GREAT CONFLAGRATION AT LYTTELTON.

Dunstan Times, Issue 445, 28 October 1870, Page 3

GREAT CONFLAGRATION AT LYTTELTON.

HUNDRED THOUSAND , POUNDS DAMAGE. [by electric telegraph.] front OUK OWN COIU ESPONnEXT. Dunedin, Tuesday, 11.40 a m A most disastrous fire occurred last night at Lyttelton, which raged four hours. The entire block of buildings, bounded by London, Oxford, and Canterbury-streets, and Norwich Quay are destroyed. Two thirds of the Town is laid in ruins. Large numbers of families are houseless. The whole of the Butchers’ and Bakers’ shops are destroved. Food has to be sent from Christchurch. The loss is estimated at XI 00,000. Hie cause is unknown

The existenecof a curious custom relating to courtship was elicited duringthe hearing in the Kirkby Lonsdale police court, a few days ago, of a charge against two young farmers, named Mason and Middleton, residing at the townshipof Lupton, of having a-saulted another young man, named Aitkinsnn, who lives at Hutton Roof. The complainant’s ease was that he was walking out on Sunday the 19th June, in company with a young woman, when both defendants ran behind him ; that Mason threw a sack over his head, his companion Middleston, getting hold of him round the waist to make him all the more secure ; that on his wishing to get away from them Middleton struck him in the fa:e (the complainant had a very had black eye), Mason holding him meanwhile ; and that after he got released Middleton got hold of him again when Mason tried once more to put the sack over his head. In cross-examination complainant admitted that he was out on a courting expedition ; that he had heard there was a custom prevalent around Kirkby Lonsdale that it a young man went out of his own township to court a girl in another he was expected to pay his footing or to be ‘ sacked that before anything was clone at him he wasasked to pay a shilling, which ho refused to do ; that he was told he would be “ sacked" if he did not pay. At the magistrates suggestion, the complainant withdrew the chargeon the defendants consenting to pay co ts. m “Gentleman of thejury.”said a blundering attorney in a suit about a lot of hdgs—- “ Gentleman of the jury, there wore just thirty-six hogs in that drove ; please remember that fact—thirty-six hogs—just exactly three times m many as there are in that jury box, gentlemen. That attorney did’ut gain his caee.

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