CALLS IN THE CITY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 36, 13 February 1911, Page 8

CALLS IN THE CITY.

A few minutes after 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, the City Fire Brigade was called to 265, Upper Willis-street, an untenanted shop and dwelling adjoining the Brunswick Hotel, formerly , occupied by P. K. Slinn, bootmaker. The first floor was ■ badly damaged before the outbreak was extinguished. The building is owned by Mr. Luxford. of Waikanae. Nothing is known, of fcha 'origin of the fire. At 3.35 on Sunday morning the brigade received another call. This time the outbreak was in Mannere-streeL, No. 107, a shop owned by Mr. Martin Kennedy and occupied by A. Pinckney, upholsterer. The workroom arid contents on the fiist floor were badly damaged by fire, and the ground floor was damaged by water. Mr. Pinckney's stock was insured for £600 in the Guardian Office. Part of the ground floor and the first floor of 107 were utilised by Mr. J. Smith as a tailor's shop and workroom, the latter being damaged by fire and the former flooded by water. There is an insurance of ' £150 on Smith's stock. Adjoining shops, Nos. 101 and 103, occupied by Mrs. Costello, second-hand dealer, and Mr. T. L. Coe, saddler, also suffered by fire and wa.ter. There is no insurance on the stock of Mrs. Costello and Mr. Coe. How the fire originated is not known.