INVERCARGILL ITEMS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4794, 11 September 1883, Page 3

INVERCARGILL ITEMS.

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Tflfl SUPPOSED CHILD MUEDES.

OASES OF INOENDIABIBM. INVEBOARGILL, Sept. 11. The inqueßt was returned yesterday on the body of tne infant lately found at Woodlands. No additional evidence was forthcoming, and the jury returned the following verdict :— " Shut the body of the said mala child was found in somo water, with markß of violacca thereon ; but how or by what means it came to its death is to the jurors unknown." The premises of iJeiley and Moir, upholsterers, Deo street, narrowly escaped being j get on fire sometime between fcJaturday night and Monday morning, through the ignition of a bale of straw in an adjoining shed. How the straw caught fire is not known, but it is supposed to have been the work of an uucendiary. Early on Sunday a firo was discovered ia a vaoaut house in SfWiow street, the property of Lawrence Ifinneity. A constable got in by a window and extinguished the flames. lie' found that a holo had been burned oloan through the flooring, and that near at hand was a heap of keroeenevoaked sorim rags and paper. Investigation showed that through fcho floor of tho porch behind the house two small holes had also been burned ; and the surmise iv that with the object of making doubly sure, the intending incendiary had started the lire in several pIaCBB. =________