THE GOVERNMENT BUILDTNGS IN DANGER.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1039, 22 June 1894, Page 6

THE GOVERNMENT BUILDTNGS IN DANGER.

The Wellington Post of Tuesday evening says : — " The erection of two sentry boxes at l.he rear of the ' largest wooden building in the world ' has recently occasioned some comment. It has transpired that special presautions are now adopted for watching the exteriors of the Government Buildings, Government House, and the Parliamentary Buildings at night. The reason for this is, we believe, tho receipt of information by the Government from a reliable source of an incendiary conspiracy to set the Government Building on fire, and it is believed that the design included the simultaneous firing of Government House and the Parliamentary Buildings. It was, of course, perfectly right to take every possible measure of precaution to render the carrying out of such a diabolical scheme impossible, but it is to be regretted that these precautions were taken so openly as to put the would-be incendiaries on their guard. It would surely have been possible io have adopted effectual measures of protection secretly, so that the miscreants might hare been lulled into a false security and been caught red-handed. A number of men are now at work cutting away the dense undergrowth in the shrubbery around the departmental buildings in such a way that the sentries can see under the trees and in order to prevent these being used as cover for the incendiaries."