SPECIAL TELEGRAMS
(FROM OUR OWX CORRESPONDENT.)
DUNEDIN. May 6. Two hotels were totally destroyed by fire at Kingston at G o'clock on Sunday morning. The fire originated in Kerr's, upstairs, and extended afterwards to Anderson's. Three men were roasted to eind. rs : one was named John Dougherty, another R. M'Cnm, but the traiifl of the third is nnkn-.wi). A small amount of personal property only was saved. There were no appliances available for extinguishing ihe lire. Anderson is insured for about LSOO in the New Zealand and X.oi.mai Companies; Kerr is insured for L6OO only upon (he hotel. Both were new hou-es near the railway station. John Ahem, a well-known miner, was instantaneons'y crushed to death yesterday while working in shallow ground (only four feet deep), at the Eight Mile,
Tiie Prinr.-'ss Theatre was crowded to excess on Snndav evening to hear the R v. Dr. Som; rville. In ordering that a criminal prosecution for fraudulent insolvency be taken against a baiiknuir. named Miller to-day, Mr. Jusi ice Williams said that the bankrupt wanted ro milce out that he was a fool ; the trustees said that ho was a knave, and it would be for the jury to determine under which category he came.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 626, 6 May 1878, Page 2
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