Incendiarism.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 26, 28 December 1883, Page 215

Incendiarism.

Between 6 p.m. on tho 7th and 5.30 a.m. on the Bth instant, two letters in a letter pillar-box, at the corner of Rattray Street and York Place, Dunedin, the property of the Government, were partly destroyed by fire. It is supposed that the letters were maliciously set on fire by boys dropping lighted matches into the letter-box.

On tho morning of the 28th ultimo, at Toka Rahi, near Ngapara, 250 bags of wheat, 175 bags of barley, and 760 bags of oats, the property of Hugh Hendry Wallace, value about £747, were destroyed by fire, which it is supposed was maliciously caused. Messrs. Fleming and Hedly, of Oamaru, who had a lien on the corn, had it insured in the South British Office. (See Police Gazette, 1883, page 177.) Burning a house and stable at Waikaia, the property of the creditors in the insolvent estate of William Keltv: At an inquest held at Waikaia on the 4th instant, by J. N. Wood, Esq., R.M. and Coroner, a verdict was returned to the effect that the buildings were wilfully and maliciously set on fire, with intent to defraud the Victoria Insurance Company. The buildings were insured in the Victoria office, and not in the United Scotch office as previously reported.