DUNEDIN.
This clay. A lad named Boag, aged 12 years, has been drowned in the Shag river whilst bathing. The large house at the corner of Stuartstreet and Moray Place, occupied as a boarding house by Mrs Russell, which was burned down yesterday, was insured for £700 in the Equitable office, and for .i' 7-3 in the National office. The steamer Manapouri made the run from the Bluff to the wharf at Port Chalmers in eleven hours. Having read the account of the workdone by the school children of Fortrose in planting flowers and otherwise beautifying the graves of the Tararua victims in the cemetery there, a relative of one who is buried there sent €■') to be divided amongst the children. The latter have agreed to treat this as the nucleus of a fund which they ask all tho State schools in New Zealand to assist them in raising for the purpose of erecting monuments in the Fortrose cemetery and in the Tararua. acre at Otara, one in each, to those who were drow aecl in the Tararua. The children have forwarded one half of the .€-3 to the Otago Daily Times and the other half to the Southland News, which newspapers they have asked to receive subscriptions.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3581, 3 January 1883, Page 3
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208DUNEDIN. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3581, 3 January 1883, Page 3
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