TELEGRAPHIC.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 95, 20 October 1908, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC.

(PBESS ASSOCIATION.] CHBISTCHURCH, to-day. The Domain Board recently increased the rents of the playing grounds on Hagley Park to cricket Clubs, etc., and notwithstanding a protest from a deputation declined to reduce them.

Another incendiary attempt at Ra;ngiora last night was unsuccessful. It was on an old and unoccupied cottage. A noticeable fact is that each of the nine fires in which incendiarism is suspected, occurred exactly at 11 p.m. - AUCKLAND, to-day. Mrs Eliza Knox died this morning, aged 99. It is understood that most local charitable- institutions benefit under h«r -wiltv ;