FIRES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13250, 19 October 1908, Page 7

FIRES.

. 4 ' SUSPECTED INOENIMAKISM. AT RANGIORA. " A fir© broflce out in Victoria street, Rangiora, ait. about 11 o'clock oa. Friday night, in tlhe _iw_U__|g-iocuse next to the DrilH Ha_l, tho propertfy of. tho family of Mr J. Hands. 'I!he ibuaWing was a Bubstantki_.y4>uilt seven-roomed house, with panit-ry and luatihioom.' The fire thad a good hold of the interior before -the alarim was given., bait the Ittre Brigade quickly got the outbreak under. Tbo thouse had.been untenanted about three weeks; and the outbreak is put •diown. to incendiarism. The house is, insured in the Oonumoroial Union for £250, and to all appearances is beyond repair. __-__. * r An alarm of fire was given, to tho Brigade al>out 9.4.0 p.m. om Satonday, from a box noair tlhe Star and Garter Hotel, for a fire which occurred a 6ix-roomed : ibflsse, owned and ooouipied by _»Ir Ligihbfoot, situated in Melrose 6treet, off Madras street. The nro was discovered in a fbedrooon, *wid before it was port out by two neighbours exud the motor chemical, it ihad destroyed part of the wall *nd the ceiling. Tlie insurances axe:—Bui-ding £250. and furniture £175 in the National office. The damage is estimated at £10. At about 2.16 on Saturday afternoon a fire started in the dwellinghouse at the school, Oreendale. The house was totally destroyed.. The schoolroom, through the exertions of a number of willing friends, was saved. Some damage by removal of the books in "the library was all the loss'caused to the school. f (rRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAM.) 'DUNEDIN, Octcflier 18. A six-roomed house da King etrcet, owned by Speight and . Co., brewers, and occupied iby Mr Robert "Warren, waa destroyed b\- fire early this mora-. Itbej. The house was valued at between' £300 and £400, and 'the furniture at £225. Tho latter was insured in the "New Zealand Offics for £200. Tho insurance on tho house is not known.