FIRES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15384, 22 February 1912, Page 8

FIRES.

(PlB Dsrno I'RXM ASSOCIATION.) WIIANIIAItKI. February 21. A firo Lwt which oricinated in a kapok shed at tho roar of Mr Harrison's furniture factory, s|>re.id to the mitin buiWinc. and caused dunuim* to the machinery itmi Mock estimated at £500. The loss is fully ooverod by insuratuv. INGLKWOOD. February 21. The makiiiKS of a serious titv woty discovered «t !1 o'clock last nielli on the pivmisos of Mr Kennixly. fiddler, which wore entirely putted. _ The Hallux* spread to tho adjoining premises of Messrs Nicholls and Sow. trnx'crs and dra|>ers, which were .seriously dtun.ißc*! by smoke and water. Mr Kennedy's is a total loss, but tho <!am ntjo to tho other establishment is chiellv by water Tito itisurancvs on tho building wow: New Zoaland office, £650; United, £60(1 Stock: United, £1000: Sim. £1000; Northern. £1000; State. £700: liivorpool nnd l-oiidou and Glolte, £500. -Or R Clonicnt Ltica.«, in the cwtrseof (i lecture, Mhl tJiai cnulual chaises were takiro: place in tho human foot. A number of years ago lto twitted out. that the gradual disapjxttntr.iv of thn little 100 was getting ahead of tho text-book. for while it hat! already lost one of its extotiKir tendons in cpiito an t»>prtviah!o pewnt.w of cases, ono of its tlrxor tendons was oliscnt alw. On tlio other hand, tho ctmi too had undergone extraorAiKirr developments. iwvauso tlio inner side of the foot was tlm first to cateli the (vntre of envity in transiferrins tho weicht of lie Invir from ono foe* to tho othor in walliintr. lie vcnture<l nt the timo to |>nxlict that if the workl went on km? enough, in perhaps halt it million years, as tho useless outer tot\s Witiß hw and ies.; cmploytvl trraihtally dl--npjtcarvd, uh>h ii tight beoonw a one-toed rsto.