FIRES.

Evening Star, Issue 7647, 25 June 1888, Page 3

FIRES.

A five-roomed house at Durietown, Wanganui, owned and occupied by Mr J. C. Campbell, -was burnt down on Saturday night. The insurance on tho house was Ll5O in the Norwich Union and LSO in the Liverpool and London and Globe ; and on the furniture, Ll5O in the Colonial. An incipient fire was discovered on Saturday night in a house in St. Andrew street, owned by Mr M'Grath and occupied by Mr Morton. A child, who had been locked in the room during tho mother's absence from home, set fire to the curtains. Mr Charles Duncan, who happened to be passing, saw tho child at the window with a candle in its hands and the curtains ablaze, and with the assistance of Mr Aitken burst the door open, took the child, and helped to extinguish the fire. About L2 will cover the damage, and the house was insured. A three-roomed wooden dwelling-hou&>e, situated at Milton, containing a hawker's stock and L 57 in notes, was destroyed by fire on the 22nd. The building was the property of H. White, being occupied by Fred Scanlan, and valued at L2OO. The cause of the fire is supposed to be a spark from a fire left burning during the tenant s absence. The building was uninsured, but the stock was insured for L 75, the estimated loss on stock being L 35.