AUCKLAND NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1101, 19 October 1883, Page 3

AUCKLAND NEWS.

(PER press association)

AUCKLAND, This day.

The corpse found in the Waikato river near Huntley, is supposed to bo the body of Spicer, who suicided at Cambridge, 40 miles further np the river.

Advices from Mr Vesey Stewart, nnd other sconrccs by the last English mail fully confirm the news of the Tan-ranga-Rolorna Railway bedng successfully negotiated for in London. Negotiations are now on foot with the same parties in London for a further extension of the railway line to Opotiki ns well as to Rotorua and with every prospect of success. The amount required will be forthcoming if the requisite concessions arc granted by the Government.

Additional particnlarsof fire : —Origin of the fire i§ unknown. William and Richard Garrett reside in a ‘dwelling house adjacent to the warehouse with their mother and sister. They state that for a month past carpenters and painters have been working in the factory &c., on a night contract making alterations to the premises and they were so working np to half past eleven o’clock last night. There, were some shavings necessarily about the floor bnt Richard Garrett who let the workmen out and locked np the premises left them to the best of his belief perfectly safe, and went to his bed in the dwelling honse adjacent. About one o’clock some cabmen who reside on the opposite side of the street aroused the family up, and on Garrett going ontside ho saw that a fire was raging in the Boot Factory. The fire bell was rang to give the alarm bnt its notes were not heard to any groat distance and a man ran down to the Grey-street firebell and rang out an alarm from it. The lower storey of the warehouse is completely gutted, the damage being estimated between £2OOO and £BOOO. CWe gather from the above that somebody’s boot-factory has been on fire. But the Press agent has not informed us to whom the premises belong and so the “ additional particulars ” are quite useless, Ed]