That Demon Drink Again.
A MAN BURNED TO DEATH. Hokitika, last night A frightful casualty happened at Rimu thig morning. Three men and one woman had been having a drunken carousal in a hut at Back Creek, where J. Boniesis became so in. sensible that he was left in the hut when the other parties left. The hut was found burnt to the ground some time later, and the man’s blackened corpse was also lying amongst the debris of the fire which had been left on the hearth when the others left, and it is supposed that the defective chimney set the struotuig on fire.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 19, 26 July 1887, Page 2
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105That Demon Drink Again. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 19, 26 July 1887, Page 2
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