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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 311, 9 October 1915, Page 8

What appears suspiciously like ati burton a day or two ago. At midnight J a barrel of oily rags was found burning in Mr John /Newman's livery sta- ' bles and carriage shed, and alongside | was a heap of canvas wheel-covers, over wlhich a quantity of'petrol had been poured. After the fire had t< en quenched search revealed several open- ' ed tins of petrol in various places.and other evidence of a deliberate attempt to set fire, not to the carriage shed only, but also to the congested block of shops and business premises which it is at the rear of. land Express Company the /' | Huddart Parker Company tar £2l 8/ | j 6d in the Magistrate's Court, Welling- | ton, before Mr W| G. Riddell, S.M. The i claim was for a package consigned by I Turnbull and Jones, electrical engiiI neers, Christchurcfli, through the Exi press Company to the Hawke's Bay Racing Club. The package, wh,ich 1 contained a tctalisator dividend board, I was stated to have been shipped by the steamer Victoria, and was short ] delivered en or about December sth, 1913, just after the big strike. The J question in dispute was whether the I package was put on board the steamer at liytteltcn. Evidence had been I heard at Chrlatchurch, and further ! evidence wa s taken yesterday. Mr A. McLean Thompson appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr A. R. Blair for the defendant. His Worship reserved his .

Save the "Camera" off the "Desert Gold" Tea Packets. They are valuable. Another Cash Prire Competition E under way.