BLENHEIM.
This day.
William Smith, laborer, working at Tuamarina was found drowned in a creek yesterday. He had been missing for some days, and had ; been drinking. He is supposed to have accidentally fallen into the stream.
;? Saturday.
Charles Lucas's grocery and boot store, Grove Road, was burnt out at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The family were all in the front shop with customers when a person out side, saw the fire coming out of the bed-room window in the rear, and all inside the room in a blaze. Nothing could be saved, neither clothing nor furniture. The building and stock were insured in the South British for £350; cause unknown.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3079, 30 December 1878, Page 2
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111BLENHEIM. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3079, 30 December 1878, Page 2
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