FIRES.— INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED.
Inveecaegill, This day
A stackof oaten hay and achaff cutter have been destroyed by fire on Messrs Mclntyro and Jackson's farm at Wyndham Valley. Tho loss is £100, and there is no insurance. A threshing mill belonging to Mr Sheehan, near Riversdale, has been burned. It was insured for £300, and incendiarism is suspected. The South Invorcargill Town Hall was burned down last night. When the fire was first observed it had obtained too great a hold to admit of anything being done. It was insured for £150 in tho Royal office. The safe was afterwards found unlocked among the ruins, and it is believed that nearly all tho Corporation records for the last seven years have been lost, together with the valuation roll and rate books. Rumors of incendiarism are afloat, and the police are inquiring. The hall was occupied last night by a Good Templar lodge. They had a tiro burning at night, but state that it was reduced to a few embers when they left, and that they were carefully raked together before the place was closed.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3801, 20 September 1883, Page 3
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183FIRES.— INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3801, 20 September 1883, Page 3
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