DUNEDIN.
[special to the Star.] March 1. A fire broke out between 3 and 4 o'clock this morning in the Railway Hotel, Milton, resulting in the total destruction of the premises and contents. The landlord was in Dunedin at the time of the fire. The building was insured for £200, and the stock and furniture for £250.
James Fairburn, aged 12, son of a settler at Taieri Beach, had his left leg torn off below the knee by the machinery of a horse-power threshing mill, in which he got entangled. The limb was bandaged to stop the bleeding, and the Rev. Bourie took the boy in a buggy to drive him to Dunedin for surgical aid, but he died at Saddle Hill. -Star, 1/3/1879.
Taieri Beach Cemetery.
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