FIRES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10692, 9 July 1913, Page 8

FIRES.

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. Received July 9, 1 j.m. Sydney, July 9. The damage by the Clarence Street fire was £SOOO. Per Press Association. Y/ollington, July S. A fire.broke out. to-night about 8 o'clock in the Otago Buffet, Lambton Quay, nearly opposite the police station. A strong northerly fanned the flames, which soon had a good hold on the building, which was an old wocden structure of two storeys. The fire worked through the buifet, which was gutted practically from top to bottom, but its progress southward was stopped bv the brick wall of Mackay's three-storeyed booksellers' shop. Before the flames could be suppressed, however, they made headway in another direction against the wind, and went through to the top floor of a large wooden building adjoining occupied by Hood Bros., drapers, and Grimmett's Lambton Tea Rooms. From there they entered the nest building, .Boucher's cycle store, the upper floor of which, like Hood Bros.,' was gutted. Large volumes of water were poured on the burning buildings, and the ground floor is sure to be swamped out and the stocks ruined. On the ground floor of the Otago Buffet building was also Baudinet's tobacconist's shop, which was gutted The insurances are: — Hood Bros., £2500 in the Yorkshire office on the stock and a small amount in another office, not ascertainable to-night; Boucher, £3OO in the Yorkshire and £(500 in the Northern office on the stock and fittings ; Grimmett, £275 on the stock and fittings in the Royal Exchange; Paul (Otago Buffet), £3OO on the furniture in the London, Liverpool and Globe The Buffet building was owned by Rail and Knight Bros., and Grimmett's by Gilmer and Maguire, and Boucher's premises by Peacock and Campbell. The insurances on the buildings are not yet ascertainable.