The Marlborough Express contains the following telegram from Greville’s Auckland agent:—“ A great fire is raging in Short ly. The south-west side of Pollen-street from the old Bank of New Zealand to Litch fieJds and Rennets, a distance of ‘ one mile,’ is destroyed. No particulars have arrived yet.” It will that the Provincial Goverdiliient advertised during last week for a qualified Medical Practitioner to t&ke ex clusive charge of any small-pox-cases that might arise.. Only two applications have been made .for the office, and yesterday no decision hid been arrived at by the Execu tive as to the chosen man .^Herald. The following is the operative clause in the Deceased Wife’s Sister Marriage Bill, ■which our readers will remember was read a second time on Friday last:—All marriages which have been heretofore, or which shall be hereafter duly solemnised within the colony of-New Zealand, between any person and his deceased wife’s sister, shall be deemed to have been; and to be, and are hereby de clared valid, any law or custom to the con trary notwithstanding.
