FIRE AT BLENHEIM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1835, 8 May 1888, Page 3

FIRE AT BLENHEIM.

; (PER PRKS3 ASSOCIATION.) Blenheim, May 8. A fire br'.ko oak about mldnlgnt at Will's iror.ni >ngery atore, Markofc South. The whole of th<j building was gutted. ' My great eff. rta tl o briradi managed to confine tho flro to tho building, though on two or three occasions It Bpread to ] Wnllsco's adjoining. Wills had been giving up buu"oPB and Hoyhoo, draper, was to have removed into lha shop to- ) morrow Nothing la known na to the \ origin of tho fir*. ?o far as mi) bo aacurininoJ tho following are tho correct fn-nrancea, but some are reinsured. I "Tlmca" phnt, Royal, £320; Norwich Union, fsCO;NorthGorinan, £200. Oard'e a'acq and fitting*, New Zoaland, £300" Norwich Union, £200. Smalo and H«yos atock, Union, £500 ; Equitable, £260 ; Oolcnial, £500 ; Standard. £500 ; North Oetmnn, £25Q. P. Will's Bhop, Fhooilx, £BCO. Howard's shop, Phoaalx, £350; Howard'a Btook, £140 In the Union, buIs valaed nt £170, nud is maob damaged by water aud by removal. Rote, £140 in tho Union. The only atook actually destroyed van Wills, and he had not very much loft, A family who lived iu the shop removed on Friday laßt, but tho piano and other furniture was left. Tha piano was saved and some of the stock. The other shops adjoining principally suffered through damigo by removal. Smalo and Hay have a large Btook and shipment on board the Doric.