FIRE AT CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1831, 10 April 1907, Page 25

FIRE AT CHRISTCHURCH

BUNTING’S BUILDINGS BURNED

Mr Nash, leather and grindery merchant, of Cuba street, received a telegraphic message at 5.21 last evening, stating that his branch establishment in Manchester street, Christchurch, had been burned down at 3 o’clock yesterday morning, “with the others/’

It is presumed, from the wording of the message, that possibly the whole of the block is destroyed. Mr Nash’s business occupied one of five two-story brick premises, comprising a block known as Bunting’s Buildings. The other portions of the block were occupied by a boot merchant, a confectioner, an ironmonger, and a palmistry specialist, who was carrying on a temporary business there during the Exhibition. The back of Mr Nash’s premises was contiguous to a brush factory. The information at hand gives no information as to the origin of the outbreak. MiBunting, the owner of the block, is a Christchurch man. Mr Nash’s stoek, roughly valued at £ISOO, is insured with the Sun office for about £950.