FIRES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10976, 16 June 1903, Page 6

FIRES.

(Per United Press' Association.)

AUCKLAND

Juno 16.

A fire causing damage of between d£4oo and c£soo, partly demolished a hoiise in Yictoxia Street West, owned by Mia Hackett and occupied by Mr Pearlraan as a fancy store, and by Mr Polglase as a fish shop. The insurance on the building was JE6OO in the Phoenix office. The dam■age is about .£3OO to Pcarlman's goods, which were insured for .£IOO in the Commercial Union. Mr Polglase was uninsured, and Mr Pearlman insured only yesterday. " WAIHI, June 16. Tlie Waitekauri fire insurances are — Phillip's shop" and furrfiturej : >£2gO'in the London, Liverpool and • Globe, ,office and <£400 hi the Imperial;' Frith, £400, in the London, 'Liverpool and Globe. The' fire .ocenrred by thej accidental upsetting of a lighted .kerosene lamp. The water in Virginia Lake has risen 21.} inches as a result of i"e'<ient <rains. • A sad fatality occurred at Aramoho yesterday, when a little' .'boy niimed Louis Patrick Browiilie, aged 4 years, son of Mr James Brownlie, was killed. The little fellow, with his sister, aged 2, were swinging from the back of a, spring-trap, when it tipped up and fell on his chest, killing him instantaneously. The body found on the Beach near Waitotara yesterday has not yet been identified. Following is the description "of the deceased forwarded to Inspector Kiely: — About 50 years of age, medium build, sft 4in high, drossed in black skirt, red petti-eoat,-new corsets, -white flannel slip-bodice, new lace- up kid shoes, we<3<jling ring an<l -keeper -.with words "Mizpah" on same, and an old-fnsiiioned gold cameo' brooch.