FIRES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9093, 18 April 1891, Page 3

FIRES.

(Pbb United Pkess Association.) Waipawa, April 17.

The residence of Mr Williamson, teacher of the puWio sohool here, was destroyed by fite at five o'clook this morning, nothing being saved. The inmates and Mrs Williamson^ escaped in their night clothes. It was an old building, the property of the Education Board. The fire apparently originated in the kitchen. Mr Williamson's furniture was insured for £450, but lie loses £300 above that, including a valuable library

Wellington, April 17. Dymock'a bacon factory, Kniwarra, waa burned down this ereniog. The insurance was £800 in the New Zealand Ofiice, partly reinsured

Blenheim, April 17. la connection with y^'^^'^rlv^edfto? wsm trirt iaoSg money promises and every form of assHance. The insuranoes on the buildings Me -North German, £300 on the X.me 9 office, £350 on Howard's (one-third reinsured in the Fmpet°al and PhcoQix). £300 on Huß«j.ck' Bin8in the PhoTaix, £300 on Sherwood's in the London and Lancashire.

The police have received information that a threshing mill, the property of Messrs Darling and Haggarts, and 150 bags and one stack of oats, thfproperty of Mr W. Robertson of Wangato,, were destroyed by fire at Kaitangata on Tuesday last. The mill waa insured, but to what amount or in what office is at present unknown. The total amount of the damage is estimated at £370.