FIRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 162, 15 December 1914, Page 2

FIRES.

CORDIAL FACTORY DESTROYED. _ Napier, Yesterday. Plowman's cordial factory, at the corner of Shakespeare and Battery Roads was totally destroyed by fire this morning. The outbreak started in the cellar and had a good hold of the main building when it was discovered. The water pressure was not so good as it might have been, and the brigade was unable to do more than confine the fire to the Iry. ffha loss is a heavy one. The ing was insured in the Norwich a for £IOOO and the plant and stock le same office for £6IOO. The inlces do not nearly cover the loss, took being valued at £ 13,000. FAL FIRE AT BOARDINGHOUSE. Taihape, Yesterday. ■ four-roomed outhouse at the rear of tl's boarding-house was destroyed by yesterday at 1.30 a.m. There was !opc of saving the building and intion later revealed the remains of ! Williams, a.Cingalee, a recent arrival from Hawke's Bay. It. was not known when the fire was discovered that the building had any occupants. ANOTHER BOARDINGHOUSE BURNED. Auckland, Yesterday. A. fire In Hobson Street at one o'clock this morning gutted seven rooms of a large boarding-house known as Devonshire House, owned by C. F. Bennett and occupied by Mrs M. Marshall. Mrs Marshall and two children slept on the ground floor and were awakened by smoke. She took the children in her arms and jumped from the window, a distance of six feet, to the ground. Ten boarders, who were sleeping on the premises, had narrow escapes. One jumped from the roof of a lean-to, 20 feet high. An old man was assisted from a room while the passag# was ablaze. A FLAX SWAMP SCORCHED. Carterton, Yesterday. ■ A fire swept over portion of the Mangahuia flam swamp, Longbush, where Toogood's mill was working. The standing crop, which is at present being cut, was not touched, but flax cut three years ago, and growing again, was badly scorched.