FIRES.
Gabfield'i follmongory at Burnside, Dunedin was burned down on Nov. 26th. The stock and plant were insured in the Now Zealand Office for £250.
A fire broke oub on Dec. 13 ab Opobiki in Bridger'a Norbhern Drapery Store and warehouse, which, with tho spring goods, was burnt. Tho exertions of the people saved tho house and shop, bub building and ■bock were damaged.
Ab Arrowiown, Dnnedin, Roberb Pribchard's sbore, Campbell's butchery and McKenzie's lancy goods shops were burned down on Dec. Ist. Insurances : Pribcfcmrd'e stock, National, £1,000, building. £800; Campbell, Mtinches.er, £200. McK.eu_.ie was uninsured.
An eight-roomed house, occupied by Andrew Casoy, ab Tamahere, Waikato, waa destroyed by fire on December 11th. Nothing was saved. The house was insured in bhe Now Zealand Office for £450, but tho furniture was uninsured. Casey lost £18 in a case.
At P_.lmeratonNorfchon Dec. llafirebroko out in tho upntairf portion of Mr Jubnl Fleming's (tobuecoiaisl), nnd Bproad to the upstairs ef Meters Johnston (tailor), and Ravans (grocer), in the same block, beforo it was got under. The insurance on the block was £800. Fleming's stock was insured for £300, and Revans' for £300. There waa BO innurance on Johnston's. Mr T. Tanner's fine country residence of 22 rooms ab Rirerolea, near Hastings, Hawke's Bay, waa bobally destroyed by tire on December 2nd. Mr Tanner lost all hia privato p&pere, and every stick of furniture was destroyed. The insurances aro : Norwich Union, £3.300 on bhe build ing, and £1,700 on furniture. Tbe reinsurances were : New Zealand, £1,000; National, £900; Standard, £000; North German, £500. Nobbing is known aa to the origin of the firo.
About five p.m. on Dec. 5, a tire broke out in Grafton Road and resulted in two six-roomed houses, occupied by Mrs Dennisfcon and Mrs Cleary respectively, being destroyed, and two other houses, occupied by Mr Broadfoot (clerk in the " Observer " Office), and Mr W. C. Piggobb (messenger in the Bank of New South Wales), b«ing gutted. The four houses were owned by the Bank of New Soubh Wales, and were insured for £700 in tbe National. Their total value was estimated at aboub £1,000. Of the four tenants, only Mr Pigf.'ott had his furniture insured, but usoet of bis furniture .was saved, while mosb of bhe contents of the bwo buildingn burnt a-owoA'"ite_"ied.. „ iry Kalis. .----..,
FIRES.
Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 305, 23 December 1896, Page 8
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