FIRES.
SMALL FIRE IN WILLIS STREET. At 8.44 p.m. a call was received to an unoccupied building, GO Willis Street, ' where trifling damago was done to some ■ crockery. Some towels having been left nlongsido a gasring used by painters employed on the building during the day is put forward as a possible cause of tbo fire. HOUSE SEVERELY DAMAGED. A gas-ring, having set firo to mantelpiece draperies, is supposed to have been tho caueo of an outbreak in a five-roomed house in Arney Street at 3.3-1 yesterday afternoon. Tho houso was occupied by Mr. J. H. Daranx, and owned by Mr. Louis Daranx, and tho building and contents, with tho exception of one room, were severely damaged. Tho biulding was insured in the State office for .£350, but the contents were not insured-
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 477, 8 April 1909, Page 8
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133FIRES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 477, 8 April 1909, Page 8
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