INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED.
FIRE IN CITY HOTEL. TWO-OUTBREAKS LAST NIGHT. (By .Telesraph.-rPress Asaociation.X WELLINGTON, this day. The Albert Hotel, one of the oldest hostelries in the city,' was found on fire late-last night. .The., outbreak was located in the cellars, and though looking serious wag extinguished. . It was supposed that an employes had dropped a cigarette in the straw. Half an hour later three bedrooms on the second floor were found alight, and all burning fiercely. , ' The hotel was badly damaged before" the suppressed. Incendiarism is suspected in this case.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 224, 20 September 1924, Page 7
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89INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 224, 20 September 1924, Page 7
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