FIRE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 625, 30 September 1909, Page 8

FIRE.

A.DENNISTON^SLOCK ABLAZE; : •• ESTIMATED' DAMAGE£SOOO.';.'';.-•'!' lUj> Toleßrapli-i'roas • ; , . ~■','" ' • Wcstport, September 29.' . - A ,big fire occurred, at Denniston:early this morning,:: the Denniston' Hotel (a'large' building), four shops, two dwellings,' and• the club' and library (large' and 'woll-fitto'd)'being totally destroyed, with-practically all their, contents. A-couple of other buildings.woro daniaged. A brick chimney'fell on• th'o co-opera-tive store,- smashing'■a.;wall and doing Vreat' damago -to stock.-Tho-: Wcstport Coal«Con> pany[s. bins and brake-head-works were «avod with difficulty?-. ~.;•■■ t.--,v-..--.. .;;.■•. .;.....'../, A rough- estimate.'of the.damago done by thefire is. .C 51100...-: I'he ascertainable " Hotel—£soo on, stack-and furniture j C.-Sraith's shop (owned by Jas.Ormoml).'.insured damae'o. about .£4O; stock insured, .£IOO. . State-Office • Co-operative Store—JGl2so on, stock; club and' library, £250 on. Ixwks-and-furH'isliings- J S Cumniing's cottage, £00.- Phoenix Company" £175 on the Hotel) £100 on' tlio cnHetakcr of Iho club's personal effects, and,£6oo.on'C, Smith's stock. - Commercial tJnjon'Office: £250'. oji-the hotel. ' -Alliance, Office on the; Co-ipora-tive^ Store. ..National Office: £500 onvthe hotel. South British Office:, £450 ,■ on, Learnionth's building and t furniture.,, : Queensland -Office£l7s.on the hotel.. : . ... Doiiniston people worked! like Trojans to nro. vcut C Smith's,.-building taking fire,'as had it done so, the Wcstport ,Co'al' Company's,' bins containing^'.tons.of coal, 'would.havo gone also, and the output-of tlio : mine .would- prob. ably have, been susmuded-for,months. The ■ club had to bo sacrificed,to,.savo the bins. The Minima*. Hand':--Fire--Extinguisher- baa extinguished many • thousands of actual'fiW It has thus PWedMts.efficiency beyond quit tion.—A. T. Bate,' Nathan's Bui dinra ,W-i lington, is tho■ agent.-Advt. , ■'*<>*■ ' " 01 . ■ The ,, fi" s '■ :PuNio ' water ' m» man?"-•Tlio• Inhabitant-W-"' -"'lheri it won't be a.crime if I The it'll be ; i Sle,"