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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1513, 19 October 1883, Page 2

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■•'■'• ..■ ..■■ ■ --.vi ... -■•■,•!; ' . • i :PftESB'ASSOCIATION. (" ;i >A CORPSE IN THE WAilffia ; ' ITRE AT'aUOKLANDK'' ! ' . Auckland, PridayV'; A corpse has been found ] in;-the Waikata'river near Huntley, which is supposed to be the body of Spi6eiV-who committed suicide at Cambridge, forty miles further up the river, | .A fire broke out this I morning in tosrs Garrett Bros.: boptfactory, The origin | of the fire to-unknown. WjlJiam and Richard Garrett reside in a dwelling house adjacent, with -their mother and- sister, .for a month-past carpenters and. painters; have ibee'n working ia the factory on a night contract, making ialterations: [ to 'the premises, and they were so working up to half-past eleven o'clock lastnightj There were some shavings necessarily about the floor, but Richard Gar-! refct, who let; the-, workmen put, and looked up the pre'mises, left them! to the best of his belief perfectly safe,; and went.to his bed in the dwelling,house adjacent;:, About-one o'clock some cahmenwho reside on the opposite ; side of thestreet aroused 'the':family up,'ahd on Garrett,.'partially dressed, going outside lie saw that.the fire'was raging in the boot factory. :The factory 1 fire-bell rang to .give/alarm, butUe sound not oeing heard any great, ia¥ tancethemanran downi-jp Grty-stV 'fire-bell. and rang outanatarm : frohi it. The lower storey -warehouse is completely gutted. The damage is estimated between £2OOO .axid £3OOO.