DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT INVERCARGILL. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Invercargill, Thursday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1911, 4 October 1884, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT INVERCARGILL. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Invercargill , Thursday.

A run; broke out this foienoon m Decstreet, the most valuable pait of the town. It ia,ged thiou^hout mobt of the day, and w.is only extinguished in the afternoon. The supply of wntci was most inadequate. At one tune the the was got under, but it broke out again, owing to the poor Mipplv of water. Fioin the list of insurances it will be seen who w ere the sufferers: — Craigs stock (slightly damaged by water), £1300 in the National Office. W. Smith's stock, £2000, divided as follows: New Zealand, £500; Royal, £750; Northern, £250; Australian Merchantile Union, £000 (half ie-insured). Smith's shop, (owned by Mr Sloan) and Mr Sloans warehouse, insured for £<!50 vi Noiwich Union, and £">OO in E initable ; Sloans str ck, £1000 in Colonial (750 re in sured), £700 in South Btitwh, £500 in Liveipool, London and (ilobe, £500 in Royal (paitly ie-insurod). Mi Sloan also had a lot of stock o\ei Craigs shop. It wjk damaged byuater, •nid is insuicd for 41000 in the Lncipool, London and Globe. Reid and Fergusson's stock : £100 in the Equitable, and on stock and fittings £.100 m the Noith British. Mr P. Ross had his building insured for £l") 0 in the North Britibh, and £50 in the Rov.il. Mr Cleves pi praises': £200 in the Equitable, and £100 with Ramburg-M.tde-V>Ul£. Cleve'.s stock, £500 in Colonial office. Cowper and Wilson's shop, £2(50 m Austtalian Meichantile ITnion, £100 in Royal, £500 in United. Stock : i'nOO in South British, £500 in Equitable, £500 in Standaid, £1000 in Austialhm Meichantile Union, any £250 on fixtuies in same office. £100 in Royal, and £"500 in United. Cooper and Wilson's brick stoic is insmed for £1000 in the South British, and £>00 in the Not them, and stock for £ r ioo in the Northern, £1000 in Standard, £500 in Hamburg and Madeburg, and £1005 in United. Total insurances, £18,050.

The oldest ship afloat in the Biitish mercantile navy is a colier brig, belonging to South Shields, named Brotheily Love, and it is claimed that this is the identical vessel upon which the circumnavigator, Capt James Cooke, served out his time as an apprentice. It is a singular fact that the great majority of distinguished men have not adopted the practice of using a middle name. Julius Ciesar, Christopher ("olumbus, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Daniel Webster, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Ben Jonson, Samuel Johnson, John Bunyan, Oliver Cromwell, John Dryden, Oliver' Goldsirith, Washington Irving, Martin Luther, Benjamin Diraeli, Henry Clay, Michael Angelo, William Cobbet, Charles Lamb, Napoleon Bonaparte, John Wesley, are conspicuous examples, to which infinite additions might be made. "Bre\d !" exclaimed a Vassal' College girl. " Bread ! Well, I should say I can make bread. We studied that in our fhst year. You see the yeast ferments, and the gas thus formed permeates everywhere and transforms the plastic material into a clearly obvious atomic structure, and then " " But what is the plastic material you speak of?" "Oh, that is commonly called the sponge." "But how do you make the sponge ?" ' Why, you don't make it ; the cook always attends to that. Then we test the sponge with the thermometer and hydrometer, and a lot of other instruments, the names of which I don't remember, and then hand it back to the cook, and I don't know what she does with it then, but when it comes on the table it is just splendid. — Chicago Sunday Herald. The thoroughbred horse Fisherman will travel in the Pukerimu, Ohaupo, Te Awamutu, J&bikihi, Rangia'ohia, Cambridge and Hamilton districts tl«s 3c»sga,