ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM.
» '*■*-" New PLTMOxrrn, Thieday. A daring attempt at incendiarism was made last sight) endangering a largo block * lA buildinge, in wbieli the Criterion Hotel etands Early this morning Mre Hoskmgs, nhop in Brougham- ' kxeet, found-Ker house full of ernske. bho < «ut up and went and searched for the cauae, and found that under the ground floor of the iietft>l»op had been placed a box filled with'paper, which had been lighted- There was also half a sleeve of a . * candles, but therftghter "apparently had not been ignited. A wooden pipe was also found <£co by.-,:&<a^i*w d .not been rapid enough v on on alarm being given tho flames were quickly estmguiahed, Had the fire taken place a large destruction of valuable property must have occurred, for Messrs fcocV (grocer), Wright (draper) Gilmour (etstumei), and the Criterion Hotel were all endangered.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5252, 22 June 1888, Page 3
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140ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5252, 22 June 1888, Page 3
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