[The-following appeared in our issue of Saturday last:—J 1 SUPPLEMENTARY TELEG BAMS. (From our own correspondent.) Dunedin, Friday, 8 p.m. Bathgate delivered judgment to-day in - the test case Police v. Barker. He- decided' that no night licenses are in existence, or are required. Notice of appeal has been given. A fire occurred at Strachan'B brewery this morning which destroyed the .bottling establishment. Insured to £IOOO. William Smi'.h, employed on the railwavat" (Jreytown, was billed bv a fall.of earth. The.fire-brigade tower.and..offices at Hokitika have been destroyed -by fire under extraordinary circumstances. During "the height of a storm last night a t tlmnderbolt struck the tower, setting the building ablaze. No alarm could be sounded, or the engines worked. The watchman had left the building before the height of the storm. : At the opening of the Ore bridge: Fitzherbert made a fierce speech, denouncing tie action of those stnving-to abolish"Provincialism—such a step involving such a deprival tion of popular privileges as would lead to bloodshed in other countries. " i
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 308, 22 January 1875, Page 3
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