FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1050, 13 February 1911, Page 4

FIRES.

I- OUTBUILDINGS BESTROTED. " • , (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ;. Ashburton.fFe'firuary 12. i , OnSSaturday afternoon, the washhouse, trapshed, stable and motor-car shod on the premises occupied'by Dr. lyon were totally destroyed' l by fire: The' origin 'of the fare is unknown, Dr.' Lyori having only a few minutes previously left the premises with- his car. The buildings were insured, but the office and tfiq amount are not at present ascertainable. ••• A fire broke out in'a house owned by . , Mr. H. W.'Yeomans and occupied by Mr. , W. Arrpwsmith on the Esplanade,. Pe-' ■ tone, "at 8.30 o'clock on Saturday even- " ing. ; The fire, which was caused through a lighted, candle igniting some curtains, ~ did damage- to the extent of i! 10. ■ Th? building was insured in the State Office for .£IOO and the contents in the South , British "for,. J6ISO. ■' _ ~, -„ , ' • MANNERS, STREET SHOPS ABIAZE. At ' twenty-five minutes past three a.m.... yesterday, \ the Fire Brigade was summoned to. deal; "rwith an outbreak' of firo at No. 17 Manners Street, a building, owned, by Mr. Martin Kennedy, and occupied by Alfred Pinck- : uey, upholsterer, as , a shop and work- ' room. By the time the fire was got under the'workroom on the first floor and tho contents'had'been badly damaged" by ; firo and water, <while the ground • floors was damaged by the.water. The contents of the establishment wire insured in th« Guardian Office.for • The adjoining premises, 'Nos.' : 10i, 103, and 105, also suffered by their proximity to the conflagration. No. .105, occupied ou- the ground and-.first- floors -by •J. ' ■ Smith and' Co., tailors, and insured inthe Yorkshire Office for ,£ls, was, badly ■ ■ damagod on the first 1 oor,". while the shop underneath was flooded. i No. 101 was occupicd by Mrs. Costello, a second-hand.dealer,..the roof..and-con-tents of whose'establishment was daraag- : ■ • ed, and No. 103 by Mr. T. L;"Coe. saddler, who suffered in. a. similar degree. ' These two occupiers were not' protected by insurance. ■ Thero is no clue to the origin of the fire. . ■■ - . . ■ :• ?•' : " ' UNOCCUPIED PREMISES 'DAMAGED. ' About two minutes after (S ■ o'clock on Saturday evening, an - unoccupied shop, 1 v. - itS seven-roomed two-slory dwelling, in Upper , AVillis Street (No. 2G5), was -observed'to be on fire. The Fire Brigade responded smartly to the call.' and soon .. had tho outbreak in check. The damage was confined to thc-first floor. The eausr : of. the fire is not known.^Mr. Luxford,; of- Waikanae, is tho owner of the premises. -'. . ' . ■•: i'-'rlV