FIRES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17198, 19 June 1916, Page 11

FIRES.

SHED AND STABLE BURNT. About- two o’clock on Saturday afternoon, the Fire Brigade was summoned by street- alarm to a fire in Durham Street North. The outbreak was located in \ shed that was at ono time used as a workshop at the back of a house owned by Mr Murray Hobbs and occupied by ‘Mrs Stuart. It was first noticed bv a man woiking in the stables of Messrs F. A. Cook, Ltd., and the brigade, under the command of DeputyCaptain Blake, was soon on the spot. The shed was destroyed. •U about a quarter to eleven on Saturday night tho Fire Brigade received a- call to a. stable in Durham Street North, owned' by Mr Murray Hobbs and used by a hawker named Mann. There were no horses in the stable, and the damage was confined to a charring of the interior of the walls. The stable was part of the same proniises as those in which the fire in the afternoon occurred. ... The police are investigating the origin of both outbreaks.

COTTAGE AT CHEVIOT BURNED DOWN. A four-roomed cottage at- Mackenz.c, owned hv Mr L. E. Laiigescn and ocai pied by Mr C. Ogden, was burned down at. two o'clock oh Saturday morning. Airs Ogden and a child were m the house, tdone and esoaped only in their night clothes. Nothing was saved! The insurance on the house was £2OO and on the furniture £IOO in the State Office.

SAWMILL DESTROYED. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June IS. The Taupo Totara Timber Company’s (.-.in-mill and plant at Newmarket, valued tit £IOOO and two hundred and fifty thousand feet of timber; valued at £2BOO were destroyed by fire last night, ("gale, was blowing at the time and j-eH' the brigade no chance. The Broadway Theatre adjoining sustained -one damage end atone time the Royal Geor n e Hotel was in (great danger. It is presumed that the fire was caused by a spark from a passing railway engine-