FIRE AT RUSSELL.
catholic church destroyed. I R V TELEGEAPU —OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Russeix, Tuesday, 'HE old Roman Catholic Church that has c en standing for so many years has just t<: " burnt down. There was a lob of gorse 'id scrub growing round it, which has ate 'y been cut down, and to-day someone fire to it, and being so doss to the j, a pel nothing could savo it, there being a /'"li wind blowing. The chapel was burnt l , ground in a very short time. The ,t '."K was the first Roman Catholic in l'fiiI €rectec * in 'I' o colony. It was built lQ ««, at a cost of £700.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10100, 8 April 1896, Page 5
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