FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 256, 22 July 1908, Page 8

FIRES.

. (BT TEI.KGItArn.—SPECIAL COBRESrOS DENT.) . Eketahuna, July 21. Word has reached Eketahuna that'a'tenroomed house occupied by Mr. S. Green was totally destroyed by fire at Waterfalls on Monday aftornoon.' The tiro is stated to have been caused by clothes hanging in front of fclio lire catching. Practically nothing was saved. The insurances are not available. (ill .TELEGRAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) > . Christchurch, July 21. A six-roomed bouse in Aberdeen Street, iccupied by Mrs J. Baggatt, was, with the :ontents, totally destroyed .by firo t-ordjy. llrs. Baggatt was bedridden, and had to be :arried out of the burning house and taken :-o tho Hospital. • Invorcargill, July 21. A five-roomed house at Otautau, owned by tfr. John Baird/and occupied by Mr. John Jimon, was burned, with most of the consents, early this morning. Tho insurance is 2150 on the house in the Commercial Union, md £100 on the furnituro in tho Victoria. Mr. Roosevelt would bo pleased to see an Vrmy - ten times greater than tbo present iomplement; to look upon, a Navy tremenlously superior to that-of any other Government ill the . world. Still the even-minded n'tizen knows that . .tho American citizen ules. Mr.. Roosevelt may go just so far. iVlien tbo limit is reached, he will bo told ibout it.—"American," Now York. The truo Hungarian, like the true Amerian, is a gentloinan. In honour, loyalty, lid courtesy lie will not be outdone. -As for , •bilil.y and the stuff which makes a truo Imerican and a. true Chicago.™, tho largo ! mmber of Hungarians who havo succeeded • oth in business and professional linos in ; Jhicago is tho proof of it. —"Sunday Tri- [ tine," Chicago. Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co. will hold a ! cry special sale of furiiitura at.their rooms, j ir.nndon Street, nt J1 a.m.-to-day. ' .' Messrs. Harcourt and Co. will sell by aue- | ion, on Thursday. .Tnty 31, 110 sections in tho i Jonlin Estate, Northland, ; An odvortisement concerning payment of the '< inion Bank of Australia's dividend n'nd bonus •' pjiears elsewhere, I