TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 73, 10 September 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT FIRE IN DUNEDIN.

Frightful Loss of Life. [From our own Correspondent.] One of the most disasterous 'fires — aa far as the sacrifice of -life is concerned — -which has ever taken place m the polonies occurred m Dunedin on Monday morning The fire broke out m a large building m the Octagon occupied as a cafe and boarding house, and although most of the. inmates escaped, although more or leas injured, ap- ... palling to chronicle almost a whole family living next dosr perished m the flames. Mr. Robert Wilson, for many years publisher of ii\& Daily Times, but of lat* years •dilor of the Otajjo TWitaess, with-his wife and six children fell victims to the tad catastrophe) nor is this- all, the. list has been further supplemented by the discovert ing of another body, supposed to be that of a colored man named Bowman, while it ia unhappily supposed there are a number of other victims, whose names cannot ba discovered for som.a time! The list of persons, either severoly or slightly injujred is a large one, and the scene during the short titna the appalling occurrence waf before th> liqrrified spectators was. heartrending m tho extreme. Thet following is the list, of those whoa* remains were recovered ft»ra, tb,a fire i— * Bobert Wilson, aged 5$ ; Sarah age.d 40 Wilson, aged 8. Laurence Wilson,' aged 4 George Martin, aged 24 John Taylor, aged 20 . There has also been a man taken oufc.wha < is not idendified, buj; supposed to b© Swan, beside another man and a boy, not .known. The police are making inquiries, and it is anticipated that some light will be thxown upon the origin of the fire. ' " Wblmkchow, Tuesday, p.m. HffORE IMMIGRANTS, ;.:■ . Three hundred immigrants arrived th% mofning from London. ... ~ ■ The latest returns from Blenhtim gjr* , Seymour a majority of 31. waikaba. ]■.-.■ Ireland ... ... v . . 238 M'Miwo' ..V ... 168 HUTT. ■■ . V lioweJ Hutt— Jackson, 93 j Mason, 84 % > Taiti— Jackson, 2 j. '■ " Mjason, .81. Uppe^. Hutt— Jackson, 45 ; Maspn, 85. "v^ainuis, < omata— -Jackson, 0 ; MaaQn/lfci $ot4— Mason, 167 ; Jiwfao^l4o. OAVBBSHAJT. . ■<$ ' Barron, roturnedv TAIEBI. Fulton, returned. . ignroß.- • ; Murray, returned., GKHAIiDHTH Wakefield, returned. • i ■ *" ..'-...■ . .-