FIRE AT ROSLYN.

Evening Star, Issue 11455, 24 January 1901, Page 4

FIRE AT ROSLYN.

A fire broke out this morning in some premises in High street, Roslyn, owned by Alfred Washer, and occupied by George Kay (plumber) and Daniel Ross (watchmaker). The alarm was given about 2.30, the building then being in flames. The Roslyn Tire (Brigade turned out, but were unable to save the building, though thej- prevented the fire from spreading. The property was valued at £2O, and there were materials in it valued by the plumber and watchmaker at £4OO 'and £2O respectively. Mr Kay went to bed at ten minutes to one this morning, after his work at the trarasheds, and he saw nothing suspicious. There were no insurances. The buildings were old and somewhat dilapidated, and as one had been a butcher’s shop and was infested with rats, it is assumed that the cause of the fire was through the latter getting hold of some match-heads.

Benjamin Greene Lake, solicitor, and late chairman of the Discipline Committee of the Law Institute (London), has been sentenced to seven and five years consecutively for many misappropriations of clients’ money. The Lyttelton Borough Council has decided to consider the practicability of constructing a breakwater at Sandy Bay, outside the western mole, with the" view of es, tablishing a public bathing place there. Five hundred Virginian quail and five Virginian deer for the Kelson Acclimatisation Society arrived by the Alameda from San Francisco.