FIRES IN INVERCARGILL.
FIVE ALARMS IN 24 HOURS,
[PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
INVERCARGILL, Sept. 9
, Five alarms of fire were given (luring 24 hours. On Saturday night an eight-i ooined house in Nitli street, occupied hv Captain William McLean, was completely destroyed, with the contents. The same evening two alarms were given from Wilson’s store in Tay street, where considerable damage was done. On Sunday morning the stables' attached to Roope’s brewery in Mary Street were destroyed, and in the afternoon an alarm was given for a supposed outbreak in the National Mortgage buildings, hut smoke was found to be coming from the suction gas plant. This was the fourth alarm given on the same presumption of fire in these, premises.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3624, 10 September 1912, Page 5
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120FIRES IN INVERCARGILL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3624, 10 September 1912, Page 5
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