DESTRUCTION BY FIRE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 135, 11 June 1906, Page 3

DESTRUCTION BY FIRE.

AN HOTEL BURNED DOWN. . [press association.] NAPIER, June 11. The Caledonian Hotel, owned by the "White Swan Brewery Co., and occupied by A. C. Barnes, was completely destroyed by fire on Saturday evening. The fire started shortly after 5 p.m. in one of the upstairs bedrooms, and spread with great rapidity, completely demolishing the hotel and the upstairs Sortions of the business premises of [essrs T. W. Bear (painter), P. C. Jones (machinist), and the Dresden Piano Co., which all form a portion of the same block of buildings as the hotel. So rapid was the spread of the fire that very little was saved. Most of the boarders lost the whole of their effects, and practically nothing of the contents was saved. The insurances on the butfding amount to £3500, and on the furniture of £1000, but the losses of both owners and licensee will be very considerable. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a candle left alight in a bedroom for a few minutes while the occupant of the room went downstairs.