FIRE AT GREY MOUTH.
[by telegraph.— prkss association.] Greymoctit, Monday. By a fire yesterday, at Dunganville, the store and hotel of Mr. McKechnie, and the store of Mr. McPhee were burned down, everything bping destroyed. The inmates had some difficulty in escaping, the places being wrapped in flames when the alarm was given. Mr. and Mrs. McKechnie escaped through the windows. Mr. McPhee was uninsured, and Mr. McKechnie was insured for only about one-third of the value of the property. The fire is supposed to have originated in Mr. McKochnie's billiard-room.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7658, 8 June 1886, Page 5
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