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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1196, 5 October 1882, Page 2

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-M. , jUNITEp FBEBB AB3OU{AHON| BIGAMY. Adolund, October A. Samuel Joy, for bigamy, has been sentenced to two months imprisonment without hard labor. NEW PBOTECTIVE RULES FOB PUBLICANS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) > Donedin, Ootober 4, TAe Licensed Victuallers Committee liave decided to recommend to the Association the keeping of a pester pf .all hired servants with the reason of tljqir discharge; also of all defaulting boarders, to be open for inspeotion of members j also, ,to ask the Government to appoint proper excise officers with power to obtain samples of liquor from hotelkeepers. A MOST STRANGE STOBY. Dusedis, October d, :A pery strange occurrence is reported to have taken place in Mosgiel. About 1. a.m. on Tuesday Mrs Burnett, the wife of the constable etationgd thorp feofing restless, awoke herbusband and afked hjm to look through the house as sho felt rather uneasy. Mr Burnett rose, and Wkod into tho raoms, and finally into the room, whore lay the corpse of tho late Ct nstable Onsell. As he opened the. door he saw a blase, and quickly perceived.the room to be on fire, ho procured buckets.of;water, and soon' quenched the flames, H6;iv ; the fire originated is a mystery. ; /Ai candle ; had been left burning in the room, but it was on the table, while the fire was on the floor in the corner of the room.' A portmanteau was burned, and the flames from itjhadoharred the table underneath, but the top of the tablj showed no eigu of fire.. There was a sheet oyer the coffin, bnt the flanes had not reached it.