AUCKLAND.
This day
A fire broke out to day at Cooke's upholstery workshop, but it was extinguished with slight damage. This is the third outbreak in the same building within a month.
Three children were playiDg togaher to-day with matches, when a little girl
named O'lfara threw a lighted matcli on one of her companions named O'Meara. Both children aro aged about six. The clothes toot fiiv, find before it was extinguished tho child's body and arm 3 were frightfully burned and blackened. The skin is nearly nil off. She is not likely to recover.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2826, 6 March 1878, Page 2
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95AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2826, 6 March 1878, Page 2
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