Arson.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XVI, Issue 15, 27 July 1892, Page 119

Arson.

[Extract from New Zealand Gazette of Ttli July, 189-2.] Arson.—Free Pardon. —£150 Reward.

Department of Justice, Wellington, 6th July, 1892. , "TXT HERD AS on or about the 19th June last the schoolill YV house situated in Hampden Street, Nelson, was set I on fire: This is to notify that His Excellency the Governor will grant a free pardon to any person implicated in the said fire, not being the principal offender, who will give such information as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of any one or more of the other offenders; and that a reward of £l5O is offered to any person, not being the principal offender, who shall first give such information. (J. 92/639.) A. J. CADMAN.

Lincoln.— £so Reward: Between 5 p.m. and 11.30 p.m. on the 18th ultimo, at Tai Tapu, a clover-shelling machine, /j the property of James McVeigh, was maliciously set on fire j and partly destroyed, and two clover-stacks close to, belongI ing to Henry E. Perryman, burnt down. A man, of whom no description can be given, was observed running away from the fire. The machine was insured for £l7O, and the stacks for £9O, both in the Standard Office, under thenrespective values. Mr. Perryman guarantees the above reward on conviction of the offender or offenders.

(See Police Gazette , 1892, page 10 1.) Nelson. —The six-roomed cottage destroyed in Wellington Street was the property of Henry Douglas Jackson, not Henry Charles Douglas, as gazetted in error.

(See Police Gazette, 1892, pages 37, 49, 59, and 67.) ’

Hawera.— Thomas Henry Blackwell, charged with setting fire to the cottages of William Goldfinch and Felix Hungar, has been arrested by Constable Patrick Quinn, and remanded.