FIRES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12906, 21 February 1906, Page 5

FIRES.

Per Press Association.

PALMKRSTOX XORTH, Feb. 20.

A boarding-house occupied by Mrs Peter* was destroyed by fire shortly before midnight last night. A large quantity of furniture and some personal effects of the boarders were removed. The majority of inmates, however, will be losers. Mr* Peters bad a policy of £2OO oa the furniture and £6OO on the bonfe, but will be a heavy h*er. A high wind wa* blowing at the time, and the brigade <iid gtod work in confining the outbreak to the boarding-house.

NAPIER. February 20. C"Mij\.y .uid Company's batcher** shop in .Hastings Street was gutt*d by fire early this avorninj. and the adjoining *hop, occupied by Mr R. Saunders, grocer, *w damaged.* The insurance on Cooroy'c buililing<>. owned by Mr* N. Williams, wa* £3OO in the Pb<tmix office: on Saunders* building, owned by Messrs and Close. £450 in the Phoenix office: on the stock, £2OO in the London and Lancashire, and £l5O i» the Norwich t*nic>a ofßce.