PROVINCIAL NEWS
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Christchurch, May 21. Jonathan Bamford, a farmer residing by himself at W.est Melton, was found
dead in his house Inst night. He had been unwell for a considerable time. A foreigner named George Millar, with several aliases and believed to be a New Caledonian convict, was committed for trial to day for breaking into and stealing jewellery from a house at Spreydon ; he is now undergoing sentence for several charges of larceny. Dunedin, May 21. In the District Court to-day Judge Waid ruled that mining companies cannot make bills of exchange. Auckland, May 19. A hushraan, James Billing, employed by M'Beath and M‘Donald, bush contractors, Ivekerangi, left his whare on Sundnv and has not since been heatd of. He is supposed to have been lost in the bush. A party started in search of the missing man. A verdict of £250 and costs was awarded by the jury against the Auckland Tramway Company in the case of Mrs James Brewer, who hurt her knee by tripping right into a trench of the line in course of construction.
May 21. A decree nisi was granted in the case, Robert Fawcett v. Elizabeth Fawcett and William Edward Downing, co-respondent. ’
NARROW ESCAPE OF PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. Wellington, May 19, Information has Just leaked out that the Parliament buildings had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on Saturday night. A few minutes before seven on that evening, the messenger on duty at the Speaker’s private apartments had occasion to enter Sir iVlaurice o‘Rorkc’s sitting room, when he discovered the wooden manlleplece to be on fire. He immediately called for assistance, and had one of the hose reels kept on the premises ran out and the fire extinguished before any serious amount of damage was done. Had the fire not been discovered at the moment it was, the probability is that the whole building would have been destroyed, including a valuable library, as within five minutes after that time id is usual on Saturday' night for the Speaker’s apartments to be locked up.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2981, 22 May 1886, Page 2
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