ALLEGED ARSON AND ROBBERY.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Invercargill, last night. At the Police Court, William Rhind Gregor Hay, a married man, aged 43, was charged with burning down his dwelling at Orepuki, and with attempting to defraud the New Zealand Insurance Company of £75 by a false declaration. His wife, Grace, was similarly charged. The male accused was also charged with having on Christmas night, 1894, broken into and entered the Matauri Post-office and stolen therefrom an iron safe con tuning £3l in bank notes, .£27 in stamps miners’ rights valued at £7O, postal notes, and other documents. The safe was found two years later in a water-race running into the Mataura river. The accused at the time of the robbery was working at the Mataura Freezing Works. He was remanded for eight days. Bail was refused)
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 133, 15 June 1901, Page 2
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