AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4282, 21 September 1882, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

I Last night. A seven-rootned cottage, Wood street, Ponsonby, was destroyed by fire at 7.30 to night. The house was owned by Mr Thomas, grocer, and unoccupied. Reid, in whose shop the fire in the Khber Pass originated, went to Te Awamutu intending -.to return on Saturday. He left the shop in charge of an employee named Alfred King, who slept on the premises. King went home at 1 this morning and lit a fire for the pur- ! pose of heating glue, being desirous of glueing a joint before he went to bed. He retired to rest, and at three o'clock found the room full of smoke and as the staircase was on fire he had to escape by the window. Mr Brimblecome, of the Queen's Head Hotel, bad £50 worth of goods stacked in Esid's shop, aji of which were destroyed, and not ;insured. The total loss is close on £3000, of which £2100 is insured. • Mr Hawley, late of the Thames, has been appointed postmaster at Cambridge. Two lads were sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for larrikiuism in the market | at the.Police;Court today. „ \

[Per Pbess Association.]