FIRES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13240, 21 March 1907, Page 5

FIRES.

A H ALL DAMAGED. * Per Press Association. NELSON, March 23. Just after midnight a fire broke out in the Port Hall, which is used for mwftion services and oilier purposes. Passersby applied the hose before the brigade, arrived and , did goodl service, and the brigade, with a good pressure of water, saved 'the building.- Considerable damage was done. The origin of the fire is a. mystery, but a drunken; man was seen at the "rear of . the . premises earlier in the evening.. The hall was owned by Mr W. Rout, arid insured in the Sun Office for £l2O. 1 . ■ ,''■■■■ ' OUTBREAK AT TEMUIvA. About 1 o'clock yesterday morning, a. lire broke o!it in a large stable .at the back of M>- C.; Bates's painter's shop, Teiriuka. "Jhe iilanii witN '([uickly given, but by the time the brigade got to work, the building'was a- mass of fllurtes,. Mid . was quickly reduced to a heap Ot ashen. The stable'was-used by Mr Bates as a storeroonV-- for general merchatidise, find was full of -valtiable'iiiateriiil !vt' the tone of tliei Outbreak. ■ live' "building, * whfah owned by 1 >,lr 'Bates. Was ■ insured for £so(in tlie lloVtil Office, aivd the stock for £200,. £loo'. in- the British atid £IOO in the' -Northern 1 ' Five Qffioe-s but Ml' 'Bales 'estimates"his loss on 'Hie stofck tttifully £2OO nbnve the ammtnt fbvertd; by irisUjatice. Mr • Paul Baits is..also n. heavy loser be the fn e, ■ as, --a. ■ part?., of the /Rtab]c« waH used, bv him as a picture framing. shop. ■ and--wad ful\ of valuable, tools, etc.' .