DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 January 1914, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

NEW ARRIVALS AT WELLINGTON [Per Press Association.] Wellington, January 7: Three hundred and eighty-six thirdclass passengers arrived at Wellington to-day by the Rotorua. Of these, 110 were-assisted immigrants. Nearly four times this number of “assisteds” are following on the lonic, which is due at Wellington on January 20. They will comprise 01 domestics, 30 farm laborers and their wives and children ■ (numbering 00), and 100 immigrants, who have been nominated by persons living in the Dominion. .Many of those comprised in the lastmentioned category are wives of immigrants already settled in New Zealand.

Another batch of assisted immigrants will be landed at Wellington from the Ruapehu, which is due at this port on February 3, of 75 all told. Their number is made up oi 20 domestics, 10 farm laborers (with six dependents), and 33 persons nominated by relatives in the Dominion. In addition to the assisted passengers, large numbers of immigrants come out to New Zealand on their own account as- ordinary third-class passengers. To-day, for instance, 260 persons so described arrived by the Rotorua. FIRE IN A THEATRE. Gisborne, January 7. As a picture performance was about to commence at the Opera House tonight, a fire broke out in the operating box, and two programmes of pictures, totalling 13,000 feet of films, were destroyed, while the new projecting machine was somewhat damaged and all fittings of the box destroyed. The theatre, which is a fine modern structure, is quite fireproof, and the outbreak, though fierce, was confined to the box. The audience, though aware of the fire, remained calm, and after the fire had been subdued, took the orchestra’s playing the National Anthem as a signal that the entertainment had been abandoned, and (quietly left the building. The damage, which will run into a fairly large amount, is covered in several qffic.es, but details of insurances on tjie total damage are not vet availgblq, , I