DISASTROUS FIRE
TRAINING STABLES GUTTED. ANOTHER OUTBREAK AT BELFAST. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, November 1. Between eleven o’clock and midnight last night fire destroyed the racing and training stables of M. B. Edwards at Belfast. Eleven horses were in the loose boxes, including Black Admiral, but all were got out just in time. It was impossible to check the fury of the fire after it had obtained a firm hold and the stables were reduced to ashes in a short space of time. A large quantity of feed in the feed loft where the fire apparently originated was lost as was the bulk of the gear, sulkies, harness, blankets and so on. It is considered curious that this is the second training stable at Belfast to be burnt out in a week. Last Monday night K. Smith’s stable at the Belfast Hotel was similarly destroyed by fire. But for the direction of the wind last night Mr Edv, ards’s house would also have been burned. The insurances on Edwards’s stables were £BOO in the Farmers’ Office; contents £2OO in Victoria Office.
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Southland Times, Issue 20016, 2 November 1926, Page 7
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182DISASTROUS FIRE Southland Times, Issue 20016, 2 November 1926, Page 7
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