FIRES.
(Per Press Association.) Hokitika, las* night. Preston’s Criterion Hotel, Kiimsra, was destroyed by fire at 8.30 tbis morning. The fire spread with great rapidity. Nothing was savod. The oooupants esoepod with difficulty. Tee total loss is estimated at £750. There was no iosnranoe. Adjoining places ought, but the firo was extinguished without doing serious damage, though iojury was done by removal sod water. Wellington, last nigbt. . A fire occurred in the Mercantile ExManners street, Ibis inorntng. Y\oar rooms, oooupied by Sydney Beatty, photographer, and their contents were I Badly damaged The contents were in- I »Urod for £BOOO in the South British. Other tenants in the building who also ■offered damage were the International I Correspondent Sohool, the offioe of which was partly damaged by water, the iosur- . anas being £IOOO in the Alliance ; South |a Paoifio Mortgage Disc sunt Offioe, slightly , j-damaged by water, insurance in the I T g;aadard Offioe. The origin of the fire is uiikoown,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1740, 4 May 1906, Page 3
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160FIRES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1740, 4 May 1906, Page 3
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