INCENDIARISM.
Invercargill, September 11. The premises of Messrs Deiley and Moir,. upholsterers, Dee-street, narrowly escaped being set on fire some time between Saturdaynight and Monday morning, through the ignition of a heap of straw in an adjoining shed. How the heap caught fire is not koowD, but it is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Early on Sunday a fire was discovered in a vacant house in. Yarron-etreet, the property of Mr Lawrence Finnisty. A constable got in by the window, and extinguished the flames. He found that a hole had been burnt clean through the flooring, and that near at hand was a heap of kerosene-soaked scrim rags and paper. The investigation showed that through the floor of the porch behind the house two small holes had also been burned, and the surmise is that, with the object of making assurance doubly sure, the intending incendiary had started tte fire in several places.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 606, 15 September 1883, Page 9
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