INCENDIARISM AT GREYTOWN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1342, 18 August 1877, Page 18

INCENDIARISM AT GREYTOWN.

;We have- received -particulars of a case of,, apoarent r incendiarism at Grey town. , Con . staple .Mackenzie, who issfcatioiied^at West .Taieri, reports' taat at ab'qu^9 o'clock 1 on> rfed«V' nesday evening; Jaw, an attempt was .jniade ijjn i, set fire to, a two-roomed dwelling-house, siiuat* \ at ,G*eytown, anf belonging tp..Mi Aber- { crombie. TCae house nad : heen .pmpfiy for boom , t , weeks,/ as Mr Abercr,ombie,r [who drives, 1 the * ballast engine ' on ' tne / Mosgiel = Md /)utr*in ' ° Branch Railway, resides at"Mosgiel.\ : Trt«'fiw iSI was first observed by"' Messrs* 1 W/rjßrowiw'J'l (teacher) and Henry Hutt (surfaceman); j They.!-, proceeded a distance^ of .about; 400 yards, .*nd 1; f .found a .small pile pf .wood pac&ed l up*'ajj»rast* ,- -the' weatherboards 'of ' Abercrojmbie's 'house. _ Though the weatherboards .were bla'ckened;;yet '-i they- had not actually caught the' flames.'' fire wasextinguishe'd before muchidamage, w»*v( done.'!' a ; hsg apiece of an^old,,b,ag/,w,aai fqund jpnply^, burned,, with' \the IJ weatherboards" 'blackeßed besifle it. ljl Mrs'A'B"ercfbmbie states 'that^wh'^ 1 1 'she visited the-house"'on"the Istacstytherb wiujl^ no .woods dying near- where.: the .fife^wja^udi^o-.) covered, I&rc, -the pieces -of. woo^.j.tiiia.tj wer« \t .partly burned had f ormed,part of ta, box,- which" f was left about' 12 '.yards' from' the 'house.*' 'A' bottle of castor 'oil, which had been left beside ■' ; the'box^was;fdundbr6KenMeaWhe^ originated. jiTheJiouseiis'insnred/ /■Thei'origin 1 a ,cf h^a's^t