INCENDIARY FIRES.

Evening Star, Issue 4149, 14 June 1876, Page 4

INCENDIARY FIRES.

At the public meeting at Palmerston on Friday, to consider what steps should be taken to prevent further loss to the settlers from incendiaries, the following resolutions were aimed “ That in the opinion of this meeting the numerous and disastrous fires of grain in the stack (which there can be no doubt is the work of an incendiary), will produce the moat dua trous effect on the agricultural interests and general prosperity of this and that some stringent means ©tight to be tried to prevent them occurring again.” The motion was carried unanimously. The following motion was also submitted to the meeting, and carried without dissent That in the opinion of this meeting the Government and Insurance Offices should be respectfully asked to offer a large reward, say LSOO, to any Grson giving .such information as will id- to the conviction of the offender.— On Monday last another mysterious fire took place in the Palmerston district, and although the loss is not very heavy, it is as . well'to give it publicity. The ‘ Times ’ reports a man named Thomas Murray, who earns his living by cutting chaff, hod his straw burned and his machine damaged in this annoying way, and it is the more strange as-no one lives near the place (on Kartigi Beach), and the man himself had not been near it for some days.