FIRES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 92, 20 April 1893, Page 7

FIRES.

Tho__erikeri flaxmill, ab Te Puko, Bay of Plenby, was destroyed by fire on April 12th. The total loss to the lessees, Messrs Liddell Bros., is aboub £200.

A fire on March 26 desbroyed a 9-roomed house in Thames-sbreeb, Oamaru, occupied by Mr Wenlock. Insurance £259 on the house and furniture in the New Zealand Office.

Mr H. Faulkner's house (eleven rooms*1 in Wakefield (Nelson) has been burned. In" surance, £300 on building and £200 on furniture in th& North British and MercantileNothing was saved.

A nine-roomed house, owned by Mr E. Carber, of Mangapai, was burned down near Mangapai, on March 29th. The building and furnibure wero insured for £320, the former being in bhe Commercial Union Fire Insurance Company.

The Vincent County Hotel atClyde(Dunedin), consisting of 15 rooms, andoccupied by Mrs Holt was burntto the ground on March 27. The building was insured for £500, and the furniture for £50, both in the Victoria office. The adjoining buildings were partially destroyed. They were insured in the National for £100.

A two-storied seven-roomed building and large shoe shop, owned and occupied by John Danby, in Pollen-street, Thames, was partly destroyed by fire on Tuesday, April 4th. There was an insurance of £200 on the building and £50 on the furniture in the North British office* The value of the stock is estimated at £700, which was nob insured.

Mr D. McKinnon's residence ab Ohinewai was burnt down on March 24th. The house was a well finished 10-roomed one, and the fire burnt so fiercely that nobbing bub a pair of blankets and a chair were saved. The supposed cause is a faulty chimney. About £20 in cash were burnt, and an employee named Hampton losb £15, besides clothing. The estimated loss is £700. Several valuable family heirlooms were burnt;

A tire broke oub in a four-roomed cobtage in Queen-Sbreeb, Onehunga, on April 9bh» shortly after 10 p.m. The Brigade was soon upon the scene, but the bouse and a great parb of bhe furniture was desbroyed. The house was occupied by Mr Lewis Carl Martin, and owned by Mr Colledge, who has it insured in the Standard for £70. The furniture was insured in the Commercial for £100. Ib is sbabed bhat Mr and Mrs Marbin had a narrow escape:

A fire in Sydenham, Christchurch, on April 10 destroyed two wooden houses, occupied by Messrs Carter and family and O'Malley and family. The one house was owned by Mr Carber, and bhe obher by Mr George King. Carter's house was insured for £125, and his furniture for £125 in the New Zealand Office; King's for £150 in the Economic Office; O'Malley's furniture was uninsured. The occupants of both houses lose practically everything. The cause ot the fire, which started in Carter's, was a defectively set grate.

On April the 4th a fire occurred ab Rubland Road, Sunnyside, Devonporb, which ended in bhe six-roomed dwelling bouse in bhe occupation of Lawrence Coleman, cabinetmaker, bub bho properby of his wife, Mary LoUsia Ann Coleman, being botallydestroyedbyfire. The house wasinsured in bhe Union Insurance office for £150, and the furniture for £80 in the National Office. Mr Coleman estimates his loss over insurance at about £100.

On April 16th a fire broke out in a large store at Addington, Christchurch, occupied by the Canterbury Seed Company. Owing to the difficulty of finding water, an hour elapsed before the steam engines gob to work. Tbe building and con ten bs by this time' were entirely destroyed. The brigades turned their attention to saving a large malt-house adjoining the store, and which contained a very large stock of grass seed and grain. With the exception of a few bags, all was destroyed. The store was the largesb in Christchurch, and covered a quarter-acre of ground. It was the property of Mr R, D. Thomas. The insurances were:—Store, £900 in the Alliance, £600 in the South British ; malt kilns, £1,250 in the National; stock in store, £4,000 in the Victorian, of which £2,500 is re-insured as follows:—£1,000 in the Royal Exchange, £500 in London and Lancashire, £500 in North British and Mercantile, £500 in Norwich Union. Plant in store, £350 iv London and Lancashire ; gas engine, £150, South British. This Company also holds a floating policy on Wood Bros.' wheat, of which less than £1,000 worth was destroyed. Wigram Bros.' grain was uninsured. The Seed Company estimate the value of their stock at £7,000, but it is expected a quantity of grass seed will be salvaged.