FIRES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1046, 8 February 1911, Page 5

FIRES.

—« —-—• • • J CIGAR-SMOKER AND BEXZIKB. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) '• ' • Gisborne, February 7. A. grocery storo and dwelling at Wha- j taupokp, occupied by James Murdnck, i T.'as destroyed by fire this morning. The occupant was titling a bottle of benzina and was smokiug a cigar at the time. The benzine ignited, singing his hair, and ; the premises were destroyed., ; . . .. j Yesterday morning a fire occurred in a washhoust; attached to a dwelling in litzlinrbort Street, l'ctone, owned by Miss li. Price, and occupied by Mrs. House. Mrs. House, who had the copper Sre lighted, states that she went into the house for, fivo minutes and on returning found iW washhouse ablaze. The brigade suppress- . . ed tbo flames before the tiro reached the dwelling. A neighbouring outhouso of j Mr. Nankiville's was also gutted. ; : A five-'roomed cottage at 23 Devon Street was completely gutted by firo"last. nighty The building was owned by Mr. H. Eyans, --. ; of Mortimer Tcrrace, and occupic'fi by Mr. 0. Johnston, french polisher.../ The-.a j was an insurance for .£IOO in the Commercial Offico covering tlio furniture. The insurance on the building was liot . ; ascertainable last evening.- Tho.- adjoin- ■ in: dwelling, a nine-roomed house, occupied by Mr. George .Brown,,-.' was also damaged. Its contents wciefjnsured in tho Colonial Ofliee for _E150.V