FIRES.
PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, January 17. By a fire in Mornington at one o’clock tills morning an eight-roomed house was completely destroyed, the family barely escaping in time. The furniture was insured in the New Zealand office for £l5O, but the loss is much, greater. The house was insured in the South British for £SOO, but is valued at £6OO. Tlie present owner has been in possession only twelve months. The cause is supposed to be the upsetting of a kerosene lamp in the children’s room. NEW PLYMOUTH. January 17. Mr J. J. Elwin’s ten-roomed house at Warea was totally destroyed by fire last night. Very little of the contents was saved. The origin of the fire is unknown. The insurances amount to £355 in the New Zealand and Norwich Union Offices, ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4566, 18 January 1902, Page 3
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