FIRES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2685, 15 December 1909, Page 7

FIRES.

THREE HOUSES DAMAGED IN WELLINGTON. f Pint PmcsH Association.! WELLINGTON, Dec. 14. A . fire took place at 3.19 this morning in Ingestre Place, when a five-room-ed house, occupied by Henrietta Lockerbie, was seriously damaged. The fire spread to the adjoining houses occupied by James Liddell and Beatrice Davis; the former, a building of five rooms, was .badly damaged on the first floor by fire, and the bottom floor was damaged by water. The latter, a house of eight rooms, had the side wall and bedrooms and contents badly damaged by the fire, and the lower rooms by the wafer. Mrs. Lockerbie’s furniture was insured for £l5O in the South British, and Liddell’s for £IOO in the Commercial Union. Davies had no insurance. The houses owned by Miss Emma Siddells Were insured in the Commercial Union office for £350, £220, and £250 respectively. A laborer, named James Wallace, a hoarder at Lockerbie’s jumpfrom an upper storey window and fell on a picket fence, breaking two ribs. ITc was removed, to the hospital. HOUSE DESTROYED IN BLENHEIM. . BLENHEIM, Dec. 14. A fire occurred’ early this morning. A five-roomed house in Nelson Street, owned and occupied by Frederick Jellyman, wns totally destroved, together with all the. contents. The building was insured in the State office for £l5O. The insurance on the furniture is not yet obtainable, owing to Mr. Jellyman being away at Havelock.