FIRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 161, 17 October 1910, Page 5

FIRES.

GISBORNE CLUB BURNED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Saturday. . The club house of the Gisborna (3«|, a large two-storey building, waj gutted by fire this morning., The outbreak occurred in the lavatory shortly alter • O'clock, and the fire quickly swept through the building. The furniture m a few of the lower, rooms was saved, tout , the loss is neavy. The insurance M £IOOO in the State Office on the building and £4OO on the furniture in the Sun Office. The Orchestral Society had a policy for £45 in the National"Offlee on the band instruments. —4ENGINEhSHED GUTTED. i TWO LOCOMOTIVES DESTROYED. > Gore, Last Night. A destructive fire occurred at 3 o'cloejt, ~,..„ this morning when ; the"'toctff*ri^waj '"■....' engine- shed was burned to 'he ;ffonndi v The building contained! two loeom«iiv»%■ ■■■■•'■■ i •;" trjthj\oetwe'en* '^f*l*;4fld"'-S-hTgmßi-. iV awJ ■ the, i&ber '"F;" &■'ah^fe?^ gate was ragipig all night tjife'.Deing of wood was demolished before any effort could be made to remove the engines. The brigade was powerless to do any more than preveat the spread of the flames to the buildings »;e»r by. It is indeed fortunate that the wind wa9 from the west and not from the op)<osite direction, as in the latter alternative it is highly probable that a of the main street shops, forty yards f.way, • Svould'have-he«n'destroyed. A pumping plant in the same building, consisting of a high-powered oil engine and a pump, was seriously damaged. THe tm locomotives present a most delapidoted appearance in the daylight. All the light ironwork is buckled or torn off by the excessive, heat': There will be no '•interruption of the service. A special arrives here to-night from Invercargill with other locomotives. The origin of the outbreak is a complete mystery.