DUNEDIN.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1625, 30 April 1875, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.) This day. Destructive Fire.—"Want of "Water-

In,the Heriot Row, a large two-storey dwelling house of wood, was burned at one o'clock this morning. The house was occupied by Mr Swan and a family of six, new arrivals from home. When the fire was first discovered three buckets of water would have extinguished it, but being on a high level of the town, not a drop was to be obtained. Thirty firemen were present, who stood and could only watch the fire. The blaze for forty minutes was terrific. The house' was valued at £700, and was uninsured. Swan's loss of furniture was £300— not covered, aa the policy ha(l been allowed to lapse in the National. The town now is entirely at the mercy of fire, as there is not L a drop of water in any part, and no sign of >apa_k xiua. ow*w^ Horsewhipping an Editor. that 7 Mr Wanders; M.P.C., Qdeenstown, editor / of tbe Mail, has been horsewhipped by JD. Powell, * for article's in that paper whiph he adeemed ioalicionSi Powell waa sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment,'' without- the'; option of a fine. The case, on application, "■'

was afterwards reheard, and Powell admitted to bail.

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