FIRES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8921, 9 September 1905, Page 8

FIRES.

BLIND INSTITUTE ABLAZE. [PKESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, September 8. An outbreak of fire took pla-ce in the workshop of the Jubilee Institute foj the Blind to-night. The damage done wa6 not wsrious. There was some anxiety about town at first, owing to the fact that, the "whole of the buildings are of wood. The workshop, however, is about 100 yards from the main building, where tlie blind people reside, and there was no panic. EveTy precaution was taken to prevent the fire spreading, and the appliances at the institution for coping with fire had practically suppressed the riami'o before the brigade arrived. FIVE-ROOMED HOUSE DESTROYED. AUCKLAND. September 8. A five-roomed house in Eden Terrace wns burned down to-night. It- was owned and occupied by Mr Jackson, who is away from town. The itisura-aces. therefore, cannot at present be ascertained. HOUSES RUN BACK TO BURNING STABLE. GISBORNE, September 8. Further information regarding the _ recent fire at the coaching stables at Hikuwai. on tho East Coast, whereby four coach - orses wore burnt, shows that the animals were released from the stahles by the man in charge (John Leggett), but ran back. One caught Leggett with a hoof, and lifted him right over the fence, where he lay stunned for a. time.