FIRE AND MYSTERY

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2954, 19 July 1888, Page 2

FIRE AND MYSTERY

Blenheim, Timidity, A doublo lire occurred at 2.30 this morning. A Chinese cabinetmaker's

placo wan burned down; while this Cup to raging another firo brake out in, a four loomed house, a qiuitor of a milo off. An extraordinary ciroumstaiico attending the latter was that the ocen|iicr was accidently discovered in the backyard gagged, and bound hand and' foot, Ho slated that lie Inul been overpowered by two burglars who bound and left him on the kitchen floor, while, the men were setting firo to the place, they afterwards decamped. The story caused tremendous excitement, but it is only fpartly oreditnd. The insurances on the latter are, building £IOO, in the Union ofJSco; furniture, £SO, in the South British, The Chinaman's hous-j was insured for £6O in tho Equitablo'oflico. '

MTER. As a further development of the Bre, a quantity of furniture and stuff has been found planted on the Wesleyan Church grounds. Documents have been found'on Longman, proving that lib has just come from Mnstorton, not Melbourne, as he stated whoii arrested shortly before noon. Frisco' Mail Notices-

VVEiiLiNaxoSi July. 19. The Secretary of the General Post Office advises the departure of theis.s, Mariposa from San Francisco with English mails of 16th ult. for Auckland on Ist inst., one day late. - The 5.8,. Zealundia; with Colonial mails of 18th nit, arrived at dan Francisco from Auckland on Bth inst,, con'met date.