FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 906, 27 August 1910, Page 7

FIRES.

PALMERSTON OUTBREAK. (From Our Special Correspondent.)' Palmorston, August 26. At half-past ten last night the Tiro Brigade was summoned to an outbreak in a block of buildings in Main Street, towards the railway station, comprising three shops, occupied respectively by a grocer, a photographer, and tho Singer sowing machine agent. The conflagration started in the grocer's shop, occupied by R. W. Curtis, which was com.pletely gutted, and most of the stock destroyed. Though tho fire had obtained a strong hold on the premises, the brigade quickly subdued it, and confined it to one shop. Tho stock in the photographic shop of Walter JFlatt, and also of the Singer Machine Company, on the opposite side, was a good deal damaged by smoke and water. Tho three shops belonging to Mrs. Coombes were insured in tho Now Zealand office for £550. Curtis's stock was insured in tho Commercial Union for £150, and £25. on tho fittings. There was an,insurance of £1000 on the photographic stock, but the Singer Sewing Machine Company had no insurance at all. AT THE MOLYNEUX COAL MINE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) 1 Dunedin, August 26. Shortly before three o'clock tins morning a fir' 6 occurred at the Molyneux .coal mine by which the engineand boiler rooms wero completely destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. Tho fire was discovered by tbe night-shift on one of tho dredges working near by. Tho bucket brigade saved tho remaining buildings and poppet heads from destruction;' The property had only been taken over by tho working party about twelve months ago, but' they expect to bo able to resume work at tho mino at the beginning of next week. There are insurances on the-building, but the amounts are not available. In July, 1906, a great fire' occurred in this -mine when four men were entombed, but woro safely rescued.