FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1998, 4 March 1914, Page 7

FIRES.

OUTBREAK IS FEAfHERSTQN • STREET, : Serious-damage tfas ifrtised yesterday afternoon by. a ike. sfc -37 Feathersto.il Street, in atwd-.sto.ry .\\-<oa& and iron building, owned by fta AVcllmgtojj City Council, and leasftej by jiessrs. Wligiit and Carman, printers. The fire ertßiaated in tlie premises of Messrs. Allen On- and Sons, te whom three r(i6m-,s 'downstairs are sti.We-t. A kerosene neater, which, was being u-sctj at tiro time, was left for ?i few moments- , while tlio tclo'piioiia wiis.lseteg'answered, and when next noticed; it had. burst into flames, As the fife. cdilUnewfled to s-pMcr-d the brigade was sittajnopedj. ■ The call was received at tlie Ckjiitral Station at 4.47 p.m.,.and the- fi:fe-ftght»rs were at work very soon after. 'Aided by a capital water, tlvoj' tjuieklv strppressed the outbreak, but not before two -rooms liad been gutted. The fire had'actually spread to- MoSsts. fl r ric;ht and Carman's «»i' the buildii-tj;. but the chiefi dirßago ffoefo Was caused by lieat, smoke, and water cettiiig , amoiifr.tho machijicry , . In the adjojninft building tho wiiitfmvs w-ete- cracked by the heat. Th.e teiJfeg.is insured for £300 in the New Zealand ofiko, Jk-ssts, Orr and Son's contents aro covered by a floating' policy of £.100 lritjli tlio LiVefpool and London nncl Gldhrt >Insu,Fance Company. Wright and Cariuftirft maehinery, stock, etc, is covered iss follows! Norwich Union, ±1050; JPhocnix., i£6la; and Standard, £1.50.

TWO DWELLINGS pESTRMED AT KHANBALLAH, Two dwelling hotisss-.-at .KhsnialMi wore totally {losbmyod 'by ilfe hct&em 5 mid 6 o'clock yesterday morning. Hie fire originated in. a sis-roomed house (next to tho Tttwn Ball), owned and occupied by Mr. Murray Thefivt>scm, «"lw is at present in Wanganm. • Jits. Thompson and JiOt* children were aroused by ■Mγ. Wilfrid Jefikifls. soit of. MtJenkins, headmaster of the State, School, Mr. Thompson, juil., homfi tm first to oosßrve tho owtßreak Tte Monpants liad to make s litu'rfccl osit m their night attire. The fire, winch apparently started i» the wlslilifluse, sodn spread to the rest of tto huilolinß. which was totally destroyed, frantically nothing was saved. Tivflro was a strong north-west win 1 blowing, and us (.hew was no water supply, the- flames spread to, and destroyed, a largo two-story liouso adjoining, occupied' by Mr. W.• F. Cuthhertson, manage* for Msusi-S. Joan Cliainbers and Son, liardwaro niarcliniJts, Wellington. A' eooc! deal of Cnthbertson'e furnitifre. which was uninsured, was saved. The. house was owned by Mr. Clive Somnierville. Tho cause of tho lire i« unknown.