Detective Herbert arrested a man named George Henry this morning, on warrant, for an alleged breach of the Bankruptcy Act. .
Mr P. Perry's interest in the totalisators at Ellerslie was sold by auction at Messrs Cochrane and Son's to-day. Mr W. Bloomfield became the purchaser at £50.
Yesterday evening about 9 o'clock Mr E. J. Carr, on his way home, noticed a light in Allen's Saddle Factory, Beresford-street. On closer inspection he found a jet of gas burning near to a window blind; s'tjing the danger he got a neighbour to watch while he went for Mr Allen, who resides at Surrey Hills. Before he returned with Mr Allen the blind had caught fire, and the man on watch broke in the windows and extinguished it, thus saving the building and probably the adjoining houses.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 161, 9 July 1888, Page 5
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