CHRISTCHURCH.
This day. Only Le Loup, Chancellor, Tera, and , On Dit accepted out of 24 entries for the. ■;, Free Handicap. . .... Grip is scratched for all engagemenjf at the Autumn Meeting, *=s^" A fire at Major and Jarris' farm, Mount Thomas, destroyed two thousand : . tons of produce and fifteen stacks of grain standing in a 300-acre paddock in blocks a quarter of a mile distant from each other. As all were a-fire at the same time it is bcliered tobe the work of an incendiary. The stacks were fully insured. Eleren hundred volunteers arrired from the south. Complaints hare been . made that they looted a store at Ashbur* ton, taking £8 worth of goods, the owner being in bed.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3511, 27 March 1880, Page 2
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118CHRISTCHURCH. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3511, 27 March 1880, Page 2
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