FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 690, 15 December 1909, Page 7

FIRES.

g IN INGESTED PLACE. AN OUTBREAK AND. AN ACOTD.EN.T. Ajt 10 minutes past 8 o'clock yesterday morning Hie Fire Bngpde received a cnll to No. 6 lugestro Place, a najrqw lane off Ingestre Street, The bouse was a parrow two-storied five-rdomed dwellipg, ocpupied by Mrs. Henrietta Lockerbie, a dressmaker. It is thought that the outbreak was caused by the ignition of some cjothes which wore left bofore the firoplaco iv hen the occupants retired to bed about U .o'clock pn Monday nighf;. J)y the timo the brigade arrived on tne scene the flames had secured a good hold on the building and were beginning to spread to the houses on either eide—No. 8, an eight-roomed two-stoned dwelling, occupied by lira. Davics, and No. I, alto pf two stortes, apd containing fjvq rpoms, occupied by Mjr. Jas. Liddell. Jlrs Loekortjo s house was tjadly damaged by fjre, a sidejrajl, bedroom, and consents pf JJlrs Dayieg's louse wore partfally destroyed, and the first loor was also damaged, whijo in Ifr. Liddell'a felling the first floor and contents were damiged by fire, and the ground floor and contents iy wator. ! ' The insurances pn the contents of the \anpus bmldfngs were as follow —Mrs. Lockerbio's furniture. JBJSO in tho South British; Mr Liddell's furniture, 'AW in tho Commercial TTmon, and Mrs. Davfs's furniture uninsured The houses .were all owned by Miss Emma Liddell,,, and wero insured in the Commercial Thnnn as follow'—No 1 for No. 6 for ,£350, and No. 8 for ,£250. ' ~«,'. >, ~ Jarae3 Welsh, a labourer, who was boarding nt Jtr , !. , Lockerbie'?, met with a rather severe accident white endeavouring to assist Mrs. LocWrbjo to get her children away frohi tho flames, In his attempts ho became almost cut " of! ftom escape, and had to jump from'a top window. In falling ho landed on a picket fence, breaking several nbsj Br. Gilmer, who was galled in, ordered his removal to the hospital, where be'was last night reported to bo progressing favourably. OTHER OUTBBEAKS 'Another call was Received by tho brigade at 9 50 am. to tho Star Foundry. Rqvaps Street, Newtown, H'here a'spark had eqt fire to some shavings jind ppal qutsjde th.e boiler sbed, Slishf datpngo was dqno to the shed Qn Monday cvoning a plight outbreak occurred in a four-jooined at Ijower flutt, occupied by Mr. Jackson, and owned by Mr. Jghn Guthne. Ljttlo damage tfss dqne. HOUSE BURNED AT BLENHEIM. IB» Tql«Er«pl-Prf?• A«4<ie|nt|oto I Blenheim, December U A firo occurred early this morning in a fiveroome4 housq 'in Nelson Street, owned and occupied by Mr.i Frederick Jelly man, which was totallyi destroyed, together with all its contents. The building was insured in the btafo Ofhee for .8150; tho amount of tho insurance on the furniture is not yej; obtainable, owing to' Mr,- Jellyman being away iu Havelock. r ' The simplicity of action and great effectiveness of tjh% Mipiimn Hand Tire Extinguisher have peel) proved by tho actual suppression of numerous ffres ,A, T. Bate, Nathan's Building?, W<#ngtop, }S , th,e agept.-^dit. ACCIDENTS AND FATAXJTJES. A B.EQKEN LIMB. . (Prom Our Special Correspondent} 'Palmerstqp, December H. A. serious accident - happened to William Eamney at Utaiyai yesterday. Hβ was carfuig firowood, jvhep the animal whjch he jvas drjvipg took fright and bolted. Eamney nqs thipun from tho cart, but gqt a Ug caug|it in tlio wheel, with the rpsult thaf the hmb\a? broken. The sufferer was cpveyed to the Pal. raerston I£qspita,l|> v faEBIOTJS GUN ACPIDENT. (By Telejtrjph-preM Association I Auckland, Pecembor 14, A aoridua accident occurred to Mr B W D(,i)bithj master, of the Hora Hora School, on Saturday (reporte thq Pambridije qorrespondent of tho "Hernld'l). He was out thonting rabbjts when, , n picking up tho gun nt hw i,i4c, he #chai«ed i«k tho charge pnesuiß tfuouglt the top of hi? instep, and burst })>B o»l°t solo of tpo foot towards the. tpos. The charge sevottd the laces and blew tte boot off lui foot. My. Denbith ratinagud to cot to the ncamt scltlcr's louse? affi halt a nilq away nimidpd, »hpnce he was conXA toTTbSott?"' ? nl h,s lpJHry KNOCKED DOWN ON HUE WHAKF. While working on th e ss. Kotuku at tho wharf JSftordajr, a pn me( l Edward Paine Has knocked down by a s l II)g of » sal Several of his ribbvejn Wi nbj h "■ rather badly brii.sed aloiit Ihe body. W nß who is a , married map, residing n | Garfielc Street, Biookljn, was takoV tq fl, c Hwpifal A PAJNri'L ACCIDENT. At Minmiir yesterday' an 11-yenr old boy nampd Herbert Atkinson ivi.s watching a mowing roaclunu at work on tho polo ground, whon he met with i> very gainful acefdeut 1 appears tha ho get too close to th, kn.v of the maohuie, and before anything couh Sβ d H n °i P n "/I" I, *.''"' left H was cut (18. ile was tiken to the Hospital, where ho was iMt mght rrnortrd to be 1 pressing «, ttaToarably as could bo p\pectyl. TOAMAN ON TON64MBO INJUKED. Daring the voyage of tho Tonganro from Capo lown to Hobart nn able seaman named T. Wilkins fell down the foropeak and sustelped a broken collarbone , Ho receded medi eel attention on the steamer, and wns landpd of Hobart It \S exported that he will be well enough 1 0 roioin his ship before it leaves New goa)apd pn tho homeward Voyage.