FIRES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4261, 22 January 1901, Page 5

FIRES.

SERIOUS OUTBREAK AT HUNTERVILLE. PRESS ASSOCIATION. MARTON, January 21. Shortly after midnight a fire broke out in the front portion of Mr David Hallam’s store at Huntervillo, and quickly spread to the adjoining premises. Fifteen shops and the Argyle Hotel were destroyed, the promises of the following being burnt:—W. C. Hancock, saddler; C. Bray, hairdresser; J. McEldowney, draper; the Argyle Hotel; Ryan, tailor; the Argyle stables; A. E. Remington, chemist; Skerman. and Co.’s new promises;■ Mrs Currie, fruiterer; G. W. D. Morris, grocer; the Temperance Hal 1 and Library ; Yuen Lee, fruiterer; J. W. Batt, dentist; and portion of Harper’s stables. A Chinamen’s cabinetmaking shop was also destroyed. Only three shops at the extreme end of Bruce street are now standing, and those would have been destroyed had the brigade not) pulled Harper’s stables down in the other street. Largo sheets of iron were placed against a. portion of the Argyle stables,' and this prevented the fire from attacking the Argyle Hall and the diops adjoining. Messrs Ellis Bros.’ and VaTdor’s -store was damaged considerably, and it, was only with the assistnice of wet lilankcts that the building .vas saved from being -destroyed. The following are stated to be the insurances on the Hnn-terville fire,:—United, £6OO (J. McEldowney £4OO, G. W. D. Morris £73, Temperance HaU and contents £123); Standard, £330; Alliance, £450; Imperial, £900; Australian Alliance, £350; Commercial Union, £130; Liverpool, London and Globe, £800; National, £350; North Queensland. £l5O. The New Zealand Company is understood to be interested to the extant of £2750. part of which however, is re-insured, but the insurances arc effected in the Wanganui branch office, and die details are not available. The tosses of the South British and Phcenix offices are not yet known.

The Argylo Hotel, a large building of fifty rooms, was owned hr Messrs T. and VV. Young and Dwan Bros., of V/oiling, ton. PEESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, January 21. A fire in McKee’s grocery shot) at To Aroha completely gutted the premises. Insurance—United, ,£2OO on (ho stock. I