A SUSPICIOUS FIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 101, 29 April 1910, Page 4

A SUSPICIOUS FIRE.

-S_-A-»ARIS-T. . <By Telegraph. Tr__ __»6ct-U—l.) T>pN_3__N, ___r_i_y. .fig On at __r. i__itt, _3£- and;a Jury of —_, _Mp_red into the circumst-nces of a _*» winch recently " mysterio-sly : - broke - but «n_ ; > destroyed- --"port-—i of the Victoria •« ; Hotel, at Naeeby. When the fire was ja ex> inguiahed, the 'fire brigade, superin- f|-te-dent' and; load'constable found a |g quantity -of rags, liberally soaked with :M kerosene, sticking in tb* _ningVbostrds M :—! the rop—i"in w_ich —» outbreak * occurred. Inquiries by detectives have proved nothing as to the origin, of. the. I—re. The licensee, W. B. Allan, proved ' that he w_i in a »ti_fa_fcbry ____eiel >f, condition; that his busine_» Was'paying; thaiportion of -his peirsonal prop—ty was uninsured;, land that, he had not _e_n hear, the room-in .question for two days before the'—re.. The jury brought in a ; verdict that the place had been wilfully set on fire, bat there waa insuffi__nt evidence to show by-whom.-.,. v