ANOTHER FIRE AT THE NORTH SHORE.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1498, 28 November 1874, Page 3

ANOTHER FIRE AT THE NORTH SHORE.

I^ySTKBIOUSjCIRCUMSTANCES. i nnfc yesterday afternoon in a j W»-*__* Supation of Mr. Howard, J* * Road, Devonport, Ited °n. ; Iv destroyed the building. ft toward had left the house if. $ Tee children in charge of a servant li^^Ses that the fire broke out W^ £"fence, and she put it V * two subsequent occasions Be- * V hours of two and four o clock mP *J"j£ out in two separate parts of tle/ir« bro d w hich she extinguished. fle hfu' m t four, according to the girl's A"" t the fire broke out again in a lower taWS instead Of trying to extinguish it, room, mZ, ny i a a the furniture out, and left pf J52 * A gentlemen named Clark, *•_*her what she was about, when 0 J£j thatithe house was on fire, and as * «M not stop it, she was getting out the *•• « She said she had seen a suspiabout the premises, and *h rdescription, the man was taken into &l but as it was clear that he knew fi'of the lire, he was discharged. The C portion of the furniture was saved ISL cottage was entirely destroyed. It 1 nanred for £200 in the Imperial Fire See office. On Monday, the 16th tthe staWe on the same Premises was on and was put out. Subsequently, Mr Lfcrong inspected the premises, and left nsafe, but strange to say within a halfhour after he left a fire broke out a second and reduced the stable to ashes. There fttle doubt but that these fires are the U of some evil-disposed person.