FIRE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 548, 1 July 1909, Page 6

FIRE.

, BLAZE IN A' CITY SAWMILL/' A' large amount of .smoke; enough, in fact, -I . to at times obscuro;, the building/: gave rise , . to. a cry yesterday afternoon that abig tire iv ;.. was; :w progress: in v tho- Stewart Timber,-! Glass,, and Hardware • Company's sawmill. : S : The ■ lire, : which, was at hrst only a' small • > v one, is believed to have > been > causcd by tho : ;.v ■■ overheated bearings of a machine m a'saw- . : ' pit scttuig. some sawdust alight.. The * workers, -at tho . null ■ endeavoured' to - cope with the lire with their own. appliances, but, finding that it was gaining ground, gave the , alarm at 2.40. , , > '.'i'he sawmill in which tho fire had broken : , out •is■; a brick- building of /two 'stories, situated nest to, but detached from, the main v throe-story' warehouse,- in wnich the stock of .'.glass:and, hardware is kept. On the other •side i3.,tho timber yard, from which ; the .. .mam -danger was :to. bo anticipated -if the flames had got a proper hold of the sawi • •mill^.., Adjoining -the timber , yard, on tho v Victoria, Street frontago," is the Union Steam . . Ship Company's repairing 'yard,- and; on the . Courteiiay Place: frontage,, a number of oH r wooden shops. , ' ■. - v • The fire brigade soon suppressed,the blaze. The damage done was chiefly to the interior : of tho building, and a , small, quantity of joinery. stock m tho mill. .'Since- it ; was al- -.!-.■■■ . most dark-when the fire was' suppressed, it was difhoult to estimate: the oxact amount of damage. The insurances were: On. tho 'building,: £1500' in various offices; on tho '.stock; £350; .on the machinery, £3230; also distributed.amongst a numbor of offices; •'