FIRES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9304, 3 August 1908, Page 3

FIRES.

• 'A fire broke out at 6.30 a.m. to-day In a house belonging to Mr Holloway, '■addler, in Abberley Road, St Albans. It seem 6 to have broken out in a cupboard, in oiu^ of the rooms, and got a «;ood liold before the Brigade arrived, ''he fire was confined to the rcom, which was burnt and charred, a good tleal of damage being .done. The house s& insured, in tire Commercial Union, for dC3OO, and the furniture in the Phocenix ffor £100. ; Between 8 and 9 o'clock last night an innoocupied cottago in Blackett Street, fßangiora, belonging to Mr John Lilly, >as practically destroyed by fire, the ,brigade saving only part of the outside •walls and roof. The building vrae near\Nr fifty years old, and of no great value. ; It was no Houbt wilfully rset fire to bj •ome evil-doer^

It is estimated that 5,000,000 women fore earning wages ia the British Isles. 1 A naval veteran named Samuel Kicks, who resides at the Norfolk village of Ludhain, was recently awarded * medal by the Admiralty for services in the Baltic in 1854, when he was Hwrvitig on H.M.S. Pleiades.