AUCKLAND.
This day
The Wade Hotel, owned by Mr Maurice Kelly was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. No conjecture can be made as to the cause. Tho hotel stock was only partially insured.
The body of a man was found in Slippery Creek, near Drury, yesterday. Identity is unknown.
The Rev. Mr Habens, InspectorGeneral of Schools, is now in Auckland as Commissioner,, enquiring into the management of the Howe Street Industrial Home, and is also about to conduct an enquiry relative to the complaints against the management of Kohiraarama Training School.
At the police Court this morning a savage case of assault was tried. Thomas Burt, a miner, was disputing with Martin Danaber about wages when the latter gave him several violent blows, knocked him down, and hammered him when prostrate. On his attempting to rise he threw him down the embankment, and cast heavy lumps of rock at him, exclaiming, "You damned new chum, Til kill you!",
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3607, 19 July 1880, Page 2
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160AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3607, 19 July 1880, Page 2
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