THE FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE.
(BY TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
CAMBRIDGE, thia day. There appears to be no doubt that the lire at Fencourt was the act of an incendiary, wbo must have entered by a door iv tho barn leading up a flight of stairs to the upper storey, and ignited the straw, and then bolted. Tho fire was first noticed about midnight by a female servant, who saw a glare through the window. It was then confined to tbe upper storey. She was so frightened as to be hardly able to move. All the station hands worked well, and, but for their strenuous exertions, the entire blocks of the buildings would have been destroyed. The fence and stables, only separated from the barn by a few feet, were saved by the vigorous applications of buckets of water.
Detective Jeffrey has been actively engaged in endeavouring to fiud a clue. Te Ngakau visited Cambridge to-day.
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Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3391, 13 June 1881, Page 2
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