DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3584, 6 January 1883, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

This day. A twelve-roomed house in Manor Place, owned and occupied by Captain Stewart, was completely gutted this morning. It was uninsured. Airs Massey was admitted to bail last ldght, the sureties being Alessrs Fitchett and Berry. It is expected that Massey will be released to-day. Great interest is taken iv the case. A peculiar larceny case came on for hearing at the City Court yesterday, in which a man named Edward Gilbert was charged with stealing a quantity of silks. Airs Russell, the prosecutrix, whose house was burned down on Monday, alleged that she gave the silk to Gilbert to mind. The accused said he had been led into the affair by erne of the witnesses, and he was sentenced to three months imprisonment. On leaving the dock Gilbert told the witness that he had better clear out of the country before he came out of gaol. A mason's laborer mimed Aitken, employed at the new high school bmldings, met with his death somewhat peculiarly yesterday. He fell on a stone-wall along which he was walking, and when picked up was found to have broken his neck. No one saw him stumble, but at most he did not fall over eighteen inches. _ He was a married man, with seven of a family.