FIRES

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 496, 1 May 1909, Page 5

FIRES

OUTBREAK IN; VICTORIA STREET. : _'An outbreak of. fire in. i Hb*dm'«'-Mdingßr a tho attention of, ■ ,at- 5.20 yesterday.evening. Aho nro broke out on tlio first floor ocou- ■ Messrs.' MDoilald and 'Co., mauulaoturors agents, and apparently started on iSoveral, wooden, benchfa on which some ' muslin goods were displayed. The boneh and ■ -co^tswero^damaged'by.firo,-: and the rest oftho. contents of; the floor; were damaged by heat, amoko, and water The floor jm?«ediately;.under; the:seat of,tho fire,' which;, • vivas: occupied by Mr. John Reid as a billiard I vsaloon, also■sufftoed;.;,Tho contents.were infioW in tho Exchange office, xivo ot the tables were damaged, by water. ; iho contents of Messrs. M'Donald and Co.'b ixchimg TOr ° ln3Ured for £5776 in tho Koyal - A CALL TO A CITY RESIDENCE. '7;44 p.m. the brigade was oallcd out to S»? r ° \ 3 " r( »ni«l h6n ße in Kensington ' : fS??;-damage; in; .this caso was con-' ; lined to a bedroom., on tho first floor' end a _. passaM, ako i a'room undor; tho seat of tho -'w l "''-P. I ,®®? ;d!lnlHg«i :by ' ' -The building, which is • ?«• ,!' Robert ; . is ■ occupied by Mrs..Elizabeth Onyon. .'■■■ . >!.,)./TnEOßira—riiiss *ssociATibrt.) : Olsiome, April 30. ' r : .. r 9 occurred m. a hairdresser's shop, oc- . enmed by J. M. Leiuion,-in tho Library Buddings owned by Mr. Bushel], It was " SjFW? l "™ O " before ;much damage' .was done, lie insurances were £300 on-stock and £100 on fittings; both in.tho Standard-office.