FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 36, 6 November 1907, Page 7

FIRES.

The Fire Brigade had a busv day yester- , day,., being called out no fewer than ; four • o?=aSions.'. The first call ivas at-10.53, a.iu. from the Rintoul Street, fire alarh V box. "M'\® turned out to be a' rubbjsh fire whicli had got , beyond control, and had burnedaboufclOO feet of fencing": ddjoiiiing a house occupied ' by. Mr. J. ,J. Williams in; AdfS laido Road South. Tho second call \v:i3 :•? 1 t ; and was received from ' the lolhlll'Gulfy alarm box. Tho outbreakwaa •n ?. house owned and occupied , by/; Mr. . ' •llobcrfc Grono in Mortimer Tcrra'ce., Tho kitchen and contents were badly damaged "".y. SfS-.,. ,The .cause of the outbreak was- ■ the boiling-oyer ■ of a tar ..pot::' .Another' call was received at 6.59 p.nr.-to . a Agorso fire at the rear of a house occupied By • Mr.' ;James, Joe'in Lawronco Strcet; v uTha final turn-out at .7.3 p.m., .;thcv.calL -being received' from the I'ananla 11 Hotel"oh tho . belief that tho Chinese. lauiidry 'next door was on fire. ■ The alarm' proved' ttvbe a mistaken one. • ; At 10.44 p.m. yesterday tlio brigade rocoivod an alarm from the " Polhill ■ : GuLly box. A largo area of gorso was found to ' bo on fire at' tho head of the gully. The outbreak, lyas. extinguished bjr, tho brigade. [dt TELEanArn.—rßEss association.] Blenheim, November 5. A six-roomed house in .Customhouse ' Street,-'occupied by T. Halligan aiid owned by Geo. Patchott,, was- destroyed .by firo shortly- after" ono ' o'clock yostorday' ; '.In- : .•suranco-£2oo';on tho furniture in;tho.London and Liverpool .and Globo, £200 on the ' : building in the Phoonix office; •