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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2560, 30 March 1887, Page 2

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. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, March-29.'• The annual repart of the United Charitable jAid and* Hospital Board shows that the Board'! will have a credit, balance of about «£7oo to carry forward. Tho estimates for the coming year show that the contributions from local bodies will be .reduced, feting Dunedin Ciifcy aB an instance,.,,bV : ..pirmon.fcli, Tho/cost ofDuiiediii Hos-. pita)was much less.titan>'nvas anticraijil .'the. -committee think that' the average cost per patiflhi is less than in r any other hospital in the colouy,' . A five-roomed houso on the Waiotflhi Creek, occupied J57. an. old man named Robert Smith arid Iris .'wife, was totally destroyed by firo laßt night! ' Thero is 110 ihb'urance-, and tho' loss : is about' £BO, ' . .'A dividend of la per share (17,000 V lias been declared in the Cambria Goldmining Company. _ Woodyille. March 29, • R. G. Williams, lately carrying on a saddlery business in Woodvil'le, has been committed for trial on a charge of forcing a. signature 011 the hack of a P.N. for £42 2s 2d. .E, Haggen was last night presented with a handsome tea urn, on the occasion of his leaving tho district, Napier, March 30, A fire broke out in Heron's, bakery, a large brick building at the rear of the confectioner's shop in Emerson Street at one a.m. Six persons slept upstairs, and when they discovered the fire, the staircase was in flames, and the only means of escape was thus cut oil. Naked, as they jumped out of their beds, they had to get out by the window, and spring on to the iron roof of a leanto, which was- red hot, They saved their lives, but were terribly burned. The building and stock was insured for LSOO in the New Zealand Company.