The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-07 00:00:00

FIRE AT ALICE TOWN.

From a letter received by this morning's post we
extract the following account of a destructive fire
which took place at Alice Town on the 31st ult., and
which appears to have occurred in consequence of
some natives being employed in cooking in a small
house, used for culinary purposes, which was con-
tiguous to the commissariat stores:—
" Alice, June 1, 1848.
" Last night this post (Fort Hare) was in a great state
of excitement, a fire having broken out in the commis-
sariat hay stores, close to the powder magazine, between
six and seven, pair. We were hard at work till near
one o'clock, A.M., when the fire was prevented from ex-
tending further. Two long range of buildings are down
to the ground, and it is said about 4001. of oat hay burnt.
It is still burning, and likely to do so, for another day.
Some of the other buildings were immediately unroofed,
or the fire would have greatly extended."

CONFLICT OF THREE EUROPEANS WITH A
KAFIR, IN WHICH THE LATTER WAS
MORTALLY WOUNDED.

The same post has brought us the intelligence of
the death of a Kafir by some Europeans. As the
letters which refer to this event were written when
the preliminary examinations were going for ward, we
can only give the perticulars which they supply :
"On the night of the 31st' ult., a little after nine
o'clock, a European came to the house of the resident
clerk of the peace, and stated that he had just been
assaulted by Kafirs. Ho appeared severely cut and
maltreated. On inquiring the particulars, ho said that
when about a mile from Alice on the Fortßeaufort road,
he was attacked by three Kafirs, and in defending him-
self he killed one of them, when the other two ran
away. The constable and another person, accompanied
by this man, immediately went to the place where the
outrage was said to have been committed. The night
was extremely dark, but they succeeded in reaching the
spot, and after searching some time for the body of the
Kafir, the man who reported himself to have been so
brutally used, exclaimed, ' Here he is 1' On approach-
ing nearer, they saw the body of a Kafir lifeless in the
centre of the road. The constable struck a light with a
view to examine the body, but on recollecting himself,
being near a dense bush, and unarmed, without knowing
the facts of the case, ho immediately extinguished it.
After removing the body from the main road to the side
of the bush, they returned to give information, and pro-
cure assistance from the military to bring the body to
Alice.
" A pity of thirty men were sent out, who on the
following,morning at ten o'clock brought in the corpse
on a stretcher, and conveyed it to the office, where a
doctor w s immediately called in to ascertain the cause
of his de th.
" On t o investigation of the case, it appears that the
Kafir was barbarously murdered. The Englishman who
reported isimself to have been attacked by three Kafirs
was in c' mpany with two other Europeans and this
Kafir, ant in some quarrel or other they fell upon him
and murd red him. Two of the men are now in custody,
and the constable is in search of the third."

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THE REbENT FATAL ACCIDENr AT THE LONDON
UNIVERSITY.—Late last evening. Mr. Mills, the deputy
coroner, held a leng honed invostigation at the Univer-
sity College Hospital, into the circurottances attending
the death of Charles Richard Wigniore, bricklayer, aged
28, whose death was occasioned by the giving way of
the scaffolding at the new wing of the University, LOW in
course of erection. W. Wigmoru, a brother of the de-
ceased, was upon the jury. After examining several
witnesses, the jury returned the following special ver-
dict, " That the deceased died from mortal injuries of
his body caused by his having fallen with a certain scaf-
fold, and that the said schffuld did fall and break down
owing to the sudden breaking of a certain pole, and that
the said pole was unsound and unfit for use in a scaffold,
and broke by means of its decay at a time when there
was great prtsure upon it, such as it was not calculated
to sustain an support." The inquiry did not terminate
till twelve o'tlock.
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