FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 689, 14 December 1909, Page 7

FIRES.

INCIPIENT TIKE AT THE THEVTIIE 110YAL At a few minutes past 5 o'clock ln-=t bven* ing the fire brigade receded a call to the Theatre ltojal, leased and occupied bj Messrs. John rullcr nnd Sons. The tmtbieaV )nd 00-' curred at tho bottom of a shaft winch extends" ' from tho floor to the roof, with an oponini into the side of tho dross circle nenr the tuannBOrial offices, used, curiously enough, as a ' ropositor} for the firo hoso Superintendent 0 Brion stated that it appealed as though i rubbish of eome kind had boon thrown down tho holo and had bceomo ignited bv a thrownm&y matcL Tho lining of the ah'aft pnd the firo hoso were burnt, and slight dainngo wa« , donp to the wall pt the theatre, so slight OS to be hardly noticeable 'J'ho building and contents ore insured in the \tlns Office for JCIBSO * : At 735 pm. i» cftll mm recened to No 29, : Jhrtle Crescent, a fheroonud cottaßO OCMI pied bj J[vb Katlierino Uoubeslcj, whose son had ficeidentallj tin own a lighted witch agaiust a window curium No damago of moment was sustained. ♦ TIRE ON THE N.URNSinnK. A Press Association telegram from Auckland 6tates tliat on Saturday inoruinu n fire vas discovered in No, 2 huld of tho Naiinshiu while on her voj-.isu to Auckland, but no i serioua daraago was done to tho cargo. (