ISLAND NEWS
(PKK PRBSia ASSOCIATION* Attoxland, December 23. The steamer Richmond from the Islandi reports a great fire at Nukualofa, Tonga, aarly on ihe morning of the 16th last, when the Government bonded stores and armonrp, Giles' store, and O. K. Walter 1 ! offigßff,beuldea other buildings, were barned to tbe ground, Besides a lavge quantity of gunpowder and dynamite, the armoury contained tbtea heavy guns belonging to the Tongan Permanent. Artllltry* and the bonded store also contained a largo amount of kerosene and other goods belonging to various storekeeper! of Nukualofa Absolutely everything was lost la the flames. . • .. * By the s.s. Blohmond there arrived tha future K'ng of Tonga, In the person of Prinoe George Tanpu Auho, |who Is re* malning here, and parpoaes attending the high school. Prinoe George la about 16 yea,is of age, t>nd now holds la to. aotdanoa with the Tongan constitution th© posttlon of the late Prinoe L© Fonl, as heir apparnet to the TQDgtn throne. Forty Haratonga singers and; d^noera' also cams by the nme g'enmar.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2312, 23 December 1889, Page 2
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172ISLAND NEWS Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2312, 23 December 1889, Page 2
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