COFFEE PALACE DESTROYED.
fB2 TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PAHIATUA, This Day. A fire at 2 a.m. destroyed a twostory building of eighteen rooms, u&ed as a boardinghouse and known as the Coffee Palace. The fire had a good grip when it .ras discovered — inmates escaped in night attire. Nothing else was saved and the building was burnt to the ground. The night was peifectly calm, and the brigade was able to save the adjoining houses. The building was owned by Jacob Siemonek, Mastc-rton, and occupied by Mrs. Mackay. The insurance en the building was £600 in the New Zealand, and on the furniture £350 in the same office, owner holding portion of latter risk. The occupants are heavy losers.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19110412.2.131
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 8
Word Count
118COFFEE PALACE DESTROYED. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in