ANOTHER SUSPICIOUS FIRE.
At midnight on Sunday, a wooden shed used in connection with the Pound at Fairlie Creek as a forage store, and containing 10 sacks of grain, two tons of oaten hay, and a saddle, was burned to the ground. The store was the property of the Mount Cook Road Board, and its contents belonged to the poundkeeper, Thomas Caskey, and were uninsured. The poundkeeper states that he locked up the place at 6 o’clock on Sunday night and loft everything right. About 11.15 the building was in flames. The fire is unaccountable, as no one was seen near the building for hours before it was burnt. Swaggers have been known to camp about there occasionally but on this occasion there was not a swagger to be seen. Strange to say, the old Pound house was burnt down under equally mysterious circumstances about this time last year, and the building just destroyed was only erected about six months ago. The police are investigating the affair.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2520, 19 April 1881, Page 2
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167ANOTHER SUSPICIOUS FIRE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2520, 19 April 1881, Page 2
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