FALSE FIRE ALARMS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 286, 7 June 1909, Page 3

FALSE FIRE ALARMS.

I * WELLINGTON FIRE IJIUGADE VICTIMISED. fPK_BB ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, last niglit. For sovt-rni -roars past the Welling Inn fin? brigade lias boon frequently summnned by 'false alarms of fire fron the vicinity of Hankey and Hoppei streets. Three such alarms were in dulged in last night. On the- occas ion of the last one, about a quartoi to twelve, a Miss Harris, living ii the neighbourhood, saw a man ii •the act of giving tho alarm. He broke the glass of the alarm box witl a pocket knife. She rushed out ahc seized him by the coat collar, but the man escaped from Miss Harris though 'not before he had cut one oi his hands with -his pocket knife. Tin man .went, into his house in Soutl Avenue— off Hopper street. Th< police and brigade had then arrived, The jiKi.li was arested. Ho is a married man named John Evans, dustman,' in the employ. of- the Corporation. ■• - .