BIG FIRE AT DENNISTON.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 202, 30 September 1909, Page 3

BIG FIRE AT DENNISTON.

i £6OOO WORTH OF DAMAGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Westport, Wednesday. A big fire at Denniston early this morning totally destroyed the Denni>ton Hotel (a large building), four shops, two dwellings', the club amd library (large and well fitted). Practically all the contents of a couple of other buildings were also damaged. A brick chimney fell on the co-opera-tive store, smashing a wall and doing great damage to the stock. The Westport Coal Co.'s bins and the brake head work were saved with difficulty. The fire originated in the hotel. The losses are severe, the Atlas, State, Phoenix, South British, National and Alliance insurance offices being affected|

DETAILS OF THE INSURANCES. Westport, Last Night. A rough estimate of the damage by the fire at Denniston is £SOOO. The insurances ascertainable are:—Atlas Co.: Denniston Hotel, £SOO on the stock and furniture, C. Smith's (shop owned and Insured by Jas. Ormond), damage about. £4O, stock insured for £100; State Office: Co-operative store, £1250 on the «tock, club and library £250 on the books and furnishings (the amount on the building is not known here, as it is I insured in Dunedin), J. S. Cummiu«'s t cottage £«0 ; PEoenix Co.: £175 on i- hotel, £IOO on the caretaker of the club's personal effects, and £6OO on C. Smith's stock; Commercial Union: £250 on the hotel; Alliance: £3OO on co-oper-ative store; National: £SOO on the hotel; South Brttish: £450 on Learmouth's building and furniture; North Queensland: £175 on the hotel. The Denniston people worked like Trojans to prevent C. Smith's building taking fire, as had it done so the Westport Coal Co.'s bins, containing 3000 tons of coal, would "have gone also, and the

output of the mine would probably have been suspended for months. The club had to be sacrificed to save the bine.

If your property ra not insured ea'.l at -or ring up the United Insurance Com.pany, Ltd., Devon street. Telephone 198. Webster Bros., district agents. Insurance effected on the most favorable terms*—Advt.