DUNEDIN.
Thursday, , The residence of Mr W, 0, Norman, goods traffic manager of the railway at Green bland, was totally destroyed by fire at four o'clock this morning, Not an article was saved, tho inmates only just escaping in their night-clothes. Tho building was insured only last week.in the Australian Alliance for £SOO, and the furniture in the South British for £415, and in the Colonial for £3OO. The Star states that thousands of marbles have been purchased here and sent to the nativo districts in the North, The Itoyal Commission on cducatjJgftitTwo thousand two hundred and jections have been male to the Land Tax in Otago, Between May IG and June 13 nominations were mado in Dunedin for 272 souls, equal to 233 statute adults—the largest number of applications received within a similar period for a long time past. The letters torn iome describing distress, have a great deal to do with it, .
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 191, 21 June 1879, Page 2
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154DUNEDIN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 191, 21 June 1879, Page 2
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