LOCAL AND GENERAL.
As the result of raid on a Chinaman's houSe on Saturday (states the Press Association),' Lay Fun was charged at Napier Court yeatciduy with being found in possession of opum suitable for .smoking, and he was fined £SO. \ . Griffiths, the owner of the Okorire Hotel, states that he was awakened at 5.30 in the morning, and saw from hi* bedroom window flames rising from the roof above the-billiard room. Bj the time he had aroused the boarders and got outside, the whole hotel seemed ablaze. AH escaped in most scanty clothing an dwith a few personal belongings. The building was valued ,at £6OOO. The insurance on the building and furnishings with the stock total £3OOO, in the United Insurance Company.—P. A.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 13, 14 September 1915, Page 7
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124LOCAL AND GENERAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 13, 14 September 1915, Page 7
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