FIRES.
Deli7>erate Incendiarism. [Per Press Association. J AUCKLAND, March 12. As unoccupied four-roomed house in Queen street, Ponsonby, was burned on Saturday night. The origin is unknown. It is insured for £150 in the South British. The vacant offices in Queen street lately occupied by the Norwich Union and Mutual Life Association of Australasia were discovered on fire on Sunday morning at 5.30, but were extinguished before much damage had been done. It was found that fires had been deliberately started in three places, the gas pipe cut, and the gas turned on at the meter. DUNEDIN, March 12. At the enquiry at Outram into the fire on William Patrick's farm, the jury found that the oats and wheat had been wilfully Bet on fire by come person or persona unknown.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6184, 12 March 1888, Page 3
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