OUTBREAK IN TEXTILE CO.'S PREMISES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 87, 13 April 1911, Page 3

OUTBREAK IN TEXTILE CO.'S PREMISES.

DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £3500. Another fir* involving considerable damage occurred in the city shortly after six o'clock this evening, in premises occupied by Messrs. Joyce Bros., carrying on business as the 'Textile, Bag and Sack Company, with headquarters at Christchurch. The men were working on the premises at the time, and it is assumed that the fire was caused by some fluff coming in contact with a lighted candle. The fire spread with amazing rapidity, and considerable damage was done to the building, stock, and machinery before it was got under. The building ia owned by Joyce Bros. It is impossible to estimate the damage at present, but the whole will probably exceed £3500. The property is covered by a policy in the Queensland office, but the amount is not aecertainable. HISTORIC BUILDING^ BURNED DOWN. AUCKLAND, 12th April Another link with the early days of Auckland was severed late last night, a historic building known as "Bleak House," situated at Pakuranga, was destroyed by fire. The house was for many years the residence of the late Hon. Every M'Lean, at one-time acting-Superintendent of the Province and member of the Legislative Council, and his brother (Mr. Robert M'Lean). It was built in 1848 at _ the lime when the first party of Imperial pensioners ■were settled in the neighbourhood. The house had been much added to 36 the years went on, and at the time of its destruction contained some twenty rooms. The building belonged to the trust estate of the late Mrs. Robert M'Lean, and wae insured in the New Zealand Office for £500.