INCENDIARISM.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 4, 10 April 1875, Page 29

INCENDIARISM.

£SO Reward. Maliciously setting Eire to seven stacks of wheat. TITHEREAS about 11.20. o’clock on the night 'of » » the 23rd ult, seven stacks of wheat situate at Flag Swamp, near Waikouaiti, the property of Alexander Annan, were discovered to be on fire, by which they were destroyed. And whereas, at an inquest held on the 27th ultimo, at the Bendigo Hotel, near Waikouaiti, to enquire as to the origin of the said fire, the jury returned the following verdict: “ That the stacks were wilfully set on fire by some person or persons at present unknown.” Notice is hereby given that a Reward of £SO will be paid by the Provincial Government of Otago to any person who will first give such information to the Police as will lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons by whom the said fire was caused, and His Excellency the Governor will bo advised to grant a Free Pardon to an accomplice, not being the person who actually caused the fire, who will give such information as will lead to a like result. T. K. WELDON, Commissioner of Police. Police Office, Dunedin, Ist April, 1875.