DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 141, 16 June 1896, Page 2

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CHRISTCHURCH.

A Block of Buildings Burnt i Down. [United Press Association.] Chbib-chobcb, This Day. A fire broke out last night in a block of wooden buildings in Hereford street. The fire apparently originated in the premises of Aofand, Dudley & Go,, and before it was extinguished it had completely gutted their building, together with those oocupied by T. G. Moling, Cook _ Gray, the Canterbury Insurance Protection Assooiation, Dufeny, solicitor, and offloes used by Bowman & Harding. Considerable damage was' done to the furniture at Bowman's auotion room, i The hulk of the buildings we're owned by i Mills & Coy's estate, and were "eroded in 186 S. \ -'.; ■ . The -.insurances are on the building J destroyed, oeoupied. as offices, £1000 in ; the Alliance office ; Bowman & Son's ' auotion rooms, £1000 in the same offioe ; > Cook & Gray's office furniture and effects, -i £250 in tbe National offioe ; Duffy's law ' library and offioe and the furniture, £100 < in the Manchester offioe ; T. J. Mailing's office, furniture and samples, £50 in the < Suuth British offioe ; Bowman & Son's ' stook, £200 in the Imperial offioe ; D. Bow- I man's piano and general merchandise, £200 I in the Standard office.