Fire at Kaponga.

MAIL OFFICE DESTROYED.
(Special to. Herald.) Kaponga, November 17.
At about; five, o'clock this morning an alarm of fire, was sounded. The fire was located Mail Office, 'which was enveloped.in .flames and wholly destroyed, not a stick being saved The adjoining premises of Buckingham (blacksmith) and.Wong Mong (fruiterer and grocer) caught, but the efforts of a bucket brigade  saved them before spreading farther into a block of wooden, buildings. There was no wind the time, else half of the town must have gone. The Mail.Office insurance was £50 in the Phoenix on the building, and £165 the stock and plant. Mr Staples' is a heavy loser. Wong Mong's insurance was £100 Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 13015, 17 November 1905, Page 7