AUCKLAND. 13th November.
News has been received in town of the complete destruction by fire of two stores attached to Gibbon's sawmills, at Otaua Creek, near Awitu. Nothing was saved. The buildings were insured in the North British Insurance Company for The proposed mile race between O'Connor and Vaughan for __20 a-side has ended in nothing, the backers of the former athlete having withdrawn. He has received an invitation to enter for the Dunedin Caledonian games, with the object of competing for the champion belt and .£6O. Vaughan, who is now in Auckland, returns to the West Coast in a few days. Both men have been challenged by W. J. Burke, of Dunedin, the champion mile runner of the colony, for any sum up to .£SOO a-side.
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Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1879, Page 2
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127AUCKLAND. 13th November. Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1879, Page 2
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