Telegraphic.
A Hotel Fired. New Plymouth, Wednesday'. The Omata Hotel, three railes south of New Plymouth was •'burned down at eleven o'clock last night,' A gale was blowing at the time, and.'the licensee and his family had barely time to escape, before the building became enveloped-in flames. Origin unknown, The fire was supposed to have commenced near the kitchen, range. The property is owned by Mrs Newsham, and is leased to Mr Paul, brewer, New Plymouth, and is insured in his name in the Phoenix Company for £2OO. No insurance on stock or furniture. The Wanganui Regatta. s Wanganui, Wednesday. The following are the results of the regatta':—Champion fours, outrigger: Canterbury Ist, £4O, and Young challenge vase; Wanganui Bowing Club, 2nd, £10; Star Boating Club (Wellington) 3rd, £5: Wellington 4; Wakatu 5; Unions (Wanganui) last. The champion race, postponed from yesterday, was rowed this morning. Canterbury held the lead from the start, and won after a very exciting race by one length. Wanganui rowed a good second all through, and Wakatu were third most of the way, but by an oversight at the finish allowed both the Stars and Wellingtons to pass them, although both these crews werj some lengths behind. Time, 13min 48J sees, This concluded the regatta and the crews go to Wellington to day for the Star regatta on Saturday.
A Mad Suicidist,
Auckland, Wednesday.
A man named William Luper, residing in Karangahape Road, committed, suicide yesterday by taking rat poison. He said he was tired of life. He had only recently been released from the Whau Lunatic Asylum,
The New Zealand Alliance.
The "Drink"Problem.
Auckland, Wednesday,
At the second annual meeting of the New Zealand Alliance, Sir Wra. Fox was elected President for the ensuing year. A resolution was also carried that the " time has now fully arrived for Parliament to seriously consider the bearing of the drink problem in its relation to colonial finance, and to decide how far the country can, with safety, continue to give legislative sanction to, or draw its main revenus from, traffic which in its varied ramifications presses more hardly upon the people than the whole weight of the public debt. . -
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2847, 14 March 1888, Page 2
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361Telegraphic. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2847, 14 March 1888, Page 2
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