FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 679, 2 December 1909, Page 7

FIRES.

» 1 MIGHT HAVE BEEN SERIOUS. ' At noon jesterday a firo was diseo\crcd by a meinbei of the stall of tho Olaki "Mail," is ho di&ceined smoko and heard, the ciaokling of ( timber in the jnrd adjacent lo Mr. St George's ,i shop .and within a few icet of tho "Mail" of- , flco, Toirn Hall, and lianlt of Australasia. When first seen t'io flames had a 6brong hold, but luckilj only packing casos and wcia on firo. Water vaa pbuiod on fiom adjacent wells, and tho outbreak subdued just In lima , to motont FOmo half a dorcn jilnccb bolng demolished, Within a tow feet of tho firo -vns an acotylono gas jilant and a store of oxplq-' ' Rives. The most useful workers \vcie Messrs, Cook, Walkor, Tauhia, Temiata, Tahiti, and St. George. " > <■ '

CURTAIN AND CANDLE ' I Yostoiday evening, at V 3% tho flrotbrigAd* received a call to No. 45 Cilice Strcot-a so\onroomed dwelling owned and occupied by Mrs, Ann Sowell. The causo of the outbreak \m v a candle held near the curtains in tho front bedroom. Verj slight damage was done It it understood that the house S\as insured in the Norwich Union Office. v

COTTAGE DESTROYED. > >- ißy Telcsraph—Press Aisnnlnllon.t - Duncdln, Docomber 1. , A cottago in Lower Stuart Street, ofceupiod .■■■■•7. by G. lluiitcr, and oiracd-by C. 1 F. Greenslado; r was burned down - this forenoon. -The ; liouso. ■ was' insrired for JE2OO in tlib PlionHix and Atlna; offices; ; "iS 1 , i Tbe simplicity ofaotion and great cfTcctivo. . nossof tho, Minimax Hand • Firo: Extinguisher s : havo beon proved by tho aotual sapprossiori ' it . ' r nnmorous Bros. A.. T. Bate, N/vthan'sßuild- ; incsr Wollinirton,- is t|io agent— ::