FIRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 11, 14 January 1902, Page 3

FIRES.

: CBHRVCnVJt JIBS AT RBBFTON. ns PKXBS ABSOCIATIOB. RiurKii, January 13. A disastrous fire occurred last night, Ittoriginated in a bedroom occupied by m servant Bamed Jones at the Railway • Hotel. - The hotel mi destroyed, and ihe adjoining premises occupied by Anderson, teilor, were gutted, though ' the stock was saved. 1 Meanwhile the fire entered Scarlett's Empire Hetel on the other side of Jones?, which, together with two smtll intervening tenements, occupied by ' Kiely* bootmaker, and Falconer, watch- : ! qaker, and the Palace Restaurant, '<pniU destroyed. f DaWson's Hotel opposite and ad- - jaoent baildings had a narrow escape. The total loss is estimated at £SOOO. ■ i Jontfs lost everything. Insurances are not yet ascertainable. LAHUI. Insurances on the buildings and stock are Gollings £3OO in the Im pi-rial on the building, £750 in the Alliance on the stock, £SOO in the > .Northern on the store, £SO on the building, and £l6O on the ironmongery in the Northern; Anderson (tailor), had £2OO in the Northern; Scarlett £SOO in the Royals and £SOO in the Commercial Union. The stocks if Anderson Falconer, and JEtiely were uninsured.

TWO OUTBREAKS AT A HAWXSA HOTEL. ARRBBT TOR ARSON. Hawxsa, January 13. ' ' 'iln wn discovered in. the Empire Hotel kitcben last evening, but extinguished before much daiqsgo was done. This afternoon another fire occurred in one of the sitting-rooms, and the police arrested a man named John Savage on a charge of attempted arson; CHBnrrcHUßCfe, January 13. ~Aj ten roomed house in the North Belt, owned and occupied by Mis Hounsell, was gutted by fire to night,: and the furniture considerably damaged. It is understood the insurance . ■. Ahauju, Januard 13. Hiyn's 'sawmills, with the entire pUnt and tramways, were utterly destrtyedby a bush fira. Some thousands pfftetofsawn timber was burned.