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The Fire at Auckland Asylum
Auckland, September 27. At the inquest on the body of the woman burned at the Asylum, the evidence showed conclusively that the lire originated in her cell. She bad (alien some matches in the presence of visitors in the afternoon, and a search failed to discover them. She had never been taken out of the cell. The jury returned a verdict “ That Mary Ann Fortune met her death by burning, in a cell at the Whan Lunatic Asylum, but how or by what means the tire originated (-here is no evidence to show.” The jury appended the following rider —That the discipline carried out in the Auckland Asylum is of a most defective character, and that the Government are greatly to blame for the insullicicnt appliances for extinguishing fire.” Wellington, September 27. There is considerable grumbling about town this morning amongst business men at the alleged inconsistencies displayed in the allotting of shares iu the Union Firg and Marino Insurant Co.
Dunedin, September 27. A meeting was held in the Provincial Council Chambers last night for the purpose of considering a circular which had been received by his Worship the Mayor from the Secretary of the Ballarat Juvenile Exhibition. It was resolved “That this meeting approve of, and heartily sympathise with, the proposed Juvenile Industrial Exhibition to be opened onMarcb Ist, 1878, at Ballarat; and that an industrial exhibition of exhibits, to be forwarded to Ballarat, take place in Dunedin in the last week of January,” An influential committee was appointed to give effect to the resolution. The hon. secretary of the Otago Cricket Association wrote by yesterday’s mail to Mr J. Conway, offering the Australian team the use of the ground free of expense, but without a money bonus, promising at the same time that the association would do its best to ensure the success of the match, should the Australians be induced to visit us.
Charles Spurgeon, alias Grcorgc Simmons, was arrested yesterday charged with forgery and uttering five cheques in Dunedin.
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1016, 27 September 1877, Page 2
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344TELEGRAPHIC. Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1016, 27 September 1877, Page 2
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