FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 September 1907, Page 6

FIRES.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Masterton,. September 20. • Blinkhorne's Stables, at Lansdowne, wero destroyed by fire this morning. J hero being no high pressure water supply in Lansdowne. the steam fire engino proceeded to the locality. : The S)uiidii]£ had been used by die borough staff latelv. and the men-and horses, had only left shortly"-before the outbreak occurred. A son of 'the-proprie-tor was just able to leave the building, not having had time to dress., Tho only insurance was u the New Zealand Office for '£400. Tho building ivas of heart of totara. and contained eighteen stalls.. Bliiikhome estimates, his loss at , £500. Dunedin, September 29. -About eleven o'clock on Saturday night a fire broke out in a two-storey building known as Clifton House, containing thirty rooms, situated, in Graham Street. The house belongs to the estate of 'the late H. F. Hardy, and was occupied by Mrs. Ross as a boardinghouse., It appears that the fire wag caused by a lighted candle, which waa placed on the dressing-table in the servants' bedroom, setting lire to some clothes hanging behind. a door.. The servants rooms was burned out, and the fire •spread." along the' roof, but the remainder, of the building was , not damaged. - ■