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(FKOXI OUK OW>* UOKKESPONJJENTS.) CHRISTCHITR CH. December 22. A person was charged this morning, at the Resident Magistrate's Court, with defacing a railway ticket by rendering the date illegible. Mr. Cowlishaw defended the accused, and the case was adjourned for a week, that the railway authorities might be consulted. Yesterday morning a very destructive fire broke out at Lyttelton. It originated, it is supposed, in Pope's blacksmiths shop, which, together with Bain's grocer's shop, the old Bank of New Zealand, Captain Wood's chandlery store, and a small cottage belonging to Captain Wood was destroyed. The following are the insurances :—Bain's stock L3OO in the Colonial, and the building Ll2O in the Sun ; Pope's building and machinery LGcSS, aird the old Bank L2OO in the London and Lancashire ; Wood's building and stock L 950, principally in the South British. The aggregate sums issued fall very short of the value of the property destroyed. Wood had 100 tons of coal and 40 cords of firewood destroyed, which were uninsured. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1150, 22 December 1879, Page 2
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178SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1150, 22 December 1879, Page 2
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