FIRE AT BLENHEIM.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 5

FIRE AT BLENHEIM.

♦ [»X TELEGRAPH — I'HESS ASSOCIATION.] BLENHEIM, This Day. Late last night a shop in Market-street South, owned by G. Gibson, and occupied by W. H. Franklin, fruiterer, was gutted by fire. Efforts of the brigade prevented the fire spreading to the adjoining buildings. The shop was insured for £175 in the State Office, the stock for £100 in the Guardian. The adjoining premises of Leslie and Costello, plumberfa, were damaged by fire and water. These were insured for £200 in the South British, and the stock for £200 in the United.

Sir W. Jukes Steward, who is at present in Wellington, will leave by the B.M.S. Runutaka on Thursday next, on » visit to England. Ti.e valuable* piece of land at the cor Ber of Manners-street and Herbert-street •n which stands aD old wooden building in the occupation of a Chinese fruiterer is about to become the site of a handsome building of three storeys designed by Mr. J. S. Swan, under instructions iron? the Hon. George Fowlds. who recently acquired the property. The building, "which is to be erected by Mr. W. H. Bennett within &k months, will cott about £4500.