FIRES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10036, 24 January 1896, Page 3 (Supplement)

FIRES.

The police authorities have received a telegram from Constable Davey, of Dargaville, stating that Mr. W. A. Marriner's gum store, and a two-roomed cottage, below Mangawhare, on the Northern Wairoa, wero burned to the ground on January 21 at 10 o'clock. The insurances are: South British, £1290; Northern Assurance Company, £200. At Palmerston North on Jan. 26 Mullins' Hotel at Longburn, was burned to the ground. Very little was saved. Mullins, wife, and child, escaped with difficulty. A middle-aged man named Michael Power, the only othor occupant, was burned to death. His charred remains were discovered in the debris. The building was insured for £800 in tho Palatine Office, and tho furniture for £150 in the Alliance

Dunlop's store at Geraldine was destroyed by fire on Jan. 16. The insurances are : Royal, £1000 on stock, £500 on building ; Commercial Union, £1500 on stock and £350 on the building. The Royal is partly reinsured.

At Napier on Jan. 20 a fire broke out in the upstairs portion of an ironmonger's shop occupied by Mr. A. H. Wilson. It had a good hold when discovered, but within fivo minutes of the alarm being raised the Brigade had the hose playing, and the fire was soon gob under. The upper floor was gutted, and most of tho oontonts burned. The damage to the lower part was confined to injury by water, which will be considerable. The insurances are :—Stock : Imperial, £500; Sun, £500; Standard, £500. Premises: Royal Exchange, £500. Tho dwelling-house of Allan Strang, at Motoa, near Foxton, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at £1000, which is covered by insurance in tho London, Liverpool, and Globe office. A fire which occurred at Hamilton on Dec. 30 was a most destructive one. It broke out at about a quarter-past eleven in D. C. Mclntyre's hair • dressing and billiard saloon. It very soon became apparent that both Mclntyre's and the adjoining premises owned and occupied by Mr. J. T. Home as a dwelling and grocer's store and refreshment rooms were doomed, and efforts were then made to save the adjoining property, Dr. Brewis' two-storied dwelling, but without avail, and this, as well as E. T. Davey's grocery store and bakehouse, and Taylor's tinsmith's shop also went, the fire being ultimately stopped by the brick wall of the Waikato Times buildings. Qualtrough's butcher's shop, on the other side of Mclntyre's, was also burned down, making in all a total of six buildings. Tho following are the insurances:—D. C. Mclntyre, tobacconist's shop, billiard-room and dwelling— £300; billiard, table, £100 ; stock-in-trade, £350: total, £750—with the Commercial Union. Home, grocery shop and dwelling, £800 on stock, furnituro, and building with the North German. Dr. Brewis, building £600, office unknown; furniture, £200, Commercial Union. ,E. T. Davey, grocery shop, £575 on stock and building with Norwich Union. Taylor, tinsmith's shop, £200 on stock and building. Qualtrough, butcher's shop, uninsured. Total insurance, £3125.

At Mataura a fire originated in a shop occupied by G. Vickor, hairdressor, and spread to premises occupied by Thomas Fletcher, solicitor; Yuille, draper; Hall, fruiterer; and Gault Bros,, engineers. So rapid was the progress of the flames, that only a little of the stock of Yuille's was saved. The insurances are:—Yuille's premises, £1125 in the Local Northern ; Gault, £120 in the Standard ; Hall, £58 in the Victoria. In all cases the losses are much above insurances.

A fire broke out in H. Fielder's furniture and upholstery factory, Manners-street, Wellington, on Friday, January 10th. The interior of the factory was completely wreckod, the smoke and water damaging or destroying what escaped from the fire. Tho total amount of insurance on tho stock in the factory and shop is £5000, divided as follows Commercial Union, £400 on stock in bulk storo (damaged) and £800 on stock in front shop ; Phoenix, £200 on stock in the factory and £1300 on that in the front shop; North German, £400 on the front shop; London and Lancashire, £1500 on the front shop. The factory building was insured.