FIRES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14015, 25 September 1909, Page 3

FIRES.

IXCEXDIARY AT WORK. Per Press Association. GLSBORNE, Sept. 24. Five attempts at incendiarism occurred to-night. Tlje first at 8.15 in a shed behind Mr Good's, jeweller's shop; the second about 10 minutes later :it the back of the Masonic Hotel; the third shortly before 9 at St. Mary's Catholic school; the fourth was discovored at 11 p.m. v when a lighted candle was found surrounded with paper and scrim against the interior wall of an old cottage behind the raiTwav stables, Peel street. At 11.23 p.m. 'the fifth attempt was detected at the Gisborne Rowing CluVs shed where straw saturated with kerosene was put under the building. A lad 1C or 17 years old named O'Sullivan was caught near tho shed by Mr R. T. Seymour, jeweller, who detained him and ho was arrested hy the police on suspicion, but protested bis innocence.