FIRES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 83, 5 October 1910, Page 7

FIRES.

HOUSE DESTROYED AT MAS. TBRTON. [BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] MASTERTON, -This Day. A six-roomed house and contents were t destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock this morning. The house was insured for £300 in the Victoria Office, and the furniture for £175 in the State Fire Office AUCKLAND, 4th October. A five-roomed house in Vauxhallroad, Devonport, owned by Mr. Maxwell, of Ponsonby, and occupied by Mr. H. Nicholl, was totally destroyed by fire to-night, nothing being saved. Mr. Nicholl was alone in the house at the time; his wife being away in Hastings. He was in bed when the fire broke out, and just had time to make his escape in night attire. The furniture was insured in the Victoria Office for £150, the insurance on the house is not available at present. The Fire Brigade was called to No. 97, Courtenay-place, shortly before 8 o'clock last evening to a nine-roomed shop and dwelling owned by Mrs. Swede, and occupied by Mr. John Elliott as a boardinghouse. A boarder had been smoking in bed, and some hot ashes from his pipe ignited the bedclothes. The damage, however, was confined to the bed, and the flames were promptly suppressed.