Fires at Invercargill
LOSS OF MUNICIPAL RECORDS. [per uytTF.n phf.ss association. j IXVKRCABGILL. AllffllSt 12. A stack of oaten hay and a cna!T-ciitter was destroyed by fire on Mrlntyre and Jackson's firm, Wyndham Yalley. Loss £l(X). JNo insurnnce. A threshing miil belonsing lo a Mr Sheehan, near Riversdale, was burned. Insured for £300. Incendiarism is suspected. The own Hall was burned down last nijjht. When the fire was first observed it had obtainded to great a hold to admit of anything being done. It was insured for £150 in the Royal. The safe was afterwards found unlocked among the ruins, and it is believed all the corporation records for the last seven years art> lost, together with Ihe valuation roll and rate books. Incendiarism is suspected and the police are enquiring.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 46, 20 September 1883, Page 3
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