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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1728, 8 June 1886, Page 4

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&'. • , s (united press association ; |. ' Dunedin, Monday. |-r_J!Villiam Home, a miner, at Skippers, I died sndflenly m his bnnk. &* William Boyd died suddenly while I riding between Frankton and Queens- %: town. |F- GREYMOtTTH, Monday. 15- ' Yesterday atDun?aville the store and & hotel of Mr McKechnie and the store of ; ; Mr McPhee were burnt down, everything > being destroyed. The inmates had some m escaping the places beinsr | .wrapped m flames. When the alarm £!rM given Mr and Mrs McKechnie esI caned thro«2[h the windows. McPhee SwaT uninsured and McKechnie insured for only about a Hiird of the value of the The Ere is snoposed to have §■ originated m McKechnie's billiard room. . j^ " Wellington, Monday. I' - On the last trip of the Wakatipu to ; Sydney, a man named Harry White was la passenger. It transpired that he had fe. lobbedhis eraployear, Thos. Dickson, of Westport, of £300 worth of jewellery F £ 9 00 : of which he dissposed of here, and ?'■ which the polico succeeded m recovering. ? White was arrested m Sydney on the '■- strength of a cablegram, and Constable t Mackinnon, of Westport, left by the i: Hauroto to-day to bring him back. | Hawera, Monday. & At the inqnpst on Me William, who £-•' was suffocated m a well, a verdict was I returned of accidental death, and uo ! ; blame to anyone.