FIRES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13889, 28 April 1909, Page 5

FIRES.

BADCLiFFE'S FACTORY ABLAZE,

nf.lVt +?' (" n • 9 out 111 last \ non ll rm emg out the alarm ? • l . t _ 1 . 1 -30 P.m. for » firo in Mr .J. siw',i' JS ff!«' n ! tl,r6 fnctor .> r i 3 ffiK + S PP JI , ,a street, dose to tlio butchciy establishment of T. Mo Whirtor ami Son. Tho Fire Briraido was t?on n at -. tho , sce no of tho cOnllagraS'mnl !° n ? lm i l sttirtcd in tlio cab-J"ct-ni,iking department which is nt tlio north-east end -of -the -buildin K and this particular part is;of brick, tho rest of «!n,. V , " g ' ("'J'fth tuns up to' two (r i,„? ?, /.'ff "f wood. There was a bli V? c Jn t,c former when the iiro •'V "ot. lC od by Mr MeGrath, horse ™!5 ?, homff * ,lc fr'st to discover it, '' t „fr° + tllo I nlnrm ' T],e l>ri C ndo ovrr lh f+i * ' ®r n Purpose how<mi, that they .soon lind the firo under n lid presented it spreading hecc? +hn» tit start«l, thmuili only just ni tiino to do so. In Fact, the flames had made their way into the upper storoy of ,the wooden building, when an entrancfc was effected at the side , and & veil-directed .let soon quenched, that section of the lire. Jhe one-storey portion where tlio fire originated was practically gutted, find Mr . Radcliffo must have sustained n. substimtffll loss. ' The amount, of the. insurance "was not nvniL'iblo last night, but it was stated to he comparatively small. A suspicions fact in connection with the fire is that it started just inside a. window in the northern wall of the' building. \ .

A house belongitic: to Mr M Brosnahan, situated near Waslidyke, was destroyed by 'firo some days ntro. Tho place was unoccupied and tho owner did not know of his loss until a day or two after the fire.

Ml' Herbert Bishop was unfortunate enough to lose tlie dwelling on his farm between Pleasant Point and'. Sn'therinncls, by fire, at daylight 1 yesterday morning. Mr Bishop ,was up. and had gone out to the stable, and while there fcaw a. glare in the scullery window of the bouse. He was too late to put out \ the fire, an'l hod some difficulty in getting his wife and children out of the bouse in their night dresses, and practically none of the furniture Vas, saved. A crai'i store, well'filled, was in considerable danger.