DUNEDIN. Ist April.
The provisions ot the folsons Act are not being strictly adhered to by vendors of poison, and the police are inquiring into tbe matter. A case df a chemist supplying sixpenny worth of laudanum, without tne sale being duly witnessed, has transpired. David Duncan, William Lee, and John Smith were to-day committed for trial for having maliciously set fire to a gorse fence at the Forbury Park. A lodging-house, owned by Mr. Muir, and occupied by Mr. M r Cartby, in View-street,' was burned down to-niirht. It was insured in the New Zealand office for £150. The cause of the fire is not known.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 384, 2 April 1879, Page 2
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107DUNEDIN. Ist April. Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 384, 2 April 1879, Page 2
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