DAMAGE BY FIRE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 136, 5 December 1907, Page 8

DAMAGE BY FIRE.

«^ FOUR SHOPS DESTROYED AT MARTON. faY TELEGRAPH. — IVRESS ASSOCIATION.] MARTOX, 4th December. The ' second • big ■ fire within the last month broke out in Marton about two o'clock to-day, totally destroying J. M. Nicol's shop, refreshment rooms, and bakehouse, and the premises of B. G. Goebel, fruiterer and produce merchant ; J. Milligan, crockery and ironmongery store ; and Max Bornhold, jeweller' 6 shop and dwelling. ~Th& water-supply was cut off temporarily,' and when the brigade got to ■work - Nicol's building, where the fire started, was a mass of flames. The brigade worked splendidly, and saved several adjoining buildings. - Tho insurances -aTe : — N"icol'a stock, £250 in the Alliance ; shop ' (owned . by Mrs. Nicol, senior), ! £3OO in the Liverpool and London and Globe ; Goebel's stock, £50 in the New Zealand office ; shop (owned by A. H. Sutcliffe), £300 in : the Liverpool and London and Globe 5 Milligan's stock, £250 in the Commercial Union ; shop (owned by -A. H. Sutcliffe), £500 in the Liverpool and London and Globe, Bornhold's stock and furnitme, •£530 in the State office ; shop and dwelling £400 in the New. Zealand office. OTHER OUTBREAKS. NAPIER," 4th December. A fire broke out about 9.30 this evening in the upstairs portion of the premisps. ,of. J. , M. Phillips, confectioner, Hastings-street. The' tire had a good •hold when discovered, and PhilUps's place was gutted. Of his furniture and stock very little was saved. Rice, confectioner, Grabble, fruiterer, and Hannah and Co., boot importers, all had their stocks damaged by water, while the upper portion of Rice's shop, was also gutted. Phillips's furniture, stock, and shop fittings, etc., were insured for £400, and his household furniture for £100, but his loss will be about £700 over that amount. Mr. Phillips and his family were away at an entertainment when the fiie broke out. The cause of the fire is unknown. XAPIER, This Day. The shop gutted by fire last night Hvas owned by Mrs. Abbott, and insured for £300 in the Northern. Rice's confectionery was owned by the School Com missioners and injured for £100 in the Alliance. ASHBURTOX, 4th December. A new five-Toomed house in Hampstead valued at £260, owned by Mrs. Susannah Tasker and occupied by J. Rcddington, was destroyed by fire last night. Nothing was saved. The house was insured for £163 in the State office, and the furniture for £75 in the Norwich Union.

The rc-nnmbering of the bouses of the city proceeds apace. Momentous aro the changes. It is rather disconcerting to find that No. 6 has bocomo 85, and that 308 is now 59. A citizen returning home along a dark street Uio other night found a prominent householder sitting on the kerbstone with his head in his hands, and his feet in the gutter, pondering deeply. Enquiry drew forth a wail of despair. "I've lost the- number of my mess," moaned the melancholy ratepayer. "I'm in a singular predicament. It's a sum in proportion. If 21 has become 72, whero will my house, No. 15, be? I can't work it out; I never was good at arithmetic" By dint of a little calculation on the back of an envelope, the Good Samaritan was able to estimate the approximate location of the required residence, and the nightfoundered, outnumbered householder .was seen, safely inside. Mr. H. M. Fitzgerald has been ap--pointed organiser of the New , Zealand BocMwfcjiartjy,..?