Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3020, 4 October 1888, Page 2

Telegraphic.

E^ensiyeAre. /-. '{'. ,r !'.' At ,2 o'clock tliis- ; afternoon a fire broke out in the workroom of Hobday's drapery establishment, which was.quioklyguttedj and the'surroundingßuopainjured.,, Hobday'sstook was destroyed, The, insurance on Hobday's ib £iß,oi3o, All the offioes in town are interested,'' The shops of M. Sandstein,- jeweller and Gould; k Co. chemists, wero seriously damaged) and .'the: shop, of. Goodman, bootmaker,, slightly, injured, -The heat ; was sointense that, the front of the Al Hotel, on the opposite side of Colomba street," was "-. eeverely scorched, all ■ the windows -being broken, as well as the windows of three shops adjoining; Tho large skylight of Ballantyne's drapery shop in.-Casual's street, to the westward, of the fire, : was broken. -The fire began' oa Hobday's upper floor,-but how cannot bo ascertained, as the employees were away at lunch. The flames spread through the building with wonderful rapidity, arid }he Brigade could do no more than' save the neighboring premises. : • : ■

FIRE IN BLENHEIM.; Blenheim, Thursday.... ■ A large fin is now raging. It is supposed to have originated in the engine room of Earl! arid' McKenzie'a sash and door factory, Afresh northwest wind is blowing, and the factory, with- sit the machinery; the livery, stabloa of the same firm, the dwelling .house of Mr Earll, and the largeatores and the hall of Earp ■& Co., are completely destroyed. The railway goods shed is not yet out of danger,. The fire started at midnight, The loss will amount to several thousand pounds.

Post Sessional Address- x Donedin, October 8. James Allen, M.H.8., addressed the electors ofDunedih'East to-night, and received a vote of thanks and confidence,