DUNEDIN.
This day.
A fire broke out this morning, at about half-past 9 o'clock, in Messrs Passmore Bros.' rope factory, at Burnsider about four miles from Dunedin, by which the whole of the buildings were destroyed, with the exception of the engine-house and the rope. The damage is estimated at fully £4000, and the firm will be heavy losers, the insurances being as follows: — South British £200, Northern £250, Union £350, Equitable £250, Australian Mercantile £250, and the Norwich Union £250. The hands were in full work at the time of the outbreak, and it is supposed that the firs was caused by a spark from the engine igniting some of the hemp.
The Worth Dunedin Eifles in the match against Oamaru made 564 The B. Bat* tery fires to*morrow.
The young man Marr was convicted on four charges of stealing monies, the property of the Tasmanian cricketers, and was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4714, 15 February 1884, Page 2
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155DUNEDIN. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4714, 15 February 1884, Page 2
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