FIRES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14110, 1 August 1911, Page 8

FIRES.

A fire occurred at Mayfield e*rkj# Sunday morning, when a house "fIJHH pied by 'Mr Murphy w&e <somple*es| destroyed- Scarcely anything ~<Js& saved, and tho occupants escaped "F?% difficulty. There was an insurance;.o£' £190 in the North Britieh officfcU£tj (FBESS ASSOCIATION* TELSGBiX.) ': fs? WELLINGTON, July JL$ A "house of seven rooms near.Kittf warra, owned by Mr Alex. W. and occupied by Mr Robert J. Poge?" headmaster of the Kaiwarra School , . , **!*? totally destroyed by fire on &tnragff> afternoon, together with the the contents. It is supposed that *o»#£ clothes left to air in front of ..Jwfci kitchen range took fire during thp&.* sence of the family. The houte-wj*' insured in tfce State office for £aft.-J and the furniture and effects *|j*t covered in the State oflu» for Mr Pope estimates hi* loes at »*» ■ above the insurance. -,-■• i WAIMATB, July BL, An enquiry was held this afteflfeWß , . before Mr Hutchesan S.M., . an ?L* v jury, into the cause of the at the Canterbury Farmers' wJPi store. The verdict was that the;*? 6 .. was wilfully caused by some person, of. persons unknown. * *" *.