FIRES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12428, 18 February 1901, Page 5

FIRES.

COLLIERY ON FIRE. United Pres 3 Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received Feb! 17, 5.10 p.m.) OTTAWA, Feb. 16. A fire has occurred at a colliery im Cumberland, Vancouver, and sixty miners are imprisoned. HOTEL DESTROYED. [Pek Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 16.' The Kaih'ii Hotel was destroyed by fire late last night. All the inmates escaped except two gum-diggers, whose names at present are unknown. These were seriously injured. The fire spread with great rapidity, and nothing in the hotel was saved. NARROW ESCAPE FROM A SERIOUS CALAMITY. [Per Press Association. - ] DUNEDIN, Feb. 16. Just before midnight an outbreak of fire was noticed in Ross's Buildings, in. the Octagon, by the night watchman and Constable Baker. The front door was burst in, when it was discovered that the fire had started in one of the top-storey rooms, tenanted by Mrs Collet Dobson. Mrs Dobson, who was seriously ill, had to be carried down to the lower floor, and the other inmates were then aroused. The brigade was very promptly on the spot, and mastered the fire. Had the flames got a hold of the building before being discovered, the probabilities are that a serious loss of life would have occurred, as in th:<s very spot in 1879. Captain Mitchell, of the Fire Brigade, describes the rooms as a collection of horse boxes, connected by dark, narrow passages.