FIRE IN THE WAIOTAHI.
A fire took place in the Waiotahi to-, day between one and two o'clock, which destroyed a two-roomed wooden cottage belonging to Mrs Roome, on the Waiotahi Association's ground, that portion of it formerly the Comstock. The house was burned down in about ten minutes, but the furniture was saved. Captain "Wright, of the Grahamstown Brigade, was present, and used means which prevented the fire from communicating with an adjoining fence. The fire is believed to have been caused by an incendiary, as a man named William Wilkinson, alias Sh}4gleton, a notorious drunkard and yajpant whose convictions in the local Court outnumber a score, is alleged to have threatened to burn, Mrs Rooine's house down only a few minutes before the fire was discovered. Wilkinson is in custody on charge of incendiarism. He was formerly convicted of a most brutal attack on the woman Mrs Rooxne, for which he was punished by imprisonment. He has been living in concubinage with her for some time, and having had a quarrel is said to have avenged himself by carying out his threat of burring the house down.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1933, 15 March 1875, Page 3
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189FIRE IN THE WAIOTAHI. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1933, 15 March 1875, Page 3
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