WELLINGTON FIRES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 14, 18 January 1915, Page 7

WELLINGTON FIRES.

SUNDAY MORNING ALARMS. Per Press Association. Wellington, January 17. Two fires occurred in the city at an early hour this morning. The first was at 2.28 a.m., when the brigade received a call to a two-storeyed building in Upper Willis Street, occupied by James Hopwell, the owner, who had the lower floor, and F. P. Smith, who carried on a photographer’s business on the upper floor. ’Hie fire originated upstairs and did considerable damage before it could bo extinguished, the studio being practically burnt out. Smith had an insurance of £l9O in the Phoenix Office.

At half-past five a milkman named Parker discovered a fire in a twostoreyed dwlling in Sydney Street occupied by Mrs Mery Carey. ’Hie outbreak occurred in a bedroom in which two young men, Patrick Sontar and Con. Armstrong, wore sleeping. The contents of four bedrooms, valued at about £IOO, were do troved, and the building suffered damage to the extent of approximately £IOO.