend testing in Court the question whether they can be removed from the cabstands hitherto set apart for them. ELECTION AMENITIES. Dunedin, July 22. Mr. H. S. Fish has issued a writ for £5,000 damages against Mr. H. L. Walter for libel contained in a letter published in the Otago Daily Times charging Mr. Fish with corrupt practices for some years, challenging an action and naming his solicitor. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Tdiaru, July 22. The Upper Rangitaka Hotel was totally destroyed by fire last night. The insurances were—£soo on the building in the Royal, and in stock and furniture £2lO and £5O respectively in the National. The loss over and above the insurance is £3OO. CHARGE OF ARSON. Nelson, July 22. John McLeary, machinist at the Evening Star Office, has been arrested on a charge of arson. On Friday night an old unoccupied house near the Railway Station was discovered to be on fire, but was extinguished by a row buckets of water. Last night a light was discovered in the house and the neighbours sent for a constable and then effected an entrance by means of a window. It was then found that a hole had been cut in the scrim and a candle placed therein surrounded by hay, over which kerosene had been poured, a bottle containing about a pint having been left close to a candle. The hay was just igniting when discovered. The prisoner was remanded, bail being refused. FIRE. Bluff, July 22. Between three and four o’clock this morning a fire broke out in the brick drapery store occupied by McDonald, and before progress could be stayed, had totally wrecked the drapery store, Terminus Hotel and Union Bank. The furniture in the Terminus Hotel was partially saved. Fortunately the wind changed opportunely, or much more serious conflagration would have been caused. Several large grain stores, well filled, were jeopardised. Insurances: Terminus, £1,400 in the New Zealand ; furniture, £550 in the Colonial ; brick store, £3OO in Victoria, and £4OO in Colonial; Bank, £2OO in Union; McDonald (stock), £lOO in New Zealand.