FIRES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 82, 14 April 1913, Page 5

FIRES.

A BLAZE AT WESTPORT,

[Per Press Association.] Westport, April 13. By a fire which occurred at 10 o’clock last night in a lumber room of the premises owned by Mrs Green and occupied by G. C. Young and Co., auctioneers, some damage was don© to the premises, and, damage by fire and water to the stock. The fire burnt through to the staircase, giving entrance to the Westport Tearooms, occupied by Misses Gordon and Bird, but had made little headway when the brigade arrived on the scene, and got it under control. The building was insured, but the amount is unascertainable. Young’s stock was valued at £ISOO, and insured for £7OO in the Guardian Office. The only damage done' to the tea-rooms which were upetairs, was by smoke. BOARDING-HOUSE DESTROYED. Foxton, April 13. At 4.15 this morning a 13-roomed two-etoreyed dwelling, owned by W. Bock and occupied by F. Spiers as a boardinghouse, was burned down. Nothing was saved, the inmates escaping in scanty clothing. A gale was blowing at the time, fortunately in the opposite direction to a number of mills. There was an insurance of £IOOO on the furniture.