AUCKLAND.
This day.
A fire broke ont at two this morning in a twelve.room building in Hobson street, owned by Gleeson, a publican, and rented by a labourer named Long* whose wife is a milliner and dressmaker. The fire began in an empty room at the back. All contents were destroyed; It was insured for one hundred pounds. Dampier's shop adjoining was gutted, but though the burning building was a mass of flames, and connected with Dampier's, 'the Fire Brigade got such a force of water on it that they battered out the fireDampier was insured for five hundred in Standard and three hundred in the Union. The damage done to Dampier is only such as done by the removal and water.
Le Soeur was sentenced to seven years for arson and falsely accusing two other men of burning the Bey. Mr Barlow's house at Waikato.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3294, 12 July 1879, Page 2
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146AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3294, 12 July 1879, Page 2
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