FIRES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9003, 3 January 1891, Page 2

FIRES.

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Meujourxe, January I,

A disastrous fire occurred at the Mutual Stores in Flinders street this morning, by which the premises wero completely gutted. The damage to the stock is estimated at £80,000, and to furniture £7000. The building cost over i £17.000. The ntock was a splendid one, showing great variety, snd will take a long time to replace. The building was insured for £21,000 and the stock for L 60.000 in the colonial offices, and £10,000 in tho London companies. Details are unknown, but 40 offiors aro concerned. Over 200 handß will be thrown out of employment.

The rißks of New Zealand offices are:— National, Equitable, and South British, £500 each ; New Zealand and Union, £1000 each.

(Pen United Press Association.) Waipawa, January 2. A dwelling house st Mount Herbert station, ne;r Waipukurau, occupied by Mr. Gaisford, wf s destroyed by fire last eight. It was a very old house, and was insured in tho Northern Assurance Company, but thi amount is at pre- [ sent unknown.

I Wanganui, January 2. A fire last nijrtit ia Victoria avenue gutted I the premises of Beck, bootmaker—a six-roomed detached cottt^p. The family of six, who were aUendiug tbo theatre, had left eotae wet clothes drying at the kitchen fire, and ie ia supposed that the clothes had ignited and fot fire to the chimney- Tlio insuriuieo were: On tho furniture, £150 in tht> Victoria ollice, and on tho huildiiip; £50 in tho Standard aud £150 in the Equitable.

From tho jßbvikw of lieviews we learn that Gener»l (tenth tir»t got tbu uolion cf his MJcml scheme from n nerusnl of Mr Iteei' book " Frum Poverty to Pieiuy." "With its aM," says Mr SiViu!, "hn ddviteil Ojo thci-efclii k ( .y to tho rtu'liuia. First, your M.itropoli; srooikl, jour Houao colony ; thirdly, your colony ovorsea."

—The present Sultan of Zanzibar is a young man of 37, and one of the 5T children of his fat In r.

Caducuv's Cocoa.—"A Food nliko 6nit»bla for building up tho growing body and for repairing the waste whioh in incidental to all Uie proceasoa of life. —Health. 1