FIRES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10654, 15 May 1895, Page 6

FIRES.

is, [Peb Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 14. Tho hotel atTai ta, known on Honeymoon Cottage, occupied by Mrs Guilford, was destroyed by fire this morning. The building was owned by Messrs Staples and Co., and was insured for £IOOO in the United Office, £750 of that amount being re-insured.

A fire occurred at Ashburton yesterday morning by which a four-roomed cottage on the East Bolt, qwned and occupied by Mr G, A. Johns, was destroyed. A three-yaar-old eon is supposed to have been playing with the fire in the house while Mrs Johns was outside washing. The housa was insured in the Liverpool and London and Globa Office for .£‘7s, and the furniture in the Alliance Office for .£SO. A dwelling-house and store at Sheffield, the property of Mr M. C. Sheppard, was burnt down about one o’clock yesterday morning. The building has been occupied by Messrs Vincent Bros., who, with a view to giving up business in Sheffield, sold oft their surplus Btock by auction on Friday. Mr P, Vincent was in the place on Monday evening, and left about seven o’clock, when all was apparently cafe. Mr Jones, pouadkeeper at Waddingtoa, who was returning from Belfast at the time, was the first to notice the fire. Ko awoke Mr John Jabson, whose shop ia only about a chain and a half distant, but it wao then too late to do any good. Strange to aay, although the building was almost in the middle of the township, scarcely any of the residents knew anything of the cccurrance until daylight yesterday morning. Nothing is known of tho origin of the fire. The building waa insured for ,£l5O in the New Zealand Insurance Office.