FIRES.
The shop and dwellinghouse owned and occupied by Mr Kanby, at Woodend, was burned down at about half -past four on Saturday morning. Mr Ranby was away in Wellington at the time. A young woman with two or three children were in the house, but escaped without injury. Mrs Ranby's insurances were £100 on the house, and £25 on the furniture, both in/ the Royal Ofiice. A favourite mode of suicide among the African tribes who dwell near Lake Nyas?a is to wade into the lake aad calmly wait for a crocodile to open its mouth and show the way to eternity.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6486, 15 May 1899, Page 3
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