Fire at Ashurst.
\ What might have terminated m" a wholesale destruction, .of- the town of .Ashurst happened iidt- 'evening at about 4 o'clock when a fire broke" 'put at the kables belonging to-Mr-T. Nelson, storekeeper. The flauies spread quickly and in 1 a- shqrfe' time boihpletely • consumed, the stables spreading fiirthißr to Mrs Warne's bparding-hbuse adjoining "where" it, soon got a ; firni hold } and also ' completely gutted it. We belie ve-a,pianoi,waff-the •only piece of furnitures-saved 'from th« ; iatter plac9. No •appUanc.es were available .f^r .extinguishing' the fji^e bejrond a f e w'mickets. ' ' Nelson'*- Sidi e x had "a^nari iow escape andHvas probably saved by having-- an <iromro6f;.« - The house a,ou th« ppposjfe. side.of the road used^ as a ehiire§ by the Anglicans iia3?a dpuplerdf iibles ,l)urntin it but -damage. A. jelegraph post: ; glo r SQ" :^'p^«tt^ Stor« w&s burn^^nsana^ro^S¥ctibn therei lore. out^^ p£^pjfc^|<^ojt3iniei;; It was, \ ] ioNyeyer,}ieQpnnac|BaJaftVb6ut : 7 s o'eiock lin the eyeniq^'K : p^ '' '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1651, 6 March 1886, Page 2
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153Fire at Ashurst. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1651, 6 March 1886, Page 2
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