TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 March 1916, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

— « [I'BK PRKSS ASSOCIATION.] I BIG FIUF AT TAIHAPJfi. | Tailiupti, This Bay. j On Saturday morning at, 2.J10 o'clock | a iiru was jd 111 Green's Hairdresser's and tobacconist's shop. it (piieliiy .spread to .Xicholl'ss picture theatre, Connor's, fruiterer. Davies, solicitor and A. ?\l. Ryan's old offices, all of wiiieh were totally destroyed". A butcher's a bakers, and a .confectioner's shop we 10 badly damaged, and J. P. Aldridgo's ,-uid Gibbss motor garage slightly d imaged. All the buildings destroyed were owned by T. JSllio'vt U il.M>n w hose totla insurance is only CI 00 in ihe Government ollice. N.ieholls bad ,Ci(Hl.on his picture .plant (in the New Zealand) ; Gj-cen £100 on JjiS stock; Da vies i'2oo. Connor w.a« Uninsured. Other insurances are uuob-taina-ole. Davies's strong room still [i- ndi ::; and it is believed that the documents are safo. Wilson's loss over the insurance exceeds £1000. : BMHBW—aw—»