NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2326, 31 August 1880, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[Pee “Times” Special Wibe.] Another Hotel Gone. Wanganui, August 31. By a destructive lire, Rutland’s hotel was this morning completely wrecked. Tho building was only insured for £250 and the proprietor suffers great loss, as he had no insurance on the hotel or stock. LATER. The firs originated in the’kitchen,and was conducted upstairs by the lift used to communicate with the private suites of apartments. The alarm was first given by tho billiard marker, who slept in a room over the kitchen. He woke up choking, and found the room full of smoke, and a fire in the lift. Once (he fire broke through upstairs, it spread rapidly. Six jets of water were promptly brought to bear and although tho saving of the hotel ap poared hopeless, the lire was literally beaten back by the force of the water. Upstairs is completely gutted, the rooms not burnt being blackened by the smoko and beat, (treat sympathy is felt for the proprietor, as the hotel was hut lately greatly enlarged and improved, making - it the best in the colony. Some of the commercial travellers lost their luggage. The insurances arc £350 on the furniture in the Imperial, and £750 on the building. Other policies in tho South British were taken out but afterwards cancelled, as the proprietor considered the premiums too high The total loss over and above tho insurance is estimated at £2OOO. r’edcs'ii'ianism. Wellington, August 31. Eleven entries have as yet been re ceived for the 24 hours’ pedestrian match to be held here on Sept., 10 and 11. The principal are Brooks and Delaney, Dunedin ; Swan, Christchurch ; Webber, Wellington ; Neary, Wanganui ; and O’Connor, Timaru. ■S'onnd 33ead. Oamaku, August 31. A man named Alfred Victor Jones,

formerly a bailiff, was fou;i.l dead in liis house to-day, '.Qostructlen of a TamisryDunedin, August 31. Calph’s Tannery at Raikourai was burned down on Sunday. It was insured in the Transatlantic for £2OO. S'fee 19 per cast SSe auction. At ihc railway employees meeting last night, the deputation reported that Mr Conyers had replied that the 10 per cent reduction did not apply to wages men ; the reduction was not yet in force, and no all-round 10 per cent rc- /■ diiction was intended, but merely a revision of the scale of wages on an equitable and practical system, of which due notice wiil be given before being brought into operation. The meeting agreed to abandon the agitation. S’uag’o Sat'mgate’s ISotiromoat. Judge Bathgate in retiring from the Bench to-day, received a farewell address from the bar. He said in reply that while the circumstances in connection with his retirement were not as yet satisfactory to him, he had no reason to complain of his relations with the bar. Mr Simpson succeeds him as Resident Magistrate.