FIRE AT DENNISTON.

Otago Witness, Volume 06, Issue 2899, 6 October 1909, Page 3

FIRE AT DENNISTON.

ElClir ET'ILDIXG.S DE'sTr/JYfciF. VTESTPORT, {feptimli-sr 29. A big fire occurred at It?nni&'.on *arly this ir.orn:n^. T.:e Denni^on Hotel 'a large bui.'din/), fjjj x - shops, two dweilingt, the Cub and Libiaij i which irai I«v irt and well fitted) were tecal'y dostroyet , Awth practically all the eoniciil^. A coupe of other buildings were dana^ed. A br:c t chimney fell on the Co-opeta-'ivt- Stcr t . sraashing the wall and doing great da!ru;fc to the stock. The We?iport Coal Cc:npany'6 bins and Wake head workc? we:e saved vrzth diiiicully. lue tir-e originated in the hot«. The losses were severs. Th< Atlas, Stite, Phoenix. South British, National, ard Alliance officer are affects'. It is understood that»tbe bcoks in the Librarj' were saved. ' A roug* estimate of the damnge » £5000. The insurances ascerta.'nabl? ars as folkiw : — Atlas Company — Deimlst,,"i Hotel, £500 on stock and turniture; ( . Smith's shop, owned, by Jamas Cinionc , da^nage a'jout £40, stock insured tor £100. State DepjirLment — Co-op erati\« Store, £1250 on stock ; Club and Library, £250 on books and furnishing, amount < n the building is not known here. ar> it is insured at Dunedin : J. Sr Cammings cottage. £60. Plicenix Companj- — £175 on the hotel, £100 on the c?.icta!?er of Jlub s personai elTect^, and £6CO on C. SmithN stock.. Commercial Union : £250 on ihr hotel. Alienee : £500 on the Co-operativg Store. National : £500 on the hotel. South Eritifh : £450 on Learmont's builr', ing and furniture. Queensland .- £175 on the hotel. The Dennkton peopl* worked like Trojans to prevent C. Smith's building taking fire, as had it done so the Westoort Coal Company's bins, containing 3000 tons of coal, would have gone als?. ard the oatuiit of the mine would probably ha.v« been suspended for month*. The Club had to be tacrificed to save the bins.