DUNEDIN.
[special to the Btab.] March 1. A fire broke out between 3 and 4 o'clock this morning in the Railway Hotel, Milton, resulting in the total destruction of the premises and contents. The landlord was in Dunedin afc the time of the fire. The building was insured for £200, and the stock and furniture for £250. James Fairburn, aged 12, son of a settler at Taieri lieach, had his loft leg torn off below the knee by the machinery of a horse-power threshing mill, in which he got entangled. The limb was bandaged to stop the bleeding, and the Rev. Bourie took the boy in a buggy
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 3398, 1 March 1879, Page 2
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113DUNEDIN. Star (Christchurch), Issue 3398, 1 March 1879, Page 2
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