INVERCARGILL.
January 24. Messra Dawson and Son's saw-mill, a few miles from town, was destroyed by fire yesterday. It appears that some children were playing with lucifers, and lighted $ tu,ssock to ihe windward side of ■tfce jtrnll, aticf a iftfjfng wind drove the flames tbjfrJheap °f slabs and debris, which soon olazroi '"-Two hundred and fifty thousand feet of timber, together with the machinery and, buildings, were The estimated loss is £2500, of which £500 is covered by inaurance.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2989, 24 January 1881, Page 3
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