At about 5.30 a.m. on the 21st instant a fire broke out 9, Jervois Street, an an alarm was given. The Fire Brigade were soon on the scene, and worked man-
confined to the house, but the three floors fully, with the result that the flames were were completed gutted, and three men ushed in the ruins. The bodies were found lying in a heap on the floor of the cookhouse, where they had evidently been suffocated. The ground floor and top floor were occupied by an aniseed oil merchant and the first floor by dealer in bird's nests. The insurances on the place were heavy, and arson is suspected owing to the discovery of perforated tins containing kerosene on the charged the next dey at the magistracy with top storey. Six ofthe fois were arrested and
arson and remanded for further enquiries.
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