FIRE AT CHRISTCHURCH.
CASE OF INCENDIARISM
By Ti legraph—Press Association. CHHISTCHURCH, January 4. A fire wag discovered at 2.30 o'clock this morning, in a large block of buildings in High Street, known an the Cafe Cecil. The outbreak was located in the rooms of Goyen and King, carrying on separate businesses as dentists. Owing to the alarm being given promptly, the Brigade «'as early on the scene, and the damage was practically confined to the rooms in which the outbreak occured. There is evidence that a most deliberate attempt was made to set the building on fire. The lock of the swing doors giving access to the dentists' waiting rooms had been cut away by means of an augur, and the furniture saturated with benzine and set alight to. In an adjoining room, used as a dentist's workroom, straw orjshavings'jhad been set fire to. The police have the matter in hand. The building is owned by Herman Lewis, of Wellington, and is insured for £7,000. The total damage is estimated at £2OO. Eoth Goyen and Kins? are out of town, and the premises had been locked up for the holidays.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9682, 5 January 1910, Page 6
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190FIRE AT CHRISTCHURCH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9682, 5 January 1910, Page 6
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