FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 800, 25 April 1910, Page 6

FIRES.

GRAIN STORE DESTROYED. !By Telecrapb.—Prow Association.! . Core, April 23. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Company's large corrugated iron grain store at Kelso was burned to the ground at 8 o'clock this morning. The-fire is supposed to have originated in the ett-gine-room, where an oil engine \Was installed, but the cause is a :ipystery. A rough estimate places the damage" at between £10,000 and £12,000, including the loss'of some 10,000 sacks of grain, merchandise,- etc. Practically nothing' was saved.

The railway- station, a wooden building, which lies alongside the store, wal saved by the united efforts of the sta-' tionmaster: and the men, though it caught fire on several occasions: The insurances amount to £5000 on the building ;and stock in the London and Lancashire Office. This properly, was much under-insured:

SEVEN-BOOMED HOUSE BURNT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Chrlstchurch, Aprfl 23. A seven-roomed house at New BrigKi ton, owned by Mir. W. Congreve, and occupied by Mr. W. Wharton, wag burnt down last night. The house was . insured for £550; the furniture was uninsured..' '' ' ' ' '

• OUTBREAK Of ORIENTAL ' TERRACE. About a quarter past ten on Saterr&j morning, the fire brigade received a call to Oriental Terrace, where a sevensroomed house, N0.'40, had caught fire. Considerable damage was done to the building and contents, the front sitting, room being ruined, while the other parte of the house were more or less damaged by smoke, water, and. heat. The theory of the outbreak was .that, the fire had its origin in some horse-feed which was stored under the houso, and that the' boy whose duty it was to. get the feed had lit a match and failed to extinguish it properly. The building was owned arid occupied by Mrs. F. M. Valentine, and was insured in the Sun Office faf £500, the same office also holding ft risk of £500 over the furniture.

Early yesterday morning, about JUSJ o'clock, a fire was discovered in a wood and coal dealer's shed in No. 24 Arthur Street, caused, it is thought, by a spaii from a donkey-engine falling on tba timber. The shed and its oontents was rather badly damaged- Its owner, A 1 frcd C. Fitchett, had them insured in tho Sun Offioe, But the amount is oat known.