The mill which was burned tarn at Papa> wai last week wai accidentally Mt lire to by an old Maori woman while ligMUlg her pipe The flames were not long in dssgjfishiug the building, being partly tilled *l4 bay. By the exertions of Mr Vatnhamjttd several natives a small building used safe cookhouse, the property of MrsManihora, wy caved. It was in such close proximity to building destroyed that the wonder ic-dft was nut, destroyed also. The lire caugMtwo trees which threw ou large sparks of OCK and bad the wind been in the northwestlMl piobable that these would have been oanH fcto Mrs Batch's clearing and burned eeriHtaiJdings,
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2022, 26 January 1887, Page 2
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