FIRES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 19 February 1913, Page 8

FIRES.

MOTOR GARAGE AND COTTAGE DESTROYED. (Per Press Association.) Invercargill, February 18. At 3.30 o’clock this morning a lire broke out in a motor garage belonging to W. G. O’Connor, Otautau. Tin Haines had secured a firm hold wher discovered and nothing was saved. O’Connor had for the past three years carried on business as a motor am cycle agent. All the stock, which was covered by a policy of £175, and included a motor car, was destroyed. Adjacent to the building was a four roomed cottage belonging to R. Me Ivor, and this was also destroyed. Tin place was untenanted. The insur ances on the buildings are not avail able, but O’Connor estimates his Jos? at between £SOO and £6OO. AT A TIMBER MILL. Wellington, February 19. Odlin’s timber mill and joinery dc partment in Taranaki street was bad], damaged by fire this morning. Whei the Brigade arrived, the flames wer bursting through the joinery depart rnent. There was no wind, and tin fire was confined to that department The loss is estimated at £2OOO, Thor was no insurance.