A DRUNKEN DEED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1910, Page 8

A DRUNKEN DEED.

MAN. SIUTf .HfJS HOU&B.ON FIRE

* ■*•* ;• s [P^ESS ASSOCIATION.] . CHIHSTCH.URCH, Jan. 3 * v , I?,mut^ s aff er midnight on New ... t Years Day Constable Wilaori, ofLini Jfood, received wdrd that Mrs Emily * ■•' lf r -' residmg at Inglis Street, want--4 , -ea him,..asr he»r" Imsbaud was drunk . •' ■•and .uras setting the house on. lire. Va the constable's arrival he found v 'the house m -flames. 1W brigade v Zf^. + c, aU<*f :|>^»nd did their best; *ut^ the house, -and contend were ' ijH^^yed. The bourse belonged t% ' ■ r^ni • lß?Pratt- 'It oon.si.sted of five Si. «ooms,..and .v;as valued at- £300 1+ t -wasinsarea in the Victoria 'for £150 the constable arrested Ogier on v ''*J asg^ ? f' (fe s a i t^ aJ,.fef, had'P«t kerosene or° the ki A ftetectivo -arrested Oc-i— t!-;- - Abat.he did not. do so intw/tSly

Bpeaking at a meetiug h^<l i v SfeS'fet TOMt, there bring at the- p/esent toe two mgxms of carcar.es k S .•storage in-'Eaghind over wli-it w-,s required, and people had eaten so ■much .of. this frozsn stuff that Vw natura ly b^gran to dislike mutton altogether. He contended fci.-it all frozen meat for sale ought to b e dis•tmctly labelled, so that vvew r , ur . chasor would know what '■"• y"^< hv^ :iig. ' ' " '*'