FIRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 2 October 1907, Page 2

FIRES.

Per Press Association. i,i,* Tilnaru > Last Night. - well' n o '",' 8 e 1 ' lre ],,oke ollt in UaM(II, block ot buddings in the centre l ' l '' micss portion of Staffordit , U ? ilre xtarted in Kelly's (t.nloi a ) shop, which was completely Caldweil's ironmongery and were sl'i I t°i "i''® 1 ' in the block water' fe 'n,. y »'nokc and • liK. bngade was very sina* t /lie 1001-T"' ' l - Ild thoueh at <irst the under Ben ° U3 ' U Waa so^n g ot Dunedin, Last Night. int v ™" roome 'I house and outbuildni Queen-street, owned and oceuSeUlv V'i' ,kC ' builder > Wila ro '»- I tely destroyed by lire about 10.15 to"ifcht. Drake was the only person in 1 efore'T ' a r t U " l<;j " nd was sitti "R toie. hia fire m the dining-room and do«d off to sleep, and woke up a few «, fr" ' to lill(i the rooni fl!led with suffocating smoke. He had to rush out J the house. Almost the next moment the building was enveloped in flames, and an the house was on a hill at a very high altitude, the water that the firo brigade could get to play on the burning building \v, ls nothing more than a trickle. ' house was insured in the Victoria olhee lor, it is said, £350, and is valued at .11)00, being practically a new building. Ihe furniture is insured ill the .\aw Zealand olliec, but the amount is not known. Nothing was saved, and the . loss ill this connection is estimated at over £3OO.