FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 438, 22 February 1909, Page 4

FIRES.

■; :'J; A.BUZE ON LAMBTON : QpAt. : ; ■>■: , Yesterday .morning .about? 9 iq'clopkvaVfin.: ;brokoj out- in. an.pTdvitwp-storied' , , :.woodea : building'used : as- a workshop by. J;'Markey," carpenter;and builder,'..at-;.tne>rea): mises' 1 occupied; by'Mcssrs.'Gallate'Bros;, voa , Lambton Quay. : It is not ,known;who-dis-■covored;' the . outbreak.■■?-'.' Soon' after tho '■■' brigade; reached the .'scene;" a crowd: of /froin '300 ito.4oo'people hid assembled.-..Ms'"a re-• ' suit of : the' efforts. of:. the ', brigadesmeiiV. ~tlia; 'fire'was preventeel from spreading to'ihe"ad-' ! , joining- building.-: Whilst'it'■ was at". , its height,' however,;.'EOmo :gorse on the : , WeUin"|Jton Ter'raco side caught; > but tho: flames worp: quickly, extinguished. , ■■'■ It.Vis'; thought l ) that';tho out-; brealci;o'ccurred-:initho: upper .story, .which' ■.Was;:. ; .the", police that. ho was'--"last'- in. ; the vworkshdp at : 5 p.m., on: ; Satnrday. He is unab]6 ' Ho ■ for; how; ihe; firo: originated; l '.The, stock,.which ; was insured,for £20, included;a nearly-finished; duchesso ■ pair' and-.. some 'sets df. : tablo legs; owhilst the'tools''.were insured for.£3o.- Hc^thought that the. : poh'cy,'which'; ■w.as'-'.fftke'n'',putVin the; Commercial Ilnion of-; 'fice, -had: bpen oancelled,' owing/to - an in<; cipient'outbreak having occurred in'thework- ■ shop a few .weeks ago. .Assistance was ren- ■ dered to .the' brigade,.- by • Sergeant■' Lyons; and: .Q'Bneny who, ; .was.doing;the; beat,, and Constable/Wright, of 'the -Po.' ;

■:no need for the brigade."

V' .At 10.52 ■' yesterday,', morning::tlip- b'rigadf; received...a call- to No? i'-. -Little' Taranaki. ■Stieet.::(Th6'!c!iiiM/-' ; 'f6r/-;the;;Blvm : :"'j\ ; as-.'Bl great, vpluniO'.'of: smoke, iissuing-frjin :th& bhinuiey'/.to.'-aV'Ralvanjsing py-eri 'in-.the \Kia Ora Galvanising Iran Works 1 , lit;.appears 1 that "occasion .was l>ainp taken "ixj. consume a ■ •large :quatitity.;o'f shavings , in';the 1 fire which had beon lit. preparatory', to the re-cotnmeiice-ment of • work. early-this: morning.- * .No need forithe; services .of: the:; brigade/existed. - --/vi '■% ;' Tho insuranco on Mr.. A. C; Pearce's house,' Kaiipapa Road, Northland,' was , iIHOO in. the Atlas: Office,; /y.., \- . :;\ : ::;/;:.>^jv,--v-..