FIRE IN WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14244, 15 December 1909, Page 7

FIRE IN WELLINGTON.

A BOARDER INJURED.

[by telegraph.— ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Tuesday. A fire took place at 3.19 o'clock this morning in Ingestre Place, when a fiveroomed house, occupied by Henrietta Lockerbie, was seriously damaged. The fire spread to adjoining houses, occupied by James Liddell and Beatrice Davis. The former, a building of five rooms, was badly damaged on the first floor by fire, whilst the bottom floor was damaged by water. The latter, a house of eight rooms, had a side wall and bedroom and contents badly damaged by fire, and the lower rooms by water. Mis. Lockerbie's furniture was insured for £150 in the South British, and Liddell's furniture for £100 in the Commercial Union; Davis was uninsured. The houses were owned by Miss Emma Siddells, and insured in the .Commercial Union for £350, £220, and £250 respectively. . A labourer named James Wallace, a boarder at Mrs. Lockerbie's, jumped from an upper, storey window and fell on a picket fence, breaking two ribs. He' was removed to the hospital. ; - . ; ' * ' A BLENHEIM OUTBREAK. ; *: [by TELEGRAPH.— association.] * '•".:.'.. . Blenheim, Tuesday. Early this morning a five-roomed house in Nelson-street, owned and occupied by Frederick Jellyman, was totally destroyed by fire, together with all its contents. The building was insured in the State Office for £150. " '