DOMINION NEWS.
CHARGE OP INCENDIARISM, Dunedin, Jan, 23. In the Police Court to-day Richard Hampden McLennan was charged with wilfully setting fire to a substance likely to set the Grand Hotel on fire. It was .stated in evidence that accused threw' some matches among mattresses in the cellar. The manager of the hotel said that similar fires had occurred on his premises on three occasions. Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS. Auckland, Jan. 23. The Mayor states that the amount involved in the purchase of the tramways by . the city totals £1,229,462. It has been decided by the council to authorise the issue of debentures under the tramway loan totalling a, million and a quarter, maturing in 1840. The council's share of the profits in the last year of the company's ownership totalled £3885, a reduction from £5030 in the previous year, owing to losses during the epidemic. j
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1920, Page 5
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