FIRES AT GISBORNE AND MASTERTON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5397, 5 March 1879, Page 2

FIRES AT GISBORNE AND MASTERTON.

[PER "HERALD" SPECIAL WIRE.] Gisborxe, Tuesday. A fire took place this morning at 5 o'clock, and destroyed Dugleaux's, baker; Smith's, shoe shop; Schultz, milliner ; Stevenson's store. It was stopped by a space at tho Poverty Bay Standard Otliee. Insurances are :—Norwich Union, £ 100 ; New Zealand, £100 ; Standard, £100; Hawke's Bay Insurance Company, £100 ; The Union and National, £500 each on Stevenson's stock, subject to some hundreds on stock reduced. Greytown-, Tuesday. A fire broke out at Masterton this morning in the office in course of erection for Dalrymple. The places destroyed were The Bank of Australasia ; Williams, Cameron, and Co., saddlers ; the shop of Williams, tobacconist; Tozzie, hairdresser ; a boarding-house ; Wilton's seed shop, and several other buildings, about a dozen in all. The books and papers were saved from the bank. i'he insurances are Golder, watchmaker, building, £200 ; Coppiu, shoemaker, stock, £500, in National j Wilton, seedsman, building, £50, New Zealand; Tozzie, stock,' £500, New Zealand ; Dalrymple, building, £200, Standard; Brown, stock, £500, Standard aud further in the Northern [amount not known) ; Bank, £2000, North British ; K. Williams, Cameron and Co , £SOO, National. The stocks of Williams, saddler, and Williams, tobacconist, were saved. The total Io3S is estimated at £6000.