FIRES.
VALUABLE PROPERTY DESTROYED. United Fnu Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 11 p.m.. November 50th. SYDNEY. November 3?. . A disastrous tire i> reported ftom Tajce. A block of six shops ard a large Imlel were destroyed, and the damage is estimated at about £20.0C0. Nut one-third is cuvettd by icsurance." Per Press Association. WKSTPORT. November 33. "Mr J. S. Bennett's draper's *•!»(<?> at Lyell was totally destroyel by lite iil».u; 3 a.m. on Monday. The insurance on *.««s building was £4C. sin\ on the slock 512?. The'loss is estimated at considerably abrtve those amounts. A NARROW ESCAPE. CHRISTC'HURCH. November 30. At about 1.50 o'clock this morning an eleven-roomed house in Carjyle street. Sydenham, occupied by Mr G. E. Christenscn, and owned by Mrs W pe. was destroyed by tire. The house was used as a boarding* house, and there were three or four boarders in it at the time. Nothing was saved and several of the occupants had to escape by the windows. The furniture was insured iii the Manchester office for £l5O. and Mr Clmsiensen estimates his loss at £7O over the insurance. The building was insured in the Manchester oifice for £3OO.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12845, 1 December 1905, Page 5
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192FIRES. Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12845, 1 December 1905, Page 5
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