INCENDIARISM.
ATTEMPT TO DESTROY RAILWAY WORKSHOPS. Wkllington, to-day. What appears to have been a deliberate attempt to burn down the workshops of tlie Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company was frustrated yesterday morning. The nightwutchman noticed a glare in the building and broke open the door, He found that a well saturated kerosene case, packed with shavings and chips of wood, had been placed against the wall of the building and then fired. When discovered the wall of the building was just beginning to ignite. As it was, it was much charred, and the handles of a number of tools which. were standing against it were burnt. Had the fire obtained a greater hold nothing short of n miracle could have saved the building.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5462, 30 April 1889, Page 2
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