FIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 162, 13 July 1904, Page 2

FIRE.

OUTBREAK W THE cm THB OP THE TOWN? *" A BLAZE AT KINO'S BincDlNij^ At five minutes to two thi, »,»•«.' •»« as Constable B ut«JS! ■*"** one fire brigade booh arrlwd tnTct ">rce. Constable ButWe ffi "WMwHTo burst into Mr WaforiV -fflce. and found the fire ffi ihe party wall betw«m <h "rV°9 U P Mitfs stronar room. Thi s ?2rt 'y. and tho Arc was the more eaaHv coiUbwL By the time the brS arrived the flames were th. boot .hop, ODdtta«S££wJs- - to attack from two S? rwUoM. After about twenty nZ utes' faMta,, witnessed by ». £!£ dSsemWoßo of .people, the Are wS ■?°^"» dl f. Ha operations b*ln*co£. though the other offices and shobi m the block suffered more or ~kS irom smoko or water. Tlio tenants of tiio' building ajv— Mum Newton King, auction*and S *oua ß « l t ; A.B.O. 80,tC6.? «• W. Neal, clothier ; and R. Cbau£• *«. machinery depot, on theS ■'oor; a„d Messrs James SmkU,™ *' aroM «« t i W. L. Fiteherfcert, solicitor 1 J. Haiuu, photographer' -11 the second fl oor. Th u buihJL i, an old one .wholly 0/wood, one h«d there been the slightest breeze,-aiust uave burnui like matchwood. AWe* junlnation by Sergeant UaddrelUn*. Captain Bellrta g er after thT fl£ was extinguished, s h u „ed that Mtartalat the rear of th. boot sho P ; • ..jullow down on the party wall - thence penetrating to Mr Watson'i ofllco. A great deal of .lono by smoke and water. \q |«! surancea are yet to hand /;