FIRE AT STRATFORD.
PUB PBKSS ASSOCIATION. Stbatfoud, July 14. A fire occurred hero lass night. It destroyed O'Neill's furniture shop. The fire spread rapidly, and before the arrival of the Brigade the building was! enveloped in flames, and burned to the ground. Little was saved. Insurance : —Stock .£775, and building £250. The risk!) on stock add building are held by the Souta British Office.
We learn frem th-a Stratford Post tha 1 . Mr O'Neill estimates bis stock at £2OOO. The origin of the fire is unknown. Mrs. O'Neil was attending a Ottbolic social, and her husbind hid retired to rest, being awakened by falling »rticl»s. His first c*re was for the children, and as tbe flames spreal with scartHng rapidity there wbs no time to eavo any of the contents of the building. Yesterday morning there was a flight outbreak of fire at Belt's shop, but little damage resulted.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 144, 12 July 1901, Page 2
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