BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1024, 22 November 1872, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(EEOM OUE OWS COItUESPOKDEifT.) GREAT FIKE AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND. N"ov. 20. A destructive fire took place here this morning. Property to the value of over £50,000 has been destroyed. The Post and Telegraph O dices, the Custom House, and tliß Provincial Government buildings have been destroyed. Only a few documents and mails saved. Bucholz's store, Bond street, and Thome's store, Fort street, have also been destroyed. The Bank of Australasia had a narrow escape. About fifty other stores partially burnt. One man was nearly killed, and two firemen were injured. The insurance has not yet been ascertained. The Government buildings cost £25,000, and are uninsured. The remaiuder are reported insured. The fire originated in Scherfl'B flax store, Fort street.

BLUFF. Nov. 20. The Eangatoto arrived this evening. MELBOUENE. Nov. 14. The Education Bill debate in Council is not yet decided. It is anticipated that the Bill will be rejected. The Railway is opened to Longwood. Twenty-four miles of the North Eastern line will be opened on tho eightenth. £7291 was paid in stakes at the Kite race meeting. The receipts were nearly £6OOO. SYDNEY. The Bill for ihe repeal of Nowspapor post.vge has passed the first reading. The French transports Guerriere and Garrono arrived with 1250 communist prisoners. During a violent thunderstorm at Rockhampton, a boat capsized, and Wildridjje, boat builder, five children, and a sailor were drowned.

ADELAIDE. Sir James Ferguson enters upon, bis duties iu March next. MELBOURNE, VERY LATEST, It is rumoured that Mr Fellows has accepted the Judgeship. Mr Brogden is in Melbourne. Parliament has passed a votonot to prorogue till the end of December. A collision between the two Houses is imminent. LATER ENGLISH MEWS. V E A. C A. IS JL JB . [Anglo Australian Press Telegraph Agency] LONDON DATES TO THE 14th INSTANT. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF BOSTON CONFLAGRATION. IMPENDING CONTINENTAL PANIC. LONDON. Nov. 12. In flour mills at Blackfriars, there has been destroyed, by fire, 100,000 quarters of grain. The ravages of the are at Boston exceed the worst anticipations. It covers a hundred acres of grouud, and includes the premises of all the principal hide and wool merchants. Loudon insurance offices suffer severely. Seven hundred firemen were on the scene. A continental panic is apprehended. Batewell, Secretary to Treasury of the United States, in order to prevent panic iu Boston, and to alleviate distress, will sell gold largely. Rumours are rife of dissension in the Cabinet. Sir Henry Rawlingston in his inaugural address stated that Stanley fairly earned the Geographical Society's medal. He also stated that friends of Livingston have organised a relief expedition to start for the Westcoast of Africa. The expedition will go to Congo River. Money stringent. Nov. 14. Four hundred laborers embarked for New Zealand. The Australian meat dinner was a great success.