FIRES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12551, 3 January 1903, Page 8

FIRES.

Pbess Association.)' •'. and Public Library tws ,|;| totally destroyedby fire yesterday afternoon. a'fewvbroks were saved. In those lost #J'.iTOre'::rSeveral' firsts editions of - Dickens's £320 on the building, : Bi6b. on'-'the' books,.and • £20 oh.the furnithe > Imperial. ; The loss is fully it/v£soo'.rover':tho insHOTrl6e'. , ■'•" : ' : 'f :'.'ASHOTBTON,; January 2.'. $p& Avfire pctHirred yesterday morning, when ££/V;.;!dwelling 'oh' East "Belt,' occupied by |||i'Andrew"SnTipson,'. : waiß "destroyed. The bri'out smartly,but the building _was family'weretaway at the time,; iprilnnd;theTplace locked,up. '.Tie -ca.iis&.is un|!SknownS. Thei house wis owned by.J. Len-, itg n'"s^;;->nd^ the furniture in furniture; £100/iir tie New, Vand; oil a iniieioa]; office,', '-s. ■', |||r|^'fire.sb^^^ :"eveninp;. glgiul^wailfoTtim^ SSftdSbb'fimedTa :lrunholoY(of rth'e, ;bu'ildirig. j j

t« 'Visit Jtol, ; : &nds,wliile at the latter's residence was informedby. his.Bbri,'a young boy, -that his chouse'/'was ton The fire originated' wherevMr: ',ind his wife's clotWng'TOfl;lianging against the wall, •covered by » oiirfein, jhul both, were ; unfortunate enough to ldso all thpir clothing, with the exception of what they were wearing at .the time.;. The wall damaged by the fire, and'conarderable,damage ,was also doneVby .-wiitor(' Dr . Clc/39, who residos, on th©. opposite -sid?,of the street, and ; other neighbours • rend jred ready; and valuable ■ assistance. ■ ' The house.: together, with furniture s 'and. effects,: was. insured in ■the New Zealand office:" A-singular thing about it was that there had been rip fire in the room for;'some six months. Mr Chodowsld has been a regular insurcrfqr SO years, and never.had a. firo.before. . ;A four-roomed 'cottage in the Kaikorai Valley, owned and ■occupied by John Trenwith, settler, was,.tbtally destroyed- by fir© at; 3.30 'a.m. yesterday. :Mr Trenwith was absent from.-home at the time, .haying left between 9 nnd 10 the'previous; morning for Oarnarti; Nothing, is known as, to the origin of the fire. Tri<> building was; insured in the Sim office for, £200, and the furniture for- £160 ,in tho, same office. , Milton residents were'::- rudely awakened from their slumbers (it about 2 .o'clock on .Friday morning byHW cry of "fire!" but before many lrad'prrived : ori the scene tho conflagration had be<rr extinguished and the danger was past; The'.parapet of Messrs JpmeS Gray and .Son's two-storeyed : premires were, on fire"; cawed, it is siiprjoscd, by the settlement of -a rocket, in the. gutter on the TOof.'..The loss'is trifling. , confined to 'the; breaking of" the •windows and'crockerr nri entrance by the local Ere Brigade, which' was on the sceifb.