INVERCARGILL SENSATIONS.
FIVE FIRES. Invercargill, Sept. 8. Five alarms of file weio given during the last tweuty-four hours ou Saturday night. An eightroomed house occupied by Captain William McLean was completely destroyed with the contents. The same evening two alarms were given from Wilson’s store, where considerable damage was doue. Ou Sunday morning a stable attached -to Roopes’ brewery in Mary street was destroyed. In the, afternoon the alarm was given tor a supposed outbreak in the National Mortgage Buildings, but the smoke was touud to be coming from a suction gas plant.
ALLEGED HAT-TIN ASSAUI/T. A girl was arrested at Duusaudel on Friday, charged with assault and causing actual bodily harm to a man. It is alleged that in February, in Invercargill, the girl stuck a hat-pin into him in the chest, the point penetrating the lungs. Since that lime the man has been in ill-health, and now is suffering from pneumonia. The girl was brought belore a Justice of the Peace on Saturday and remanded till Wednesday.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1094, 10 September 1912, Page 3
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169INVERCARGILL SENSATIONS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1094, 10 September 1912, Page 3
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