FIRES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14051, 24 May 1911, Page 2

FIRES.

OEMS ASSOCIATION TELEOEAMS.) WESTPORT, May 22. I Goilin's music and fancy gcxxls depot, 1 part of a large block of buildings, was gutted by fife at 2.30 this morning. An explosion of fireworks in the stock aroused thY neighbours. The stock was destroyed "by fire and water, but the building was saved. . .The insurance ohthe stock amounts to £400. - . KJEEFTON. May 23. The first'firo for four years occurred this morning, when Messrs Wills and Co.'s large drapery and grocery store on the . Buller road was burned to the ground. I Owing to economy being exercised over the water supply, "due to the dry weather,- the water was slow in oonunir. but the adjoining dwelling was saved A hoary loss is sustained, as the firm was carrying £7000 worth of stock, and the insurances only amount to £1800, distributed as follows:—£300 each in the Standard. South British, New Zealand, Victoria. Norwich Union 'and " Phoenix. GISBORNE, May 23. An eight-roomed house at Wae'rengaokrirs, owned and occupied by Mr Carlyon, a sheep farmer, has been destroy- «] by fire. The house was insured lor £■100 in the Victoria office. The furniture "was not insured.