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(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON, This Day. A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out in Croskery’a (late Croskery and Hassell) auction mart at 10 o’clock last night. The back part of the mart was completely destroyed, and Wiggins’ saddlery store on the south side, and Halliday and Co. *8 stationery shop on the other, were damaged ; the latter is the greatest sufferer, large quantities of his stock being damaged by water. The origin of the fire is unknown, no person having been on the premises since six o’clock in the evening. The correct insurances are not yet ascertained.
DUNEDIN, This Day. . The following notice of motion has been given for the next meeting of the City Council : —“ That the Mayor and Town Council, on behalf of the people of Dunedin, desire to convey their hearty congratulations to the Imperial Government on the success which has been achieved by Her Majesty’s forces in Egypt, aud that this resolution be sent to the Colonial Government with a request that they will be good enough to transmit it to the Imperial Government.
AUCKLAND, This Day. Elizabeth Allen, formerly wife of an officer in the British army, has been charged with the larceny of a quantity of dress cloth, aud discharged, but conviction was reserved. Joseph and Son’s shop at Pousonby Road was set on fire by the capsizing of a kerosene lamp. The damages are estimated at £6O. The building was insured in the South British.
NAPIER, This Day. The entries for the Agricultural and Pastoral Show on Thursday week are not quite so numerous as last year. They number 94 horses, 55 cattle, and 171 sheep. Since last municipal elections the Borough Council, viewing with alarm the fact that the revenue cannot meat the estimated expenditure by £2OOO, resolved on retrenchment, and to that end notices of motion are given for a spouiul meeting to be held to-morrow to give three mouths' notice to Engineer, Overseer of Roads, and Inspector of Nuisances, that their services wifi be dispensed with after that period.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1160, 27 September 1882, Page 2
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340LATEST TELEGRAMS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1160, 27 September 1882, Page 2
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