MISCREANTS IN CHRISTCHURCH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9055, 14 February 1908, Page 5

MISCREANTS IN CHRISTCHURCH.

. -oINCENDIARISM EXTRAORDINARY. SIX OUTBREAKS OF FIRE IN ONE NIGHT. BY TELEOKAI'U I'TtRSS ASSOCIATION"; CHRISTCHURCH, February 13. To-night outbreaks of fire were discovered in no'fewer than six different places in the business heart of the city, and indications point to the fact that a band of incendiarists are at work.

All the outbreaks were similar in character. The contents of rubbish boxes in various alley ways had been set alight after the boxes had been placed against the walls of buildings. Outbreaks were discovered in a right-of-way between the Grain Agency buildings and the Cafe de Paris Hotel at a point where several wooden shops abut; in a right-of-way near Brice's corner leading from Hereford street along the back of a number of retail shops fronting on Colombo street; in another right-of-way running from Cashel street along the back of other shops fronting : on Colombo street; in a right-nf-way at the back of the Al Hotel, and of the ■wooden shops in another part of Colombo street threatened a big fire on Thursday last; in a right-of-way below the United Service Hotel between Hereford street and Cathedral Square, and in the "Press" office right-of-way. In some instances kerosene and fat had been added to give the fires a good ritart. All the outbreaks were promptly suppressed, and the police have the matter in hand.