A DANGEROUS PRACTICE.
To the Editor, . Sir.— l see by your paper that "the fire on Saturday afternoon was caused bv hot ashes hav ng been thrown into a cask, which they ignited, the flames then spreading to the house destroyed. This daneerous p-aotice Seems to find favor at Kensington, for. during the progress of the fire, 1 saw standing outside a cottage not ten yards from tbaburnin? one another cask containg live sshes and rui'bish. wh.ch were smouldering away vigorously and raising a small cloud of smoke under the very noses of the policemen present. On drawing the attention of the tenant of this cottage to it he coolly asserted that the contents of the cask had just been blown into it, being debris from the fire ; but he did not explain bow the hundredweight or so of hot ashes and the rest had managed so cleverly to be blown into the cask—not a particle’ having fallen outside. Is there no bye-law which will touch the lunatics who are guilty of these acts of folly; or are such excusable on the ground that “these cottages were Government property and so it didn’t matter?”—l am, &c., F. Dunedin, December 21
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Evening Star, Issue 3692, 22 December 1874, Page 3
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200A DANGEROUS PRACTICE. Evening Star, Issue 3692, 22 December 1874, Page 3
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