SUPPOSED BAND OF INCENDIARIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 121, 14 February 1908, Page 8

SUPPOSED BAND OF INCENDIARIES.

FIRES .IN SIX DIFFERENT PLACES IN

CHRISTCHURCH.

. (by TEr.EaiiArn—niEss 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, ind indications point to the. fact that a . band of incendiaries are at work. All. the outbreaks were similar in character, the. contents of rubbish boxes in narrow, alley-ways being set alight after thb\ boxes • had been placed against the walls of buildings. The outbreaks wore found in a right-of-way between tho Grain Agency Buildings' and the Cafe de, Paris Hotel;..at a point where several wooden shops \abut on. a right-of-way near "Brice's Corner, leading. from Hereford Street along tho back of, a number of retail shops fronting on Colombo Street; in another rignt-pf-way • running from Cashel Street along , tho back of' other' shops fronting on Colombo Street; in a right-of-way at the back of the A 1 Hotel and of the wooden shops in another part' of Colombo Street threatened by the big fire on Thursday, last; in the ■ right-of-way below tho 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 tbe firos a good start.. All the outbreaks were promptly suppressed, : and the . polico have tbe matter in- hand.