FIRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 25 October 1907, Page 2

FIRES.

Per Press Association. Jjunedih, Last Night. A six-roomed wooden house and furniture, the property of James Peebles, was totally destroyed by Are at North-East Valley to-day. The insurances were— In the Norwich Union £3OO, and in the New Zealand £l4O. it is estimated 'the loss over the insurance is £2OO. Mrs. Peebles and a son were the only occupants of the house at the time of the lire, which is supposed to have originated from a small fire in the dining-room. A fire occurred at J. Wren's, painter, Princes-street, this afternoon, doing dnmago to the extent of £SO. A boy left a tin of turpentine and other material standing in a store at the back of the premises, and a workman coming in, mistaking the material for water, put it oil a gas ring to boil for paste. The tin ignited and blazed fiercely, and the workman promptly took it off, pouring the contents into a sink near by. The overflow from the tin set fire to some straw near, which blazed up, setting fire to the roof, and causing damage to ornamental glass, etc. The insurances on the building, which is valued at £2OOO, are in the Koyal .Exchange £450, Victoria £2OO, Liverpool, London, and Globe £2OO. The stock, valued [it £2500, is insured in the United for £450, Australian Alliance £250, Northern £4OO, South British £2OO, North Queensland £450.