FIRES. NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 54, 9 July 1913, Page 5

FIRES.

NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

SEVERAL SHOPS GUTTED

[Per Press Association.]

Wellington, July 8

A fire broke out to-night at about 8 o'clock in the Otago Buffet, Lambton Quay, nearly opposite the police station. The fire worked through the Buffet, which was gutted practically from top to bottom, but its progress southward was stopped by the brick wall of Mackay's .three-storey booksellers' shop. Before the flames could be suppressed, however, they made headway in the other direction, ? against the wind, and wen tthrough the top floor of a large wooden building adjoining, occupied by Hood Bros., drapers, and Grimmet's Lambton Tea Rooms. From there they entered the next, building, Boucher's cycle store, the upper floor of which, like Hood Bros.', was gutted.

The insurances are: Hood Bros. i £2500 in the Yorkshire Office on stock, ' a small amount in another office not being ascertainable to-night; Boucher, ■£3oo in the Yorkshire, and £6OO in the Northern Office on stock and fittings; Grimmett, £275 on stock and fittings in the Royal Exchange; Paul ' (Otago Buffet), £3OO on furniture jn 'the London, Liverpool and' Globe ; The Buffet building is owned by iHall and Knight, Hood Bros.' and I Grimmfeit'B by Gilmer and Maguire, and Boucher's premises by Peacock land Campbell.

| Mr Newton King’s weekly sale at I the Haymarket on Saturday. No Mart sale will be held. 1 A property of 300 acres is in tho hands of Mr Newton King for quick ' sale. i Mr T. I. Laraason, at his mart on Saturday, will sell a big consignment of fruit trees, shrubs, etc., from Mr J. Re veil’s Eltham Nurseries. For children’s hacking cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, l/6d, 2s 6d. x The Girls’ Friendly Society expect [a big gathering at the Sale of Work, ! to-be held in the Parish Hall to-mor-row afternoon. The concert in tho evening is being specially arranged. Messrs Calvert and Sons, Strathmore, request a settlement of accounts owing, in order to close partnership accounts. For chronic chest complaints, Woods Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2s 6d. * x A reward is offered for traces and breeching lost a week ago. For Influenza take Woods* Great iPeppermint Cure. Never fails. Is 6cl, 2s 6d. x | Mr James Phillips is giving up dairying, and the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency will conduct a sale on the farm, Mangatoki Hoad, of the pedigree Jersey herd on Monday. Particulars advertised in another colunln.